What
Went Wrong With The Evangelization Effort
Assignment of Responsibilities
Originally
published on January
25th, 2011
Contents:
PURPOSE
We are now rapidly approaching the End of These Times, which will
require everyone to navigate through events that defy human imagination
- events which have not taken place in our planet since the time of
Creation. Therefore, it is the will of God that we present a brief, but
comprehensive assignment of responsibilities for the pending
Chastisement, drawing from the individual documents that we have
already published in the past.
It is the Will of God that humanity become fully aware that He has not failed us, that the Teachings
of His Son have not failed us and that the Catholic Faith - the faith
which contains the greatest amount of revealed Divine Truths - has not failed us. God wants the
world to be fully aware that the responsibility for the failures which
have led humanity to the brink of annihilation is upon the
Administrators of the Roman Catholic Church.
INTRODUCTION
Over the years, we have written a series of documents denouncing the
lies and abuses of power of the Roman Catholic Church Administration
for the last 1,600 years. God then prepared us to write this summary
document by leading us to: (a) pore over thirteen hours of even-handed
historical documentaries reporting on the first 2,000 years of
Christianity; (b) to examine several more hours of historical
background on the Crusades; and (c) study the failed attempt, during
the reign of Alfonso X of Castile, to - once and for all - give to
Caesar what is Caesar's - a supreme ruler over the material world, a
Holy Roman Emperor - and to give to God, what is God's - a supreme
ruler over the souls of humanity, the Pope of Rome.
It was through this three-prong study of historical events that it became painfully obvious to
us how the lies and abuses
of power - which we have repeatedly denounced in writing over
the years - have been used
by the Church Administration to thwart the Evangelical
intentions for which Jesus Christ founded His Church.
As the reader reviews and evaluates our Divinely inspired and
Scripturally backed claims, he/she must bear in mind that miguel de
Portugal believes without a
shred of a doubt that:
- The Catholic
Faith is the faith which contains the greatest number of revealed
truths, and
- that the Catholic Faith has reached humanity at this greatest
hour of
need in spite of the Roman Catholic Church Administration, because
- even satan must serve God,
- and God has
not abandoned His children to the schemes and lies of the predators at
the Vatican.
In the past, we have discussed the alleged Donation of Constantine,
according to which Emperor Constantine willed the Roman Empire to the
Pope. The lie was of such magnitude that many centuries later Rome had
to admit it was a fraudulent document. As it turned out, that was the
least of the damaging frauds used by the Roman Catholic Church
Administration to take possession and control of the world.
In addition to the Donation of Constantine, the other, very grave
frauds are:
(a) The claim
that there is no salvation outside
the Catholic Church, and
(b) The notion that the Church Christ
established rests upon the Rock of Peter, and
(c) The unofficial - but well disseminated -
claim that the Pope of Rome is infallible at all times, and
(d) The claim
that the possessor of the Keys of
the Kingdom - supposedly the Pope of Rome - could lock out of Heaven
anyone he willed.
All of the above are outright lies: lies which do not have any Biblical
support. These falsehoods have been used to, essentially, cause a
complete and comprehensive failure of the Evangelization for which
Jesus established His Church.
In the following section each of those claims will be examined in the
light of the Word of God. At this time, miguel de Portugal, in the Name
of God, tells the present Administration of the Church, and all
preceding Administrations dating back to the Imperialization of the
Church, what Jesus told Peter:
"Get
behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have
in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns." [Matthew
16:23]
In summary, here is what went
wrong
with the Evangelization effort of
the Roman Catholic Church:
SECTION 1.
Early on,
the Church Administration
chose to follow Mammon rather than God.
By the time of Pope Innocent III (1198-1216), the Church Administration
had - for about 900 years - successfully sought worldly power and
wealth, while losing its belief and trust in God Himself. The following
legend may not be literal truth, but it tells - with precision - what
went wrong:
While Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226)
was trying to secure the approval
of Pope Innocent III (1198 - 1216) for his apostolate of poverty to
"Repair My Church" as God had asked Francis to do, the following
encounter is claimed to have occurred:
After showing Francis the riches amassed by the Church, Pope Innocent
III said: "You see, the Church can
no longer say: 'Gold and silver have
I none'" [Acts 3:6]
To what Francis replied: "True, and
neither can she any longer say:
'...rise and walk.'" [Acts 3:6]
The Church - and its leaders, the Apostles - had, at its beginning,
worked miracles. This was in line with Jesus' promise: "Amen, amen, I
say to you, whoever believes in Me will do the works that I do, and
will do greater ones than these because I am going to the Father".
[John 14:12]
As the Church lost the Faith, became a money-making machine, and turned
into a part of the Imperial system, miracles became rare - as they were
in faithless Nazareth, even when Jesus was staying there: "And he could
not do any miracles there, only that he cured a few that were sick,
laying his hands upon them. And he wondered because of their
unbelief." [ Mark 6:5-6 ]
Therefore, its fate is to be as Jesus described in the Sermon on the
Mount: "You are the salt of the
earth. But if the salt lose its savour,
wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing any more but to be
cast out, and to be trodden on by men." [Matthew 5:13]
[For more details, see our document "What went wrong with the Roman
Catholic Church" (1)]
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SECTION 2. The
Church
Administration, and its
"orthodox,
conservative" defenders, dare to blame the decay of the Church and the
disastrous state of the world on the Enlightenment and liberalism,
rather than facing the Church's own failure to Evangelize as Jesus
intended.
Many religious and cultural conservatives, inside and outside the
Catholic Church, blame the recent decadence, moral disorder, and loss
of political/cultural influence of the churches on the rebellious
"Spirit of the Sixties" that corrupted society at large - including
the Church after Vatican II. They fail to see that the evil deeds and
teachings of the Imperial Church expelled the Holy Spirit centuries
ago, such that satan took the lead within the Church Administration.
(God allowed this, since even satan has to serve God.)
Instead of blaming the Enlightenment, the radicals, the Freemasons, the
liberals, and other external opponents for the ills of the Church and
the world, the Church Administration ought to have obeyed - to the
letter - the warnings and instructions that Our Lady gave in Her
apparitions from 1830 onward. They did not do so; they converted the
apparition sites into profit centers instead. By contrast, St. John
Bosco, the founder of the Salesian Order, proved that Jesus-centered
teaching and actions could spread the Faith, and could win the hearts
even of the anticlerical rulers in 19th Century Italy.
Given the catastrophic state of the world today, it is blasphemy for
Church leaders and apologists to claim that they have carried out the
Evangelization as God directed them to do. Through this claim they make
the power of evil seem to be greater than the power of God.
[For more details, see our document "What went wrong with the Roman
Catholic Church - Part II" (2)]
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SECTION 3. The
Cathedral of St. John Lateran
provides clear
evidence - including ancient relics and medieval architecture - of the
evil power that overtook the Church Administration 1,600 years ago.
The spiritual basis for the Church began to fail when Emperor
Constantine (and his successors) made Christianity the state religion
of the Empire. The die was cast in the mid-700s, when church
Administrators concocted the "Donation of Constantine" as the basis
for their authority: temporal and spiritual. When, around 1200, St.
Francis heeded the call of Christ to "repair My church," the salt of
the earth regained its savor for a while - but then the corruption
resumed and worsened. Now, the Faith is under final attack, from
enemies outside the Church - and more seriously, from "pious" and
"holy" enemies within the Church. Nevertheless, God has assured - and
will continue to assure, until the End of These Times - that believers
can receive and benefit from the truths of the Catholic Faith.
God has allowed physical evidence of the corruption of the Church and
the faithlessness of its Administrators to be clearly visible within
the walls of the Basilica of St. John Lateran. (This Basilica is built
on land donated by Emperor Constantine; it is the oldest and most
important of the four Patriarchal Basilicas in Rome, and is known as
the "Mother of All Churches").
- The Basilica,
dedicated to
St. John the Baptist, contains no significant relics of him. (The most
important of his relics are held - and honored - by the Muslim heirs of
the Ottoman Empire.)
- The two most important
relics in the Basilica are the heads of the two founders of the Church
in Rome, Sts. Peter and Paul. These heads are kept in gold cages above
the altar, symbolizing that the Church has become a spiritual captive
of its worldly wealth and power.
- The bishop's throne - which
the Roman Pontiff has used for formal pronouncements since the Middle
Ages - has as its base a stone pedestal showing four animals: a snake,
a bull, a dragon, and a basilisk. All of these are traditional symbols
of evil.
[For more details, see our document "Why Did the Christian
Evangelization Fail" (3)]
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SECTION 4.
Today, many
Christian conservatives
yearn for a new,
holy Christian regime that will reunite Church and State, cleanse
society, and restore virtue and order. In other words, they want
pre-1789 "Christendom" to return, under a "Great King" and a "Holy
Pontiff". This has not worked before. "Holy Empire" is not - and
never has been - pleasing to God. He brought earlier efforts in this
direction to nothing; God will do so again - with final and definitive
force - if (or when) such a regime is erected again as a counterfeit of
Christ's Kingdom.
Mankind has made several attempts to build a "Christian" Tower of
Babel since the Roman Empire and the Church entered into an adulterous
alliance. Here follows a summary of these efforts, and their doom:
- Constantine
and his
successors "Christianized" the Roman Empire after 312, creating what
one Catholic historian described as "a totalitarian state, in some ways
an oriental despotism" that used force against paganism and heresy.
Within 100 years, Rome was sacked by barbarians, and by 476, the
Western Roman Empire was dead.
- The Byzantine Empire
survived the fall of the West, and the Emperor Justinian tried to
reconquer the lands lost to the barbarians. He failed; plague and
disasters devastated the Empire in the mid-500s. Then, their lands in
Africa and in most of the Middle East fell to Islamic armies in the
600s and 700s.
- Catholic apologists
describe the 1200s as the "greatest century," the age of saints and
cathedrals, the peak of Christian civilization. However, this was also
the age of the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the greatest pretensions
of the Imperial Papacy. All of Rome's pride, power, and force could not
keep medieval Christendom alive. The Black Death, the Great Schism (the
era of competing claimants to the Papacy), the Reformation, and the
Wars of Religion brought this Empire down.
- In 1900, the
"Christian"
powers of the West had conquered the world, and were using the gun and
the Bible to subdue their empires. They thought that the world was
theirs - until two World Wars, the totalitarian powers, and the revolt
of the Third World removed Europe from Great Power status.
All of these "Christian" empires were brought low within a few decades
of their peak of pride and power. If mankind tries to erect a global
"Christendom" by force, deceit, or the lure of Mammon, the same will
occur again, on a world scale, with unprecedented speed and severity.
[For more details, see our documents: "The Return to Christendom:
The State and Church Alliance" (4)
and "The Medieval Roots of the One
World Order" (5)]
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SECTION 5. As
the
Church Administrators lost
faith in God, they
have created a substitute "god," the "infallible" Papacy. For the
last 1,600 years, Popes have made claims of authority that have no
basis either in Scripture or in a realistic view of their own history.
Additionally - especially since Pius IX - most of the Popes (and their
courtiers) have created a media-driven cult of personality around the
Bishops of Rome, vesting them with a counterfeit aura of sanctity.
* In 1870, at
Vatican Council
I, the Holy See decreed "as a divinely revealed dogma" that when the
Roman Pontiff "defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held
by the whole Church, he possesses, by the divine assistance promised to
him in blessed Peter, that infallibility which the divine Redeemer
willed his Church to enjoy in defining doctrine concerning faith or
morals."
This claim of Papal infallibility is contradicted by Scripture. In
Galatians 2:11-14, Paul said that when Peter came to Antioch, Paul
"withstood him to the face, because
he was to be blamed" , because he
and Barnabas "walked not uprightly
unto the truth of the gospel". Paul
"said to Cephas before them all: If
thou, being a Jew, livest after the
manner of the Gentiles, and not as the Jews do, how dost thou compel
the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?" In a matter of faith and
morals
- whether or not Gentile converts to Christianity must follow Jewish
law - the man whom Catholics consider to be the first Pope erred.
Popes did not claim jurisdiction over the whole Church until the time
of Pope Leo the Great (440-461). During the first millennium, no Church
dispute was ever settled solely by Papal decree.
* The Vatican
has worked
diligently to extend its claim of infallibility to the entire structure
of Papal and Vatican teaching, the "ordinary Magisterium" of the
Church. (In 1997, the Vatican said that canonization of saints is
included in its charism of infallibility, as a statement of "dogmatic
fact". That's the cover they needed for such travesties as the
canonization of Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei.) Furthermore, as the
Catechism of the Catholic Church says, the faithful "have the duty of
observing the constitutions and decrees conveyed by the legitimate
authority of the Church. Even if they concern disciplinary matters,
these determinations call for docility in charity." Whether Vatican
rulings concern faith, morals, or discipline, Catholics have the duty
to obey.
* From the time
of Pius IX
onward, Church apologists have worked to create a media cult of
personality around the Pope and the Papacy. By the mid-1800s, "the Pope
himself became, quite literally, a popular icon. Catholic
households from Africa to the Americas were as likely to display a
picture of the Pope as a crucifix or a statue of the Virgin, and the
face of Pio Nono [Pius IX] was better known than that of any Pope in
history." Such veneration apparently went to the Pope's head.
When Cardinal Guidi spoke at Vatican I in favor of limiting the scope
of Papal infallibility (saying that its use must be assisted by "the
counsel of the bishops manifesting the tradition of the
churches"), Pius IX reprimanded the Cardinal, saying "I am the
tradition." In 2000, John Paul II "infallibly" declared Pius IX to be
"Blessed".
* John XXIII
and Paul VI
divested the Papacy of some of the courtly pomp and regal trappings
that it had inherited - but since the election of John Paul II - and
especially under the regime of Benedict XVI - there has been a renewed
emphasis on the idolatrous mystique of the Papacy. The occupant
of the Holy See is no longer lifted up and carried about on a sedan
chair by his footmen; he is lifted up before the whole world by his
publicists, with the cooperation of image-hungry media.
* As the
Vatican leads (into
idolatry and cultism), Church propagandists and the disoriented
faithful follow. Catholic apologist Patrick Madrid says: "We call the
Pope 'The Holy Father' because he extends heaven's paternal presence."
He adds, "The Lord kept His promise to be with the Church always, and
this promise has been kept, par excellence, in the office of the
Papacy." At the end of his book-length defense of the Papacy against
its critics, Madrid says that Peter "was the first in a
two-thousand-year line of bishops of Rome who stand at the center of
the Christian Church. In a sense you can say the popes are its
center." Do you see the bait-and-switch being done: the substitution
of a human ruler for God as the head and center of the Church? In this
manner, "The Way" of the False Christ is being prepared.
* Meanwhile,
Benedict XVI has
manifested "a mouth speaking great things" [Daniel 7:8,
Revelation
13:5] from the beginning of his reign. On the day after his
election,
Benedict XVI told the Cardinals that during "the death and the funeral
of the lamented John Paul II, the entire world looked to him
with trust. To many it seemed as if that intense participation,
amplified to the confines of the planet by the social communications
media, was like a choral request for help addressed to the pope by
modern humanity which, wracked by fear and uncertainty, questions
itself about the future." Ratzinger put himself forward as the one to
answer that "request for help," by reason of his election by God to
the Papacy: "If the weight of the responsibility that now lies on my
poor shoulders is enormous, the divine power on which I can count is
surely immeasurable: 'You are Peter and on this rock I will build my
Church.' Electing me as the Bishop
of Rome, the Lord wanted me as his
Vicar, he wished me to be the 'rock' upon which everyone may rest with
confidence." This mitered wolf, this false shepherd who has the
appearance of a lamb and speaks like a dragon [Revelation 13:11],
has
anointed himself as "the rock", the one in whom "everyone may rest
with confidence".
* Strong
leaders need willing
followers. In response to the ongoing decay of Roman Catholic
institutions, various Catholic commentators have proposed strict
obedience to the hierarchy as the solution. Archbishop Charles
Chaput,
of Denver, proposed that we follow the thirteenth of the "Rules for
Thinking with the Church" offered during the Reformation by St.
Ignatius of Loyola: "If we wish to proceed securely in all things, we
must hold fast to the following principle: What seems to me white, I
will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines." Such
propaganda encourages people to focus on, and follow, the Pope -
without considering whether Papal teachings and policies are consistent
with the teachings of Christ. This view of authority and obedience is
straight out of George Orwell's novel 1984.
As the Inner Party
inquisitor told Winston, the imprisoned dissident, "Whatever the Party
holds to be truth is truth. It is impossible to see reality
except by looking through the eyes of the Party." Acceptance of this
irrational mind-set prepares the faithful to goose-step off a spiritual
cliff.
[For more details, see our document "The
Claim of Papal Infallibility" (6)]
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SECTION 6. For
centuries, the Vatican "party
line" has been that
Peter is the rock upon which the Church is built. This self-serving
interpretation of Matthew 16:16-18 is false. Christ named Peter as the
head (Cephas) of the Church - but the Rock (Kephas) upon which the
Church is built is Christ Himself.
Various Scriptures make it clear that Christ
is the cornerstone and
foundation of the Church, the everlasting and perfect Rock upon which
it is built: Psalm 117:22-23, Isaias 8:13-14, Isaias 28:16, Daniel
2:34-35, Daniel 2:44-45, Matthew 7:24-27, Matthew 21:42-44, Mark 12:10,
Luke 20:17-18, Acts 4:10-12, 1 Corinthians 10:4, Romans 9:33, Ephesians
2:20-22, and 1 Peter 2:6-8.
As the original texts were copied from hand to hand, and underwent
translation, it appears that editors with a worldly agenda exploited
the Cephas ("head") and Kephas ("rock") ambiguity to make Peter,
rather than Christ, the Rock upon which the Church stands. This was an
early stratagem in a spiritual war that is reaching its climax now, as
the Vatican, Opus Dei, and their co-conspirators prepare the way for
the False Christ. The Vatican's misuse of Matthew 16:16-18 fits with
their promotion of the idea of total Papal Infallibility - another lie
that will (in the time of the False Christ) lead many souls to revere
satan (in the person of the False Christ) and therefore to fall into
perdition.
[For more details, see our document "The True Petrine Ministry" (7)]
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SECTION 7. The
Vatican
document Dominus Iesus,
which was written
under Opus Dei influence and released in the year 2000, is evidence of
the failure of the Evangelization over the last 1,600 years.
* Christ
founded the Catholic
Church 2,000 years ago, and gave it the Sacraments and all other Divine
Assistance necessary to Evangelize mankind, helping a straying humanity
return to the Heavenly Father. With such a Divine starting point, it is
pathetic that two millennia later:
- most of
mankind is not
Christian, and that
- Christians
are divided into
countless antagonistic sects, and that
- the Vatican
found it
necessary to issue a reminder of the truth that Jesus Christ, true God
and true man, is the only means for the salvation of man.
* God's Providence is not the
problem; human arrogance is - and has been, since the beginning of the
Church. Long ago, the Church Administrators forgot their appointed task
("we will give ourselves continually
to prayer, and to the ministry of
the word", as the Apostles said in Acts 6:4), and sought worldly
wealth and power. Instead of honoring God, the hierarchs deified the
Church - as if mankind had been created to serve and obey the Church,
rather than the Church being founded by God to help mankind return to
its Heavenly Home.
* The authors of Dominus
Iesus are more interested in defending the Imperial power and
privileges of the Church than in obeying God or in Evangelizing for
him. Therefore, the document combines truth with lies in an alluring,
spiritually deadly combination. For example, it states that the
Catholic Church is the mother of the faithful. In reality, Mary - not
the Church - is the Mother of all of us who are members of the Mystical
Body of Christ. At the same time, the Papacy is being promoted as
"infallible" and "our sweet Christ on Earth" (for one example of this
among many, see (8)).
The faithful are being led away from Christ and
from Our Lady, and are being delivered into the hands of the fallen
humans (and worse) who now run the Church Administration. Dominus Iesus
propagates the lie that the
Church (and membership in it, and obedience
to its rulers) is the only way of salvation for mankind; as such, it
contributes to binding the faithful and delivering them helpless into
the hands of the False Prophet and of the False Christ.
[For more details, see our document
"Dominus Iesus: The Roman Catholic Church Evangelization Effort
Failed" (9)]
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SECTION 8.
Christ is,
indeed, the only Way of
Salvation. This does
not give the long-straying institution He established, the Catholic
Church, a monopoly on Salvation. Among the organized religions, the
Catholic Church teaches the greatest concentration of Divine
Truths; nevertheless, there is Salvation outside of the boundaries of
the Church.
Because we are approaching the End of These Times, some of the customs
that were once appropriate for the Faithful clergy and laity no longer
apply:
* It no longer
makes sense to
insist that those who are on the way to the fullness of Faith fill out
all the paperwork and take all the preparatory classes that have
customarily been the prelude to formal entry into the Catholic Church.
Jesus' direct promise to the Good Thief, "Amen I say to thee, this day
thou shalt be with me in paradise" [Luke 23:43]
is the example to
follow now. What the repentant thief did to gain this promise from Our
Lord - repenting of his sin, accepting the justice of his punishment,
acknowledging Jesus as Lord, and asking Jesus for Salvation - is what
the penitents and converts of the final days of the current age need to
do; it will suffice.
* It no longer
makes sense to
pray for the intentions of the Pope, since the seat of the Bishop of
Rome is now occupied by the AntiChrist, the forerunner of the False
Christ. Pray instead for the intentions of the faithful clergy and
bishops, however few or hidden they may be.
* We would now
offer the Body
of Christ - the Eucharist - to anyone who understands its reality (the
Presence of Christ - Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity - in the
consecrated Bread and Wine), and seeks such nourishment to strengthen
his/her soul in an effort to
abandon any behavior that he/she
recognizes as sin.
* Remember that
the Church -
like the Sabbath - is made for man; man is not made to be a servant or
prisoner of the Church. Christ's teachings on this matter - as stated
in Mark 2:27-28, Mark 9:38-41, and Luke 6:3-5 - apply now more than
ever.
* Christ has
sent the Holy
Spirit to all believers,
to act as a Counselor and Comforter. This was
prophesied in the Old Testament [Proverbs 1:23; Isaiah 44:3;
Joel
3:1-3], promised by Jesus to His Apostles during His ministry [Luke
24:49; John 14:26; John 15:26; John 16:7-15; John 20:21-23] and
experienced by the Apostles from Pentecost onward [Acts 2:1-4;
Acts
2:16-21; Acts 10:44-48; 1 Corinthians 2:12-14]. This Gift is
not the
monopoly of any one Church, or of the clergy.
* Anyone who,
in the name of
"tradition" or "canon law" or "appearances", interferes with the
Salvation of a soul should remember Jesus' warning that "he that shall
scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better
for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he
should be drowned in the depth of the sea". [Matthew
18:6]
* People enter
the Kingdom of
Heaven when they hear - and assimilate into themselves, and begin to
apply - the Beatitudes and the related teachings from the Sermon on the
Mount [Matthew 5]. This - and not death and "going to Heaven" - is
when each soul begins their new, Eternal Life with God. This is when
the gates of Heaven open for a soul.
* Jesus sent
the Apostles -
the original Shepherds - forth to open the gates of the Kingdom of
Heaven to anyone who would heed their teaching and example, becoming
doers of Christ's teachings. Unfortunately, when the Church
Administrators sold the Church to the world (the Empire of Constantine
and his successors), they began to lose the ability to teach and
transform souls with the Words of Christ. Their ability to wield the
Keys of the Kingdom for the benefit of souls began to disappear, and
has been virtually lost in recent centuries.
* John XXIII
called Vatican
Council II to repair the Church, to cleanse the Church of the
ubiquitous "leaven of the Pharisees,
which is hypocrisy" [Luke 12:1],
and to renew the life of the Church with the leaven of the Kingdom [Matthew
13:33]. Paul VI attempted to continue this separation of
Church and Empire - and John Paul I was martyred in 1978 for doing the
same. With the murder of John Paul I, the course of the Church was set
toward darkness: the domination of Opus Dei and its fanatical allies,
and the present reign of AntiChrist, and the pending (brief) rule of
the False Christ.
[For more details, see our document "The
Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven" (10)]
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SECTION 9. The
current
age is ending, now. It
is time for the
Church (West and East alike) to enter into its final Passion and Death
- which will be followed by its Resurrection and Glorification with the
Return of Christ in Glory, at the End of These Times. The gates of Hell
will not prevail against the Church, but the Mystical Body of Christ
must first follow her Savior's path to its end: Passion, Crucifixion,
Death, and Burial. Only after this will come its Resurrection.
* Pope John
Paul II confirmed this on Holy Friday in 1999.
He departed from his prepared text, and preached from the heart,
saying: “Today we would like to put these same words on the lips of all
humanity and the end of the second millennium, at the end of the
twentieth century. ... We would like to put them on the lips of all
those who have been citizens of our twentieth century, of our second
millennium. Because these words, this cry of the crucified Christ, does
not only closes a life, but it is also an opening." Scripture teaches
us that before saying "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit" Our
Lord had said "It is fulfilled". Furthermore, after commending His
spirit to the Father, His earthly body expired. The Church is the
Mystical Body of Christ – and the time has come for her to follow
Christ to the end.
* John Paul II,
the last of the lawful successors of
Peter, reiterated this when he went to Fatima on May 13, 2000. He said
that the time of Tribulation is now: “The Pope honored the many martyrs
of the 20th Century, and said, ‘An innumerable cloud of courageous
witnesses to the faith have left us a precious heritage which must live
on in the third millennium. Here in Fátima, where these times of
tribulation were foretold and Our Lady asked for prayer and penance to
shorten them, I would like today to thank heaven for the powerful
witness shown in all those lives. And once again I would like to
celebrate the Lord's goodness to me when I was saved from death after
being gravely wounded on 13 May 1981. I also express my gratitude to
Bl. Jacinta for the sacrifices and prayers offered for the Holy Father,
whom she saw suffering greatly.’” The Pope added that with the
beatification of the visionaries of Fátima, “the Church wishes
to put on the candelabrum these two candles which God lit to illumine
humanity in its dark and anxious hours. ... May the message of their
lives live on forever to light humanity's way!” These “dark and anxious
hours” for humanity were the present time, from 2000 (the year of the
beatification) onward. Thus, the Pope circumvented those who wished to
consign Fátima and its Secrets to the past.
[For more details, see our documents
"The Gates of the Nether World Will Not Prevail Against the Church" (11), and "The Third Part of
the Secret of Fátima - It Is
Revealed by His Holiness John Paul II in His Homily at Fátima" (12)]
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NOTES
(1) What went wrong with the
Roman Catholic Church
(2) What went wrong with
the Roman Catholic Church - Part II
(3) Why Did the
Christian Evangelization Fail
(4) The Return to
Christendom: The State and Church Alliance
(5) The
Medieval Roots of the
One World Order
(6) The Claim: Papal
Infallibility
(7) The
True Petrine Ministry
(8) Monastery of Our Lady of
the Rosary, "Our
'Sweet Christ on Earth' Visits Our Dominican Monastery of Monte Maria,
Roma!", June 24, 2010
(9) Dominus
Iesus: The Roman
Catholic Church Evangelization Effort Failed
(10) The Keys of the Kingdom
of Heaven
(11) The
Gates of the Nether
World Will Not Prevail Against the Church
(12) The Third Part of the
Secret of Fátima - It Is Revealed by His Holiness John Paul II
in His Homily at Fátima
Compiled and Edited by Lee Penn
Published on January 25th, 2011
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