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I know you're all anxious to return to the book we were reading and discussing
yesterday, A Woman Rides the Beast, by Dave Hunt.
Dave concluded yesterday's broadcast by continuing his talk about the immorality
of the Roman Catholic Church.
Backing up one paragraph for continuity this morning, we'll begin the first full
paragraph on page 166 of the book.
Dave Hunt writes, Pope Innocent IV, who reigned from 1243 to 1254,
forced to leave Rome by Emperor Frederick II, took refuge, along with his Curia,
in Lyons, France.
This is when the papacy was holed up in France for a number of reasons.
And it says, upon the Pope's return to France after Frederick's death,
Cardinal Hugo wrote a letter thanking the people of Lyons.
He reminded them that they also owed a debt to the Pope and his court.
His remarks provide a glimpse of the shameless depravity of the papal court.
During our residence in your city, we, the Roman Catholic Curia, have been of
very charitable assistance to you.
On our arrival, we found scarcely three or four purchasable sisters of love,
that is, prostitutes.
While at our departure, we leave you, so to say, one brothel that extends from
the western to the eastern gate.
In other words, they turned the whole town into a brothel.
There were only a few prostitutes available when they arrived, but when they
left, the whole town was a brothel.
That's the morality, the historical immorality of the Roman Catholic Church.
Now, continuing where we left off yesterday, at the end of the program,
Dave Hunt is now going to speak about celibacy of the Roman Catholic priesthood.
He says, celibacy was hardly known in England before it was at last enforced by
Pope Innocent IV in about 1250 A.D.
Most priests there in England were married, a practice long accepted by the
church in England.
But Rome determined that it had to end all familial devotion for priests and nuns.
Their loyalty must now be given solely to the Mother Church and to the Pope.
R.
W.
Thompson explains why celibacy was forced upon England.
It has been, since its introduction, considered one of the most effective means
of establishing the supremacy of the Popes.
And for this purpose, the attempt was made to introduce it into England after the
Norman Conquest.
So it's to simply elevate the importance and the control of the papacy,
in addition to protecting the church's property from pilferage.
Now it says, Pope Honorius II, who reigned from 1124 to 1130,
sent Cardinal John of Crema to England to see that his decree against marriage of
the clergy was carried out.
The Cardinal gathered the senior clerics and chided them vigorously for their evil
ways, declaring that, quote, it was a horrible crime to rise from the side of a
harlot and then to handle the consecrated body of Christ, unquote.
You see how they referred to the wives of the priests, called them harlots.
Now, the clergy, whom he had lectured, however, surprised the Cardinal in his
room later that night in bed with one of the local prostitutes.
At least he wasn't married.
Such is the depravity, the moral depravity and the hypocrisy of the Roman Catholic
Church.
These aren't just isolated incidents.
If you're a regular listener to Inquisition Update, you're quite aware of
that by now.
Now, in the 13th century, St. Bonaventure, Cardinal and General of the Franciscans,
had said that Rome was just like the harlot of the apocalypse, exactly as John
foresaw and as Luther would see to his sorrow three centuries later.
Pope Boniface VIII, who reigned from 1294 to 1303, did not hesitate to have both a
mother and her daughter as his mistresses together.
It was Luther's visit to Rome which completed his growing disillusionment with
his church.
By the 14th century, the church had lost all credibility as an example of
Christ-like living.
Cynicism was rampant.
It was no secret that Pope John XXII, who reigned from 1316 to 1334,
had a son who was raised Cardinal.
Like Luther, England's John Cullet had been shocked at the brazen ungodliness of
the Pope and the Cardinals when he visited Rome.
From his pulpit in London's St. Paul's Cathedral, of which he was the Dean,
Cullet thundered his disapproval.
Oh, the abominable impiety of these miserable priests, of whom this age
contains a great multitude, who fear not to rush from the bosom of some foul harlot
into the temple of the church, to the altars of Christ, to the mysteries
of God.
So, such was life in the papal court.
He says, for years it had been a common saying that, Rome has more prostitutes
than any city in the world because it has the most celibates.
Pope Pius IV, who reigned from 1471 to 1484, turned that fact into a source of
considerable profit by charging Rome's numerous brothels with a church tax.
Imagine that, the church taxed the brothels.
He says, then he gathered more wealth still by charging a tax on mistresses kept
by the priests.
Will Durant reports, quote, there were 6,800 registered prostitutes in Rome in
1490, not counting the clandestine practitioners, in a population of some
90,000.
In Venice, the census of 1509 reported 11,654 prostitutes in a population of some
300,000.
An enterprising printer published a catalog of all the principal and most
honored courtesans of Venice, their names, addresses, and fees, unquote.
So they literally produced catalogs advertising these women.
Of course, it brought in a lot of tax money to the church, right?
The business.
That's right.
The Roman Catholic Church is in the business of prostitution.
It always has been, and it always will be.
And it's Rome's mafia that is so heavily engaged in the management, the sale,
the trafficking of the vices of the Roman Catholic Church.
Now, upon becoming Pope Alexander VI, who reigned from 1492 to 1503,
Rodrigo Borgia, who had committed his first murder at age 12, cried
triumphantly, I am Pope, Pontiff, and Vicar of Christ, unquote.
Gibbon calls him the Tiberius of the Christian Rome.
Though he scarcely pretended to be a Christian, he was like all popes,
deeply devoted to Mary.
Of him, a leading Florentine scholar wrote, quote, his manner of living was
dissolute.
He knew neither shame nor sincerity, neither faith nor religion.
Moreover, he was possessed by an insatiable greed, an overwhelming
ambition, and a burning passion for the advancement of his many children,
who, in order to carry out his iniquitous decrees, did not scruple to employ the
most heinous means, unquote.
Like his predecessor, Pope Innocent VIII, who reigned from 1484 to 1492,
Borgia, as a fond father, admitted who his children were, baptized them personally,
gave them the best education, and proudly officiated at their weddings in the
Vatican, which were attended by Rome's leading families.
Alexander VI had ten known illegitimate children, four of them, including the
notorious Cesare and Lucrezia, by Venosa Catani, his favorite mistress.
When Venosa faded, Borgia, then 58 years old, took newly married, 15-year-old Julia
Farnese.
She obtained a cardinal's hat for her brother, thereafter known as the Petticoat
Cardinal, who later became Pope Paul III, who reigned from 1534 to 1549,
and convened the Council of Trent to counter the Protestant Reformation.
Now, she has a record in art and architecture.
Papal promiscuity has been immortalized by the very structures and statuary at the
Vatican, St. Peter's, and other of Rome's most famous churches and basilicas.
The magnificent Sistine Chapel, for example, was built by and named after
Pope Sixtus IV, who taxed others for keeping a mistress, but paid none for his
own.
Here the cardinals meet to elect the next pope.
Sixty-five feet above them, the huge ceiling bears the incredible artwork of
Michelangelo.
Admiring visitors are not aware that this, the world's greatest work of art,
it is said, was commissioned by Julius II, who reigned from 1503 to 1513,
who bought the papacy with a fortune and didn't even pretend to be religious,
much less a Christian.
A notorious womanizer who sired a number of bastards, Julius was so eaten up with
syphilis that he couldn't expose his foot to be kissed.
The Sistine Chapel thus stands as one of Rome's many monuments to the fact that the
church which owns and proudly displays it is, as John foresaw, the mother of
harlots.
Known, quote, as the most important church dedicated to Mary in Western Christendom,
Saint Mary Major is the fruit of the combined efforts of a number of
promiscuous popes.
Pope Sixtus III, who reigned from 432 to 440, another notorious womanizer,
built the main structure.
The, quote, wooden, the golden wood ceiling over the nave was commissioned by
the Borgia Pope, Alexander VI, who reigned from 1492 to 1503,
who paid for it with gold from America, received as a gift from Spain's Ferdinand
and Isabella, to whom he had given the new world.
Borgia's unbelievable wickedness, including his devotion to torture,
his mistresses, and his illegitimate children, have been mentioned briefly
already.
He, quote, launched the first censorship of printed books, the Notorious Index,
which lasted over 400 years, unquote.
Inside Saint Peter's Basilica, the burial monument of Pope Paul III,
who reigned from 1534 to 1549, is adorned with reclining female figures.
One figure, representing Justice, was naked for 300 years, until Pius IX had
clothes painted on her.
She was modeled after Pope Paul III's sister, Julia, a mistress of Pope
Alexander VI.
This has immortalized the promiscuity of, quote, unquote, Today's unbiblical
tolerance of the immorality of the Roman Catholic Church has said that gross
immorality among Roman Catholic clergy is not confined to the past, but continues on
a grand scale to this day.
Such wickedness was rare, and a cause for excommunicating the offending party in the
days of the Apostles.
The faithful were not even to associate with fornicators, see 1 Corinthians 5,
8 and 9, who claimed to be Christians, so the world would know that such conduct
was condemned by the Church and all disciples of Christ.
Of a sexually profligate man at Corinth, the Apostle Paul wrote to the Church,
quote, Therefore, put away from among yourselves, in other words, excommunicate
that wicked person, unquote, see verse 13.
Yet popes, cardinals, bishops, and priests without number have been
habitual fornicators, adulterers, homosexuals, and mass murderers,
ruthless and depraved villains who pursued their degenerate lifestyles immune from
discipline.
Far from being excommunicated, such popes remain proudly displayed on the
list of past vicars of Christ.
Today, a priest who engages in sexual misconduct is rarely expelled from the
priesthood or even excommunicated from the Church.
Instead, he is reassigned elsewhere and perhaps given psychological counseling.
Priests pronounced cured by such treatment centers, for example, servants of the
Paraclete in Jemez Springs, New Mexico, have been reassigned to parishes only to
abuse more victims.
While Rome officially condemns fornication, thousands of its priests
engage in sex outside of marriage.
A national Catholic newspaper recently reported, quote, Seven French women,
companions of priests who are forced to live clandestinely for a lifetime,
the love they share with the priest and who represent thousands of women in
similar relationships, arrived at the Vatican August 20th.
They asked the Pope to look into the reality faced by thousands of priests,
companions, who live in the shadows, often with the approval of church
superiors, and by the children who are raised by their mothers alone or are
abandoned, unquote.
The fraud and hypocrisy persist.
Ex-nun Patricia Nolan Sabus, author of the book entitled Gus, A Nun's Story,
writes this.
She says, quote, During my ten years as Sister Augusta, I witnessed situations
that ranged from compromising to aberrant.
In theory, we were forbidden by rule to ever touch another person, male or female.
Quote, particular friendships, unquote, considered serious violations of
the vow of chastity, were to be avoided at all costs.
And the cost of imposed asexuality and corporeal denial was always high and often
tragic.
With the exception of a few select eunuchs, many of the priests and nuns I
knew eventually rejected that intolerable burden and either abandoned the religious
life altogether or formed liaisons with their fellow clerics or with outsiders.
There were the valiant ones who continued in their sincere attempts to murder the
flesh and often fell victim to serious psychogenic disorders.
Some still remain seriously damaged in mind and body.
Sequestered in institutions referred to as retreats or other such euphemisms.
A tragic number became alcoholics and quietly drank themselves to death.
A major cause of this appalling waste of lives?
Why, celibacy.
A virtuous state when freely entered into, but an overwhelming millstone when imposed
as dogma on the entire clergy as it was by the Roman Catholic Church nine centuries
ago.
Early in 1994, Terence German, 51, a former Jesuit priest, filed a $120
million lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court against the Roman Catholic Church,
Pope John Paul II and Cardinal John O 'Connor.
He accused them of, quote, turning a blind eye to his repeated reports of other
priests' sexual misconduct and misuse of church funds, unquote.
German's formal complaint explains that, quote, he gave up all his worldly goods
when he took his vows in 1964 in exchange for a promise that the church would care
for him until his death.
The underlying assumption was that he would, quote, live a life guided by the
established principles, unquote, of the Roman Catholic Church.
Quoting further, it says, the church, by acquiescing into pervasive sexual and
financial misconduct, broke its part of the established principles.
The church wasn't enforcing its own rules, though I wasn't able to live, according to
the church's rules, with people stealing and in sexual alliances with small boys,
unquote.
Today's, quote, unquote, celibate fornicators, pedophiles, and perverts are
almost always quietly transferred.
In their new parishes, they continue to celebrate Mass and to perform priestly
functions.
Should they commit the much more serious sin of marrying, however, they are
forbidden ever to function as priests again.
Exposed at last.
20th century misconduct by Roman Catholic clergy, covered up for decades,
is now being exposed.
Increasing numbers of victims are coming forward to sue the church.
An estimated billion dollars have been paid by the church so far in the United
States alone in out-of-court settlements.
The Santa Fe, New Mexico Archdiocese is on the brink of bankruptcy due to nearly 50
lawsuits against which it is now defending itself.
Quote, more than 45 priests are believed to have sexually abused some 200 people
over a 30-year period of time, unquote.
Nor is Santa Fe the only area where the church faces such lawsuits.
In 1994, the Archdiocese of Chicago expects to pay out more than 2.8 million
dollars it had paid for settlements in 1993.
The problem is widespread.
And we even covered, breaking from the text here, we even covered a 166.1 million
dollar settlement adjudicated against the Jesuit province in northwestern United
States that covered Oregon, Washington and Alaska and much of Canada for the
pedophilia and sexual torture of indigenous Canadians and others in that
northwest province.
The Jesuits tortured, sexually tortured and mutilated little children in
church-run schools for a period of over 40 years.
Hundreds of victims finally settled a 166.1 million dollars.
That's just one Jesuit province in this country.
How many more, we don't know.
It says the Franciscan Boys Seminary in Santa Barbara, California has just been
shut down because of the sexual involvement of the majority, the majority
of its priestless students.
Across the United States, women who have brought paternity suits are being paid
child support by the church, quote, in return for their agreement to maintain
silence about the fatherhood, unquote.
Rome sins don't regularly see the light of day.
They're handled specifically by the papacy.
We'll talk about it more when we get back from the break.
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Now, before we left for the break, the author writes, The Franciscan Boys'
Seminary in Santa Barbara, California, has just been shut down because of the
sexual involvement of the majority of its priests with students.
The majority means at least 50% or more of its priests were sexually involved with
the students.
Now, what happens to a teacher in the schools if they are caught sexually
involved with one of the students?
Why, their names and faces are plastered all over the mainstream media.
Lights and cameras, cops and badges and bulletproof armor and bulletproof
limousines hauling them from place to place.
Their names splattered all over the mainstream media.
They're made spectacles of, hauled into court, they're broadcast over television,
and they're simply made an example of.
Now, I'm not condoning, obviously, teachers having sexual relations with
their students.
That's an abuse of their authority.
That's an abuse of their privilege, besides being a sin and a violation of
God's holy law.
But look at these Roman Catholic priests.
You don't see their names and faces splattered all over the mainstream media.
You don't see their court cases televised for all the world to see.
You just simply are not even allowed to speak about these things.
For fear of offending some Catholic who sends his children to those priests to
confess their sins and to obtain penances for the priest to satisfy their crime for
telling a lie or some such thing, in order to gain absolution.
You talk about hypocrisy, cosmic hypocrisy.
Non-Roman Catholic priests, non-Roman Catholic priests, teachers in the schools,
who commit the same crimes as the Roman Catholic priests are made an example in
front of the whole world.
But the priests are let go.
What do you think God sees when he looks down at this?
This church, it calls itself a Christian church, commits the most heinous crimes of
all history.
Admittedly.
But they're never brought to justice.
It's just appalling.
Words can't describe it.
A majority of these priests at this boys' seminary in Santa Barbara, California were
involved sexually with the students.
You know, it makes it a pedophile brothel, doesn't it?
I mean, the institution was a sexual institution.
Imagine if 50% of the students in any school in this country were sexually
involved with the students.
What would it be regarded as?
A taxpayer paid, a taxpayer funded house of pedophilia, wouldn't it?
But you won't hear those terms used against the priests of Rome.
And it says across the United States, women have brought paternity suits,
who have brought paternity suits are being paid child support by the church,
quote, in return for their agreement to maintain silence about the fatherhood.
And don't you know the same pressure is applied to the press?
In case one of these women reneges on the agreement and decides to go public with
her paternity suit, the press just doesn't talk about it.
You made an agreement with the church not to talk about this.
We're not going to publish your story.
Hypocrisy on a cosmic scale.
It says in the Santa Fe Archdiocese cases, the 12 insurance companies which held
liability coverage, including Lloyd's of London, have refused to pay claims.
They argue that, quote, they should not have to pay out because diocesan officials
continue to give parish assignments to priests with histories of sexual abuse,
unquote.
I mean, even Lloyd's of London wouldn't pay out.
These priests have repeatedly committed pedophilia everywhere they go,
and the lawsuits keep coming up, and you expect us to continually pay for
these lawsuits, these settlements, when you continue to assign these priests
in other jurisdictions?
You see, at some point, even the insurance companies can't tolerate the hypocrisy of
the Roman Catholic Church.
Organizations such as the 10-year-old Good Tidings, which helps priests and women who
are sexually involved, that's priests and women who are sexually involved,
have sprung up around the world.
Good Tidings, headquartered in Canadensis, Pennsylvania, has branches in Canada,
Australia, and England.
It is, quote, developing ties with similar organizations in other countries,
hoping to create a federation that can present a united front to the Roman
Catholic Church, which has dismissed sexual liaisons between priests and women
as merely an American problem, unquote.
Trust me, it's a global problem, and it's not a recent phenomenon.
It has been a mainstay of the Roman Catholic Church.
One of the defining characteristics of the Roman Catholic Church is sexual sin,
sexual crime.
Many priests, quote, develop patterns of repeated involvement with women,
unquote.
Some of the priest lovers consider themselves married, in heart if not
legally, and some relationships amount to common law marriage.
But when the responsibility of a child comes, the priest is gone.
And so is the press.
And so is any outcry from the people.
Brazen hypocrisy.
The Roman Catholic Church's insistence upon the unnatural and unworkable rule of
celibacy has led to a priesthood of hypocrites who profess one thing and live
another.
According to National Catholic Reporter, about 10% of the priests report a sexual
approach from a priest while they were in training.
That's right, priests sexually propositioning other priests.
Spiritual directors, novice masters, seminary professors often introduce sexual
contact into the context of their spiritual office, unquote.
They're making sex part of their religion.
Sex being introduced within the context of their spiritual office.
Bishops from Western Canada visiting Rome in September of 1993 asked the Pope in a
series of meetings to, quote, grant an exception on cultural grounds and allow
married priests among the Inuit and Diné peoples of Northern Canada, unquote.
The Pope was polite, but unbending.
Fifteen centuries of, quote, unquote, infallibility can't be changed that
easily.
St. John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota, was the scene during August
12th and 13th, 1993, of a groundbreaking conference on sexual trauma and the Roman
Catholic Church.
Sponsored by two Benedictines, Abbot Timothy Kelly and Dr. Dietrich
Reinhardt, President of St. John's University.
Protestants were involved as well.
I wonder how they were involved.
Dominated by the search for psychological rather than spiritual solutions,
participants included psychologists and psychiatrists, such as Jesuit Father James
Gill, yes, that's right, put a Jesuit on there, psychiatrist and editor of Human
Development.
Conferees noted that accurate numbers of sexual abuse cases are not available
because of the widespread suppression of such information by the Church.
One canon lawyer, Father Thomas Doyle, co-author of the 1985
Doyle-Moulton-Peterson Report on Abuse of the Clergy, estimated that in 1990 about
3,000 of the 50,000 priests in America were, quote, currently involved sexually
with minors.
In 1990, he estimated 3,000 Roman Catholic priests in America were sexually involved
with minors.
It is estimated that, quote, four times as many priests involved themselves sexually
with adult women and twice the number of priests involved themselves with adult men
as those involved with children.
However, so it isn't just pedophilia, it's every kind of sexual impropriety.
The situation is out of hand, as it has been for centuries, and I will say it as
it has been since the very beginning of the Roman Catholic Church.
Even the earliest councils of the Roman Catholic Church had to deal with the
sexual depravity of its priests.
And the answer is in Romans chapter 1.
I just have to mention it one more time before we leave the subject.
Just read Romans chapter 1 for yourself and see why the priests of Rome have
always been and will always be sexual deviants, and particularly sodomites.
Of his fellow clergymen, William Hogan wrote, after leaving the priesthood in the
early 19th century, quote, I'm sorry to say from my knowledge of them since my
infancy to the present moment, that there's not a more corrupt,
more licentious body of men in the world.
Unquote.
That's right, from a priest who left the priesthood.
He said, there's not a more corrupt, licentious body of men in the world.
At Vatican Council 2, Paul VI used the dogma of papal infallibility to take out
of the council's hands critical issues such as celibacy and birth control,
upon which he pronounced his own opinions.
He demanded that all priests renew their vow of celibacy, that is, forbidding to
marry, on Holy Thursday of 1970.
Rome can't possibly reverse itself on celibacy without admitting that its
infallible popes and councils have been wrong on this point, out of touch with the
scriptures and of the Holy Spirit for centuries, while Protestants have been
right all along.
Rome's hypocrisy is monumental.
She continues to lecture the rest of the world on high moral standards,
and deposes the arbiter in paragon of virtue, while tens of thousands of her
clergy violate the very morals she proclaims.
Consider the 179 pages of Veritas Splendor, produced by Pope John Paul II
over six years, and published late in 1993.
This weighty theological treatise condemns contraception, illicit sex, and
homosexuality as quote-unquote intrinsically evil.
Conspicuous by its absence, however, is any admission that a high percentage of
the Roman Catholic clergy practice all three.
All three.
Contraception, illicit sex, and homosexuality.
Sad proof of failure.
Catholic theologian Hans Kung echoes the belief of the majority of Roman Catholics
when he calls Pope John Paul II's entire pontificate two quote-unquote hard line on
sexual morality, and suggests that such harshness, rather than preventing sexual
misconduct, has actually contributed to it.
Kung, who continues under a cloud of Vatican disapproval, calls Veritas
Splendor, which church leaders hailed as a call to holiness, quote, the testimony of
his, that is John Paul II's, failure, while Wojtyla's point of view,
that is Pope John Paul II's point of view, after having been voiced in hundreds of
speeches all over the world, has fallen on deaf ears.
This is the crowning fiasco of his 15-year-old pontificate, unquote.
In his $120 million lawsuit against the church, former Jesuit priest Terence
German, a Vatican troubleshooter from 1978 to 1981 at Rome's Jesuit headquarters,
claims that, quote, the Pope turned a deaf ear to his complaints of sexual
improprieties, unquote.
And when the facts could no longer be denied, the Pope tried to say that such
things were only occurring in the United States, quote, but that's hogwash,
says German.
It's going on right in Rome, and he knows it, unquote.
Chicago's Joseph Cardinal Bernhardin boasts that Veritas Splendor, quote,
reaffirms the moral vision that has sustained the Roman Catholic community
since the time of Christ, unquote.
Can he really be that ignorant of both the history and the current conditions of his
church?
Rome is beyond question that city, which is, quote, mother of harlots,
of Revelation chapter 17, having created them around the world and down through
history, literally by the millions.
No other city on earth even comes close to rivaling her in this regard.
The mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.
That's the end of chapter 12.
We'll continue now with chapter 13, entitled Seducer of Souls.
This chapter, as with all others, begins with some quotes.
This one, terribly abbreviated, comes from Revelation chapter 17,
verse 5.
Upon her forehead was a name written, the mother of abominations of the earth.
And here are some quotes from Vatican Council 2.
The Roman Catholic Church teaches and commands that the usage of indulgences,
a usage most beneficial to Christians and approved by the authority of the sacred
councils, should be kept in the church.
And it condemns with anathema those who say that indulgences are useless or that
the church does not have the power to grant them, unquote.
It's simply restating the Council of Trent and its rebuttal of Martin Luther,
who rebelled against the Roman Catholic Church primarily, at least initially,
because of the sale of indulgences.
The buying of salvation and the buying of forgiveness of sins with money.
That's what indulgences are.
They were reinstated at Vatican Council 2.
Rome is not going to apologize for indulgences.
It enriches the church, it empowers the church, and it depraves men.
That's the goal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Another quote from Vatican Council 2.
From the very earliest days of the church there has been a tradition whereby images
of our Lord, specifically condemned in the second commandment, which is no longer a
part of the catechism of the Roman Catholic Church.
They've completely removed the second commandment from the catechism.
It says, from the very earliest days of the church there has been a tradition
whereby images of our Lord, His Holy Mother, and of saints are displayed in the
churches for the veneration of the faithful.
The practice of placing sacred images in churches so that they may be venerated,
that is, worshipped by the faithful, is to be maintained.
The seducer of souls, Dave Hunt writes, look at the fruit of the Reformation,
with its many divisions and denominations among Protestants.
That's the frequent cry of Roman Catholic apologists.
Quote, how can such confusion be of God, they say.
The implication is that only Protestants have doctrinal differences among
themselves, while the Roman Catholic Church is a unity of 980 million faithful
adherents who all believe and practice the same thing.
That is, of course, far from the truth.
Catholicism gives a false impression of unity because wide disagreements in
doctrine and practice are retained under its broad cloak.
She doesn't want the world to see the vast number of divisions that lie within the
Roman Catholic Church, the most obvious of which is the division that lies between
the Eastern and Western churches, not to mention the division that lies
between the conservatives and the liberals of the Roman Catholic Church.
But even doctrinally, they disagree.
Now it says, as Fidelity editor E.
Michael Jones, a leading Roman Catholic writer, puts it, the faithful,
quote, do not abandon the Roman Catholic Church because it is the only bark of
Christ.
No matter what waves of heresy buffet its sides, one is never justified in jumping
ship, not even during the fiercest storms, unquote.
Serious divisions within the Roman Catholic Church, as we have already seen.
Popes disagreed with and excommunicated one another as heretics.
Yet those excommunicated remain on the list of popes today.
Councils disagreed with one another and there were even serious differences of
opinion within the same council.
There were many dissenters at the Council of Trent, a council which did not
represent the mind of the church at large, yet remains the major fount of official
dogma today.
At Vatican Council 1, many bishops were opposed to papal infallibility,
and only later confirmed the vote to spare themselves the pope's wrath.
It was much the same at Vatican Council 2, with Pope Paul VI smothering opposition.
The English version of the New Universal Catechism had been held up for more than a
year because of serious differences among the bishops.
Some of these were aired at the November 15-18, 1993 National Conference of
Catholic Bishops held in Washington, D.C.
Many bishops expressed doctrinal concerns.
Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee told the conference, quote, This is
enormous unrest and unease about liturgy right now.
Unquote.
Excuse me.
There is enormous unrest and unease about liturgy right now.
Unquote.
The numerous divisions within the Roman Catholic Church range all the way from
arch-conservatism to beliefs and practices of priests and nuns deeply involved in
Hinduism or Buddhism to Hans Kung's liberalism.
The latter is so far from Rome's official party line that in 1979 the Vatican
revoked his status as a theologian.
Yet Hans Kung remains a powerful influence within the Roman Catholic Church.
Or take Father Matthew Fox, silenced for one year by the Vatican, but vocal
thereafter, with views that can only be called pagan and New Age.
Expelled from the Dominican Order for insubordination, but not excommunicated
from the Church for his gross heresies, Fox has since become an Episcopalian.
A wide range of other theologians and clergymen remain in the Church,
from Mary Knoll priests and nuns advocating Marxism and liberation theology
to society of St. Pius X zealots who are scandalized by John Paul II's ecumenism.
What about the Great Schism?
There have been at least as many divisions among Roman Catholics throughout the
centuries, even as among Protestants.
And there still are to this day.
And I see we've run out of time.
We'll continue with the reading and discussion of the book, A Woman Rides a
Beast, by Dave Hunt, on the program Monday.
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