The Pope in Winter: The Dark Face of John Paul IIs Papacy

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No ratings or reviews yet. Be the first to write a review. Best-selling in Atlases See all. Save on Atlases Trending price is based on prices over last 90 days. Preparing for Career Selection Tests: You may also like. Crime Paperback Books John Green. There was such trouble between the two that Emperor Nero set up a contest to settle their differences.

Simon Magnus was killed after being thrown from his chariot and so Nero, who had favored him, had Peter arrested and thrown in jail. If there was a pope on a throne in the days of the early church, it was not Peter the Apostle but Simon the Magician. Simon sat on a throne; Peter never did. Simon claimed to be God; Peter never did. Simon claimed to have supernatural powers; Peter never did.

Simon Magnus even started going by the name Peter in order to confuse people. They both had the same name, they both died in the same year — 67 A. The proof that the Simon of Samaria, not Cyprus, sat on the throne in Rome is the documentation that Magnus stayed in Rome for many years at a time while the apostle came and went quite often. The apostle Peter never considered himself God or Jesus Christ. Again, the idea of the papacy rests on the supremacy of Peter.

The Peter whom the popes are supposed to have succeeded was married with at least one child — a daughter. He never sat on a throne and he never claimed to have magic powers or to be infallible. He never claimed to be better or more important than the other apostles or early leaders of the Christian church. He never dressed in fancy clothes, he never wore a ring to be kissed, and he never insisted on the red carpet treatment. I am only a man myself. Peter the apostle, claimed by the Church as the first pope was never a pope and his philosophy and practices, according to the New Testament, were a far contrast to those of the papacy no matter who is holding the title.

The Roman Catholic Church was not established until the 4th Century. Roman Catholics claim Peter of the bible was the first pope and that there is an unbroken line of popes stretching from biblical times to present-day. This claim is nothing but a re-writing of history. The Church needs that lineage in order to justify itself and the papacy yet it does not have the facts on its side so they have to create a new reality. Constantine came to the rescue of Christians who were being persecuted by Emperor Diocletian.

This ties the pagan Roman Empire to the Catholic Church whose members also worship objects and offer material sacrifices. The papacy was on life support as recently as Napoleon, who had previously been an ally of Emmanuel, protected the pope and by having some of his troops stand guard at the Vatican.

When the Franco-Prussia War intensified, Napoleon pulled his troops out of Rome, leaving the pope defenseless. The Italian troops moved in and the pope lost all of his temporal civil power minus rule over the tiny territory of the Vatican. Emmanuel allowed the pope to keep the Vatican and freed him from Italian rule but the pope was defiant.

He cried anti-Catholic bias until support and donations poured in for him, including from Catholics in America. The empire of the Roman Church was all but lost in It took more deception to keep it alive. The papacy was corruptly propped back up by a fascist dictator. A Dictator legitimizes the Roman Catholic Church. He conspired with the Vatican to shut out populist factions in the country in order to amass more power and control for himself. The Vatican silenced priests who favored a more democratic government.

In return, Mussolini gifted the Church by officially recognizing the Vatican as an independent and sovereign city-state. Within the borders of Italy, popes would receive diplomatic immunity and the Church would receive financial reparations for its loss of the Papal States. Also, Roman Catholicism would be the one state religion in Italy.

Today, Vatican City, the whole 0. The pope is an absolute monarch at a time when most educated and reasonable human beings believe in freedom, democracy, and accountability. In , the world witnessed what is now referred to as The Arab Spring. Ordinary people protested — many to their deaths — for freedom, respect, and democratic elections.

Many citizens of some nations in the Middle East had been oppressed for generations and they finally decided it was time to take a stand against tyranny. It has been said there is a natural hunger to live freely, no matter what part of the world one lives. The pope is an absolute monarch, only one of a few that still exist and certainly the most powerful. As such, and because he enjoys diplomatic immunity both in Italy and out, he is accountable to no one.

The pope is elected but not by the people he represents as in a democracy. He is elected by the same men whom he appointed to the College of Cardinals. Once a pope takes office, he is unaccountable to anyone inside the Church or out. This type of power is contrary to what the New Testament described when Jesus turned tables on the clergy. The pope, like Simon Magnus, claims to be God. Only someone with a God-complex would claim to be above the law and every other human being.

The papacy is not inspired by the Holy Spirit. If anything, it would be inspired by the spirit of Lucifer. As construction workers ready the Vatican chimney for the upcoming puffs of white smoke or black,. The throne of Simon Magnus. When cardinals vote a certain way, we are told, it was because the Holy Spirit told them to.

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Many of the men who will be voting — or running — for the next pope have blood on their hands — blood ofchildren. Yet, we are supposed to believe they have an inside track to the Holy Spirit. From the beginning of the Roman Catholic Church, throughout its history, and including today, Roman Catholicism has been a corrupt empire disguised as a Christian religion.

Does it matter that it has grown as large as it has because many of its converts joined only under the threat of death? Does it matter than the majority of Catholics were entered into the Church before the age of reason? Evil almost always presents itself in disguise — as something good. When deception is the foundation of an institution, no amount of superficial acts that come out of it can make it good. Deeds and institutions can only be good if they are based in truth. And the only way to kill a serpent is by chopping off its head.

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It is not highly differentiated, but has only the negative and positive notions of love and hatred, right and wrong, truth and falsehood. T he receptive powers of the masses are very restricted, and their understanding is feeble. On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such being the case, all effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare essentials and those must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped formulas. These slogans should be persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea that has been put forward.

Every change that is made in the subject of a propagandist message must always emphasize the same conclusion.

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The leading slogan must of course be illustrated in many ways and from several angles, but in the end one must always return to the assertion of the same formula. UN condemns Vatican for crimes against children.. Bush is the curse of America. December 10, International Human Rights Day. A picture speaks a thousand words. Bush, two contemporaries in the 21 st century who covered-up — through religion — their own worst crimes against children and youth of America and the whole world.

Read the related links below for further explanations. Bush were the epitome of covert operations that destroyed the lives of incalculable thousands of children mostly boys and young people mostly young men. Bush - supported by the Vatican Catholic Bishops. Bush Family curse of American. This article was originally posted on GR on September 20, Consequently, Lawrence Lindsey was forced to resign.

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The current pope is Francis, who was elected on 13 March , the office of the pope is the papacy. The pope is considered one of the worlds most powerful people because of his diplomatic and he is also head of state of Vatican City, a sovereign city-state entirely enclaved within the Italian capital city of Rome. The papacy is one of the most enduring institutions in the world and has had a prominent part in world history, the popes in ancient times helped in the spread of Christianity and the resolution of various doctrinal disputes.

In the Middle Ages, they played a role of importance in Western Europe. Currently, in addition to the expansion of the Christian faith and doctrine, the popes are involved in ecumenism and interfaith dialogue, charitable work, Popes, who originally had no temporal powers, in some periods of history accrued wide powers similar to those of temporal rulers. The earliest record of the use of title was in regard to the by then deceased Patriarch of Alexandria.

Some historians have argued that the notion that Peter was the first bishop of Rome, the writings of the Church Father Irenaeus who wrote around AD reflect a belief that Peter founded and organised the Church at Rome. Moreover, Irenaeus was not the first to write of Peters presence in the early Roman Church, Clement of Rome wrote in a letter to the Corinthians, c. Ignatius of Antioch wrote shortly after Clement and in his letter from the city of Smyrna to the Romans he said he would not command them as Peter and Paul did.

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Given this and other evidence, many agree that Peter was martyred in Rome under Nero. Protestants contend that the New Testament offers no proof that Jesus established the papacy nor even that he established Peter as the first bishop of Rome, others, using Peters own words, argue that Christ intended himself as the foundation of the church and not Peter. First-century Christian communities would have had a group of presbyter-bishops functioning as leaders of their local churches, gradually, episcopacies were established in metropolitan areas.

Antioch may have developed such a structure before Rome, some writers claim that the emergence of a single bishop in Rome probably did not occur until the middle of the 2nd century. In their view, Linus, Cletus and Clement were possibly prominent presbyter-bishops, documents of the 1st century and early 2nd century indicate that the Holy See had some kind of pre-eminence and prominence in the Church as a whole, though the detail of what this meant is unclear.

It seems that at first the terms episcopos and presbyter were used interchangeably, the consensus among scholars has been that, at the turn of the 1st and 2nd centuries, local congregations were led by bishops and presbyters whose offices were overlapping or indistinguishable. Her name would later be bestowed to a tunnel built in Silesia. His mother died of heart and kidney problems on 13 April in Wadowice, on hearing of her death, he composed himself and said, It was Gods will. His only sister, Olga, died in infancy before Karol was born, after Emilias death, his father, an intensely religious man who did most of the housework, brought up Karol so that he could study.

As a child Karol was called Lolek by friends and family and he grew close to his brother Edmund, whom Karol had nicknamed Mundek. Edmund died four days later, on 5 December, aged 26, Karol, karols youth was influenced by numerous contacts with the vibrant and prospering Jewish community of Wadowice. He often played football, as a goalkeeper, and was a supporter of Polish club Cracovia, school football games were often organised between teams of Jews and Catholics, and due to the anti-Jewish feelings of the time, there was a potential for events to sometimes turn nasty.

Karol, however, cheerfully offered himself as a goalkeeper on the Jewish side if they were short of players. It was around this time that the young Karol had his first serious relationship with a girl and he became close to a girl called Ginka Beer, described as a Jewish beauty, with stupendous eyes and jet black hair, slender, a superb actress. On pressing the trigger, the gun fired and narrowly missed the target and he would escape from other near-death incidents as a young seminarian and later as Pope.

Papal conclave, October — The Papal conclave of October was triggered by the death, after only thirty-three days in office, of Pope John Paul I on 28 September. When the cardinals elected John Paul I on 26 August, they expected he would reign for at least a decade, instead they found themselves having to elect his successor within six weeks. Resulting in the most recent Year of Three Popes, he accepted his election, ten days after the funeral of Pope John Paul I, on 14 October, the doors of the Sistine Chapel were sealed and the conclave commenced.

Inside the conclave were three non-Cardinals, one was future-Cardinal Donald Wuerl who, as secretary to the frail Cardinal John Wright, was allowed inside the Sistine Chapel to assist him.

Supporters of Benelli were confident that he would be elected, in early ballots, Benelli came within nine votes. But the scale of opposition to both papabili meant that neither was likely to receive the two-thirds plus one needed for election. He accepted his election with these words, With obedience in faith to Christ, my Lord, and with trust in the Mother of Christ, the Pope, in tribute to his immediate predecessor, then took the name of John Paul II. Peters Basilica, which, translated into English, can be read as follows.

More confusion ensued when it was thought that the new pope was Ugo Poletti, dear brothers and sisters, we are still all very saddened by the death of the very dear Pope John Paul I. And now the most eminent cardinals have called a new bishop of Rome and they called him from a far-away country.

I was afraid in receiving this nomination, but I did it in the spirit of obedience to Our Lord and with total trust in his Mother, I dont know if I can express myself well in your — in our — Italian language. But if I make a mistake, you will correct me, NCR Senior Correspondent John Allen has stated that during the speech, a member of the Roman Curia requested that the new pope end his speech.

However, the pope ignored the admonition and continued talking, the speech, however, made a good impression on Italian listeners who were nervous at the prospect of a foreign pope. John Paul II said. Peters Square at Vatican City. Nonetheless he was released on parole on 12 January , however, on 20 January , the Turkish Supreme Court ruled that his time served in Italy could not be deducted from his Turkish sentence and he was returned to jail. The Popes announcement of a pilgrimage to Warsaw fuelled Andropovs apprehension, with Andropov issuing a secret memorandum to Soviet schoolteachers, due to his uncommon skills and great sense of humor he is dangerous, because he charms everyone, especially journalists.

Besides, he goes for cheap gestures in his relations with the crowd, for instance, puts on a hat, shakes all hands, kisses children. The funeral was followed by the devotional in which the Roman Catholic Church. The revisions enacted through the apostolic constitution Universi Dominici gregis applied to his own funeral, Pope John Pauls funeral brought together what was, at the time, the single largest gathering in history of heads of state outside the United Nations, surpassing the funeral of Winston Churchill. Four kings, five queens, at least 70 presidents and prime ministers and it is likely to have been one of the largest single gathering of Christianity in history, with numbers estimated in excess of four million mourners gathering in Rome alone.

Coinciding with the funeral in Vatican City, archbishops and bishops at cathedrals throughout the world celebrated memorial Masses, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was also present at the papal funeral, the first time since the Church of England broke with the Catholic Church in the 16th century. Also for the first time ever, the head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Patriarch Abune Paulos attended a papal funeral, centuries of sacred rituals are set in motion upon the death of a Pope, and these are administered by the Cardinal Camerlengo. This tradition originates from ruthless cardinals looting the papal chambers upon the death of past popes, the Popes formal death certificate was signed by Dr.

Pope Pius X ended this practice during his reign, and the wish of some Poles that John Paul IIs heart be buried in Poland was not obliged, John Paul IIs body was clothed in the familiar white soutane, over which was placed a plain white alb. A stole, the symbol of ordained ministry, was placed around his neck, over the inner vestments, John Paul II was clothed in a red chasuble. An ancient Byzantine custom, red is the colour of mourning for Popes, around his collar, the pallium of white lambs wool was draped.

A white zucchetto and a bishops mitre adorned John Paul IIs head. Later, following the example of his predecessors, these were changed to plain red leather papal shoes. After the placement of the body before the Burial Site of St. Peter and it remained there before a private ceremony of the placement of the body in a cypress casket, and then was brought outside into the Square for the funeral. Since his death on 2 April , many thousands of people have been supporting the case for beatifying and canonising Pope John Paul II as a saint and his formal beatification ceremony took place on 1 May Normally five years must pass after a persons death before the process can begin.

The exceptional circumstances may possibly refer to the cries of Santo Subito. Therefore, the new pope waived the five year rule so that the cause of Beatification and Canonisation of the same Servant of God can begin immediately. Cardinal Camillo Ruini, vicar general for the diocese of Rome, in early , it was reported that the Vatican was investigating a possible miracle associated with John Paul II.

Sister Marie-Simon-Pierre,46, is working again, now in Paris at a maternity hospital run by her order and she met reporters 30 March in Aix-en-Provence, during a press conference with Archbishop of Aix Claude Feidt. On 8 March the Vicariate of Rome announced that the phase of John Pauls cause for beatification was at an end.

Peters Basilica, the boy told them, I want to walk, on 16 November , a panel of reviewers at the Congregation for the Causes of Saints voted unanimously that Pope John Paul II had lived a life of virtue. If Pope Benedict XVI agrees, he will sign the first of two decrees needed for beatification, the first recognises that he lived a heroic, virtuous life and enables him to be called Venerable, the next step in the sainthood process. Wiki as never seen before with video and photo galleries, discover something new today.

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