4) Since the USA is being rapidly “Catholicized” (or, if you like, “Romanized”) by massive Roman Catholic immigration (much of which is illegal) coming from Mexico and other countries of Latin America, will non-Roman Catholic religious groups here soon face brutal persecution as occurred in Fascist Croatia in the early 1940s? Indeed, the Roman Catholic Church has been one of the biggest supporters of illegal immigration by Roman Catholics from Mexico and other parts of Latin America into the USA! (Please go to website
www.ctwilcox.com, and read the article “Romanizing America Through Illegal Immigration”.)
“When you [Protestants] are in a majority we [Roman Catholics] ask for religious liberty in the name of your principles. When we [Roman Catholics] are in a majority we refuse it to you in the name of ours.” – Louis Veuillot (French Roman Catholic writer; statement made when speaking to a group of Protestants)
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B. Here are some more quotes made by Roman Catholics that were taken from sources other than Boettner’s book:
“NO man has a right to choose his religion. [Roman] CATHOLICISM is the most INTOLERANT of creeds. It is INTOLERANCE itself. We might as rationally maintain that two and two does not make four as the theory of Religious Liberty. Its impiety is only equaled by its absurdity.” – John Hughes (Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York; statement made in 1864)
“[Ed.: Papal] ROME must ALWAYS be the center of ALL Christianity and the POPE must be the head.” – Pope John Paul II [pope: 1978-2005]
[Question]: “Why do the texts of the Council and those of the Magisterium since the Council not use the title of ‘Church’ with regard to those Christian Communities born out of the Reformation of the sixteenth century?”
[Response]: “According to [Ed.: Roman] Catholic doctrine, these [Ed.: Christian] Communities [Ed.: born out of the Reformation] do NOT enjoy apostolic succession in the sacrament of Orders, and are, therefore, deprived of a constitutive element of the Church. These ecclesial Communities which, specifically because of the absence of the sacramental priesthood, have not preserved the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic Mystery CANNOT, according to Catholic doctrine, be called ‘Churches’ in the proper sense.” – “Responses to Some Questions Regarding Certain Aspects of the Doctrine on the Church” (A catechetical decree of the Roman Catholic Church which was released by Pope Benedict XVI on July 10, 2007)
Ed. Comments to the preceding quote:
(1) This quote was published in the August 2007 issue of “The Beacon” – a publication of Richard Bennett’s “Berean Beacon”.
(2) Statements like the above show Papal Rome’s “true colors”. Despite the sweet-sounding ecumenical words of the Vatican II era, Papal Rome has NEVER really regarded Bible-believing Christians and other Protestants as “separated brethren”. Rather, Papal Rome has always considered Protestants and other Bible-believing Christians to be “heretics” worthy of torture and death.
(3) A few years ago Pope Benedict XVI was known as Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. Mr. Ratzinger (whose nickname as a German Roman Catholic cardinal was “Der Panzerkardinal”) was the long-time head of the “Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith” (formerly known as the “Office of Inquisition”), serving multiple terms at the head of this infamous institution of torture and mass murder.
“The [Ed.: Holy] Bible is NOT for the people; whosoever will be saved must RENOUNCE it. It is a FORBIDDEN book. Bible societies are satanic contrivances.” – Pope Pius IV [pope: 1559-1565]
Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: Papal Rome for centuries “made war” on the Holy Bible and on those who possessed and distributed it. Why did I put this quote in this article? It is because the freedoms and the God-given Rights (that we Americans hold so dear) come from the teachings of the Holy Bible. And this is why the Roman Catholic Church, which hates religious liberty, fought for centuries with all her might to keep the Bible out of the common man’s hands!
“N
NE may possess the books of the Old and New Testaments in the Romance language [Ed.: i.e., the family of languages derived from Vulgar Latin, such as French, Italian, Spanish, etc.], and if anyone possesses them he must turn them over to the local [Ed.: Roman Catholic] bishop within eight days after the promulgation of this decree, so that they may be BURNED.” – Council of Tarragona (Roman Catholic Church Council in 1234 A.D.)
Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: Burning books – isn’t that what the Nazis did in Germany in the 1930s?
“We PROHIBIT laymen possessing copies of the Old and New Testament.
…We FORBID them most severely to have the above books in the popular vernacular [Ed.: i.e., in their country’s native language – especially, the common, everyday language of a people].
The lords of the districts shall carefully SEEK OUT the ‘heretics’ in dwellings, hovels, and forests, and even their underground retreats shall be entirely WIPED OUT.” – “Concil Tolosanum” (Decree of the Roman Catholic Council of Toulouse in 1229 – Pope Gregory IX)
Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: For centuries the Papacy FORBADE the common people to read the Holy Bible – especially in their native language. The Papacy launched “crusades” against Bible-believing Christian peasants and farmers because they possessed and read Bibles. Roman Catholic “crusaders” tortured and murdered thousands upon thousands of these innocent Christians!
The [Ed.: Roman Catholic] church has persecuted. Only a tyro [Ed.: i.e., novice] in church history will deny that…one hundred and fifty years after [Ed.: Roman Emperor] Constantine, the Donatists were persecuted and sometimes PUT TO DEATH. …Protestants were persecuted in France and Spain with the full approval of the [Ed.: Roman Catholic] church authorities. …When she [Ed.: i.e., the Roman Catholic Church] thinks it good to use PHYSICAL FORCE, she WILL use it.” – “The Western Watchman” (Roman Catholic publication out of St. Louis) (Quote taken from “National Sunday Law” by A. Jan Marcussen)
“When confronted with ‘heresy’, she [Ed.: i.e., the Roman Catholic Church] does NOT content herself with persuasion; arguments of an intellectual and moral order appear to her insufficient, and she has recourse to FORCE, to CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, [and] to TORTURE.” – H.M.A. Baudrillart (Rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris)
Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: The Roman Catholic Church has never hesitated to use the most brutal FORCE to crush her “enemies” – either real or perceived. Torture, “holy” Inquisition, “holy” crusades, and religious genocide have frequently been used by Papal Rome throughout her bloody history!
“Stunned by the staggering growth of evangelical sects in Brazil, leaders of the Roman Catholic Church have threatened to launch ‘HOLY WAR’ against Protestants unless they stop leading people from the [Roman] Catholic fold. At the 31st National Conference of the [Roman Catholic] Bishops of Brazil, Bishop Bohn called evangelicals a serious threat to the VATICAN’S INFLUENCE in his country. ‘We [Ed.: i.e., the Roman Catholic Church] will declare a HOLY WAR [Ed.: against the evangelicals in Brazil]; don’t doubt it. The [Ed.: Roman] Catholic Church has a ponderous structure, but when we move we will SMASH anyone beneath us’.” – “Charisma” (May 1994 issue)
Ed. Comments to the preceding quote:
(1) While “Charisma” is NOT a Roman Catholic publication, the above statement from it DOES contain a direct quote by a Roman Catholic prelate.
(2) Does Papal Rome, with its new leader Benedict XVI (who served numerous terms as the head of the “Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith” – i.e., the Office of Inquisition of older times), have a “holy Inquisition” planned for the near future? That really isn’t such a preposterous supposition. After all, Papal Rome conducted a full-blown religious genocide-Inquisition in the Roman Catholic Fascist State of Croatia in the early 1940s. Could Bible-believing Christians in the USA be in the “cross hairs” of a modern papal Inquisition once this country comes under full-blown martial law?
IV. ROMAN CATHOLIC HATRED OF LIBERTY (especially of religious liberty and freedom of conscience) AND OF “POPULAR, REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT” (in their own words)
A. Quotes made by Roman Catholics that were taken from chapter 18 of Loraine Boettner’s 466-page book, “Roman Catholicism”, which was published in 1962:
