Posted on 02/23/2005 8:36:30 AM PST by MikeEdwards
The 100 Catholic priests who have signed up for the world’s first university course in devil worship and Satanism, now officially underway in Rome, should apply their learning to the Vatican when they graduate.
Scouting out Satan in corners of the Vatican would be destined to find success, if you take to heart the warnings of the late Fr. Malachi Martin, scholar, Vatican insider and best-selling author.
"Anybody who is acquainted with the state of affairs in the Vatican in the last 35 years is well aware that the prince of darkness has had and still has his surrogates in the court of St. Peter in Rome," Fr. Martin penned in his article, The Fatima Crusader.
For many Catholics, the specter of Satan lurking in St. Peter’s Basilica goes well beyond the 1990 warnings of Fr. Martin. For them, it goes all the way back to Our Lady on May 13, 1978: "How I warned and warned that satan would enter into the highest realms of the hierarchy in Rome. The Third Secret, My Child, is that satan would enter into My Son’s Church."
The recipient of that secret, Sr. Lucia de Jesus dos, affectionately dubbed "Sister Lucy" by ardent believers of the Lady of Fatima, was buried last week at the Carmelite convent in Coimbra, Portugal.
But neither Sister Lucy’s death at age 97, nor those with reason to suppress it, could ever take away evidence of the Third Secret.
One of the last visitors to see Sister Lucy alive was actor/director Mel Gibson, who visited with her in July.
During Lent of 2004, Gibson’s movie, The Passion of the Christ was making news all over the world. During Lent, 2005 Sr. Lucy passed on. . . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
I might have read something like this recently.
If so . . . . . sorry.
Bill Clinton is in the Vatican?
If Satans there his bride and McCain can't be far behind.
John Kerry was lurking in the church during the election, pretending to be a Christian.
Satan is smart enough to know where he is most effective. He hangs out in Christian churches worldwide, whether from the hierarchy down to the parish, or even in autonomous churches.
This is kind of a "DUH"!
If you look at the history of the Church for the past 2000 years, you will see many periods when there were major troubles, AKA the smoke of Satan. The period of the Arian heresy is one well-known instance, when the vast majority of the bishops as well as the Emperor joined the heretic church, and Athanasius was almost the last man standing.
The period of the anti-Popes was another, when there were two (or sometimes three) claimants to head the Church, and it was not always obvious until afterward which claimant was legitimate.
The Renaissance was yet another period, when the Church was troubled by rich, cynical, sinful popes, which contributed to the revolt of Martin Luther and the splitting of western Christendom.
That's the negative side. There has always been sinfulness among the leaders of the Church, and sometimes that sinfulness has seemed to be about to take over the whole.
But for 2000 years the Church and its basic institutions have survived. There has been a steady line of popes. Twice a pope nearly proclaimed a heretical doctrine, but twice they refrained. (An Arian bishop was named pope, but he seems to have reconsidered his theology after taking office. A late medieval pope was about to declare that the soul was not immortal apart from the resurrection of the body, under the influence of the "spiritual Franciscans" of the time, but he was dissuaded from doing so by a delegation from the University of Paris.) How many institutions or nations have survived continuously for 2000 years, through all sorts of major catastrophes and the rise and fall of surrounding nations? Even the Chinese and Egyptian dynasties were marked by discontinuities.
So, the Church will survive again, and what we are going through is not actually all that unusual. In the history of the world "interesting times" are more common than tranquil times.
"Most frighteningly for (Pope) John Paul (II), he had come up against the irremovable presence of a malign strength in his own Vatican and in certain bishops’ chanceries. It was what knowledgeable Churchmen called the `superforce’. Rumors, always difficult to verify, tied its installation to the beginning of Pope Paul V1’s reign in 1963. Indeed Paul had alluded somberly to `the smoke of Satan which has entered the Sanctuary’…an oblique reference to an enthronement ceremony by Satanists in the Vatican. Besides, the incidence of satanic pedophilia--rites and practices--was already documented among certain bishops and priests as widely dispersed as Turin, in Italy, and South Carolina, in the United States. The cultic acts of satanic pedophilia are considered by professionals to be the culmination of the Fallen rites." (Keys of This Blood, Fr. Malachi Martin, p. 632).
Wow!
Of course the Enemy attacks and infiltrates all Christian organizations.
Paul warned about this in Romans, Timothy, and his others letters.
By infiltrating and misdirecting organized Chrisitan churches, the Enemy hopes to discredit Christianity and slow/stop the spread of the Word.
The Enemy has done this repeatedly --- from "Jezabels" and the various hereseys and corruptions in Paul's time; to corrupt popes and the taking of bribes-for-forgiveness; to the election of a gay "bishop" in the Episcopal church; to corrupt TV preachers; and most recently pedophillic and gay priests.
It's all part of the standard plan: corrupt Christianity, discredit Christianity. Constant vigilence, prayer, and a reliance on the Bible is the "armor" we are provided.
Since God is all powerful, then He must prevail....
"Bill Clinton is in the Vatican?"
No the Church of the Anti-Christ will likely be called the United Nations and that's where Bill Clinton will be accepted with open arms.
If God be for us, who can be against us?
--Romans, 8:31
Fr. Martin ping, didn't want you to miss this.
St. Basil begins writting about "Problems" in the eastern branch of the church -specifically a heresy of his day that was engulfing the eastern wing, that the churches in his area would not submit to his authority, and the rise of a professional clergy that were in it for the money and has walked away from the vow of poverty.
However there is something else that St. Basil is fighting against in his day which you will see from the context of the quotes -- that is Constatine which he asserts is the anti-christ (Understand that he is not free to name the emperor (Becasue at that time Constantine had killed 3000 christians for doctrinal differences. He killed more than the roman empire had slain in persecutions of the entire first century)
He implicates that the pope and all the bishops of Rome have been overthrown by constantine
He communicates with eusebius until he is deposed for heresy largely becasue he was a historian and had read and studied the roots of the church and then decried where they had gone.
Note St. Basil talking alot about what once was -- the ancients --I'm sure he got that from eusebius
Note that in a letter to the bishop of Alexandria he tells the man he is the only salvation left to the church because he knoews where they came from and what has been lost -- I beleive he is aluding to that the man was high in the line for succession to the current pope.
St. Basil is not the only writer or stain ofthat period noting that the church was overthrown from the top down
St. Crosantmum (SP?) notes that the floor in hell is paved with the skull of bishops -- (I will translate that: the path to and in hell is taught by the utterly corrupt bishops in the Catholic Church
Its is not that the church righted itself it is simply as we see in this day that the next generation come in and assumes that all is right and zero's out the drive and begins from where they are. And this is true for catholics and protestants alike.
St. Basil the Great regarding the fall of the Church of Rome.
The dogmas of the Fathers (2nd-3rd century saints) are despised; apostolic traditions (the teachings of the apostles)are set at naught; the discoveries of innovators (Like liberals of today with the constitution) hold sway in churches. Men have learned to be speculatists instead of theologians. The wisdom of the world has the place of honor,(Greek philosopy and the teachings of every religion and cult) having dispossessed the glorying of the cross. The pastors are driven away. grievous wolves are brought in instead (Into the church as bishops and preachers), and plunder the flock of Christ. -- St. Basil the Great (330-379)
In the fourth century, Emperor Constantine, the first Roman Emperor to become a Christian, had over 3000 Christians executed because their interpretation of the Bible did not agree with his. That is more than the number of Christians who died at the hands of the Romans during the well known 1st century "Christians to the lions" persecutions. The above is from William Manchester's "A World Lit Only by Fire- The Medieval Mind and The Renaissance"..Little, Brown & Company, 1992
Who has lost and who has won in the struggle -- the one who keeps the premises [buildings] or the one who keeps the Faith? The Faith obviously. That therefore the ordinances which have been preserved in the churches [buildings] from old time until now may [Can] not be lost in our days,... rouse yourselves, brethren,... seeing them [ the churches] now [are] seized upon by aliens. --St. Basil the Great (330-379) Epistulae, to St. Athanasius (Written in 371)
The ambition of the unprincipled seizes upon places of authority [the bishops of Rome]; and the chief seat [the seat of the Pope]is now openly proposed as a reward for impiety; so that he whose blasphemies are the more shocking, is more eligible for the oversight of the people.[The Pope] Priestly gravity has perished; there are none left to feed the Lord's flock with knowledge; ambitious men are ever spending, in purposes of self-indulgence and bribery, possessions which they hold in trust for the poor. The accurate observation of the canons are no more; there is no restraint upon sin. Unbelievers laugh at what they see, and the weak are unsettled; faith is doubtful, ignorance is poured over their souls, because the adulterators of the word in wickedness imitate the truth. Religious people keep silence, but every blaspheming tongue is let loose. Sacred things are profaned; those of the laity who are sound in faith avoid the places of worship, as schools of impiety, and raise their hands in solitude with groans and tears to the Lord in heaven. --St. Basil the Great (330- 379), Epistlae 92 (written in 372)
The whole Church is in dissolution. --St. Basil the Great (ca. 330- ca. 379), Epistulae, to St. Athanasius (Written 371-372) Has the Lord completely abandoned His Church? Has the hour then come and is the fall beginning in this way so that now the man of sin is clearly revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth and is lifted up above all that is called God or that is worshipped? --St. Basil the Great (330-379) (in 373)
Letter LXVI (66) To Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria. No one. I feel sure, is more distressed at the present condition, or, rather to speak more truly, ill condition of the Churches than your excellency; for you compare the present with the past, and take into account how great a change has come about. You are well aware that if no check is put to the swift deterioration which we are witnessing, there will soon be nothing to prevent the complete transformation of the Churches. And if the decay of the Churches seems so pitiful to me, what must-so I have often in my lonely musings reflected-be the feelings of one who has known, by experience, the old tranquillity of the Churches of the Lord, and their one mind about the faith? St. Basil the Great
Matters have come to this pass: the people have left their houses of prayer and assembled in the deserts, -- a pitiable sight; women and children, old men, and men otherwise inform, wretchedly faring in the open air, amid most profuse rains and snow-storms and winds and frosts of winter; and again in summer under a scorching sun. To this they submit because they will have no part of the wicked Arian leaven. --St. Basil the Great (ca. 330-ca. 379), Epistulae 242 (in 376)
Letter LXXX (80) To Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria. The worse the diseases of the Churches grow, the more do we all turn to your excellency, in the belief that your championship is the one consolation left to us in our troubles. By the power of your prayers, and your knowledge of what is the best course to suggest in the emergency, you are believed to be able to save us from this terrible tempest by all alike who know your excellency even to a small extent, whether by hearsay or by personal experience St. Basil the Great
Letter XC (90) To the holy brethren the bishops of the West. 2. Our distresses are notorious, even though we leave them untold, for now their sound has gone out into all the world. The doctrines of the Fathers are despised; apostolic traditions are set at nought; the devices of innovators are in vogue in the Churches; now men are rather contrivers of cunning systems than theologians; the wisdom of this world wins the highest prizes and has rejected the glory of the cross. Shepherds are banished, and in their places are introduced grievous wolves hurrying the flock of Christ. Houses of prayer have none to assemble in them; desert places are full of lamenting crowds. The elders lament when they compare the present with the past. The younger are yet more to be compassionated, for they do not know of what they have been deprived. St. Basil the Great
Letter CXIII (113) To the presbyters of Tarsus. ON meeting this man, I heartily thanked God that by means of his visit He had comforted me in many afflictions and had through him shewn me clearly your love. I seem to see in one man's disposition the zeal of all of you for the truth. He will tell you of our discourses with one another. What you ought to learn directly from me is as follows. We live in days when the overthrow of the Churches seems imminent; of this I have long been cognisant. There is no edification of the Church; no correction of error; no sympathy for the weak; no single defence of sound brethren; no remedy is found either to heal the disease which has already seized us, or as a preventive against that which we expect. Altogether the state of the Church (if I may use a plain figure though it may seem too humble an one) is like an old coat, which is always being torn and can never be restored to its original strength. At such a time, then, there is need of great effort and diligence that the Churches may in some way be benefited. It is an advantage that parts hitherto severed should be united. Union would be effected if we were willing to accommodate ourselves to the weaker, where we can do so without injury to souls; since, then, many mouths are open against the Holy Ghost, and many tongues whetted to blasphemy against Him, we implore you, as far as in you lies, to reduce the blasphemers to a small number, and to receive into communion all who do not assert the Holy Ghost to be a creature, that the blasphemers may be left alone, and may either be ashamed and return to the truth, or, if they abide in their error, may cease to have any importance from the smallness of their numbers St. Basil the Great
Satan has gone high tech and operates several television networks includuing Al Jazeera and MTV.
Central to the quote somebody posted from "Keys of This Blood" is "South Carolina".
Fr. Martin was not kidding, nor was he exaggerating. And the importance of South Carolina in terms of lines of Episcopal succession is critial. Follow them.
"It's all about inversion'.
BTTT
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