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Papal Rome and the European Union by
Richard Bennett and Michael Desomnian.

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Papal Rome is widely respected and admired
by the world.

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She is seen as well-organised,
successful and influential, as well as

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dignified and authoritative.

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The aura of uncritical acclaim around the
person of successive popes is unique to

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the Church of Rome.

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No other global institution has it.

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Her pronouncements on moral issues carry
great weight.

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So well regarded is the papacy today that
the acceptance of her extends even to

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evangelicals, most of whom have ceased to
question her doctrine.

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Why then should we take a position
contrary to this avalanche of present-day

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approval?

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We do so because we are commanded by the
Lord God to proclaim His truth and His

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warnings, for all is not at all as it
seems.

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We believe that the late great British
preacher Dr Martin Lloyd-Jones was correct

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when he proclaimed that the Roman Catholic
Church is a counterfeit and a sham.

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It represents prostitution of the worst
and most diabolical kind.

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It binds the souls of its people
absolutely, just as communism and Nazism

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did, and is itself a totalitarian system."
Papal pronouncements on Europe.

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On August 31st 2003, Pope John Paul II
entrusted the future of the New Europe to

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the Virgin Mary.

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In the words of the Catholic news agency
Zenit, he placed Europe in Mary's hands so

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that it would become a symphony of nations
committed to building together the

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civilization of love and peace.

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Last Sunday, the Holy Father urged that
the final draft of the European

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constitution should recognize explicitly
the Christian roots of the continent as

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they constitute a guarantee of a future.

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The official teaching of Rome makes clear
that this statement concerning the

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Christian roots of the continent is a
facade.

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When the Pope or his church use the term
Christian, they mean Roman Catholic.

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A recent official decree of Rome condemns,
quote, the tendency to read and to

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interpret sacred scripture outside the
tradition and magisterium of the church.

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Rome officially proclaims that the
Christian church of Christ is the Catholic

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church.

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In her decree she states, therefore there
exists a single church of Christ which

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subsists in the Catholic church,
governed by the successor of Peter and by

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the bishops in communion with him.

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Just as the Nazis declared non-Aryans to
be non-humans, so now the church of Rome

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declares other churches to be
non-churches.

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Her official words are, the ecclesial
communities which have not preserved the

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valid episcopate and the genuine and
integral substance of the Eucharistic

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mystery are not churches in the proper
sense.

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In the same document, Dominus Iesus of
September 5th 2000, footnote 51,

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refers to a decree which states,
we declare, say, define and proclaim to

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every human creature that they by
necessity for salvation are entirely

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subject to the Roman pontiff.

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The mind of Rome is thus expressed in her
official decrees.

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Once the Protestant nations are committed
to the emerging European super-state and

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its constitution, the Vatican's plan to
once again Christianise the European Union

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will be implemented.

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As described by the London Sunday
Telegraph, the Pope is calmly preparing to

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assume the mantle which he solemnly
believes to be his divine right,

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that of the new Holy Roman Emperor
reigning from the Urals to the Atlantic.

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The Vatican has a unique contribution to
the EU, the European Union.

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The EU already has most of the attributes
needed for nationhood.

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It has a passport, a flag, a single
currency and an anthem.

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It is also drawing up its constitution.

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The further characteristics of nationhood
such as a president, international

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ambassadors and a foreign secretary.

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The Vatican carefully gives soul to all of
this by claiming that this is,

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quote, a unique contribution to the
building up of a Europe open to the world.

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The Pope in his Ecclesia in Europe states,
one and universal, yet present in the

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multiplicity of the particular churches,
the Catholic Church can offer a unique

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contribution to the building up of a
Europe open to the world.

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The Catholic Church, in fact, provides a
model of essential unity in the diversity

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of cultural expressions, a consciousness
of membership in a universal community

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which is rooted in, but not confined to,
local communities, and a sense of what

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unites beyond all that divides.

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The particular churches in Europe,
as quoted there, are not simple agencies

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or private organisations.

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Rather, they carried out their work with a
special institutional dimension that

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merits legal recognition in full respect
for just systems of civil legislation.

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Particular churches in Europe is simply a
pretense.

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The Vatican views itself as the particular
church and officially states, the Catholic

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faithful are required to profess that
there is an historical continuity rooted

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in the apostolic succession between the
church founded by Christ and the Catholic

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Church.

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From the decrees published, it is clear
that apart from the Church of Rome

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establishing herself as the, quote,
unique contribution to the building up of

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a Europe open to the world, she claims for
herself legal recognition in accord with

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her own civil legislation.

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This has been the basis of the Vatican's
political manipulation over the centuries.

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While Rome carefully prepares her own
legal place, she will tolerate no rivals.

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Quote, the ecclesial communities which
have not preserved the valid episcopate

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are not churches in the proper sense.

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Most certainly they are not to be included
as part of the unique contribution to the

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building up of a Europe open to the world.

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As author Adrian Hilton warned recently in
an article in the Spectator, the issue of

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European religious union is one that has
been concealed even deeper than the plans

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for political union.

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But the ratchet towards a Catholic Europe
is just as real.

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The Pope's recent demand that God be
featured in the emerging European

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constitution has been echoed by many
leading Catholic politicians and bishops.

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While on the surface such a reference may
offend only Europe's atheistic and

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humanist contingent, it must be observed
that when the Vatican refers to God,

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she sees herself as God's infallible
vice-regent upon earth, the leading organ

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of divine expression.

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Indeed, according to its publication
Dominus Iesus, as the only mediator in the

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salvation of God's elect, insisting that
all other churches, including the Church

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of England, are not churches in the proper
sense.

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The real meaning of the Pope's message to
Europe.

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The Ecclesia in Europa pronouncement is
one of the cleverest produced by the late

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Pope John Paul II.

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It's a masterpiece that purportedly
proclaims the Christian message,

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while in fact it teaches the rites and
rituals of the papacy.

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For example, the concept of the gospel of
hope is mentioned 40 times in the

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dissertation.

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The message, however, is not one of hope.

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Rather, it is an adept counterfeit.

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For example, paragraph 74 begins by
stating, A prominent place needs to be

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given to the celebration of the sacraments
as actions of Christ and as of the Church,

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ordered to the worship of God,
to the sanctification of people,

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and to the building up of the ecclesial
community.

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The Pope thus presents his physical,
symbolic sacraments as the efficacious

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cause of salvation.

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In place of the direct obedience to Christ
Jesus demanded in the gospel of faith,

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the sacraments are purported to be actions
of Christ.

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This is where the Vatican's pretension of
hope lies.

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Such sacraments are declared necessary for
salvation in the official teaching of

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Rome.

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Quote, the Church affirms that for
believers, the sacraments of the new

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covenant are necessary for salvation.

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Sacramental grace is the grace of the Holy
Spirit, given by Christ and proper to each

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sacrament.

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By setting aside the direct work of God in
Christ Jesus, the sacraments of Rome are

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seeking to steal from Christ his
priesthood, and to rob him of his power as

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mediator.

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The Roman Church also seeks to rob God,
the Holy Spirit, of his peculiar work as

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the sanctifier, by attributing his power
of giving grace to its own rituals.

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Moreover, it seeks to rob God the father
of his prerogatives of justifying and

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forgiving sinners.

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This is the reality behind the concept of
the Gospel of Hope that permeates the

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Pope's, the former Pope's, message to
Europe.

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Throughout the centuries, Rome has
substituted her sacraments for the Gospel

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in a consistently degrading insult to the
grace of God.

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Shameful to God and damning to men is the
Pope's memorandum to Europe.

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We are at a seminal moment in history,
as the Holy Roman Empire re-emerges as a

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European super-state.

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Throughout her history, the papacy has
remained self-governing and invincible to

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every restraining force other than that of
the power of God in the Gospel.

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Bible believers need to be aware of the
times in which we live.

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We need to study the history of the EU in
order to see the outworking of the guile

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of Rome.

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A short history of the European Union.

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After the destruction, ruin and enormous
human cost of the that it would never

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happen again.

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In 1946, Sir Winston Churchill suggested
in a famous speech at Zurich in

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Switzerland that, quote, we must build a
kind of United States of Europe.

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This was not a commitment for Britain to
participate in the European project,

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as Euro-enthusiasts have often insisted.

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Churchill envisaged a Western Europe,
a free, independent, sovereign nations,

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not an undemocratic federal super-state.

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Together, the nations would reach for a
destiny of unprecedented cooperation and

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harmony.

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In 1950, the Schuman Plan proposed the
supranational pooling of the German and

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French coal and steel industries in order
to lay the basis of European economic

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unity.

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The partial merger of the economies of the
two traditional enemies would ensure

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continuing peace between them.

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French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman and
German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer signed

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the agreement, the Treaty of Paris,
as co-founders of the Franco-German Coal

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and Steel Confederation.

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Like their colleagues, Jean Monnet and
Paul-Henri Spaak, they were both devout

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Roman Catholics who shared the vision of
successive post-war popes for a

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re-Catholicised and united Europe.

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Adenauer and Schuman, along with Alcide de
Gasperi, all three founding fathers,

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are in the process of being made into
saints by the Vatican as a reward for

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founding the new Europe, quote,
on Roman Catholic principles.

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The European Economic Community,
the EEC, this was established in 1957 by

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the Treaty of Rome and brought in Italy,
Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg to join

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with France and Germany in removing trade
barriers between member states and

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unifying their economic policies.

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It made clear to those with sufficient
stamina to read the Treaty's lengthy and

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turgid document that the aim of the
project was always to achieve political

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unity in economic disguise, an ever closer
union.

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In 1962, the Common Agricultural Policy
was introduced with a single European

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market and price fixing, which has
consistently favoured French farmers.

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The Northwest Technocrat journal commented
on the developing design of the European

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project at that time, I quote,
fascism in Europe is about to be reborn in

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respectable business attire and the Treaty
of Rome will be finally implemented to its

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fullest extent.

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The dream of a Holy Roman Empire returning
to power to dominate and direct the

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so-called forces of Christian mankind of
the Western world is not dead,

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but still stalks through the antechambers
of every national capital of continental

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Western Europe in the determination of the
leaders in the common market to restore

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the Holy Roman Empire with all that that
means.

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Nearly 30 years later, the London-based
Sunday Telegraph was to express the same

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concern in a major article headed Now a
Holy European Empire?

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It stated, the Vatican notoriously thinks
in centuries.

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In Pope John Paul II, we have the most
political pope of modern times.

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It is in the movement towards federalism
of the common market, with the coming

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membership of Eastern European countries,
as well as in the turmoil of the Soviet

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Union, that the pope may see the greatest
possibility for an increase in Catholic

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political power since the fall of Napoleon
or since the Counter-Reformation.

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The common market itself started under the
inspiration of Catholic politicians,

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such as Adenauer of Germany, Paul-Henri
Sparck, John Monet and Robert Schuman.

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The EC social charter and the socialism of
Jacques Delors, former president of the

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European Commission, are imbued with
Catholic social doctrine.

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If European federalism triumphs,
the EC will indeed be an empire.

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It will lack an emperor, but it will have
the pope.

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It is difficult not to think that Votia,
the former Pope John Paul II, realises

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this.

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In 1967, Prime Minister Harold Wilson
announced that Britain would apply to join

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the European community, or the common
market.

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The British people voted to do so in a
referendum in the belief that they were

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joining a closer trading relationship,
a kind of club, rather than being bound

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into an evolving super-state.

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Unfortunately, no more people had read the
Treaty of Rome in the 1930s.

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Politicians and opinion formers,
who should have known better, accepted

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assurances that no loss of sovereignty was
involved in acceding to the EEC.

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In 1973, Conservative Prime Minister
Edward Heath, who definitely did know

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better, committed Britain into membership
of the EEC.

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Ireland and Denmark joined the same year.

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In 1979, the European Parliament was
established in Strasbourg with its first

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direct elections.

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The word economic was carefully dropped
from the name of the project that was now

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to be described as the European Community,
just EEC.

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Greece joined the EEC in 1981,
which was the year of the Single European

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Act, enacting the gradual transfer of
executive, legislative and judicial powers

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from member states to EEC
instrumentalities.

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Spain and Portugal signed up to the EEC in
1986, making a total of 12 member states.

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In 1990, East Germany joined as part of a
united Germany.

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In February 1992, the Maastricht Treaty or
Treaty of European Union was signed at

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Maastricht in Holland by the foreign and
finance ministers of the member states.

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Its objective was to bind the 12 nations
into cooperation or, quote, ever closer

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union on a range of issues other than
economic and trading.

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To this end, the EEC was renamed the
European Union.

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The Maastricht Treaty established economic
and monetary union, which would lead

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ultimately to all member states sharing a
single currency.

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The religious dimension, although not
apparent, was the key to what was being

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formed.

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Among European leaders who were most
influential in furthering the Maastricht

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agenda were Jacques Delors and Dutch Prime
Minister Ruud Lubbers, both

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Jesuit-educated, as well as devout
Catholics.

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German Chancellor Kohl and Prime Minister
Felipe Gonzalez of Spain were alongside

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them.

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These four leaders were all products of
the Roman Catholic social movement,

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which believes that there is no nobler
task than the unifying of our continent,

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and views the idea of a united Europe as
essentially a Catholic concept.

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The Amsterdam Treaty followed and was
signed in 1997 as a further notch of the

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ratchet of ever closer union, meaning,
in fact, ever-diminishing sovereignty,

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following the principle of acquis
communautaire, which asserts, quote,

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that what has been acquired cannot be
taken away.

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The Amsterdam Treaty gave more powers to
the unelected commission, and particularly

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to its unelected president, as the
initiator, administrator, mediator,

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negotiator, and guardian of the treaties.

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The Treaty of Nice, signed by Prime
Minister Tony Blair in December 2000,

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was the last in a series of treaties which
have progressively drained the UK of its

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sovereignty.

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At Nice there was finally, and
irrevocably, established the EU as a

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sovereign federal state.

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A new European criminal code, Corpus
Juris, is planned to replace the classic

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long-standing British criminal code.

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Vital elements such as trial by jury and
habeas corpus are missing from this new

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code.

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EU supreme power.

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Even before the Treaty of Nice came into
force, the EU Constitutional Convention,

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presided over by former French president
Valéry d'Estaing, produced its first draft

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of a constitution for Europe in October
2002.

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On the 13th of June 2003, a final version
of the draft treaty establishing a

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constitution for Europe was produced.

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Quoting from the London Daily Telegraph of
that time, "...to the strains of

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Beethoven's Ode to Joy, the Convention on
the Future of Europe proclaimed agreement

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yesterday on a written constitution for a
vast European Union of 450 million

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citizens bringing together East and West.

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Valéry d'Estaing, the chair of the 105
strong body, held up a text, quote,

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"...we have sown a seed and I am sure that
seed will grow and bring fruit.

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Europe's voice will be heard and respected
on the international stage.

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Instead of a half-formed Europe,
we have a Europe with a legal identity,

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with a single currency, common justice,
a Europe which is about to have its own

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defence." There was no vote.

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Mr Gistard, famed for his autocratic style
during 16 months of stormy debates,

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simply discerned consensus among the MPs,
MEPs and national envoys.

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Few were willing to spoil the party by
crying foul.

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End of the quote from the Daily Telegraph.

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The constitution gives the EU full legal
personality and determines that EU law

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will have primacy over the law of member
states.

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It prohibits Westminster from legislating
in most areas of national life,

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agriculture, justice, energy, social
policy, economic cohesion, transport,

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the environment and aspects of public
health, unless Brussels chooses to waive

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its power.

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If the new constitution is accepted,
the EU will no longer be a treaty

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organisation in which member states agree
to lend power to Brussels for certain

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purposes, on the understanding that they
can take them back again.

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Rather, the EU will itself have become the
fount of power, with the ability to sign

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international treaties in its own right.

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It will have its own president,
foreign minister and foreign policy,

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its own parliament, supreme court,
flag, anthem and currency.

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It will have become a sovereign state,
in fact a federal super state.

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The member states whose constitutions will
be subject to this higher constitution

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will cease to be sovereign.

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The new order will be irreversible.

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Mr Giscard makes clear that the national
veto is to be abolished in 50 new areas,

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including immigration and asylum.

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The same spirit of domination.

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Under the new constitution's rules,
no nation is to be allowed to secede from

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the EU, except by a two-thirds majority
vote of member states in agreement with

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the secession.

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The EU will acquire competence in all
areas of foreign policy, including the

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progressive framing of a common defence
policy, though major decisions must be

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unanimous.

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The European court, which acquires vast
powers, will ensure that member states,

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quote, actively and unreservedly support
the EU's common foreign and security

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policy.

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Article 8 of the draft constitution,
which also imposes an obligation of loyal

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cooperation vis-à-vis the union of member
states, reinforces the supremacy of EU law

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over the laws of member states.

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An EU attorney general will be able to
prosecute cross-border crime, a catch-all

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term that will allow Brussels the supreme
jurisdiction throughout.

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The constitution lacks any serious
democratic dimension and is clearly

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designed to strengthen the EU power
structure for the benefit of the European

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elite.

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The EU will be able to enforce its
doubtless the intention is to force it

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through with the minimum of real
democratic scrutiny.

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This spirit of absolute autocracy that is
to govern the EU is frighteningly akin to

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the spirit that rules in the Vatican.

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Quote, the first C is judged by no one.

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Rome's stamp upon the pages of history has
forever been no accountability.

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Its laws also state, quote, it is solely
the right of the Roman pontiff himself to

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judge in cases mentioned in canon 1401-1,
those who hold the highest civil office in

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a state.

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The same spirit of despotism in both
systems loudly proclaims supreme caution.

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The abandoning of a thousand years of
history.

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The treaty that establishes the new
constitution due to be agreed by the

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intergovernmental conference in 2004,
which was agreed in 2004, is far more

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extensive than any previous treaty.

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Derek Heathcote Emery, the conservative
party representative at the constitutional

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convention, rightly described it as,
quote, bigger than the treaties of

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Maastricht, Amsterdam and Nice rolled
together.

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The implications of such huge changes,
the abandoning of a thousand years of

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history, have not been really understood
by the majority of the British people.

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Little by little, treaty by treaty,
first the EC, then the EC, then the EU,

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people have become used to Europe and
bored with it.

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And with so many scare stories about
Brussels, so-called dangers threatening

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their independence and sovereignty,
so many Eurosceptics crying wolf,

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it has all been going on as long as they
can remember.

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And after all, Britain does have the
fourth largest economy in the world,

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and in the main, Britons have prospered.

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The problem is that the wolf is now at the
door.

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Many of those who cherish Britain's
independence and who don't want to give

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away that for which two world wars were
fought to retain, realise this.

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If the move to establish the constitution
for Europe is ratified by the UK

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Parliament, it would be the first time
that the United Kingdom has adopted or

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acceded to a wholly written constitution.

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How can the UK adopt such a constitution,
having never had one before?

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The answer would seem to be
straightforward.

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The people must give their consent.

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However, if the Labour government had had
its way, there would be no referendum.

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Tony Blair, who is said to have set his
sights on the top job as President of the

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United States of Europe, originally made
clear and adamantly made clear that there

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should take place towards the end of 2006.

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The Prime Minister did agree to hold a
referendum on the single currency before

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he came to office in 1997.

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And he's now set fair on allowing the
referendum to take place, if he is

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re-elected and his new Labour
administration re-elected as the

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government.

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The EU's power symbols.

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The EU Parliament's main base is
Strasbourg in France.

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The city symbolises the dream of
Franco-German integration that was at the

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heart of the Holy Roman Empire of
Charlemagne.

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In December 2000, the European Union
opened its new Parliament building there.

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The building is patterned after Dutch
artist Pieter Bruegel's famous painting of

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the Tower of Babel.

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Bruegel's painting portrays the tower
unfinished, as does the new EU building,

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which was deliberately made to appear as
unfinished, thereby displaying a close

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resemblance to the Bruegel painting.

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Outside the Parliament building is a
statue of the goddess Europa riding a bull

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or a beast.

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Inside, the dome displays a colossal
painting of a woman riding the beast.

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The woman riding the beast symbol also
appears on some of the two euro coins that

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have been minted, and of course is
identifiable from scripture in Revelation

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17.

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The same imagery has appeared on EU
postage stamps, including the British one

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issued in 1984 to commemorate the second
elections for the European Parliament.

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The EU's conscious use of such symbolism
creates the impression that it wishes to

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bring to mind Europe's desire to rule
using all the power it has at its

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disposal.

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And as has been said in scripture,
the woman riding the beast is to be

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recognised in Revelation chapter 17.

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The identification with the Church of Rome
has long been apparent to Bible believers.

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This interpretation of Bible prophecy did
much to empower the Reformation.

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Only papal Rome is a city which is sited
on seven hills, a religious system whose

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prelates, quote, are arrayed in purple and
scarlet colour, a civil state,

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quote, with whom the kings of the earth
have committed fornication.

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Historically, with hands that are crimson
with the blood of Bible believers,

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quote, from scripture, that has been
drunken with the blood of the saints and

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with the martyrs of Jesus.

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Papal Rome is the only worldwide religious
system that calls itself and its virgin

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goddess Mother.

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History also unveils what is now
happening.

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A brief preview of European history helps
with the identification of the papacy with

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scripture.

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After the collapse of the Roman Empire in
the 5th century, the papacy continually

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sought to establish the same dominance as
had the Caesars before them.

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In fact, successive popes used the same
name, Pontifex Maximus.

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They did so by weaving together both
temporal and spiritual jurisdictions and

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blasphemy assumed to themselves the office
of the Vicar of Christ.

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In that spurious role, in the course of a
few centuries, they were able to subjugate

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the kings of Europe who became their
vice-regents.

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Thus, century by century, the Mother
Church succeeded in extending her power,

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usurping that of civil governments.

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Under the guise of religion, she planted
her own hierarchical system of government

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with its exhaustive financial requirements
in each of Europe's kingdoms.

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The blending of things civil and sacred
was the Vatican's hard-to-resist method of

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operation in those dark days.

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Unhappily, this is still so today,
that scripture foretells the apostate

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church, and will be so again once power
and control have been consolidated in the

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new United States of Europe.

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Semper Iadem, Rome never changes.

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The duplicity of the papacy's perpetual
mixing of political and spiritual power

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could surely not be better portrayed than
in God's Word in Revelation 17.

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The Apostle John beheld the ten-horned
beast representing the Roman Empire,

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carrying a woman dressed in purple and
scarlet, decked with gold, precious stones

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and pearls.

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She is a harlot, and the mother of harlots
and abominations, the paramour of kings,

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the pitiless persecutor intoxicated with
the blood of the saints and of the martyrs

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of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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The angel told John, the seven heads are
seven mountains on which the woman

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sitteth.

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To explain this singular fact and to avoid
but guesswork, he adds, quote,

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the woman which thou sawest is that great
city which reigneth over the kings of the

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earth.

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The city is indisputably Rome.

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The name upon the harlot's brow is
mystery.

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The city cannot be pagan Rome,
about which there was no mystery.

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In contrast, papal Rome was mysterious and
continues to be elusive.

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Babylon in the book of Revelation is a
city and a harlot.

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Jerusalem in the same book is a city and a
bride.

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Babylon is the deceptive lover of earthly
kings.

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Jerusalem, the chaste bride of the king of
kings.

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The contrast is between church and church,
the faithful church and the apostate

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church.

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The EU flag, another EU spiritual symbol.

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The flag of the European Union,
blue with a design of 12 stars in a

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circle, derives from the 12 stars that in
Catholic tradition are the halo around the

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head of the Virgin Mary.

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The stars stem from the belief that 12 is
the symbol of perfection and of what is

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unchangeable.

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The political purposes behind all of these
symbols are much debated.

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The biblical significance, however,
is revealing.

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According to the European Union
publication Europe's Star Choice,

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quote, the flag has its roots in Romanism,
takes its symbolism from Romanism and

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represents the Roman Catholic ideal.

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The design with its halo of stars was
inspired by many pictures of the Virgin

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Mary, the most prominent of which is on
the Council of Europe stained glass window

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in Strasbourg Cathedral.

41:20.480 --> 41:28.160
The EU's single market social chapter and
subsidiarity are concepts of Roman

41:28.160 --> 41:35.860
Catholic social teaching, originating with
Pope Pius XI in the 1930s and adopted by

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Hitler's Vatican-backed Third Reich.

41:40.540 --> 41:46.940
Nazi finance minister Walter Funk,
styled as the architect of Hitler's New

41:46.940 --> 41:54.860
Europe, issued a compendium of papers in
1942 which contained detailed plans for a

41:54.860 --> 41:59.140
Europe bearing close resemblance to the
Europe now emerging.

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Funk's papers described the European
economic community, the common European

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currency, harmonisation of European rates
of exchange, a common labour policy and a

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European regional principle.

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All these terms, now in use again,
were used by Funk at that time in the

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1930s.

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The European regional principle has now
become known as, there's the exception,

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because it's now become known as the
Europe of regions policy.

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And in England is to be replaced by seven
regions, which with Scotland, Wales and

42:47.200 --> 42:50.620
Northern Ireland will total ten regions in
all.

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Together they are to replace the United
Kingdom.

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The Third Reich, to be followed by the
Fourth.

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The Third Reich, like the EU, was an
attempt to revive the Roman Empire.

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The higher strategy of the Vatican and the
acquiescence of the Catholic Central Party

43:15.800 --> 43:17.660
had brought Hitler to power.

43:19.120 --> 43:25.580
Instrumental in this strategy were Reich
Chancellor Franz von Pappen and Papal

43:25.580 --> 43:30.620
Nuncio Monsignor Pacelli, the future Pope
Pius XII.

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Von Pappen goes down in history as the man
who obtained Hitler his two-thirds

43:37.940 --> 43:45.080
majority in the Reichstag, signed the law
which made him head of state, and he was

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who was also responsible for the
enormously important concordat with the

43:49.880 --> 43:52.160
Church of Rome in 1933.

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He declared, quote, the Third Reich is the
first power in the world to put into

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practice the lofty principles of the
papacy.

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Incredibly, given his responsibility for
Nazi atrocities, von Pappen was acquitted

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at Nuremberg and later became Papal
Chamberlain to Pope John XXIII.

44:20.320 --> 44:26.480
Pacelli, as Pope Pius XII, became
notorious for his silence with regard to

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the Holocaust and to the other appalling
crimes committed by the fascists in

44:31.340 --> 44:31.720
Europe.

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The Vatican's attempts to canonise him
have proved highly controversial and

44:39.500 --> 44:42.260
perhaps embarrassing for the Vatican.

44:45.150 --> 44:47.980
The Nazi leadership was mainly Roman
Catholic.

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Hitler and Himmler were greatly influenced
by the Jesuits, as was Mussolini,

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whose father confessor was a Jesuit.

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Hitler said of Himmler, quote,
in Himmler I see our Ignatius de Loyola.

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Joseph Goebbels was also Jesuit-educated,
as was Walter Schellenberg, who led the

45:10.760 --> 45:17.260
SD, or Sicherheitsdienst, the security
service of the SS, and before being

45:17.260 --> 45:22.380
sentenced to death at Nuremberg for crimes
against humanity, Schellenberg stated

45:22.380 --> 45:29.820
that, quote, the SS organisation has been
constituted by Himmler according to the

45:29.820 --> 45:31.460
principles of the Jesuit order.

45:32.440 --> 45:38.100
Their regulations and the spiritual
exercises prescribed by Ignatius de Loyola

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were the model Himmler tried to copy
exactly.

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The lesson and warning of history is that
undemocratic regimes whose leaders owe

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allegiance to the Pope or practice the,
quote, lofty principles of the papacy,

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pose a threat to individual liberty and
carry out religious persecution.

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For example, the Inquisition was alive and
well in the Balkans in the 1940s.

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Convert or die was the choice on offer to
900,000 Orthodox Serbs, Jews, and other

46:28.400 --> 46:34.740
peoples in the new state of Croatia,
run by Nazi puppet Anton Pavelic and Roman

46:34.740 --> 46:38.520
Catholic primate Archbishop Alois
Stepinac.

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200,000 of the Serbs were, quote,
converted.

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The other 700,000 who preferred to die
were tortured, shot, burned, or buried

46:52.740 --> 46:53.300
alive.

46:54.060 --> 47:00.660
This appalling persecution carried out
mainly by Ustashe priests and friars for

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the triumph of Christ in Croatia,
as they called it, included many of the

47:06.120 --> 47:07.680
worst atrocities of the war.

47:08.620 --> 47:12.960
Certainly the mutilations were horrific,
the savagery terrible.

47:13.680 --> 47:18.600
Few people today know what took place in
Croatia during the Second World War.

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News of it has been simply suppressed.

47:23.040 --> 47:27.000
Nor do they understand what happened in
the Balkans in the 1990s.

47:27.720 --> 47:32.360
The re-establishing of Croatia as an
independent state during the

47:32.360 --> 47:37.300
disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s
is instructive.

47:38.400 --> 47:44.600
The European Union, led by Germany,
ignored the protest of Britain and other

47:44.600 --> 47:47.480
nations in pressing for this to happen.

47:48.420 --> 47:53.620
The Vatican was the first to recognise the
reborn Croatia.

47:54.920 --> 48:03.420
Writing in September 1991, in the Sunday
Telegraph, historian Andrew Roberts

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expressed surprise that, quote,
almost the entire Western media have

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chosen to champion the Croats.

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How are the Serbs expected to react to the
decision to adopt the Ustashe's checkered

48:19.120 --> 48:22.020
symbol as the Croatian national flag?

48:22.620 --> 48:29.020
In Krajina, it takes longer than the
attention span of today's CNN broadcaster

48:29.020 --> 48:35.220
to forget the way Franciscan friars
participated in the slaughter of Serbs in

48:35.220 --> 48:36.560
Croatian Bosnia.

48:37.780 --> 48:43.040
Orthodox Serbs were promised protection if
they converted to Catholicism and were

48:43.040 --> 48:47.720
then killed after they entered the
churches as the priests looked on.

48:48.360 --> 48:52.600
None of this is surprising if we know the
history of Roman Catholicism.

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From the birth of potpourri in 600 to the
present time, it has been estimated by

49:00.280 --> 49:07.620
careful and credible historians that as
many as 50 millions of the human family

49:07.620 --> 49:15.720
had been slaughtered for the crime of
heresy by Popish persecutors, an average

49:15.720 --> 49:23.320
of more than 40,000 religious murders for
every year of the existence of potpourri.

49:24.900 --> 49:30.920
The scripture speaks prophetically of her
lust for power and blood.

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History has recorded many of the gruesome
details.

49:35.200 --> 49:38.960
The papacy has been predominant throughout
the whole history of Europe.

49:39.680 --> 49:43.680
It has left its mark and record on most of
the major nations.

49:44.020 --> 49:50.140
In times past, it has proven itself to be
totally dominant in its control of kings

49:50.140 --> 49:50.880
and princes.

49:51.420 --> 49:57.480
The whole history of the Western world
over 14 centuries has been plagued by the

49:57.480 --> 50:04.660
intrigues and machinations of the Church
of Rome in unceasing pursuit of her global

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designs.

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In the words of the historian J.A.

50:08.580 --> 50:14.360
Wiley, as regards the influence of
potpourri on government, it were easy to

50:14.360 --> 50:18.140
demonstrate that the papacy delayed the
advent of representative and

50:18.140 --> 50:21.080
constitutional government for 13
centuries.

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Superstition is the mother of despotism.

50:25.500 --> 50:27.340
Christianity is the parent of liberty.

50:28.240 --> 50:32.860
There is no truth which the past history
of the world more abundantly establishes

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than this.

50:34.280 --> 50:38.760
It was through Christianity that the
democratic element first came into the

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world.

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The papal government is the very antipodes
of constitutional government.

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It centres all power in one man.

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It does so on the ground of divine right
and is therefore essentially and eternally

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antagonistic to the constitutional
element.

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Its long dominancy in Europe formed the
grand barrier to the progress of the

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popular element in society and to the
erection of constitutional government in

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the world.

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Our hope and prayer for Europe.

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Once again we have come to a defining
moment in our history.

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Once more the Vatican is engaged in
placing its hallmark and its rituals on

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the face of Europe to further its familiar
agenda.

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It does so in a number of different ways,
directed from the highest levels of

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command in the Vatican.

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Firstly, it operates directly through its
civil ambassadors in each European nation.

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According to the Catholic almanac,
quote, papal representatives receive from

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the Roman pontiff the charge of
representing him in a fixed way in the

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various nations or regions of the world.

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Secondly, the Roman church also deals
directly and legally with individual

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nations through its many legal concordats.

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Less directly, it operates through its
representation and influence in most of

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the governmental agencies of Europe.

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This involvement, especially in the area
of finance and business, is documented in

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her almanac under the heading of
governmental organizations.

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These include the United Nations,
the Council of Europe, the Organization of

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American States, the International
Organization for the Unification of

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Private Law, the International Council on
Grain, among many others.

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Rome has her observers and delegates in
all of these many listed organizations.

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Finally, she operates through her own
people in Europe whose allegiance is to

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first and foremost to the Roman Catholic
Church.

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Many of her people have access to
positions in the ruling structure of their

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nation.

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As Roman Catholics, they are enjoined by
the Vatican to use both influence and

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position to bring that nation into line
with papal policy on any particular issue.

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We need to pray that Europe will not be
taken back to the state that it was in,

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spiritually and politically, during the
Middle Ages.

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Roman Catholicism, though outwardly and
politically strong, is inwardly and

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spiritually feeble.

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By her laws and ceremonies, her bishops,
priests and laity are obliged to accept

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the system that recognizes the Pope as the
universal, sovereign father, while denying

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the true father and the son.

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From its traditions, history and crises,
it is evident that it is an institution

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lacking the gospel of grace in Christ,
one that walks in darkness and in the

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shadow of death.

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In contrast, the true Christian faith may
outwardly look small and weak,

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but inwardly and in essence, it is the
strongest power on earth.

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That same power liberated most of Europe
at the time of the Reformation.

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It is the power that is in the Lord Jesus
Christ and inseparable from him.

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In the words of the Apostle Peter,
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord

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Jesus Christ, which according to his
abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto

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a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead.

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The reason for our confidence is our
relationship to the risen Saviour,

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the Lord Jesus Christ.

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He is Lord, the universal King and
Sovereign, the High Priest and Saviour.

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Christ Jesus our Lord is a prophet,
anointed with the Holy Spirit and

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furnished with all gifts necessary for the
instruction, guidance and salvation of his

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people through his written word,
the Holy Scriptures.

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He and his gospel of grace are our hope
for the future of Europe.

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Our inheritance is reserved in heaven.

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On earth, however, we are, quote,
kept by the power of God through faith.

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We remember that the greatest power of God
has often been experienced in times of the

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greatest declension, such as the time of
the 18th century revival and that of the

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Reformation itself.

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Quote, the people that walked in darkness
have seen a great light.

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They that dwell in the land of the shadow
of death, upon them hath the light shined.

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God in his sovereignty and in his divine
timing can bring a people to the Bible,

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to his truth of salvation by grace alone,
through faith alone, in Christ alone.

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When he pleases, he is able with one word
of his grace to renew Europe by an act of

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his power and make his enemies his
footstool.

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We pray that he will give us the faith of
the reformers and of all those in the

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history of Europe who have given their
lives for biblical truth.

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For the European Union, we pray the words
of the prophet of the Lord.

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Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord,
and we shall be turned.

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Renew our days as of old.

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God can send forth his spirit when he
pleases.

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He did so at the time of the Reformation.

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He prays that he will do so again now.

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We remember the words of John Owen at
another turning point of history.

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He spoke of his own nation, England,
at a time of social disintegration,

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yet looking for revival.

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We now need that same faith and confidence
for Britain and for the future of all the

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EU.

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To quote John Owen, when God will do this,
I know not.

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But I believe God can do this.

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He's able to do it.

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Able to renew all his churches by sending
out supplies of the spirit whose fullness

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is with him to recover them in the due and
appointed time.

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And more, I believe truly that when God
has accomplished some ends upon us and has

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stained the glory of all flesh,
he will renew the power and glory of

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religion among us again, even in this
nation.

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Watch and pray.

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Sound an alarm in Zion.

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The Church of Rome is one of the major
players in the, quote, creeping

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totalitarianism of the new world order.

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Her designs on the EU are a major part of
the unfolding global strategy.

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We need to watch and pray as this fourth
Reich emerges out of its embryo.

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A watchman of old was expected to guard
against robbers and disturbers of the

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peace.

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We are all commanded to be watchmen,
to watch and pray.

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There's been a dreadful apathy that has
afflicted the household of God,

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an indifference to the clear threat to our
ancient liberties and Protestant identity

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from both the EU and the Church of Rome.

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As watchmen of the Lord today,
we are to guard against false teachers and

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false religion.

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We are to watch and discern the actions
and words of the one who would seek to

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supplant the gospel with apostasy and with
tyranny.

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Our task under God is to sound an alarm.

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Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, let all the
inhabitants of the land tremble,

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for the day of the Lord cometh,
for it is nigh at hand.

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Now, even more than in the days of old,
the commands of the Lord are to be obeyed.

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Son of man, I have made thee a watchman
unto the house of Israel.

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Therefore, hear the word of my mouth and
give them warning from me.

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As we make our stand, so also we pray,
expecting to see the power of God at work

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in Europe.

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They that wait upon the Lord shall renew
their strength, they shall mount up with

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wings as eagles, they shall run and not be
weary, and they shall walk and not faint.

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We owe the liberty that we yet enjoy to
Jesus Christ our Lord.

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By his faithfulness and perfect sacrifice,
he has satisfied the demands of the broken

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law of the all-holy God, the true Holy
Father.

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It is he, the Son of God, who has made us
free.

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If the Son of God shall set you free,
you will be free indeed.

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There is a genuine unity of all true
believers throughout the world.

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There is but one faith.

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All true believers are converted by the
same Holy Spirit and receive the same work

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of grace which places them in the Beloved.

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In Christ Jesus we are spiritually one and
called to stand fast in this liberty and

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stand firm in his truth.

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Stand fast therefore in the liberty
wherewith Christ hath made us free and be

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ye not entangled again with the yoke of
bondage, sayeth the Lord.

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Amen.