Prayer Request: Catholic Church Persecuting Bible Believers in Mexico

Chris Pinto starts out his radio show today with a plea for prayer for pastors in Mexico who are being persecuted by the Catholic Church there.  I've transcribed his email below, but you can hear the whole thing and Pinto's comments in the first six minutes of his show at this link:

http://www.noiseofthunder.com/storage/NOTR_AUSTRALIAN.GUN.BAN_12.19.12.mp3

(the rest of the show is a continuation of his discussion about the gun control movement in the wake of the Connecticut school murders, focusing on the situation in Australia, conclusing with some interesting comments about how the Church has been "disarmed" by the corruptions of the Bible..)

I've got to make this comment for anyone who listens to the radio show.  Pinto describes the evangelizing efforts in Mexico as "compeling" the Catholics to become Bible believers, and I know he doesn't mean that they were in any sense FORCING the people to become Bible believers, but for some reason Pinto uses the word "compel" at times when he really means "convinced" them. 

Here's the email:

"Brother Humberto Gomez just called me.  His Indian preachers from the mountains of Hidalgo have again been imprisoned by the Indian Catholic Church.  They are hanging up their bodies in torturous fashion, like the Inquisition, and threaten to switch to hanging by their necks until dead unless they sign a document recanting their nonCatholic Biblical faith. 

The government rarely intervenes in cases like this, Brother Humberto said.  It's on the news already in Mexico but though they've been imprisoned and tortured no help has arrivdes.  Please pray for for help to arrive quickly.  Please pray for these men of God to be rescued."

Then there is a note added  by Brother Humberto:

" Please keep praying.   they just pulled out all the brethren to the meeting place, all the Christian evangelicals have been beaten and they had the main pastor, Celestino Cruz Hernandez, hanging by his arms and are threatening to hang him by the neck if he continues to refuse to recant his faith. 

All the Catholics have the area surrounded so the rest will not escape and that the authorities will not come near.  The ladies and the children are very scared and they are not allowed to leave the village, and the Catholic leaders do not intervene."

Quotes about the Jesuits

http://open.salon.com/blog/lastdaysdeceptionnews/2010/07/07/quotes_on_the_jesuit_order

The Protestant Reformation as skewed by Rome

I've been learning that it's very hard to find a source of information about anything to do with Protestant-Catholic conflicts that isn't skewed by Rome.  It's everywhere.  Here's a typical example from Wikipedia: 

The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century schism within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants.

What's wrong with this? 

The word "schism" implies that the Protestant Reformation was nothing more than a division BETWEEN Christian churches, and of course implies that this was a serious error by the Protestants themselves, as a mere schism would be a violation of scripture. 

It was not a schism, it was an absolute rejection of the Roman Catholic church by Catholics themselves, mostly priests, who had come to recognize that Rome was not Christian at all but in fact the Harlot Church of the Book of Revelation, and that the papacy is the seat of the Antichrist, or "man of sin."  

It was a total condemnation of Rome, it was no "schism."

It was sparked by the 1517 posting of Luther's Ninety-Five Theses. The efforts of the self-described "reformers", who objected to ("protested") the doctrines, rituals, and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church, led to the creation of new national Protestant churches. The Reformation was precipitated by earlier events within Europe, such as the Black Death and the Western Schism, which eroded people's faith in the Catholic Church and the Papacy that governed it. This, as well as many other factors, such as the mid 15th-century invention of the printing press, and the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire, contributed to the creation of Protestantism.^[1]

This is hardly more than a complicated Red Herring to distract from the real issues, the violations of the Church of Rome of the principles of Christianity and especially the true gospel of salvation.  It's kind of a word salad of irrelevant facts designed to put the reader to sleep.  Trying to pin the Reformation on the circumstances of the time rather than the moral and theological enormities of Rome is jesuitical deviousness.

It's a very long article too, no doubt full of all kinds of scholarly facts and even some truth, but with a beginning like the above there is no doubt in my mind that the whole point is to lead the reader away from the truth down dozens of primrose-bordered rabbit trails.

Perhaps I'll be back with more.

Catholic Priest calls for an end to The Vatican as contrary to the true faith

Another bit of fascinating news from Chris Pinto on today's radio show: CATHOLICS VOTE TO END VATICAN? A priest, Father John Mannion, retired from San Antonio, Texas to his native Galway, has written an article for the Irish Times, Faithful should distinguish between Catholic faith and Vatican state, clearly distinguishing between the power structure in Rome and the basic beliefs of Catholics, and suggesting maybe it's time to pray for an end to the Vatican state.

He gives some history of the Vatican in the article, and discusses the Inquisition:

Current Catholic justice has its origin in the Roman Inquisition founded by pope Gregory IX in 1232, which ushered in one of the most shameful episodes in all of human history. It formalised the practices of killing, burning or imprisoning heretics.

Modified over time, it still exists under a changed name (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith), but its rules owe much to its history and very little to contemporary standards of justice. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was its head for a quarter of a century before he became pope in 2005. In its mode of operation the suspect gets very little information.

There is no independent judge, prosecutor or jury. An unknown defender is appointed from within the system. The accused is denied access to all documents related to the charge. All who take part in the trial are bound to secrecy, and there is no right of appeal.

Recently, Pope Benedict on his visit to Cuba pleaded for freedom for the Catholic Church there, but freedom within the church is a different matter.

At the time of the unification of Italy in 1870 the papal states stretched from Rome across to the Adriatic Sea and north to the river Po.

Jesus Christ might have said “my kingdom is not of this world”, but Pius 1X ordered a military defence of the papal states, shedding the blood of many, including Irish soldiers recruited by the Irish bishops, precisely because he could not function as vicar of Christ unless he had an earthly kingdom.

After unification, the new Italian parliament guaranteed the independence of the Holy See and offered compensation for lost territories, but Pius IX rejected the offer. In 1929 the Vatican state was set up by agreement between Mussolini and pope Pius XI, and Italy compensated it for the lost papal states.

The bishops of the second Vatican Council (1962-1965) proclaimed the church as the people of God, but failed to address the paradox inherited from Vatican I in 1870. At that time Pius IX persuaded the council to declare that “the pope has supreme, full, immediate and universal ordinary power in the church and he can always freely exercise this power” (canon 313 of the current code of canon law).

This contradicts the model of church in the Acts of the Apostles. So the ideals embodied in Vatican II have been essentially sidelined in the subsequent years because, as an English commentator recently noted, “the Vatican is the sole remaining absolute monarchy in Europe”.

Even the college of bishops is cut off because absolute power is vested in one office only, the papacy. Lord Acton said “power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. A convert to Catholicism, he was writing about the papacy.

The evidence for the assassination of Lincoln as a Jesuit plot

Chris Pinto's radio show for today: Killing Lincoln: The Untold Story
Here's PART TWO
And PART THREE

I read the book 50 Years in the "Church" of Rome by Charles Chiniquy a while back, which is basically the story about his life as a Catholic priest and his eventual rejection of the Catholic Church as hopelessly corrupt. He knew Abraham Lincoln, who defended him in a trial against a Bishop who was getting revenge for Chiniquy's accusations of corruption against him. Chiniquy knowing the policies of the Jesuits knew that they were plotting murder against Lincoln for successfully defending him, and many times warned Lincoln to be on his guard.

Despite their efforts to obscure the truth it is still quite possible to demonstrate that it was the Jesuits who planned and pulled the strings behind the scenes for the assassination, and this is the subject of Pinto's show today.

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August 30 and 31 he continues the subject.

ISLAM HAS NOTHING ON ROMEA little-known fact about Rome is their teaching that it is a good deed to kill infidels and apostates. Remind you of another religion? The only reason we don't know about Rome's policy is that they work in secrecy and are careful to cover their tracks but there was a time when books were written by the hundreds, even thousands, exposing their plots. As I recall Voltaire remarked on that fact in his day. It's only in recent times that the truth has been suppressed and they are succeeding in those very plots as a result.

WAS ROME BEHIND THE CIVIL WAR?There is apparently reason to think so.

IS ROME THE TRUE CONSPIRATOR BEHIND THE DEMORALIZATION OF AMERICA?
Listen to Part Three

The Influence of Rome in America

Chris Pinto is one of the best sources of information about the history of the Roman Church. This radio show The Influence of Rome in America, focuses on today's capitulation of supposedly Protestant leaders to Rome, in betrayal of the Protestant Reformation. Few voices are raised against this these days and when they are they are often mistreated in the same spirit as the martyrs to the Reformation were.

This radio broadcast starts out with a clip of a moment in European Parliament in 1988 when Pope John Paul II had just begun to speak, and pastor and politician Ian Paisley stood up and denounced him as Antichrist. Well, today's political correctness is against Paisley's views and apparently all for Rome so Paisley was manhandled and taken out of the meeting. Yet he was a legitimate member of the parliament himself and was responding to a violation of a rule that a visit from the Pope should have been put to a vote.

From there Pinto goes on to talk about how Protestants are capitulating to Rome more and more these days, contrasting today's attitude with the courageous Protestantism of Paisley.

He goes on to say that Paisley's denunciation of the Pope was in the same words spoken by Archbishop Cranmer in the time of the Catholic queen of England known as Bloody Mary for her slaughter of Protestants. Cranmer had been imprisoned for his rejection of Romanism and under duress had recanted his Protestant beliefs in writing, but when brought out to make his recantation public, instead he renounced his own recantation, and said that if they put him to the flames he would thrust the hand into the flames first that had written those terrible things against the true faith. And he ended his speech with what Paisley echoed in the European parliament: And as for the Pope I denounce him as Christ's enemy and Antichrist with all his false doctrines.

Paisley has also written that seat number 666 in the European Parliament is vacant, also that the chosen symbol of the Parliament is a woman riding a horned beast, depicted in a sculpture outside an EU office in Brussels, in a painting inside the parliament building in Brussels, on a stamp issued to commemorate the EU and on Euro coins. Both the image and the number are echoes of the identity of the Harlot Church riding the beast which is the revived Roman Empire from the Book of Revelation. There are also themes connecting the European Union with the Tower of Babel. In fact the tower part of the building in which the Parliament meets looks awfully similar to Breughel's painting of the Tower of Babel. Paisley's article about all this is on the website of the European Institute of Protestant Studies which I've linked in the margin.

It isn't just Paisley, or Cranmer, but the testimony of the Protestant Reformers and of all true Christians back a thousand years, that the Pope is the Antichrist.

But in our day this has been forgotten and we have "evangelicals" treating Rome instead as a Christian brother.

The True Early Church -- video with Richard Bennett and W J Mencarow

The original church was NOT the Roman Church. The Vaudois or Waldensians go back to apostolic times and were one of the true churches persecuted by Rome.

List of videos from Richard Bennett's ministry.

And here is a video of Bennett at places where he lived and went to school as a child, talking about his own life as a Catholic and how he came out of it, with much comparison of Catholic and Biblical teaching:



Video of Richard Bennett giving his testimony:

Countering Rome's lies about Patrick, missionary of the gospel to Ireland

May take me a while to get this new blog up and running, choosing how I want to set it up and so on, but rather than let it sit doing nothing as it has for a while now, I thought I'll just start by posting whatever happens to grab my attention.

And that just happens to be a talk by ex-priest Richard Bennett on The Real Saint Patrick.

I'd done a post on Patrick a few years ago at Faith's Corner, a review of a novel I'd just read that was based on his life. Bennett's information about his life is a bit different -- for instance in the book I reviewed Patrick didn't start evangelizing in Ireland until he was almost fifty, but in Bennett's study he started around age thirty. I haven't independently researched any of this so I can't vouch for the true facts but Bennett is presenting information straight from Patrick's own writings and his facts may be more reliable than the novel's.

But in both accounts Patrick is a very inspiring man of God, NOT A ROMAN CATHOLIC but someone the Roman Church co-opted. The real Patrick took the true gospel, not the Roman anti-gospel, to the Irish, and founded a powerful church in Ireland that sent out its own missionaries.

It doesn't have to be St. Patrick's Day to appreciate this great man of God and at the same time get a sense of how the Roman Church distorts history to serve its own megalomaniacal ends.