WEBVTT 00:25.770 --> 00:27.130 Good morning. 00:27.330 --> 00:29.050 Welcome to Inquisition Update. 00:29.330 --> 00:32.130 My name's Tom Friess and I'll be your host for the next hour. 00:32.410 --> 00:35.030 You're listening to FirstAmendmentRadio .com. 00:35.110 --> 00:36.130 Thanks for tuning in. 00:36.790 --> 00:43.530 I'm going to continue now reading our current book, A Woman Rides the Beast by 00:43.530 --> 00:44.330 Dave Hunt. 00:45.070 --> 00:49.030 We're in the chapter entitled Infallibility and Tyranny. 00:50.030 --> 00:56.270 And this portion of the chapter is entitled Consistent Record of Suppression. 00:57.110 --> 01:03.550 Dave Hunt writes, In contrast to his praise of basic freedoms in North America, 01:04.490 --> 01:10.170 to solidly Catholic audiences in Latin America, Pope John Paul II denounces 01:10.170 --> 01:15.770 Protestants and the idea that men ought to be free to profess any religion. 01:15.770 --> 01:22.210 The oppression, persecution, and even martyrdom of those who refused allegiance 01:22.210 --> 01:25.510 to Rome has been her consistent policy. 01:25.710 --> 01:31.910 For example, the concordat between Pope Pius IX and Ecuador of September 26, 01:32.050 --> 01:40.330 1862, established Roman Catholicism as the state religion and forbade other 01:40.330 --> 01:40.930 religions. 01:41.740 --> 01:46.430 All education was to be, quote, strictly controlled by the Roman Catholic 01:46.430 --> 01:47.550 Church, unquote. 01:48.470 --> 01:53.650 A later law declared that, quote, only Catholics might be regarded as 01:53.650 --> 01:56.170 citizens of Ecuador, unquote. 01:57.050 --> 02:02.330 The following year, neighboring Colombia took the opposite course, establishing 02:02.330 --> 02:08.030 religious freedom and curtailing the monopoly on education and the privileged 02:08.030 --> 02:12.110 position that had long been enjoyed by the Roman Catholic Church. 02:12.990 --> 02:15.750 Pope Pius IX acted angrily. 02:16.530 --> 02:22.630 On September 17, 1863, in a papal encyclical entitled Incredibly 02:22.630 --> 02:31.590 Afflictimore, he lashed out at the, quote, nefarious and most iniquitous, 02:31.690 --> 02:39.670 unquote, laws of Colombia and enacted, the laws that Colombia had enacted, 02:40.470 --> 02:46.170 citing especially the evil of following, quote, the worship of non-Catholic sects, 02:46.450 --> 02:46.990 unquote. 02:47.870 --> 02:53.730 His papal pen asserted his authority over that entire nation, including the right to 02:53.730 --> 02:54.970 rescind its laws. 02:55.110 --> 02:56.010 Here's what he said. 02:56.010 --> 03:03.850 We, with apostolic authority, denounce and condemn all such laws and decrees with all 03:03.850 --> 03:04.850 their consequences. 03:05.850 --> 03:11.190 And by the same authority, we abrogate those laws and declare them entirely null 03:11.190 --> 03:14.250 and without binding power, unquote. 03:14.870 --> 03:19.830 Using an authority that the papacy has used throughout its history to release the 03:19.830 --> 03:22.610 citizens of a nation from obedience to its laws. 03:23.330 --> 03:27.510 That's the papal power that demonstrated throughout history, even in our 03:27.510 --> 03:28.210 generation. 03:29.070 --> 03:32.530 And it's going to be exercised even here in the United States of America. 03:33.470 --> 03:34.530 Dave Hunt continues. 03:35.430 --> 03:38.170 He says, Colombia ignored the Pope at that time. 03:39.130 --> 03:44.330 In 1948, however, a new pro-Catholic government came into power. 03:45.090 --> 03:50.790 Its concordat with the Vatican instituted the very suppression which Pope Pius IX 03:50.790 --> 03:51.990 had earlier demanded. 03:52.850 --> 03:57.450 Within 10 years, scores of Christians had been slain for their faith. 03:58.330 --> 04:01.270 Scores of Protestant churches had been burned down. 04:02.110 --> 04:04.850 About 200 Protestant schools were closed. 04:05.470 --> 04:10.270 And even evangelistic work by Protestants was forbidden in most of the country. 04:10.270 --> 04:15.650 Today, Protestants are still being killed for their faith in Mexico and other parts 04:15.650 --> 04:16.590 of Latin America. 04:17.390 --> 04:19.390 Homes and churches are being destroyed. 04:20.330 --> 04:26.830 With as many as 10,000 Indian believers driven from their villages and fields in 04:26.830 --> 04:30.710 the Caiapas region of Mexico alone. 04:31.550 --> 04:33.010 Rome has not changed. 04:33.870 --> 04:38.590 Though its opportunities for despotism are somewhat limited today, says Dave Hunt. 04:38.590 --> 04:42.710 John Paul II is not being honest with us. 04:43.590 --> 04:48.950 Historic evidence, and not only from the distant past, is abundant in testifying 04:48.950 --> 05:00.530 that Roman Catholicism suppresses basic freedom whenever, wherever, and however 05:00.530 --> 05:01.170 she can. 05:01.990 --> 05:06.890 The claim of papal infallibility becomes the justification for such tyranny. 05:06.890 --> 05:12.070 A tyranny which Roman Pontiffs have repeatedly expressed and enforced in 05:12.070 --> 05:16.890 Christ's name and as his alleged vicars. 05:17.810 --> 05:22.970 As the historian Von Dollinger himself, a devout Roman Catholic, has pointed out. 05:23.730 --> 05:27.890 The whole life of such a man, that's speaking of the Pope. 05:28.470 --> 05:33.230 The whole life of the Pope, from the moment when he is placed on the altar to 05:33.230 --> 05:39.150 receive the first homage by the kissing of feet, will be an unbroken chain of 05:39.150 --> 05:39.870 adulations. 05:41.070 --> 05:46.010 Everything is expressly calculated for strengthening him in the belief that 05:46.010 --> 05:50.610 between himself and other mortals there is an impassable gulf. 05:50.610 --> 05:56.870 And when involved in the cloud and fumes of a perpetual incense, the firmest 05:56.870 --> 06:01.870 character must yield at last to a temptation beyond human strength to 06:01.870 --> 06:02.390 resist. 06:03.530 --> 06:09.290 In other words, these men are conditioned from the time of their swearing in as 06:09.290 --> 06:13.930 Pope, they are conditioned from the beginning to believe that they are the 06:13.930 --> 06:19.510 representatives of God on earth and they stand head and shoulders above anybody and 06:19.510 --> 06:20.950 everybody in this world. 06:21.770 --> 06:22.710 They're deified. 06:22.870 --> 06:27.550 The whole church is built around deification of the Pope and his papal 06:27.550 --> 06:31.950 infallibility, making him the governor of the world, the divine right governor of 06:31.950 --> 06:32.390 the world. 06:33.330 --> 06:42.790 Now, Pope Gregory XVI, who reigned from 1831 to 1846, in his The Triumph of the 06:42.790 --> 06:48.010 Holy See and the Church over the Attacks of the Innovators, is one example among 06:48.010 --> 06:48.390 many. 06:49.330 --> 06:54.370 Its major thesis was that the Popes had to be infallible in order to fulfill the 06:54.370 --> 06:55.930 office of a true monarch. 06:55.930 --> 07:05.230 As absolute monarch over church and state, Gregory rejected freedom of conscience, 07:05.630 --> 07:11.630 not only within the church, but within society as a whole, as a, quote, 07:11.890 --> 07:15.230 false and absurd concept. 07:15.230 --> 07:19.950 Freedom of the press was equally madness, according to this Pope. 07:20.790 --> 07:26.570 Gregory's successor was Pope Pius IX, convener of Vatican Council One. 07:27.410 --> 07:32.430 He was of the same mind with regard to the most elementary human freedoms. 07:33.410 --> 07:38.190 Popes had openly declared Rome's opposition to the United States and to its 07:38.190 --> 07:42.850 freedom-granting constitution from the moment that the nation took birth. 07:42.850 --> 07:45.530 Pope Pius IX did the same. 07:46.350 --> 07:51.470 In the Catholic world, frankly, the Catholic world frankly expressed the 07:51.470 --> 07:54.370 Roman Catholic view of the United States' form of government. 07:54.710 --> 07:59.690 Quote, we do not accept it or hold it to be any government at all. 08:00.110 --> 08:05.430 If the American Republic is to be sustained and preserved, it must be by the 08:05.430 --> 08:10.390 rejection of the principles of the Protestant Reformation and the acceptance 08:10.390 --> 08:12.250 of the Catholic principle. 08:12.250 --> 08:15.910 What is the principle of the Protestant Reformation? 08:16.750 --> 08:18.470 Liberty in Christ. 08:19.030 --> 08:23.810 That we are all the temples of the Holy Spirit, God's laws written upon our heart. 08:24.330 --> 08:26.070 He is our great high priest. 08:26.650 --> 08:28.790 He is the church and the state. 08:28.930 --> 08:33.210 We don't need a Pope or a king. 08:34.030 --> 08:34.430 Okay? 08:35.030 --> 08:36.310 We have Christ. 08:36.910 --> 08:39.110 But what is the Roman Catholic principle? 08:39.110 --> 08:45.050 That the Pope is the vicar, the replacement of the Son of God on earth, 08:45.250 --> 08:53.430 and he has the divine right to rule as he sees fit, even if that is contrary to 08:53.430 --> 08:54.570 God's holy law. 08:55.430 --> 08:56.810 It's blasphemy. 08:57.210 --> 08:58.150 It's tyranny. 08:58.910 --> 09:04.270 And its history drips with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of 09:04.270 --> 09:04.670 Jesus. 09:05.910 --> 09:09.030 Now onto the subtitle, Contempt for Human Life. 09:09.790 --> 09:14.950 Dave Hunt says, It is a matter of incontrovertible historical record that 09:14.950 --> 09:19.890 many of the Popes were as contemptible of human life as they were of freedom. 09:20.870 --> 09:26.610 Pope Gregory IX, who reigned from 1227 to 1241, declared it the duty of every 09:26.610 --> 09:30.990 Catholic, quote, to persecute heretics, unquote. 09:31.810 --> 09:33.770 That's you and me, right? 09:34.350 --> 09:35.830 We're not Roman Catholic? 09:36.450 --> 09:44.690 Pope Gregory IX declared that it was the duty of every Roman Catholic to persecute 09:44.690 --> 09:45.270 heretics. 09:45.910 --> 09:47.890 I'm going to ask my listeners the obvious question. 09:48.150 --> 09:50.310 What happens if we have a Roman Catholic in the White House? 09:50.770 --> 09:52.570 Vote no better, better, better than that. 09:52.710 --> 09:53.990 Let me ask that correctly. 09:53.990 --> 10:02.750 What if we have an apparent Protestant in the White House who secretly professes 10:02.750 --> 10:08.630 Roman Catholicism and he is commanded by his Pope to persecute heretics? 10:09.710 --> 10:14.250 What if we have a controlling power of Roman Catholics in Congress? 10:14.710 --> 10:16.310 How about on the Supreme Court? 10:17.110 --> 10:21.470 And they are all likewise commanded to persecute heretics. 10:21.470 --> 10:27.770 A heretic is someone who did not give complete allegiance to the Roman Catholic 10:27.770 --> 10:28.290 Church. 10:29.250 --> 10:33.830 Such persons were to be tortured, imprisoned, and slain. 10:34.710 --> 10:39.110 I ask again, what if we have a heretic in this country? 10:39.250 --> 10:40.150 Do not wake up. 10:40.950 --> 10:44.670 It says disloyalty to the Pope was the same as treason. 10:45.450 --> 10:48.510 So closely were church and state united. 10:48.510 --> 10:56.650 Quote, of 80 Popes in a line from the 13th century on, writes Peter De Rosa, 10:57.050 --> 11:02.470 not one of them disapproved of the theology and apparatus of the Inquisition. 11:03.270 --> 11:09.350 On the contrary, one after another added his own cruel touches to the workings of 11:09.350 --> 11:10.910 this deadly machine. 11:11.430 --> 11:11.870 Unquote. 11:13.410 --> 11:17.770 Rome takes seriously the command to persecute heretics. 11:17.770 --> 11:23.970 Rome has always made it a science to discover the most successful ways of 11:23.970 --> 11:26.790 persecuting and killing the heretics. 11:28.010 --> 11:29.750 Rome has not changed. 11:31.470 --> 11:37.350 He continues, he says, nor was it only the Inquisition that trampled human rights and 11:37.350 --> 11:37.830 life. 11:38.690 --> 11:43.230 Even before that evil institution, Peter De Rosa reminds us, quote, 11:43.230 --> 11:49.750 For more than six centuries without a break, the papacy was the sworn enemy of 11:49.750 --> 11:51.150 elementary justice. 11:51.630 --> 11:51.950 Unquote. 11:53.010 --> 11:58.450 Nearly 400 years before the Inquisition would be established by Pope Gregory IX, 11:59.210 --> 12:04.610 Pope Nicholas I, who reigned from 858 to 867, encouraged the king of Bulgaria, 12:05.210 --> 12:10.890 a new convert to what he thought was Christianity, to force Rome's religion 12:10.890 --> 12:12.570 upon his subjects. 12:13.450 --> 12:13.910 Quote. 12:14.730 --> 12:20.030 I glorify you for having maintained your authority by putting to death those 12:20.030 --> 12:26.750 wandering sheep who refused to enter the fold and congratulate you upon having 12:26.750 --> 12:30.870 opened the kingdom of heaven to people submitted to your rule. 12:30.870 --> 12:37.750 A king need not fear to command massacres when these will retain his subjects in 12:37.750 --> 12:41.450 obedience or cause them to submit to the faith of Christ. 12:42.110 --> 12:47.190 And God will reward him in this world and in eternal life for these murders. 12:47.870 --> 12:48.330 Unquote. 12:49.630 --> 12:51.450 That's how Rome persecutes the heretics. 12:51.450 --> 12:59.150 Praises presidents and congresses and supreme court members for devising 12:59.150 --> 13:05.630 ingenious ways to persecute and kill heretics, Bible-believing Christians like 13:05.630 --> 13:06.210 you and me. 13:07.590 --> 13:14.150 Such a statement may seem an incredible relic from the dark ages, but we could 13:14.150 --> 13:16.310 cite many like it from other popes. 13:17.230 --> 13:21.490 Remember that the popes who condoned and practiced the persecution, torture and 13:21.490 --> 13:27.430 massacre of all who refused to give them allegiance were the allegedly infallible 13:27.430 --> 13:34.970 successors to Peter, the predecessors of today's Pope John Paul II, essential links 13:34.970 --> 13:40.030 in the long papal line from whom he received his authority and power. 13:40.910 --> 13:47.030 Nor has the Vatican ever acknowledged the evil of past popes or apologized for it. 13:47.270 --> 13:55.110 By the time of Pope Pius IX, the tide of public opinion was turning against the 13:55.110 --> 13:57.930 popes because of their ruthless totalitarianism. 13:58.750 --> 14:03.310 The revolutionary ideas of freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of 14:03.310 --> 14:08.250 conscience, freedom of the people's right to choose their rulers, and of the 14:08.250 --> 14:12.250 separation of church and state, having been established by the United 14:12.250 --> 14:17.030 States Constitution, were also gaining momentum across Europe. 14:17.910 --> 14:23.330 This new breath of freedom threatened Rome and had to be smothered in Christ's name. 14:24.230 --> 14:29.910 Pope Pius IX was determined to continue Rome's autocratic rule in partnership with 14:29.910 --> 14:31.170 autocratic governments. 14:31.170 --> 14:37.210 To protect Rome's dictatorial powers, his papal infallibility had to be 14:37.210 --> 14:41.530 established as an official and universally held doctrine. 14:42.070 --> 14:51.030 So this is Rome's resort to the universal rebellion that was taking place in Europe 14:51.030 --> 14:52.990 as a result of the Protestant Reformation. 14:53.850 --> 14:59.150 When he had lost control of all the papal states and all the nations of Europe 14:59.150 --> 15:06.930 because liberty had found root in God's people in Europe, the Pope resorted to 15:06.930 --> 15:12.790 declaring himself infallible and then condemned every nation on the planet. 15:13.230 --> 15:17.670 But the papacy has contempt for truth and freedom. 15:17.670 --> 15:25.570 In his La Inquisicion Espanola, the Spanish Inquisition, Gerard Dufour 15:25.570 --> 15:32.810 reminds us that, quote, the first article of the first heading of the Spanish 15:32.810 --> 15:39.530 Constitution proclaimed that, quote, the Roman Catholic apostolic religion in 15:39.530 --> 15:45.670 Spain and all the Spanish possessions will be the religion of the king and of the 15:45.670 --> 15:50.230 nation and no other one shall be permitted, unquote. 15:51.430 --> 15:54.290 So it became in Latin America. 15:56.050 --> 16:01.270 Comte Le Meister, in his defense of the Spanish Inquisition, writes that in a, 16:01.590 --> 16:07.110 quote, Catholic country, a man may entertain in his mind whatever religious 16:07.110 --> 16:13.650 or irreligious opinion he likes, but he must keep it to himself or else he 16:13.650 --> 16:18.130 is brought before the tribunal, the Inquisition, unquote. 16:19.570 --> 16:24.810 The Constitution of the United States was condemned by the papacy because it 16:24.810 --> 16:30.570 separated church and state and prohibited the establishment of any religion by the 16:30.570 --> 16:30.930 government. 16:32.210 --> 16:36.130 The Popes, on the other hand, had long required governments to make Roman 16:36.130 --> 16:41.210 Catholicism the official religion and to prohibit the practice of any other. 16:42.430 --> 16:47.930 In his 1864 Syllabus of Errors, which, in all fairness, contained some 16:47.930 --> 16:54.550 truth, Pope Pius IX soundly condemned the belief that, quote, every man is free to 16:54.550 --> 16:59.550 embrace and profess the religion he shall believe true, unquote. 17:00.710 --> 17:07.190 His syllabus decreed the union of church and state, that Roman Catholicism must be 17:07.190 --> 17:13.190 the state religion everywhere, that the church may use force to compel 17:13.190 --> 17:18.170 obedience, that there is no hope of salvation outside the Roman Catholic 17:18.170 --> 17:19.330 Church, etc. 17:20.050 --> 17:27.250 The Syllabus of Errors of 1864 has never been rejected or amended, and it also 17:27.250 --> 17:33.210 remains the belief of the Roman Catholic Church today, though unenforceable in many 17:33.210 --> 17:33.770 countries. 17:34.790 --> 17:39.990 Let us take a typical example of enforcement of the Catholic-inspired 17:39.990 --> 17:41.330 Spanish Inquisition. 17:41.990 --> 17:52.110 In April of 1863, three Spaniards, Montemoras, Trigo, and Alamar, 17:53.390 --> 17:58.150 were tried and found guilty of attending Protestant services. 17:58.150 --> 18:01.370 The sentence was harsh. 18:02.350 --> 18:09.810 Nine years each for Alamar and Montemoras, and seven years for Trigo, to be served 18:09.810 --> 18:12.210 without time off in the galleys. 18:13.290 --> 18:17.690 That's how you get rewarded in a Spanish country, a Roman Catholic country, 18:18.210 --> 18:20.670 for attending a Protestant service. 18:22.050 --> 18:28.070 It says, here was but one of thousands of instances of the church using its 18:28.070 --> 18:34.730 quote-unquote secular arm, that is the state, to enforce its decrees in the 18:34.730 --> 18:39.210 suppression of the common human right to worship God according to one's own 18:39.210 --> 18:39.730 conscience. 18:40.610 --> 18:46.610 To be true to its basic and unchangeable dogmas, Rome would today enforce a similar 18:46.610 --> 18:50.670 denial of civil rights everywhere, if it had the power to do so. 18:51.410 --> 18:54.890 And I will say, it's gained that power here in the United States of America. 18:55.330 --> 19:00.630 I cannot go on amateur radio and read a book like this without overwhelming 19:00.630 --> 19:07.850 opposition and blind attention from the FCC and the Amateur Radio Relay League. 19:08.150 --> 19:13.630 They simply will not tolerate this type of education on amateur radio. 19:14.830 --> 19:21.910 It says, a living death in the galleys, with at least the hope of eventual release 19:21.910 --> 19:25.950 if one could survive, was not the ultimate punishment. 19:27.490 --> 19:32.390 Popes had long decreed the death penalty for deviation from quote-unquote the 19:32.390 --> 19:38.270 faith, not only through the inquisition in religious matters, but as a part of their 19:38.270 --> 19:41.830 civil rule over the vast territories known as the Papal States. 19:41.830 --> 19:48.010 For example, Pope Clement XII, who reigned from 1730 to 1740, 19:48.690 --> 19:53.570 had specifically prescribed the death penalty for membership in the Freemasons, 19:53.890 --> 20:01.330 or even for quote, rendering aid, succor, counsel, or a retreat to one of 20:01.330 --> 20:02.910 these members, unquote. 20:02.910 --> 20:10.230 Now I'll stop and just interject that during this time, Freemasonry was 20:10.230 --> 20:15.870 perceived to be a Protestant organization, which has since been completely taken over 20:15.870 --> 20:16.890 by the Jesuits. 20:17.630 --> 20:19.970 The Freemasons served the Black Pope. 20:20.610 --> 20:23.350 They are against Christ. 20:24.070 --> 20:26.390 It is an anti-Christ organization. 20:26.850 --> 20:30.610 More than that, it is an ecumenical organization. 20:30.610 --> 20:36.770 It's a Luciferian society, and no one calling himself a Christian should belong 20:36.770 --> 20:37.830 to Freemasonry. 20:39.090 --> 20:43.630 Now with that said, we'll continue what the author says here. 20:45.670 --> 20:51.170 Subtitling Pretensions to Omnipotence, the author writes, The Roman Catholic 20:51.170 --> 20:55.370 Church fought the Protestant Reformation for more than religious reasons. 20:56.170 --> 21:00.390 The Protestant Reformation was now spreading on a grand scale what had 21:00.390 --> 21:04.170 previously been successfully suppressed for more than a thousand years, 21:04.590 --> 21:07.790 freedom of conscience and basic human rights. 21:08.650 --> 21:13.170 The desire for civil liberty among the common people was taking root and 21:13.170 --> 21:14.010 spreading everywhere. 21:15.090 --> 21:20.190 Nothing was more hateful to the Vatican, for civil liberty threatened its very 21:20.190 --> 21:20.970 foundations. 21:21.710 --> 21:30.670 As one 19th century historian wrote concerning Pope Clement XII, As soon as he 21:30.670 --> 21:36.090 was seated on the throne of the Apostle, like his predecessor, Benedict XIII, 21:37.130 --> 21:42.070 he declared himself to be an enemy of the democratic ideas which were filtering 21:42.070 --> 21:48.770 through all classes of society, announced his pretensions to omnipotence, 21:49.430 --> 21:53.330 and set himself up as the pontiff of the Middle Ages. 21:55.230 --> 22:00.490 Fifty years later, Thomas Jefferson congratulated the citizens of the United 22:00.490 --> 22:06.570 States for having abolished religious intolerance under which mankind so long 22:06.570 --> 22:07.650 bled and suffered. 22:08.650 --> 22:16.250 Thomas Jefferson was speaking specifically about papal tyranny, and how the American 22:16.250 --> 22:19.090 people had risen up to throw off that tyranny. 22:20.650 --> 22:28.090 He urged that, quote, public reason, freedom of religion, and freedom of the 22:28.090 --> 22:30.650 press, unquote, be preserved. 22:31.690 --> 22:34.830 Such freedoms were the fruit of the Protestant Reformation. 22:34.830 --> 22:42.090 One hundred years after Jefferson, Pope Pius IX was still hoping for exactly 22:42.090 --> 22:48.250 the opposite, for a growth of Roman Catholicism there which would eventually 22:48.250 --> 22:53.350 turn the United States into a Roman Catholic country so that all of its 22:53.350 --> 22:56.850 citizens could enjoy the blessings of Roman rule. 22:57.630 --> 23:00.850 And Pope Pius IX set a course for this country. 23:00.850 --> 23:06.930 Roman Catholics in this country have responded, sought positions of high 23:06.930 --> 23:15.090 political power, and have thus turned this once Protestant country into a Roman 23:15.090 --> 23:16.110 Catholic country. 23:16.710 --> 23:19.050 And we're about to see its consequences. 23:19.270 --> 23:24.790 We are seeing the consequences of this return to Romanism in the United States, 23:25.290 --> 23:29.810 and we will suffer inconceivably because of it. 23:29.810 --> 23:30.990 We'll be right back. 24:18.320 --> 24:23.220 I know you all want answers, and believe me, so do I, and I'll do my best to get 24:23.220 --> 24:23.400 them. 24:24.280 --> 24:26.700 Have you seen the Left Behind movies? 24:27.140 --> 24:30.600 Have you read the Left Behind fictional book series? 24:31.160 --> 24:34.460 Not everyone believes Left Behind is true prophecy. 24:35.000 --> 24:41.100 Some may even regard as conspiratorial the mainstream re-release of the Left Behind 24:41.100 --> 24:46.500 movie, with actor Nicolas Cage portraying the main character as an attempt to 24:46.500 --> 24:51.960 further reinforce, in the minds of all, this perception of false prophecy, 24:52.420 --> 24:57.120 in order to condition the masses for the play about to begin. 24:57.520 --> 25:02.000 Because they see the world stage shaping to fulfill what they have been led to 25:02.000 --> 25:08.640 believe is sound biblical 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--> 28:08.290 Visit crosstheborder.org, C-R-O-S-S, crosstheborder.org, to get your print, 28:08.530 --> 28:13.210 e-pub, or PDF version of the book, The Rapture Will Be Cancelled. 28:13.250 --> 28:15.670 That's crosstheborder.org. 28:27.140 --> 28:28.660 Welcome back from the break. 28:28.720 --> 28:32.360 You're listening to the second half hour of Inquisition Update on First Amendment 28:32.360 --> 28:32.860 Radio. 28:33.600 --> 28:37.020 If you'd like to support the program, please support First Amendment Radio, 28:37.460 --> 28:39.380 who sponsors Inquisition Update. 28:39.940 --> 28:46.020 And if you'd like to contact me, please do by e-mail, tom at cwaves.us, 28:46.300 --> 28:48.760 tom at cwaves.us. 28:49.500 --> 28:50.860 Now back to the book. 28:52.020 --> 28:54.740 A Woman Rides the Beast by Dave Hunt. 28:55.580 --> 28:59.840 He said, The Second National Council of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy of the United 28:59.840 --> 29:04.120 States met in Baltimore in October of 1866. 29:05.200 --> 29:10.220 Presided over by Archbishop Spalding of Baltimore as Apostolic Delegate 29:10.220 --> 29:14.940 representing the Pope, the Council pointed out the difference between a Protestant 29:14.940 --> 29:19.640 form of government, as in the United States, and a Catholic form of government, 29:19.860 --> 29:21.880 as in most Latin American countries. 29:22.540 --> 29:27.140 The former, it was noted, derived its direction and power by a vote of the 29:27.140 --> 29:33.260 people, whereas the latter looked entirely to the Pope in obedience to his direction 29:33.260 --> 29:34.100 and authority. 29:34.860 --> 29:40.540 One commentator noted, quote, The two systems stand in direct antagonism with 29:40.540 --> 29:41.100 each other. 29:41.660 --> 29:44.760 The Protestant has separation of church and state. 29:44.760 --> 29:48.740 The Papal proposes to unite them once again. 29:49.760 --> 29:54.460 The Protestant has founded its civil institutions upon the will of the people. 29:55.280 --> 30:00.660 The Papal proposes to reconstruct and found them upon the will of the Pope. 30:01.500 --> 30:04.080 The Protestant secures religious freedom. 30:05.060 --> 30:10.880 The Papal requires that every man shall give up his conscience to the keeping of 30:10.880 --> 30:13.000 ecclesiastical superiors. 30:13.000 --> 30:17.180 In other words, to the Roman Catholic priests right on up to the Pope. 30:17.640 --> 30:23.440 You just give up your manhood, and you submit to these mere men, 30:24.040 --> 30:30.020 who claim to be the representatives of God on earth, to strip you of any personal 30:30.020 --> 30:30.880 responsibility. 30:31.800 --> 30:37.600 Just like blind, deaf, and dumb cadavers, you just walk into the church and do and 30:37.600 --> 30:41.360 think and say whatever the church tells you to do, think, and say. 30:41.360 --> 30:43.320 That's Roman Catholicism. 30:44.280 --> 30:48.440 Protestantism demands that we all be accountable for our actions independently 30:48.440 --> 30:53.820 and to Christ alone, under the direction and leading of the Holy Spirit and the 30:53.820 --> 30:54.740 written word of God. 30:54.840 --> 30:56.000 That's Protestantism. 30:56.760 --> 31:00.860 And it works, if it's not corrupted by Romanism. 31:01.640 --> 31:06.580 Now the National Council of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, though comprised of 31:06.580 --> 31:14.560 presumably loyal Americans, unanimously expressed its preference for the Catholic 31:14.560 --> 31:19.360 form of government, and its absolute submission to papal authority. 31:20.280 --> 31:25.120 It sent a cable to Pope Pius IX, wishing him long life, with the 31:25.120 --> 31:28.600 preservation of all the ancient and sacred rites of the Holy See. 31:29.560 --> 31:35.740 So pleased was the Pope by this expression of loyalty from America, that he had it 31:35.740 --> 31:41.240 published in Italy as an example for his own rebellious Italian subjects to 31:41.240 --> 31:41.700 consider. 31:42.580 --> 31:47.440 Even as Pope Pius IX planned Vatican Council I with its declaration of papal 31:47.440 --> 31:52.160 infallibility, however, the papal empire in Italy was crumbling. 31:52.920 --> 31:58.360 We covered that rebellion against the papacy by the Italian people in the 31:58.360 --> 32:01.360 previous book that we read, The Footprints of the Jesuits by R. 32:01.420 --> 32:01.640 W. 32:01.760 --> 32:02.120 Thompson. 32:02.660 --> 32:08.140 We won't dwell on it anymore, other than at this period of time, the papacy was 32:08.140 --> 32:15.760 being rejected all over the world, except right here in the United States of 32:15.760 --> 32:16.220 America. 32:17.020 --> 32:22.960 Americans were rising up in support of the papacy, and against those who were 32:22.960 --> 32:28.160 liberating themselves from papal tyranny, and especially the Italians, right there 32:28.160 --> 32:30.000 in the shadow of the walls of the Vatican. 32:30.860 --> 32:38.140 Unbelievable, in a Protestant nation, that we should tolerate such open offense 32:38.140 --> 32:44.280 to our civil liberties, to our Protestant form of government. 32:45.340 --> 32:52.580 And still, Americans are timid about raising their voice against this papal 32:52.580 --> 32:54.680 tyranny that has overtaken all of us. 32:54.680 --> 33:00.400 It's incomprehensible that God's people are so fearful to utter the truth. 33:01.280 --> 33:07.500 Now under the subtitle, The Winds of Freedom, Dave Hunt writes, In 1861, 33:08.320 --> 33:13.420 the newly formed Kingdom of Italy, with King Victor Emmanuel II at its head, 33:14.000 --> 33:18.400 had declared Rome its capital, though the Pope and his military forces 33:18.400 --> 33:19.980 still held and ruled it. 33:19.980 --> 33:27.330 It was the first time ever that Italy, still long the pawn of European powers, 33:28.160 --> 33:31.500 had been united under an Italian head of state. 33:32.240 --> 33:36.820 A crowd gathered along the Corso shouting, Viva Italia! 33:37.100 --> 33:39.280 Viva Vittorio Emanuele! 33:39.900 --> 33:43.020 The papal police immediately fired upon them. 33:43.980 --> 33:50.180 Absolute power had corrupted the papacy absolutely, and the people of Italy were 33:50.180 --> 33:52.800 determined to throw off that papal yoke. 33:53.520 --> 33:58.300 A leading Italian at the time wrote that the tribunal of the Holy Inquisition was 33:58.300 --> 34:05.060 still very much alive, and that its, quote, secret power was felt not only in 34:05.060 --> 34:07.760 religious questions, but in every other. 34:08.660 --> 34:14.340 Under such a system, the man who had murdered or plundered another had nothing 34:14.340 --> 34:16.900 to fear from papal justice, unquote. 34:16.900 --> 34:23.360 If he did not espouse basic human freedoms, quote, and were a firm adherent 34:23.360 --> 34:26.940 of the temporal power of the Pope, unquote. 34:27.360 --> 34:33.700 In other words, there was no justice in a papal government. 34:34.440 --> 34:37.780 What matters to the Pope is that everyone obeys him. 34:38.600 --> 34:40.680 It's the Pope's rights that matters. 34:40.820 --> 34:42.760 The people's rights do not matter. 34:42.760 --> 34:52.800 Now, in 1864, in Pope Pius IX's encyclical entitled Quanticura, Pope Pius IX 34:52.800 --> 34:58.340 denounced what he called, quote, that erroneous opinion most pernicious to 34:58.340 --> 35:03.880 the Catholic Church, and to the salvation of souls, which was called by our 35:03.880 --> 35:10.740 predecessor Gregory XIV, the insanity, namely, quote, that the liberty of 35:10.740 --> 35:16.400 conscience and of worship is peculiar, is a peculiar right of every man, 35:16.920 --> 35:21.860 which should be proclaimed by law, and that citizens have the right openly 35:21.860 --> 35:27.940 and publicly to express their ideas by word of mouth, through the press, 35:28.260 --> 35:30.720 or by any other means, unquote. 35:30.720 --> 35:37.640 There you have Pope Pius IX's official statement regarding freedom of the press, 35:37.840 --> 35:40.640 freedom of conscience, freedom of speech. 35:41.580 --> 35:43.000 He called it insanity. 35:43.900 --> 35:45.920 Pope Pius IX called it insanity. 35:46.560 --> 35:48.560 And he wasn't the first Pope to do so. 35:49.300 --> 35:51.580 He quoted a predecessor, Gregory XIV. 35:52.440 --> 35:55.320 The papacy has always held these beliefs. 35:56.280 --> 36:01.760 You may not speak a word against the papacy, against the vicar of Christ. 36:02.400 --> 36:08.020 You may not speak a word against the Roman Catholic Church, or its laws, or its 36:08.020 --> 36:10.320 priests, or its pedophiles. 36:10.860 --> 36:15.780 You may not speak a word against the government of your country, if it be 36:15.780 --> 36:20.980 allied with that sacrosanct institution known as the Roman Catholic Church. 36:21.200 --> 36:28.820 Because if church and state are united, the state shares the sanctity of the 36:28.820 --> 36:29.260 church. 36:30.320 --> 36:36.780 The state enjoys equal sanctity with the church. 36:37.420 --> 36:38.200 They're married. 36:39.160 --> 36:41.580 Both then become sacrosanct. 36:42.220 --> 36:43.060 Inviolable. 36:43.060 --> 36:47.800 And that's why people in the United States today who are lifting up their voice in 36:47.800 --> 36:51.520 opposition to the tyranny that is being imposed upon the people by our own 36:51.520 --> 36:54.660 government, they're being treated as heretics. 36:55.260 --> 37:02.020 They're being treated as heretics and labeled enemy combatants, or any other 37:02.020 --> 37:05.200 pejorative that puts them in a negative light. 37:05.700 --> 37:09.740 It has always been the liberty of the people to question our government, 37:09.740 --> 37:14.740 to have a say in our government. 37:15.560 --> 37:17.020 That's not the case today. 37:17.680 --> 37:22.320 Because Rome is in control of the government, and now enjoys the same 37:22.320 --> 37:26.160 sanctity as the Roman Catholic Church, and may not be spoken against. 37:27.100 --> 37:30.560 Liberty of speech and liberty of the press, liberty of conscience have been 37:30.560 --> 37:31.740 destroyed in this country. 37:31.740 --> 37:34.980 It's time for the American people to wake up to the real cause of it. 37:35.320 --> 37:42.120 It's an historical cause, it is a prophetic cause, and we do not risk error 37:42.120 --> 37:46.840 in proclaiming that Rome has control of our government today. 37:47.520 --> 37:53.860 Now, one might again ask how this statement by a predecessor could be 37:53.860 --> 37:59.020 reconciled with Pope John Paul II's claim that Rome is and has always been the 37:59.020 --> 38:00.420 champion of human freedom? 38:01.220 --> 38:09.040 Into what mental black hole do people today consign the obvious fact in order to 38:09.040 --> 38:12.460 believe that the church nourishes basic human rights? 38:13.500 --> 38:20.820 How many sincere Catholics are deceived because church authorities sound so 38:20.820 --> 38:21.340 convincing? 38:21.340 --> 38:26.500 When an article in the Catholic world credited the Roman Catholic Church with 38:26.500 --> 38:33.080 giving England the great charter of human rights, the Magna Carta, how many readers 38:33.080 --> 38:36.540 knew that Rome had in fact done everything she could to destroy it? 38:37.300 --> 38:44.780 Can you imagine the brazen audacity of the Roman Catholic Church to claim that she 38:44.780 --> 38:47.000 was the one who proposed the Magna Carta? 38:47.680 --> 38:48.880 It's absurd. 38:49.920 --> 38:51.660 It defies all of her history. 38:52.320 --> 38:54.580 It defies Bible prophecy. 38:55.380 --> 38:58.440 The papacy is, was, and always will be a tyrant. 38:59.420 --> 39:03.120 Human freedom is the least of the concerns of the papacy. 39:03.600 --> 39:07.940 It's liberty of the Pope to rule unhindered that most concerns the papacy 39:07.940 --> 39:12.680 today, and to say that the Roman Catholic Church, to believe that the papacy had 39:12.680 --> 39:19.100 anything but contempt for the Magna Carta, is an expression of, if nothing else, 39:20.040 --> 39:22.680 abject ignorance of the facts. 39:23.800 --> 39:29.720 All of her history is defined by an attempt to destroy human liberties. 39:30.300 --> 39:36.260 And the world should be outraged that Rome claims credit for having established human 39:36.260 --> 39:38.460 rights or being a defender of human rights. 39:38.580 --> 39:41.080 It ought to outrage everyone in this country. 39:41.860 --> 39:43.680 But we're all oblivious to history. 39:43.840 --> 39:45.500 Rome can say anything she wants. 39:46.500 --> 39:52.440 She appears to be a lamb, and people are loath to look beneath the wool, 39:52.640 --> 39:54.800 to see the wolf that lies within. 39:55.880 --> 40:02.400 A subtitled backlash against dictatorship, Dave Hunt says, The French and American 40:02.400 --> 40:07.720 revolutions in the previous century had ignited a spark of resentment against 40:07.720 --> 40:12.000 autocratic rulers that was being fanned into flame across Europe. 40:12.920 --> 40:16.140 No monarch was more dictatorial than the Pope himself. 40:16.900 --> 40:21.840 Pope Pius the Ninth still reigned as quote-unquote king of Rome and its 40:21.840 --> 40:27.340 environs, as his predecessors had for centuries reigned over the entire papal 40:27.340 --> 40:27.900 states. 40:28.880 --> 40:33.840 The growing sentiment for democracy was a threat to papal authority, a threat which 40:33.840 --> 40:40.100 Vatican Council I would surely put down by its dogmatic declaration of papal 40:40.100 --> 40:41.020 infallibility. 40:41.760 --> 40:44.520 That would, the Pope hoped, settle the matter. 40:44.520 --> 40:49.620 The year before the encyclical of Pope Pius IX, in preparation for Vatican 40:49.620 --> 40:55.160 Council I, partially quoted above, Abraham Lincoln had addressed himself at 40:55.160 --> 40:57.240 Gettysburg to the same issues. 40:57.880 --> 41:00.560 No two men could have been more at odds. 41:01.460 --> 41:06.000 Lincoln's words, intended to pull the nation together in that crisis, 41:06.460 --> 41:11.440 were at the same time a rebuke, though probably unintended, to the basic 41:11.440 --> 41:15.240 dogmas underlying Roman Catholicism and papal tyranny. 41:16.060 --> 41:20.120 Nor could Pope Pius IX have been ignorant of the famous Gettysburg address, 41:20.600 --> 41:25.600 so that his words could only be regarded as a harsh response to those of Lincoln. 41:25.600 --> 41:31.820 Here's what he said, quote, That from these honored dead we take increased 41:31.820 --> 41:36.320 devotion to that cause for which we gave the last full measure of devotion. 41:37.000 --> 41:41.420 That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, 41:41.820 --> 41:47.240 that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government 41:47.240 --> 41:52.180 of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth. 41:52.860 --> 41:53.340 Unquote. 41:54.080 --> 41:58.280 Can you imagine how that resounded in the ears of Pope Pius IX? 42:00.060 --> 42:01.740 Freedom for Americans? 42:02.440 --> 42:06.320 That means they won't be subject to me, the Pope, the vicar of Christ. 42:06.920 --> 42:09.700 That made Abraham Lincoln an enemy of the papacy. 42:10.560 --> 42:14.860 Now I'm not going to say that Abraham Lincoln was the end-all and be-all of our 42:14.860 --> 42:20.280 democracy or of our republic, but he was an enemy of the papacy, and they 42:20.280 --> 42:22.140 eventually killed him for what he said. 42:22.140 --> 42:27.160 Now Lincoln's ideal was the antithesis of Roman Catholicism. 42:29.000 --> 42:33.540 Popes had sought to prevent such freedom, but nothing could stop it here in America 42:33.540 --> 42:34.280 or elsewhere. 42:35.180 --> 42:40.960 The Italian people, too, long the pawns of tyrannical monarchs from France, 42:41.120 --> 42:44.760 Germany, and Austria, were in a struggle for independence. 42:45.600 --> 42:50.800 Nor was it lost upon them, in spite of their religious fervor, who was the worst 42:50.800 --> 42:52.080 enemy of freedom. 42:52.640 --> 42:53.300 That's right. 42:53.720 --> 42:58.280 All of Europe knew who the worst enemy of freedom was, and we ought to learn right 42:58.280 --> 42:59.860 here in the United States today. 43:01.640 --> 43:05.460 A military hero in the fight for independence appealed to his fellow 43:05.460 --> 43:05.980 Italians. 43:07.440 --> 43:12.160 Before fighting against this external enemy, the French and the Austrians, 43:12.540 --> 43:17.840 you have internal enemies to beat down, and I'll tell you that the chief of them 43:17.840 --> 43:18.840 is the Pope. 43:20.080 --> 43:21.980 I am a Christian, as you are. 43:22.120 --> 43:27.260 Yes, I am of that religion which has broken the bonds of slavery and has 43:27.260 --> 43:28.820 proclaimed the freedom of men. 43:28.820 --> 43:35.480 The Pope, who opposes his subjects and is an enemy of the Italian independence, 43:36.000 --> 43:37.080 is no Christian. 43:37.860 --> 43:40.580 He denies the very principle of Christianity. 43:41.320 --> 43:43.320 He is Antichrist. 43:44.720 --> 43:52.000 The people of the province of Rome, where the Pope still ruled, endorsed this 43:52.000 --> 44:02.400 view in a resounding vote of 133,681 to 1507, for the independent Italy free of 44:02.400 --> 44:04.820 foreign influence and papal control. 44:06.380 --> 44:09.000 Pope Pius IX fought back viciously. 44:10.460 --> 44:15.560 He executed hundreds of Italians who held the heretical views of civil government 44:15.560 --> 44:18.780 free from Roman Catholic Church domination. 44:19.760 --> 44:25.740 About 8,000 were confined to the papal jails under intolerable conditions. 44:25.740 --> 44:32.180 Quote, many chained to the wall and not released even for exercise or sanitary 44:32.180 --> 44:32.900 purposes. 44:33.820 --> 44:39.700 The English ambassador called the dungeons of Pope Pius IX the opprobrium of Europe. 44:40.420 --> 44:40.880 Unquote. 44:41.720 --> 44:46.180 An eyewitness described this monument to the Pope's infallibility. 44:46.420 --> 44:51.320 Quote, from dawn till nightfall, the miserable captives would cling to 44:51.320 --> 44:55.920 their iron bars of their horrible dwellings and perpetually call upon the 44:55.920 --> 44:58.500 passers-by for alms in the name of God. 44:59.360 --> 45:00.520 A papal prison. 45:01.220 --> 45:03.460 How I shudder in writing the words. 45:04.200 --> 45:09.440 Human beings were heaped confusedly together, covered with rags and swarming 45:09.440 --> 45:10.220 with vermin. 45:10.700 --> 45:11.220 Unquote. 45:12.000 --> 45:13.780 You see how Rome treats heretics? 45:14.760 --> 45:15.860 Put you in the dungeon. 45:16.820 --> 45:19.940 Bind you with iron chains in the dark, in the cold. 45:20.900 --> 45:24.820 No food, no clothing, no water, no medical care. 45:25.660 --> 45:27.740 And you may be eaten of vermin. 45:28.600 --> 45:29.660 That's how they were treated. 45:30.400 --> 45:32.500 And not just in one part of history. 45:33.340 --> 45:35.160 That's Rome's entire history. 45:36.040 --> 45:39.920 Rome's palace of the Inquisition still stands next to the Vatican. 45:39.920 --> 45:45.360 The headquarters of that same infamous institution now called the Congregation 45:45.360 --> 45:47.720 for the Doctrine of the Faith, the CDF. 45:48.520 --> 45:53.460 That hated structure would have been burned to the ground by a mob when Pope 45:53.460 --> 45:58.700 Pius IX was deposed as King of Rome had not the new government persuaded the 45:58.700 --> 46:02.420 people to keep it for, quote, some charitable purpose. 46:02.780 --> 46:03.180 Unquote. 46:03.180 --> 46:09.580 It was open to the public to, quote, let the citizens see with their own eyes 46:09.580 --> 46:12.980 the secret mechanisms of the papal system. 46:13.400 --> 46:13.860 Unquote. 46:14.540 --> 46:19.700 An eyewitness describing the horror of those who came to that open house wrote, 46:20.040 --> 46:26.500 quote, they did not need any evidence to know that the only crime of serious moment 46:26.500 --> 46:29.760 in the states of the church was liberal thought. 46:29.760 --> 46:35.800 That is advocacy of basic human freedoms in religion and politics. 46:36.840 --> 46:42.020 That their friends and relatives had been spirited away and immured in prison they 46:42.020 --> 46:43.500 also knew very well. 46:44.180 --> 46:49.680 And when the prison doors were opened these emaciated heretics had a sad tale to 46:49.680 --> 46:53.860 tell of cruel suffering and ingenious torture. 46:54.400 --> 46:54.800 Unquote. 46:54.800 --> 46:57.020 That's what's coming to America. 46:57.700 --> 46:59.580 That's what's coming to America. 47:00.540 --> 47:03.080 Cruel suffering and ingenious torture. 47:03.760 --> 47:08.320 That's what's coming to God's people in this country because they fear to cry out 47:08.320 --> 47:09.040 against Rome. 47:09.820 --> 47:15.500 Under the subtitle Denying History to Build a Lie, Dave Hunt says the fall of 47:15.500 --> 47:21.140 papal Rome was still almost a year in the future when Pope Pius IX formally opened 47:21.140 --> 47:24.660 Vatican Council 1 on December 8, 1869. 47:25.340 --> 47:30.740 Yet even prior to that grandiose event, the opposition to papal infallibility, 47:31.220 --> 47:36.420 which all now knew the Pope intended to push through the council, had built to 47:36.420 --> 47:40.200 enormous proportions among bishops and lay members alike. 47:41.020 --> 47:45.180 It was no longer the Middle Ages with forged documents to bolster papal 47:45.180 --> 47:45.640 authority. 47:45.640 --> 47:50.780 The bishops well knew that papal infallibility had never been accepted by 47:50.780 --> 47:53.380 the church, but had been repeatedly denied. 47:54.440 --> 47:58.280 To accept it now would be to go against centuries of Roman Catholic Church 47:58.280 --> 48:00.860 tradition as well as the scriptures. 48:02.000 --> 48:07.320 Those in favor of papal infallibility when the council began were a small minority. 48:07.980 --> 48:12.320 Nevertheless, they had a concrete plan of action to take control of the key 48:12.320 --> 48:16.260 positions in the council bureaucracy and the church's news media. 48:17.160 --> 48:22.060 In this, they were aided by the, quote, the Pope, most of the Curia, 48:22.380 --> 48:25.140 and the Jesuits, unquote. 48:26.100 --> 48:31.480 To gain votes, this pressure group, quote, did not flinch from intrigues, 48:31.680 --> 48:33.320 promises, and threats. 48:33.320 --> 48:39.640 Quoting further, he says, everything is in readiness here for the proclamation of 48:39.640 --> 48:45.340 papal infallibility, unquote, said Lord Acton, who wrote to Great Britain's Prime 48:45.340 --> 48:46.540 Minister William E. 48:46.620 --> 48:52.380 Gladstone on November 24th, 1869, two weeks before the council officially 48:52.380 --> 48:53.040 convened. 48:53.040 --> 48:59.880 The English charge d'affaires at the Holy See commented that preparations to pushing 48:59.880 --> 49:05.640 through infallibility had been so well organized that, quote, foreign bishops 49:05.640 --> 49:09.080 find it quite impossible to express their own opinions freely. 49:09.880 --> 49:13.680 They will be unpleasantly surprised to find themselves forced to sanction 49:13.680 --> 49:18.240 something which they actually wish to condemn, unquote. 49:18.240 --> 49:23.160 Much of what we know about the sinister intrigue behind the scenes and the 49:23.160 --> 49:28.460 dishonest conclusions of Vatican Council I is owing to the work of Swiss historian 49:28.460 --> 49:31.480 and scholar August Bernard Hassler. 49:32.360 --> 49:36.180 During his five years in the Vatican Secretariat for Christian Unity, 49:36.980 --> 49:40.260 Hassler had access to the Vatican's secret archives. 49:40.260 --> 49:45.560 What he learned thereby about Vatican Council I was so disturbing, the whole 49:45.560 --> 49:50.740 business amounted to a clear manipulation of the council, that he felt compelled to 49:50.740 --> 49:54.260 write how the Pope became infallible. 49:55.200 --> 50:00.020 Hassler met an untimely death just after the manuscript was finished. 50:00.940 --> 50:02.720 How convenient for the Pope, right? 50:02.720 --> 50:08.520 For writing the book's introduction, Roman Catholic theologian Hans Kung was, 50:08.720 --> 50:14.320 quote, stripped of his ecclesiastical teaching privileges, unquote. 50:14.800 --> 50:21.340 The facts of the matter is, Pope Pius IX, the Jesuits, and those who propounded 50:21.340 --> 50:28.200 papal infallibility would brook no opposition to that papal dogma. 50:28.200 --> 50:32.780 And they would even resort to murder to accomplish their aim. 50:34.020 --> 50:36.020 No discussion was allowed. 50:37.520 --> 50:41.060 Devout Roman Catholics today have sincerely believed the deceitful 50:41.060 --> 50:45.340 impression given by the Roman Catholic Church that Vatican Council I's 50:45.340 --> 50:50.860 declaration of papal infallibility represented the mind and the will of the 50:50.860 --> 50:51.780 attending bishops. 50:52.600 --> 50:57.280 Quite to the contrary, many bishops were strongly opposed to affirming 50:57.280 --> 51:01.200 infallibility, both on scriptural and traditional grounds. 51:02.360 --> 51:07.140 Some left in protest before the final vote had been taken, and only affirmed it later 51:07.140 --> 51:10.980 under Vatican threats and for the sake of church unity. 51:11.980 --> 51:18.040 Bishop Lecourtier was so distressed by the fraud that he, quote, threw his conciliar 51:18.040 --> 51:22.680 documents into the Tiber and left Rome, unquote. 51:23.260 --> 51:26.760 For that act, he was removed from his bishopric. 51:28.080 --> 51:30.500 Attending bishops were virtual prisoners. 51:31.600 --> 51:35.280 Exit visas were deliberately withheld to prevent anyone from leaving. 51:36.110 --> 51:42.520 Among those fleeing Rome were two Armenian bishops, one of whom was Placidus 51:42.520 --> 51:47.940 Cassinian, abbot general of all Armenian Antonite monks. 51:48.660 --> 51:59.520 From the other side of the Roman border, outside papal jurisdiction, he wrote both 51:59.520 --> 52:05.000 the pope and the council that under the constant threat of imprisonment and owing 52:05.000 --> 52:11.580 to his serious illness, he had feared for his life and thought his only safety lay 52:11.580 --> 52:13.880 in flight, unquote. 52:15.420 --> 52:20.380 Oppressive rules were imposed which were designed to stifle opposition and to 52:20.380 --> 52:21.920 eliminate free discussion. 52:22.780 --> 52:28.420 Quote, there was to be no discussion in small groups, speeches at the council 52:28.420 --> 52:32.760 could not be printed, making it virtually impossible to study the arguments and give 52:32.760 --> 52:38.240 a careful response to them, and bishops were forbidden under pain of mortal sin to 52:38.240 --> 52:43.720 say anything about what took place in that great hall of the council, unquote. 52:44.880 --> 52:47.700 The world was hoodwinked at Vatican Council 1. 52:47.780 --> 52:49.500 The Roman Catholic Church was hoodwinked. 52:49.560 --> 52:55.680 The world lies in the balance because the world has acquiesced. 53:24.450 --> 53:26.310 There's a good reason for that. 53:26.830 --> 53:31.310 Corporate advertising dollars come with strings that limit program content. 53:31.910 --> 53:36.390 So without your help, these programs cannot continue on satellite, internet, 53:36.910 --> 53:38.910 or our several affiliates. 53:39.310 --> 53:43.910 If you benefit by the educational law programs, we ask you to give. 53:44.170 --> 53:49.230 If you are admonished or nurtured by the Bible and ministry programs, we ask you to 53:49.230 --> 53:49.590 give. 53:49.590 --> 53:54.990 If some voice a cause that you are passionate about, we ask 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