WEBVTT 00:26.040 --> 00:27.080 Good morning. 00:27.440 --> 00:29.020 Welcome to Inquisition Update. 00:29.760 --> 00:32.520 My name is Tom Friess and I'll be your host for the next hour. 00:32.860 --> 00:35.500 You're listening to FirstAmendmentRadio .com. 00:35.660 --> 00:37.020 Thanks for tuning in, everybody. 00:38.060 --> 00:42.320 We'll return to our reading and discussion of the book, A Woman Rides the Beast, 00:42.400 --> 00:43.300 by Dave Hunt. 00:43.300 --> 00:50.840 Yesterday we talked a bit about the so-called first pope, Peter, and 00:50.840 --> 00:58.240 demonstrated the contrast between Peter and the popes of Rome, showing that they 00:58.240 --> 01:05.300 are not the successors of Peter, and that, well, the entire papacy is a 01:05.300 --> 01:05.660 lie. 01:05.660 --> 01:11.720 Now, concluding that portion that we read yesterday for continuity purposes, 01:11.940 --> 01:17.620 beginning with the last full paragraph on page 154, it says later, fearing for his 01:17.620 --> 01:25.100 life, Peter denies, quote, with oaths and curses, unquote, that he knew Christ. 01:26.040 --> 01:31.560 Again, a declaration on, quote, faith and morals, unquote, to the entire 01:31.560 --> 01:34.900 church in denial of Christ himself. 01:34.900 --> 01:41.260 Even if the popes were his successors, Peter could hardly pass on to them 01:41.260 --> 01:45.460 infallibility, which he himself obviously did not possess. 01:46.100 --> 01:51.660 Sorry to be so unflattering about the apostle Peter, but the scriptures record 01:51.660 --> 01:52.180 the truth. 01:53.420 --> 01:59.440 And now we'll continue with the next portion of this chapter, subtitled, 02:00.100 --> 02:02.560 A Biblical Basis for Infallibility? 02:03.370 --> 02:09.680 It said a current leading Catholic theologian, Hans Kuhn, recently pointed 02:09.680 --> 02:15.980 out, quote, the main proof text cited at Vatican Council 1 for papal infallibility, 02:16.440 --> 02:23.040 Luke chapter 22, verse 32, quote, I have prayed for you that your faith may 02:23.040 --> 02:30.460 not fail, unquote, was never used even by medieval canonists to document this dogma, 02:30.900 --> 02:32.060 papal infallibility. 02:32.060 --> 02:33.280 And rightly so. 02:34.160 --> 02:40.160 In this passage, Jesus does not promise Peter freedom from error, but the grace to 02:40.160 --> 02:43.260 persevere in the faith until the end, unquote. 02:44.080 --> 02:46.380 Von Dollinger was in complete agreement. 02:46.560 --> 02:51.980 He said this, quote, Everyone knows the one critical passage of scripture on which 02:51.980 --> 02:58.340 the edifice of papal infallibility has been reared, quote, I have prayed for thee 02:58.340 --> 03:00.020 that thy faith fail not. 03:00.720 --> 03:05.800 And when thou art converted, confirm thy brethren, unquote, Luke chapter 22, 03:05.940 --> 03:06.620 verse 32. 03:07.500 --> 03:13.280 But these words manifestly refer only to Peter personally, to his denial of Christ 03:13.280 --> 03:14.400 and his conversion. 03:15.040 --> 03:20.720 It is directly against the sense of the passage to find in it a promise of future 03:20.720 --> 03:23.780 infallibility to a succession of popes. 03:23.780 --> 03:30.680 No single writer in the end of the seventh century dreamt of such interpretation. 03:31.480 --> 03:38.400 All without exception, and there are 18 of them, explain it simply as a prayer of 03:38.400 --> 03:44.360 Christ that his apostle might not wholly succumb and lose his faith entirely in his 03:44.360 --> 03:46.240 approaching trial, unquote. 03:47.220 --> 03:52.200 Many other leading Catholic historians and theologians could be cited in the same 03:52.200 --> 03:52.600 vein. 03:52.600 --> 03:58.280 Peter de Rosa adds his own insight, quote, According to the church fathers, 03:58.640 --> 04:01.160 Peter as such had no successor. 04:02.200 --> 04:08.160 They see all bishops as succeeding to the apostles, not an individual bishop 04:08.160 --> 04:12.460 succeeding to an individual apostle, in this case, Peter. 04:12.460 --> 04:17.560 They therefore could not possibly have accepted the claim that, quote, 04:18.020 --> 04:22.700 Peter's successor, unquote, had to rule the sea of Rome. 04:23.480 --> 04:28.180 We have seen, too, that all the great doctrinal statements, especially the 04:28.180 --> 04:32.480 creeds, came not from popes, but from councils. 04:33.520 --> 04:37.340 In the early centuries, it never occurred to the bishops of Rome that they could 04:37.340 --> 04:40.440 define doctrine for the whole church, unquote. 04:40.440 --> 04:44.400 How about this so-called rock of the church? 04:45.300 --> 04:50.820 He says, After promising Christ at the Last Supper that he would die rather than 04:50.820 --> 04:55.080 to deny him, Peter does exactly what he said he wouldn't do. 04:55.500 --> 05:01.740 Quote, Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man, 05:02.000 --> 05:05.000 unquote, Matthew 26, 74. 05:05.740 --> 05:11.500 Here is a complete denial of Christ himself, and thus of Christianity in its 05:11.500 --> 05:12.020 entirety. 05:12.980 --> 05:17.820 Peter was a very, very unstable, quote, unquote, rock for Christ to build 05:17.820 --> 05:18.940 his church upon. 05:19.580 --> 05:24.100 His alleged successors, however, were guilty of far worse failings. 05:24.800 --> 05:27.040 We have mentioned a number of these already. 05:27.260 --> 05:29.800 Consider one more brief example. 05:30.750 --> 05:38.740 Pope Julius II, who reigned from 1503 to 1513, syphilitic, an infamous womanizer, 05:39.480 --> 05:41.540 father of a number of bastards. 05:42.200 --> 05:44.600 He bribed his way into the papacy. 05:45.600 --> 05:50.980 At Lent, when good Catholics were on a strict diet, he gorged himself on the 05:50.980 --> 05:51.960 richest fare. 05:51.960 --> 05:58.300 Clad in armor, Julius often led his army to conquer cities and territories in the 05:58.300 --> 06:00.040 expansion of the papal states. 06:00.940 --> 06:05.900 How could he possibly be the, quote, unquote, vicar of Christ, who said his 06:05.900 --> 06:11.020 kingdom was not of this world, and therefore his servants didn't fight? 06:11.520 --> 06:16.300 To say he was mocks Christ and his teachings. 06:17.200 --> 06:20.600 And that's what the papacy is, a mockery of Christ. 06:20.600 --> 06:22.740 It is anti-Christ. 06:23.660 --> 06:26.760 Now, the popes were not sovereigns. 06:27.660 --> 06:31.120 They were successors of the emperors, says history. 06:32.080 --> 06:36.820 Remember that in the early days of the church, papal infallibility was not 06:36.820 --> 06:41.580 attributed to the bishop of Rome, but to his superior, the emperor. 06:42.490 --> 06:46.520 Pope Leo I, who reigned from 440 A.D. 06:46.600 --> 06:54.360 to 461, for example, ascribed to a godless emperor the very infallibility which Pope 06:54.360 --> 06:59.540 Pius IX would persuade the members of Vatican I to declare had always been the 06:59.540 --> 07:01.320 exclusive power of the popes. 07:01.320 --> 07:03.140 Listen to this quote. 07:03.980 --> 07:10.440 By the Holy Spirit's inspiration, the emperor needs no human instruction and 07:10.440 --> 07:14.100 is incapable of doctrinal error, unquote. 07:14.880 --> 07:19.540 The following extravagant praise, which sounds like that given to popes 07:19.540 --> 07:25.660 today, is from a speech by Eusebius honoring the pagan emperor Constantine 07:25.660 --> 07:29.180 after he had assumed leadership of the church. 07:30.080 --> 07:38.020 Quote, Let then our emperor be declared alone worthy, who alone is free above the 07:38.020 --> 07:44.400 thirst of wealth, superior to sexual desire, who has gained the victory over 07:44.400 --> 07:52.120 those passions which overmaster the rest of men, whose character is formed after 07:52.120 --> 07:57.000 the divine original of the supreme sovereign, and whose mind reflects, 07:57.240 --> 08:00.360 as in a mirror, the radiance of his virtues. 08:01.400 --> 08:08.480 Hence is our emperor, not the pope, hence is our emperor perfect in prudence, 08:08.740 --> 08:15.700 in goodness, in justice, in courage, in piety, in devotion to God, unquote. 08:15.700 --> 08:22.020 That this praise was to the emperor alone placed him above the bishop of Rome, 08:22.280 --> 08:24.640 who was subservient to him. 08:25.380 --> 08:28.160 Thus Constantine called himself bishop of bishops. 08:29.160 --> 08:34.780 Today's popes who bear Constantine's titles and wear his regalia are his 08:34.780 --> 08:36.960 successors, not Peter's. 08:37.960 --> 08:43.120 Historian Will Durant points out that, quote, Throughout his reign, he, 08:43.620 --> 08:48.140 Emperor Constantine, treated the bishops as his political aides. 08:48.980 --> 08:54.340 He summoned them, presided over their councils, and agreed to enforce whatever 08:54.340 --> 08:57.800 opinion their majority should formulate, unquote. 08:58.600 --> 09:03.220 Doctrine meant absolutely nothing to Constantine, only that the bishops should 09:03.220 --> 09:06.080 agree for the sake of imperial unity. 09:06.080 --> 09:12.140 De Rosa quotes a 4th century bishop that, quote, The church at the time was part of 09:12.140 --> 09:13.480 the state, unquote. 09:14.120 --> 09:20.460 He goes on to explain, quote, Even the bishop of Rome, not to be called the pope 09:20.460 --> 09:25.800 for many centuries, was in comparison to Constantine a non-entity. 09:26.680 --> 09:29.620 In civic terms, he was vassal of the emperor. 09:29.620 --> 09:36.220 In spiritual terms, he was, compared with Constantine, a second-class bishop. 09:37.020 --> 09:41.960 Not the pope, but he, Constantine, like Emperor Charlemagne later, 09:42.500 --> 09:48.020 was the head of the church, its source of unity, before whom the bishops of Rome had 09:48.020 --> 09:51.200 to prostrate themselves and pledge his loyalty. 09:52.080 --> 09:58.400 All bishops agreed that he, the emperor, was, quote, The inspired oracle, 09:58.880 --> 10:02.140 the apostle of church wisdom, unquote. 10:02.720 --> 10:08.080 It was therefore Constantine, not the bishop of Rome, who dictated the time and 10:08.080 --> 10:11.720 place of church synods, and even how the votes were cast. 10:12.500 --> 10:15.260 Without his approval, they could not pass into law. 10:16.060 --> 10:19.980 He alone was legislator of the empire, unquote. 10:19.980 --> 10:23.100 So what about the pope's pagan heritage? 10:24.200 --> 10:29.260 Dave Hunt writes, The very idea of a church council was intervened by 10:29.260 --> 10:33.340 Constantine, who, in spite of his professed conversion to Christ, 10:33.500 --> 10:34.400 remained a pagan. 10:34.940 --> 10:39.120 He never renounced his loyalty to the many pagan gods. 10:40.020 --> 10:45.340 He abolished neither the pagan altar of victory in the Senate, nor the Vestal 10:45.340 --> 10:45.840 Virgins. 10:45.840 --> 10:51.640 And the sun god, not Christ, continued to be honored on the imperial coins. 10:52.740 --> 10:58.260 He was not baptized until just before his death, and that by a heretical Arian 10:58.260 --> 10:59.620 priest, Eusebius. 11:00.580 --> 11:06.480 Durant reminds us that throughout his, quote, Christian life, Constantine used 11:06.480 --> 11:11.680 pagan as well as Christian rites, and continued to rely upon, quote, 11:12.260 --> 11:17.180 pagan magic formulas to protect crops and heal disease, unquote. 11:18.000 --> 11:22.160 That Constantine murdered those who might have had a claim to his throne, 11:22.560 --> 11:28.420 notably his son Crispus, a nephew, and a brother-in-law, is further evidence 11:28.420 --> 11:33.360 that his quote-unquote conversion to Christianity was, as historians have 11:33.360 --> 11:36.700 suggested, a clever political maneuver only. 11:37.480 --> 11:41.480 Historian Philip Hughes, himself a Roman Catholic priest, reminds us, quote, 11:42.220 --> 11:47.460 in his manners he, Constantine, remained to the very end very much the 11:47.460 --> 11:48.920 pagan of his early life. 11:49.660 --> 11:55.760 His furious tempers, the cruelty which once aroused, spared not the lives even of 11:55.760 --> 12:00.820 his wife and son, are an unpleasing witness to the imperfection of his 12:00.820 --> 12:02.300 conversion, unquote. 12:02.300 --> 12:09.460 The three so-called Christian sons of Constantine, Constantine II, Constantius 12:09.460 --> 12:15.700 II, and Constans, secured after their father's death their separate regions of 12:15.700 --> 12:18.900 the Empire by a merciless family massacre. 12:19.940 --> 12:24.160 They then took the so-called Christianization of the Empire to new 12:24.160 --> 12:24.640 heights. 12:25.620 --> 12:30.180 Such, not Peter, were the forerunners of today's posts. 12:30.180 --> 12:36.420 As already mentioned, Constantine convened, set the agenda for, gave the 12:36.420 --> 12:41.620 opening address at, and played a dominant part in the first ecumenical council of 12:41.620 --> 12:46.260 the Church, the Council of Nicaea, and a number of other councils as well, 12:46.760 --> 12:49.180 as would Charlemagne 500 years later. 12:49.980 --> 12:54.740 Inasmuch as the emperors called the councils, it is not surprising that no 12:54.740 --> 12:59.560 council for the first thousand years acknowledged the Bishop of Rome as the 12:59.560 --> 13:00.520 head of the church. 13:01.540 --> 13:05.000 Christ exemplified humility and service to others. 13:05.360 --> 13:12.240 He told his disciples, quote, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, 13:12.960 --> 13:14.680 but ye shall not be so. 13:15.300 --> 13:19.480 But he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger. 13:20.160 --> 13:23.920 And he that is chief, as he that doth serve. 13:23.920 --> 13:27.660 Luke chapter 22 verse 25 and 26. 13:28.540 --> 13:34.620 Forgetting that admonition, the popes emulated the pagan emperors from whom they 13:34.620 --> 13:37.120 inherited their position and power. 13:37.940 --> 13:42.920 Christ also condemned the authoritarian position which had been taken by the 13:42.920 --> 13:44.320 rabbis in his day. 13:45.200 --> 13:49.560 His words to the Jewish religious leaders are quite appropriate for the Roman 13:49.560 --> 13:50.600 Catholic hierarchy. 13:50.600 --> 13:57.040 Quote, They love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the 13:57.040 --> 14:02.860 synagogues, and greetings in the markets, and to be called by men, Rabbi, 14:03.280 --> 14:03.640 Rabbi. 14:04.560 --> 14:11.580 But be ye not called Rabbi, for one is your master, even Christ, and all ye are 14:11.580 --> 14:11.980 brethren. 14:12.480 --> 14:16.980 And call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your father, 14:17.420 --> 14:18.400 which is in heaven. 14:18.400 --> 14:22.480 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! 14:23.200 --> 14:28.540 For ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, 14:29.140 --> 14:34.880 but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness, wherein ye are 14:34.880 --> 14:37.640 full of hypocrisy and iniquity. 14:38.000 --> 14:43.980 Matthew chapter 23 verses 6-9 verse 27 and 28. 14:45.240 --> 14:50.340 Truly, the papacy is the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. 14:51.060 --> 14:54.080 Christ described the papacy. 14:54.900 --> 14:57.220 Satan's last vicar on the earth. 14:58.060 --> 15:00.320 And we are to recognize him for what he is. 15:01.060 --> 15:04.000 The biblical, historical, and prophetic antichrist. 15:04.620 --> 15:09.060 And we are to protest his rule over us. 15:09.700 --> 15:11.660 That's part of Christianity too. 15:11.660 --> 15:13.800 Yes, we love Christ. 15:13.980 --> 15:14.880 We preach Christ. 15:15.040 --> 15:16.240 We preach his gospel. 15:17.220 --> 15:23.020 But we don't leave the world ignorant as to who his antichrist is. 15:23.500 --> 15:25.480 Who his counterfeit is. 15:25.900 --> 15:28.100 And how he deceives the whole world. 15:28.900 --> 15:30.700 That's part of our commission too. 15:31.660 --> 15:36.400 Now, having concluded chapter 11, we'll continue now with chapter 12 of the 15:36.400 --> 15:38.160 book entitled, Unholy Mother. 15:38.920 --> 15:41.960 And it begins like all chapters with some quotes. 15:42.120 --> 15:45.120 This one from Revelation chapter 17 verse 5. 15:45.400 --> 15:46.500 It's abbreviated. 15:47.460 --> 15:49.400 Upon her forehead was a name written. 15:49.960 --> 15:52.440 Mother of harlots and abominations. 15:52.840 --> 15:55.360 Describing the Roman Catholic Church, obviously. 15:56.340 --> 15:59.840 And from the book, Peter DeRosa's Vicars of Christ. 16:00.520 --> 16:04.720 Quote, the history of celibacy makes for readings so black. 16:04.720 --> 16:08.760 A large part of it is the story of the degradation of women. 16:09.740 --> 16:14.200 Ivo of Charters, who reigned from 1040 to 1115. 16:14.580 --> 16:22.400 Tells of whole convents with inmates who were nuns only in name. 16:23.020 --> 16:25.200 But were really prostitutes. 16:26.240 --> 16:33.180 And finally, a quote from an ex-nun, Patricia Nolan Savus. 16:33.180 --> 16:35.820 It was recorded in USA Today. 16:36.900 --> 16:42.240 She says, the recent disclosures of widespread sexual misconduct on the part 16:42.240 --> 16:44.400 of certain members of the Roman Catholic clergy. 16:44.960 --> 16:50.640 Comes as no surprise to most of us who were once priests or nuns. 16:50.640 --> 16:52.380 Now, beginning with the chapter. 16:52.540 --> 16:54.880 It says, let therefore be no misunderstanding. 16:55.660 --> 17:00.720 We are not suggesting that Roman Catholic popes, priests and nuns are inherently 17:00.720 --> 17:03.740 more prone to promiscuity than the rest of mankind. 17:04.700 --> 17:06.520 Our hearts are all the same. 17:07.280 --> 17:11.840 Many of these tragic individuals no doubt began with high moral and spiritual 17:11.840 --> 17:12.600 aspirations. 17:13.300 --> 17:17.820 And in that spirit, set out upon what they sincerely intended to be. 17:18.200 --> 17:20.540 A life of purity and devotion to Christ. 17:21.520 --> 17:26.380 It was the system of hierarchical privilege, power and authority over the 17:26.380 --> 17:26.720 laity. 17:27.000 --> 17:29.060 Which perverted and destroyed them. 17:29.820 --> 17:34.300 That system as we have seen gathered momentum through the centuries by the lust 17:34.300 --> 17:35.560 and greed of popes. 17:35.980 --> 17:39.680 Whose natural propensity for evil innate in all of us. 17:40.380 --> 17:44.720 Found occasion through the unusual opportunities afforded by their office. 17:45.640 --> 17:49.940 To enhance their power, they issued a host of false documents. 17:49.940 --> 17:54.680 Which purported to be the writings of the early church fathers and decrees of early 17:54.680 --> 17:55.200 synods. 17:56.160 --> 18:01.340 One self-serving theme of these forgeries was the claim that the popes had inherited 18:01.340 --> 18:05.300 innocence and sanctity from Peter. 18:06.140 --> 18:08.600 And could not be judged by any man. 18:09.500 --> 18:14.820 Historian Von Dolinger writes, quote, A saying ascribed to Constantine at 18:14.820 --> 18:21.280 the Council of Nice, in a legend recorded by Rufinus, was amplified till it was 18:21.280 --> 18:25.100 fashioned into a perfect mine of high-flying pretensions. 18:26.280 --> 18:35.040 Constantine, according to this fable, when the written accusations of bishops 18:35.040 --> 18:41.340 against each other were laid before him, burned them, saying that the bishops were 18:41.340 --> 18:46.060 gods and no man could dare to judge them. 18:46.520 --> 18:47.080 Unquote. 18:47.840 --> 18:53.380 If one is on the level of the gods, what privileges could not one claim? 18:54.300 --> 18:55.600 Gods are above the law. 18:56.220 --> 19:01.260 No wonder then that the popes began to declare openly that they had power over 19:01.260 --> 19:03.720 kings and kingdoms and all persons. 19:03.720 --> 19:07.120 A power to behave like tyrants. 19:08.200 --> 19:12.720 The added pretense of infallibility only made matters worse. 19:13.740 --> 19:18.820 Each priest and nun, by association, shares, though to a lesser extent, 19:19.300 --> 19:24.240 this same corrupting absolutism and elevation above lay persons. 19:24.240 --> 19:30.200 Add to this pretended god-like authority the unnatural rule of celibacy, 19:30.900 --> 19:38.660 an intolerable burden, which only an unnatural rule of... excuse me, 19:39.480 --> 19:41.460 let me start over here. 19:42.040 --> 19:48.360 Each priest and nun, by association, shares, though to a lesser extent, 19:48.580 --> 19:53.380 this same corrupting absolutism and elevation above lay persons. 19:53.380 --> 19:59.620 Add to this pretended god-like authority the unnatural rule of celibacy, 20:00.200 --> 20:05.500 an intolerable burden, which only a very small minority of persons could possibly 20:05.500 --> 20:09.160 bear, and the stage is set for all manner of evil. 20:09.940 --> 20:15.240 A sincere Catholic historian writes, quote, The fact is that priestly celibacy 20:15.240 --> 20:16.940 has hardly ever worked. 20:17.820 --> 20:24.700 In the view of some historians, it has probably done more harm to morals 20:24.700 --> 20:29.120 than any other institution in the West, including prostitution. 20:29.980 --> 20:35.140 The proof of the harm done by celibacy comes not from bigoted anti-Catholic 20:35.140 --> 20:35.620 sources. 20:35.620 --> 20:41.580 On the contrary, it includes papal and conciliar documents and letters of 20:41.580 --> 20:43.240 reforming saints. 20:44.220 --> 20:45.860 They all point to one direction. 20:46.240 --> 20:51.800 Far from being a candle in a naughty world, priestly celibacy has been more 20:51.800 --> 20:55.520 often than not a stain on the name of Christianity. 20:56.300 --> 20:56.820 Unquote. 20:57.580 --> 21:00.400 What about the roots and the fruits of celibacy? 21:00.400 --> 21:06.640 Dave Hunt says, One must understand that mandatory celibacy is not taught in the 21:06.640 --> 21:09.680 Bible, nor was it practiced by the apostles. 21:10.580 --> 21:16.040 This teaching developed as an integral part of the evolving papal system and 21:16.040 --> 21:18.500 gradually became essential to it. 21:19.200 --> 21:24.320 The concern was not the morality, for celibacy proved to be a veritable 21:24.320 --> 21:25.880 cornucopia of evil. 21:25.880 --> 21:33.920 In fact, the rule of celibacy was not the prohibition of sex, but of marriage. 21:35.160 --> 21:41.160 This is a point that is often missed by listeners of the program and other people 21:41.160 --> 21:42.960 dealing with these subjects. 21:43.380 --> 21:47.460 You must understand that celibacy is the forbidding to marry. 21:48.400 --> 21:52.360 It's a doctrine of demons, forbidding to marry. 21:52.360 --> 21:55.720 And that's all celibacy relates to. 21:55.840 --> 21:59.480 It has nothing to do with chastity, as we are about to see. 22:00.400 --> 22:06.920 Pope Alexander II, who reigned from 1061 to 1073, for example, refused to 22:06.920 --> 22:11.660 discipline a priest who had committed adultery with his father's second wife, 22:12.280 --> 22:15.600 because he hadn't committed the sin of matrimony. 22:15.600 --> 22:20.960 That was the great evil which had to be eliminated for the priesthood to be 22:20.960 --> 22:22.600 totally devoted to the church. 22:23.240 --> 22:27.560 This is how the Roman Catholic Church controls the priesthood, and they have an 22:27.560 --> 22:31.540 ulterior motive to maintain the wealth of the church. 22:32.440 --> 22:36.440 All down through history, not only priests and prelates, but popes as well, 22:36.540 --> 22:40.040 had their mistresses and visited prostitutes. 22:40.750 --> 22:43.240 Many were homosexuals. 22:43.360 --> 22:50.940 Yes, homosexuality, and let's use the proper term, sodomy, which reflects God's 22:50.940 --> 22:54.400 judgment already upon this aberration. 22:55.320 --> 23:00.560 Sodomy is an historical problem with the papacy. 23:00.720 --> 23:03.040 It's not just a modern phenomenon. 23:03.690 --> 23:09.320 The priests and nuns and popes and prelates of the Roman Catholic Church have 23:09.320 --> 23:11.680 always been sodomites. 23:12.500 --> 23:18.800 And there's a scriptural explanation for this, and you'll find it in Romans chapter 23:18.800 --> 23:19.360 1. 23:20.000 --> 23:21.760 Just read it for yourselves. 23:22.300 --> 23:24.640 The language is plain and clear. 23:25.960 --> 23:33.000 While celibacy may exacerbate the problem, the problem is idolatry. 23:33.660 --> 23:35.360 But we won't dwell on that today. 23:35.520 --> 23:39.720 We'll stay to the business of the chapter as Dave Hunt presents it when we come back 23:39.720 --> 23:40.160 from the break. 23:40.620 --> 23:43.540 You're listening to Inquisition Update on First Amendment Radio. 23:43.700 --> 23:44.140 Stay tuned. 23:44.240 --> 23:45.140 We'll be right back. 24:11.690 --> 24:17.590 Hear it first 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27:17.570 there is a cause and effect relationship between idolatry and sodomy. 27:18.130 --> 27:21.650 And I know that's not taught in the churches, but that's what the scriptures 27:21.650 --> 27:22.230 teach. 27:23.130 --> 27:29.150 Now I'm not saying that celibacy doesn't contribute to the sexual immorality of the 27:29.150 --> 27:32.950 priests and nuns and prelates and popes of the Roman Catholic Church. 27:32.950 --> 27:39.590 But the cause of sodomy is directly related to their idolatry. 27:40.230 --> 27:44.550 God said so in his book, in clear and unmistakable language. 27:45.370 --> 27:51.730 And I propose that since the current Pope Francis I, a Jesuit priest by the way, 27:52.550 --> 27:58.150 is preparing to deal with the sexual immorality of the priesthood of the Roman 27:58.150 --> 28:04.970 Catholic Church by possibly even opening the option of them to marry, will do very 28:04.970 --> 28:08.210 little to reduce the cases of sodomy within the church. 28:08.450 --> 28:14.170 As long as the Roman Catholic Church is an idolatrous church, it will remain a 28:14.170 --> 28:15.170 sodomite church. 28:16.130 --> 28:23.190 The natural inclination is, if celibacy is a contributor, why don't the priests seek 28:23.190 --> 28:26.590 out women for their sexual release? 28:26.590 --> 28:30.110 Why do they seek out men and little boys? 28:30.650 --> 28:33.650 You'll find the answer in Romans chapter 1. 28:34.570 --> 28:38.970 And when they are permitted to marry, if and when the priests of Rome are 28:38.970 --> 28:45.330 permitted to marry, the cases of sodomy will only be superficially influenced by 28:45.330 --> 28:46.310 this new rule. 28:47.210 --> 28:49.290 And I have someone else on the line. 28:49.710 --> 28:51.010 Is somebody else there? 28:51.290 --> 28:53.390 Please mute your mic if you will. 28:57.390 --> 28:58.010 Okay. 28:58.010 --> 29:01.210 Now, we'll continue with reading the book. 29:01.470 --> 29:06.210 If any of my listeners have any questions or want clarification on anything that 29:06.210 --> 29:12.950 I've just said, please email me at tom at cwaves.us and I'll do my best. 29:13.630 --> 29:22.270 Now, continuing, it says here, that was the great evil which had to be 29:22.270 --> 29:25.890 eliminated for the priesthood to be totally devoted to the church. 29:26.950 --> 29:29.250 Marriage had to be eliminated. 29:30.250 --> 29:34.550 Because the priests, if they had wives and children, their hearts would be for their 29:34.550 --> 29:35.030 families. 29:35.850 --> 29:44.370 And also, upon time of death, the priests would wish to bequeath their wealth to 29:44.370 --> 29:47.510 their families, their wives and their children. 29:48.430 --> 29:54.550 And not to allow their assets to remain in the ownership of the church. 29:55.490 --> 29:59.990 And in many cases in the early Roman Catholic Church history, the popes and 29:59.990 --> 30:04.910 priests literally stole from the church and enriched their families. 30:05.330 --> 30:12.170 And Rome has recognized from early on that the priests were the cause of the 30:12.170 --> 30:13.370 pilferage of the church. 30:14.250 --> 30:16.010 So, Rome took care of that. 30:16.290 --> 30:17.970 Priests were not allowed to marry. 30:18.590 --> 30:24.130 Well, it was a great opportunity for the Roman Catholic Church to maintain its 30:24.130 --> 30:24.650 assets. 30:25.590 --> 30:26.670 And that's what it's all about. 30:26.770 --> 30:30.370 It's a doctrine of demons described that way in the Bible. 30:30.510 --> 30:31.970 And that's exactly what it is. 30:32.770 --> 30:36.950 Now, continuing, it says, all down through history, not only priests and prelates, 30:37.490 --> 30:41.970 but popes as well, had their mistresses and visited prostitutes. 30:42.730 --> 30:46.990 Many were homosexuals, for the reasons that I've outlined in Romans chapter 1. 30:46.990 --> 30:52.370 No member of the clergy was ever excommunicated for having sex. 30:52.950 --> 30:57.990 But thousands have been put out of the priesthood for the scandal of getting 30:57.990 --> 30:58.550 married. 30:59.490 --> 31:03.690 Why then the strict insistence upon celibacy, forbidding to marry, 31:04.190 --> 31:08.590 even to the present day, if it really doesn't mean abstinence from sex? 31:09.470 --> 31:15.950 It is because the rule of celibacy has a very practical and lucrative result for 31:15.950 --> 31:16.490 the church. 31:16.490 --> 31:23.450 It leaves priests, and especially bishops and popes, without families to whom to 31:23.450 --> 31:27.230 bequeath property, and thereby impoverish the church. 31:27.930 --> 31:30.890 The clergy must have no heirs. 31:31.910 --> 31:36.670 Pope Gregory VII, bemoaning the difficulty in stamping out marriage among the 31:36.670 --> 31:41.950 priests, declared, The church cannot escape from the clutches of the laity 31:41.950 --> 31:46.230 unless priests first escape the clutches of their wives. 31:47.510 --> 31:50.490 Here's another vital reason for celibacy. 31:51.450 --> 31:56.950 To create a priesthood without the encumbrance and the loving loyalties of 31:56.950 --> 31:58.110 wives and children. 31:59.110 --> 32:03.470 Thus, fornication and adultery, though forbidden in theory, were 32:03.470 --> 32:06.510 preferable to a marriage relationship. 32:07.290 --> 32:09.190 Nineteenth-century historian R. 32:09.250 --> 32:09.490 W. 32:09.570 --> 32:15.170 Thompson explains, It was considered absolutely necessary to the perfect 32:15.170 --> 32:20.450 working of the papal system that there should be organized a compact body of 32:20.450 --> 32:26.310 ecclesiastics, destitute of all those generous sympathies which grow alone out 32:26.310 --> 32:31.890 of the family relation, that they might be the better fitted to do the works of the 32:31.890 --> 32:32.350 popes. 32:33.770 --> 32:39.610 And you hear all the time, the Roman Catholic Church upholding the family. 32:39.990 --> 32:46.490 The basic human entity, the family, the most necessary to be protected in a 32:46.490 --> 32:47.010 society. 32:47.350 --> 32:48.150 The family. 32:48.610 --> 32:50.470 It's all about the family. 32:50.950 --> 32:55.250 The Roman Catholic Church has done more than any other institution in the world to 32:55.250 --> 32:56.870 destroy the family. 32:57.550 --> 33:02.190 And I could go into the rest of the program touching on that subject and never 33:02.190 --> 33:05.130 reach the conclusion of it before the end of the half hour. 33:05.270 --> 33:10.090 So I'll just leave it to my listeners to do their own research into the matter. 33:10.930 --> 33:14.150 But the Roman Catholic Church is the destroyer of families. 33:15.410 --> 33:23.630 And no more so is it demonstrated than in this celibate condition for the priest. 33:23.750 --> 33:28.330 The requirement of celibacy for the priests and the popes of the church. 33:29.310 --> 33:33.310 It says, though married men in those early days were allowed to enter the priesthood, 33:33.970 --> 33:36.970 they were required to live celibate lives. 33:37.790 --> 33:40.650 Imagine being married and not allowed to touch your wife. 33:41.350 --> 33:48.550 Pope Leo I, who reigned from 440 to 461, decreed that married clergy were to treat 33:48.550 --> 33:52.350 their wives, quote, as sisters, unquote. 33:52.770 --> 33:54.470 And many of them did. 33:55.330 --> 33:56.850 They raped their sisters. 33:57.730 --> 34:03.930 It says, few if any Catholics realized that as late as the reign of Pope Gregory 34:03.930 --> 34:12.850 VII in 1073 to 1085, it was accepted for priests to be married and supposedly live 34:12.850 --> 34:15.450 in celibacy with their wives. 34:16.270 --> 34:19.850 Such a requirement was both unnatural and unrealistic. 34:20.770 --> 34:22.670 Who could keep such a rule? 34:23.450 --> 34:28.790 All over Italy, the clerics openly had large families and no discipline was 34:28.790 --> 34:29.850 enacted against them. 34:30.350 --> 34:35.410 After all, many of the popes had large families as well and sometimes made no 34:35.410 --> 34:36.230 secret of it. 34:36.230 --> 34:42.530 Jesuit priest De Rosa comments, quote, This theological confusion in an 34:42.530 --> 34:48.530 age of depravity led the clergy in the 5th century Rome, in particular, to become a 34:48.530 --> 34:52.270 byword for everything that was gross and perverted. 34:53.150 --> 34:59.230 When Pope Sixtus III, who reigned from 432 to 440 AD, was put on trial for seducing a 34:59.230 --> 35:05.630 nun, he ably defended himself by quoting Christ's words, quote, Let him who is 35:05.630 --> 35:09.590 without fault among you throw the first stone, unquote. 35:10.250 --> 35:14.130 Roving monks were proving to be a social menace. 35:15.050 --> 35:19.530 There were long periods when many monasteries were nothing but houses of ill 35:19.530 --> 35:20.110 repute. 35:20.810 --> 35:26.530 The Second Council of Tours in the year 567 publicly admitted there was hardly a 35:26.530 --> 35:30.370 cleric anywhere without his wife or mistress, unquote. 35:30.370 --> 35:36.970 It was a system built for prostitution, says Dave Hunt. 35:37.830 --> 35:41.910 For centuries, the Roman Catholic priesthood was largely hereditary. 35:42.870 --> 35:45.330 In other words, nepotism. 35:46.210 --> 35:51.730 The offices of the popes and the priests and the prelates were passed down to their 35:51.730 --> 35:53.290 kin, okay? 35:53.770 --> 35:56.050 How can that be if they were all celibate, right? 35:56.810 --> 35:57.530 Not married. 35:57.530 --> 35:58.910 Well, they had kin. 35:59.430 --> 36:01.410 They weren't prohibited from having sex. 36:01.930 --> 36:02.610 And they did. 36:02.850 --> 36:03.630 Lots of it. 36:03.910 --> 36:08.550 And they produced lots of bastard children, who literally ran the church. 36:09.490 --> 36:13.250 He says, for centuries, the priesthood was largely hereditary. 36:14.270 --> 36:17.910 Most priests were the sons of other priests and bishops. 36:19.050 --> 36:24.790 More than one pope was the illegitimate son of a previous and supposedly celibate 36:24.790 --> 36:25.370 pope. 36:25.370 --> 36:33.190 For example, Pope Silvarius, who reigned from 536 to 537 AD, was fathered by Pope 36:33.190 --> 36:37.430 Ormistus, who reigned from 514 to 523. 36:38.070 --> 36:47.330 And John XI, who reigned from 931 to 935, was born by Julius III, who reigned from 36:47.330 --> 36:55.410 904 to 911, of his favorite mistress, Morosia, to whom we referred earlier. 36:56.270 --> 37:01.770 Among the other bastards who ruled the church were Popes Boniface I, Galatius, 37:02.290 --> 37:04.130 Agapitus, and Theodore. 37:04.930 --> 37:05.990 There were more. 37:06.490 --> 37:08.750 Adrian IV was the son of a priest. 37:09.410 --> 37:15.570 No wonder Pope Pius II said Rome was, quote, the only city run by bastards, 37:16.050 --> 37:16.490 unquote. 37:17.270 --> 37:21.990 Pius himself admitted to fathering at least two illegitimate children by 37:21.990 --> 37:25.110 different women, one of them married at the time. 37:25.930 --> 37:31.930 The rule of celibacy literally created prostitutes, making Rome the, quote, 37:32.390 --> 37:36.930 mother of harlots, unquote, as the apostle John foresaw. 37:36.930 --> 37:42.670 Now, I don't want to belabor this too much, but clearly what the scripture is 37:42.670 --> 37:47.630 talking about is the spiritual fornication of the Roman Catholic Church. 37:48.670 --> 37:54.410 And her harlotry is described as, well, worshipping the other gods. 37:54.810 --> 38:00.430 That's why Israel was always condemned for whoring around with pagan gods. 38:01.010 --> 38:03.830 And this is what defines the Roman Catholic Church. 38:03.830 --> 38:07.590 Now, it has a natural fulfillment, too. 38:08.650 --> 38:17.270 And so it's not inappropriate to say what Dave Hunt is saying here, but her 38:17.270 --> 38:22.910 description as mother of harlots is directed more towards spiritual harlotry 38:22.910 --> 38:23.950 than anything else. 38:24.730 --> 38:29.330 And it shouldn't surprise anybody that being a spiritual harlot, that the Roman 38:29.330 --> 38:32.390 Catholic Church would produce harlots as a matter of course. 38:32.390 --> 38:34.650 And it does, and it has, and it always will. 38:35.530 --> 38:43.370 Now, in his fiery sermons, Savonarola of Florence, Italy, soon to be martyred, 38:44.170 --> 38:52.150 called Rome, quote, a harlot ready to sell her favors for coin, unquote, and accused 38:52.150 --> 38:57.110 the Roman Catholic priests of bringing, quote, spiritual death upon all. 38:57.110 --> 39:02.110 Their piety consists in spending their nights with harlots, unquote. 39:02.830 --> 39:10.270 He cried, quote, 1,000, 10,000, 14,000 harlots are few for Rome, 39:10.670 --> 39:16.130 for there both men and women are made harlots, unquote. 39:16.930 --> 39:21.710 Pope Alexander VI threatened, quote, to lay interdict upon Florence, 39:21.970 --> 39:24.830 unquote, if it did not silence Savonarola. 39:24.830 --> 39:30.430 The city rulers obeyed for fear, as a result of the interdict, all the 39:30.430 --> 39:34.970 Florentine merchants in Rome would be thrown into jail, unquote. 39:35.850 --> 39:41.790 The popes wanted Savonarola brought to Rome for trial as a heretic, but the 39:41.790 --> 39:45.070 signory of Florence wanted to execute him themselves. 39:46.190 --> 39:50.630 After signing confessions that had been wrung out of them by the cruelest of 39:50.630 --> 39:56.830 torture, Savonarola and two Conrad friars were hanged and burned to ashes. 39:57.770 --> 40:03.310 Yet this man who preached against the church's leaders' immorality and was slain 40:03.310 --> 40:09.130 by Roman Catholics is now celebrated by the Vatican as, quote, a giant of our 40:09.130 --> 40:12.790 faith, martyred on May 23, 1498, unquote. 40:13.570 --> 40:15.210 What revision of history! 40:15.890 --> 40:20.870 Visiting Germany in the 8th century, St. Boniface found that none of the clergy 40:20.870 --> 40:23.110 honored their vows of celibacy. 40:23.890 --> 40:31.810 He wrote to Pope Zachary in 741-752, quote, Young men who spent their youth in 40:31.810 --> 40:35.490 rape and adultery were rising in the ranks of the clergy. 40:36.310 --> 40:41.210 They were spending their nights in bed with four or five women, then getting up 40:41.210 --> 40:43.670 in the morning to celebrate mass, unquote. 40:43.670 --> 40:51.550 Bishop Rathurio complained that if he excommunicated unchaste priests, 40:52.170 --> 40:57.250 quote, there would be none left to administer the sacrament except boys. 40:57.710 --> 41:04.650 If he excluded bastards, as canon law demands, not even boys would be left, 41:04.930 --> 41:05.410 unquote. 41:06.210 --> 41:11.330 Even idealists became unprincipled rogues because the priesthood was one of the 41:11.330 --> 41:16.350 surest and fastest ways to wealth and power, and afforded unique opportunities 41:16.350 --> 41:18.310 for the most profligate pleasure. 41:19.270 --> 41:26.910 Today's Pope, Pope John Paul II, in his recent encyclical Veritas Splendor, 41:27.290 --> 41:32.790 that is, Splendor of Truth, foundly condemns promiscuity. 41:33.630 --> 41:34.590 Imagine that! 41:35.150 --> 41:41.090 One might respect such a treatise if he would admit that his predecessors in the 41:41.090 --> 41:45.510 papacy had been some of the worst offenders, that the clergy, because they 41:45.510 --> 41:49.850 can't marry, have been more prone to illicit relationships than the laity, 41:50.270 --> 41:54.750 and that promiscuity is still widespread among the Roman Catholic clergy. 41:55.670 --> 41:58.630 Otherwise, Splendor of Truth has a hollow sound. 41:59.470 --> 42:02.370 No, it's hypocrisy is what it is. 42:03.170 --> 42:05.710 It's the church of hypocrisy. 42:07.350 --> 42:15.450 Look, the Roman Catholic Church does not have the moral authority to preach to 42:15.450 --> 42:18.250 anyone about anything. 42:19.310 --> 42:24.290 And this is why we read books like this on Inquisition Update, to prove that there is 42:24.290 --> 42:25.950 no moral foundation. 42:26.650 --> 42:32.710 Now, clearly, we make it clear that there is no spiritual foundation for the church, 42:32.710 --> 42:39.830 for the papacy, and for his hierarchy and his priesthood, but there is no moral 42:39.830 --> 42:40.910 authority either. 42:41.630 --> 42:45.870 She is not the vicar of Christ, either over spirituals or temporals. 42:46.750 --> 42:50.830 And this church is nothing but a pariah in the world. 42:51.630 --> 42:56.910 And until we rout it out, until we expose it for what it is, until we rebel against 42:56.910 --> 43:01.850 it, and put the papacy back in its box, like the Protestant Reformers did, 43:02.290 --> 43:07.350 simply by telling the truth about it, we will continue to be dominated by it, 43:07.910 --> 43:11.470 both in spiritual and in temporal matters. 43:12.210 --> 43:14.190 And that is the New World Order. 43:14.750 --> 43:21.950 The very foundation of the New World Order is papal authority over the churches and 43:21.950 --> 43:23.650 over the governments of the world. 43:24.590 --> 43:27.270 And the New World Order is a done deal. 43:27.270 --> 43:31.630 If there is any hope for the world, it has to put the papacy back in its box. 43:32.510 --> 43:37.450 And I maintain that the only thing that ever worked, the only weapon that ever 43:37.450 --> 43:42.890 worked against the papacy, the only power on earth that ever liberated the world 43:42.890 --> 43:48.250 from papal tyranny, papal abuse, papal sin, papal idolatry, papal simony 43:48.250 --> 43:53.770 and sodomy, and all the other errors of Rome was the Protestant Reformation. 43:53.770 --> 43:57.930 And what brought about the Protestant Reformation was the King James Bible. 43:58.870 --> 43:59.590 The scriptures. 44:00.690 --> 44:01.930 And isn't it interesting? 44:02.830 --> 44:06.550 The Roman Catholic Church did just what Satan did when he tempted Jesus in the 44:06.550 --> 44:06.790 desert. 44:06.990 --> 44:07.950 Twisted the scriptures. 44:09.070 --> 44:14.670 And all Jesus had to do was straighten them back out and quote them back to him. 44:15.270 --> 44:16.450 Satan walked away. 44:17.290 --> 44:20.750 And that is the only weapon that is going to make the papacy succumb. 44:20.750 --> 44:24.130 Is a weapon against which he has no defense. 44:24.310 --> 44:28.010 That is the gospel truth as written in the Bible. 44:29.150 --> 44:37.030 Until we make a spiritual conversion, complete and total, giving over our lives 44:37.030 --> 44:42.770 to Christ, it's not hardly possible that the Pope will even feel our influence in 44:42.770 --> 44:43.150 the world. 44:43.970 --> 44:48.930 The spiritual conversion must come before any temporal conversion in the world, 44:48.930 --> 44:52.170 just as occurred during the Protestant Reformation. 44:53.190 --> 44:59.650 Once the people were spiritually liberated from the knowledge of what Christ was to 44:59.650 --> 45:04.390 them, as preached in the Bible, not from the pulpits of the Roman Catholic 45:04.390 --> 45:07.610 Church, then temporal liberty followed. 45:08.510 --> 45:12.130 Spiritual liberty came first, then temporal liberty. 45:12.970 --> 45:21.290 Now, many of my listeners are focused on the temporal enslavement of the people of 45:21.290 --> 45:23.790 the world, particularly here in the United States. 45:24.510 --> 45:30.250 But our emphasis must be on spiritual liberty, the truth, the scriptures. 45:31.090 --> 45:36.690 And that can't come until we recognize who is the biblical, historical, and prophetic 45:36.690 --> 45:37.910 antichrist in the world. 45:37.910 --> 45:41.870 Who is it that brings about all the woes of the world? 45:42.690 --> 45:45.970 We must understand who God was speaking about in the scriptures. 45:47.050 --> 45:54.550 And you can't learn about that by going to a 501c3 ecumenical evangelical church with 45:54.550 --> 45:59.230 a Jesuit-trained seminarian behind the pulpit wearing a masonic ring. 45:59.970 --> 46:00.950 It ain't gonna happen. 46:01.790 --> 46:04.850 So come out of the church and tell the truth. 46:05.390 --> 46:08.750 Come out of the church and be free to tell the truth. 46:09.630 --> 46:11.430 And tell it to anybody who will listen. 46:12.110 --> 46:17.070 Now, continuing, Dave Hunt prefaces the next portion of the chapter with 46:17.070 --> 46:17.810 subtitles. 46:22.930 --> 46:31.890 John XII, who reigned from 955-964, to whom we referred earlier, became Pope 46:31.890 --> 46:39.290 at age 16, ran a harem in the Lateran Palace, and lived a life of evil that 46:39.290 --> 46:44.650 passes imagination, even toasting the devil in front of St. Peter's altar. 46:45.550 --> 46:50.570 Spiritual leader of the church for eight years, Pope John XII, slept with his 46:50.570 --> 46:54.450 mother and any other woman he could get his hands on. 46:55.230 --> 46:59.150 Women were warned not to venture into St. John Lateran Church. 47:00.110 --> 47:05.870 Of this man, Luke Prine wrote in his journal, Pope John is the enemy of all 47:05.870 --> 47:06.310 things. 47:06.490 --> 47:11.930 The palace of the Lateran that once sheltered saints and is now a harlot's 47:11.930 --> 47:18.250 brothel will never forget his union with his father's wench, the sister of the 47:18.250 --> 47:20.210 other concubine, Stephania. 47:21.110 --> 47:24.730 Women feared to come and pray at the threshold of the holy apostles, 47:24.990 --> 47:33.050 for they have heard how John, a little time ago, took women pilgrims by force to 47:33.050 --> 47:37.730 his bed, wives, widows, and virgins alike. 47:38.330 --> 47:38.890 Unquote. 47:40.370 --> 47:49.430 Pope John, one of the so-called vicars of Christ, one who is regarded to be the very 47:49.430 --> 47:53.270 voice of God on the earth, debauched his own mother. 47:54.190 --> 47:55.390 That's the history of Rome. 47:56.350 --> 48:01.790 Acknowledged by Roman historians, St. Peter Danian's 11th century record of 48:01.790 --> 48:07.510 the incredible evils caused by the pledge of celibacy made such scandalous reading 48:07.510 --> 48:12.390 that the pope with whom he shared it preserved it in the papal archives. 48:13.450 --> 48:19.310 In fact, it, quote, proves that profligacy among the clergy of the time was 48:19.310 --> 48:20.050 universal. 48:21.130 --> 48:27.250 After six centuries of strenuous efforts to impose celibacy, the clergy were a 48:27.250 --> 48:31.710 menace to the wives and young women of the parishes to which they were sent. 48:32.290 --> 48:32.870 Unquote. 48:32.870 --> 48:40.550 And you have to know that they were likewise debauchees of men and boys. 48:41.250 --> 48:44.830 And it's just simply not mentioned because it's too filthy to mention. 48:45.650 --> 48:52.090 Pope Innocent IV, who reigned from 1243 to 1254, forced to leave Rome by the emperor 48:52.090 --> 48:57.590 Frederick II, took refuge along with his curia in Lyons, France. 48:58.530 --> 49:03.390 Upon the pope's return to Rome after Frederick's death, Cardinal Hugo wrote a 49:03.390 --> 49:05.230 letter thanking the people of Lyons. 49:06.090 --> 49:10.670 He reminded them that they also owed a debt to the pope and his court. 49:11.250 --> 49:16.150 His remarks provided a glimpse of the shameless depravity of the papal court. 49:16.430 --> 49:22.310 Quote, During our residence in your city, we, the Roman Catholic Curia, have been of 49:22.310 --> 49:24.270 very charitable assistance to you. 49:24.270 --> 49:30.450 On our arrival, we found scarcely three or four purchasable sisters of love 49:30.450 --> 49:37.930 prostituted, whilst at our departure we leave you, so to say, one brothel that 49:37.930 --> 49:41.050 extends from the western to the eastern gate. 49:41.790 --> 49:42.350 Unquote. 49:43.030 --> 49:52.170 So that's the thanks that the city owed to the Roman Catholic hierarchy that when 49:52.170 --> 49:54.630 they arrived, there were only two or three prostitutes. 49:55.430 --> 49:58.730 But when they left, the whole city was a house of ill repute. 49:59.470 --> 50:01.550 That's the legacy of the papacy. 50:02.390 --> 50:06.130 That's the real history of the Roman Catholic Church. 50:07.030 --> 50:09.990 Now, they enforced celibacy on the priesthood. 50:10.090 --> 50:15.670 It says, Celibacy was hardly known in England before it was at last enforced by 50:15.670 --> 50:18.530 innocent to forth in about 1250 A.D. 50:19.170 --> 50:24.190 Most priests there were married and practiced a practice long accepted by the 50:24.190 --> 50:24.510 church. 50:25.030 --> 50:30.390 But Rome determined that it had to end all familial devotion for priests and nuns. 50:30.950 --> 50:34.550 Their loyalty must now be given solely to the mother church. 50:35.410 --> 50:38.750 And we'll continue on the program tomorrow with a quote from R.W. 50:38.870 --> 50:40.030 Thompson in these regards. 50:40.030 --> 50:45.930 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