Is the Vatican II Church of Antipope
John Paul II the Whore of Babylon?
By
Brother Peter Dimond, O.S.B.
Apocalypse 17:1:
"And there came one of the seven angels, who had the seven vials, and spoke
with me, saying: Come, I will show thee the condemnation of the great
harlot, who sitteth upon many waters..." 1
Throughout history it has been
the practice of Catholic and Protestant alike to speculate on the identity of
the whore of Babylon,
the great harlot described in chapters 17 and 18 of the book of the Apocalypse.
Protestants have made it their ambition to prove that the Catholic Church is
the whore of Babylon.
Obviously, the Protestants are wrong, the Catholic Church is not the whore of Babylon. However, we will
now put forth the evidence which suggests that the whore of Babylon is the Church that began at Vatican
Council II, the phony Catholic Church that has been set up from Rome in the last days.
1. The whore sits upon many
waters.
As we saw already, the great
harlot sits upon many waters. The Apocalypse clues us in as to what these
waters are.
Apocalypse 17:15-
"And he said to me: The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot
sitteth, are peoples, and nations, and tongues." 2
"Peoples, nations, and
tongues" are suggestive of global control, something which has power in
all ends of the earth. Immediately, the Catholic Church comes to mind, whose
universal mission has incorporated faithful from all peoples, nations, and
tongues. However, the Council of Trent infallibly confirms this hunch with yet
more alarming specificity.
Pope
Pius IV, Council of Trent, Session 22, On the Holy Sacrifice of the
Mass:
"The holy synod then admonishes priests that it has been prescribed by the
Church to mix water with the wine to be offered in the chalice, not only
because the belief is that Christ the Lord did so, but also because there came
from His side water together with blood, since by this mixture the sacrament is
recalled. And since in the Apocalypse of the blessed John the peoples are
called waters [Apoc. 17:1, 15], the union of the faithful people with Christ,
their head, is represented." 3
It is a solemnly defined dogma
that the waters of Apoc. 17:1, 15 represent the union of the faithful people
with Christ, in other words, the Catholic Church. The great harlot sits upon
these waters! Therefore, it is of the divine and Catholic faith (de fide
divina et Catholica) that the great harlot sits upon the Catholic Church,
that is, she impedes, obstructs, suppresses and attempts to substitute for her.
This is a perfect description of the false Church that arose with Vatican
Council II, which has successfully deceived most of the world into thinking
that it is the true Catholic Church.
Understanding that the
"waters" of the Apocalypse represent the peoples, nations, and
tongues of the Catholic Church, is the key to understanding other important
verses in this book. For example, Apoc. 18:17
talks about how the shipmasters and the mariners wept over the destruction of
the great city.
Apocalypse
18:17-
"For in one hour are so great riches come to nought; and every
shipmaster, and all that sail into the lake, and mariners, and as many as work
in the sea, stood afar off, And cried, seeing the place of her burning,
saying: What city is like to this great city?" 4
The shipmasters, mariners and
those that work in the sea represent those who work with souls in the Catholic
Church; that is, priests, religious, etc. They weep over the desolation of Rome, and wonder how in
such a short time she has been brought down.
2. The whore sits upon the city
of seven mountains.
Apocalypse 17:9-
"And here is the understanding that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven
mountains, upon which the woman sitteth, and they are seven kings." 6
It is a well known fact of history
that the city of seven mountains (or hills) is Rome, Italy.
This is because Rome
was constructed on seven hills. Thus, the great harlot sits upon Rome itself, the center
of unity in the Catholic Church and the home of the Roman Pontiffs.
Pope
Benedict XIV, Apostolica Constitutio (# 4), June 26, 1749:
"... the Catholic Church is signified by the City of Rome alone, in
which the bodily presence of this Apostle [Peter] is carefully
reverenced..." 7
Interestingly, Rome only gives way to the great harlot in
the last days - the Vatican II revolution. This is why the harlot is only
mentioned in the book of the Apocalypse. And this is why Sacred Scripture
speaks of the "fall" of Babylon.
Apocalypse
18:2-
"And he cried out with a loud strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, is
fallen; and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of
every unclean spirit, and the hold of every unclean and hateful bird." 8
Babylon has historically been regarded as a code name for Rome. St. Peter himself,
writing his first epistle from Rome,
refers to it as Babylon.
1
Peter 5:13-
"The Church that is in Babylon,
elected together with you, saluteth you: and so doth my son Mark." 9
Therefore, Rome is Babylon,
and Babylon has
fallen. But if it has fallen, then it once stood strongly. And is this not
true? For prior to its fall, Rome
(Babylon) was
the bulwark of Catholicism and the center of Christianity - the great city.
Apocalypse 17:18-
"And the woman which thou sawest, is the great city, which hath kingdom
over the kings of the earth." 10
Some may ask: "If Rome is the 'great city,'
why does Apocalypse 11:8 say that the great city is the place where Our Lord
was crucified, which is Jerusalem?"
The answer is that the Mystical Body of Christ is being crucified in and from Rome at present, so it is
accurate to say that Rome
is the place where Our Lord is crucified in His Mystical Body.
The great city could only be Rome. Historically, no
other city has ruled over the kings of the earth as has Rome, which has a spiritual and
ecclesiastical primacy which all nations, regardless of their temporal rank or
role, must be subject to.
Pope
Leo XII, Quod Hoc Ineunte (# 6), May 24, 1824:
"Come therefore to this holy Jerusalem,
a priestly and royal city which the sacred seat of Peter has made the capitol
of the world. Truly it rules more widely by divine religion than by
earthly domination." 11
And whether the kings of the
earth want to accept it or not, all human creatures are subject to the
spiritual power of the Catholic Church, which is exercised from Rome.
Pope
Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam, Nov. 18, 1302:
"Furthermore, we declare, say, define, and proclaim to every human
creature that they by necessity for salvation are entirely subject to the Roman
Pontiff." 12
So the fall of the great city is
the fall of Rome
from the Catholic faith. It's not the fall of the Catholic faith, for
Catholicism can exist without Rome.
Rome, on the
other hand, can't exist without Catholicism. Without it, she becomes nothing
more than "the habitation of devils, and the hold of every unclean spirit,
and the hold of every unclean and hateful bird" (Apoc. 18:2). 13
Our Lady of La Salette, Sept. 19, 1846,
an approved apparition of the Catholic Church:
"Rome will
lose the Faith and become the seat of the Anti-Christ." 14
3. The whore is a woman.
Apocalypse 17:6-7
"And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with
the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And I wondered, when I had seen her,
with great admiration. And the angel said to me: Why dost thou wonder? I will
tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast which carrieth her,
which hath the seven heads and ten horns." 15
If it is true that the whore of
Babylon is the
phony Catholic Church that began with the Vatican II revolution, it would make
sense that this apocalyptic entity is described as a woman, in order to
contrast her with another woman, the Catholic Church.
Pope
Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam, Nov. 18, 1302:
"'One is my dove, my perfect one. One she is of her mother, the
chosen of her that bore her' [Cant. 6:8]; which represents the one mystical
body whose head is Christ, of Christ indeed, as God." 16
4. The whore is a Mother.
Apocalypse 17:5-
"And on her forehead a name was written: A mystery; Babylon the great, the mother of the
fornications, and the abominations of the earth." 17
Catholics have always referred
to the Church as their Mother.
Pope
Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 16), June 29, 1896:
"Let us love the Lord our God; let us love His Church; the Lord as our
Father, the Church as our Mother." 18
Pope
Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (# 11), Jan. 6, 1928:
"For if, as they continually state, they long to be united with Us and
ours, why do they not hasten to enter the Church, 'the Mother and
mistress of all Christ's faithful'?" 19
Pope
Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi (# 66), June 29, 1943:
"Certainly the loving Mother is spotless in the Sacraments, by
which she gives birth to and nourishes her children; in the faith which she has
always preserved inviolate; in her sacred laws imposed upon all; in the
evangelical counsels which she recommends; in those heavenly gifts and
extraordinary graces through which, with inexhaustible fecundity, she generates
hosts of martyrs, virgins, and confessors." 20
As the Catholic Church is our
loving Mother, the whore is the Mother of the fornications. And as the Catholic
Church is the Mother of all Christ's faithful, the whore is the mother of Christ's
unfaithful, that is, those who have abandoned the Church and accepted the new
Vatican II religion.
5. The whore is clothed in
purple and scarlet.
Apocalypse 17:4-
"And the woman was clothed round about with purple and scarlet, and
gilt with gold, and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her
hand, full of the abomination and filthiness of her fornication." 21
Apocalypse
18:16-
"And saying: Alas! alas! that great city, which was clothed with fine
linen, and purple, and scarlet, and was gilt with gold, and precious
stones, and pearls." 22
This is perhaps one of the most
revealing verses in the Apocalypse. In
the Catholic Church, bishops wear purple and cardinals wear scarlet (red)!
By choosing to describe the
whore of Babylon as a woman "clothed with fine linen, and purple, and
scarlet," God is giving us a clear indication that the whore is clothed
in the colors of the true Episcopate and Cardinalate – God is giving us a
clear indication that the whore is clothed in these colors, because externally
she gives all the appearances of being the true Church of Christ – she
has dioceses, a hierarchy, the property of the Church, vestments, ceremonies,
"sacraments," a "pope," etc. – but inwardly she is a
fraud. This is a perfect description of the Church of Antipope John
Paul II, which is clothed with the colors of
Catholicism (and appears to most to be just that) but inwardly is a false
apostate religion.
6. The whore has a golden cup
in her hand.
Apocalypse 17:4-
"And the woman was clothed round about with purple and scarlet, and gilt
with gold, and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand,
full of the abomination and filthiness of her fornication." 28
Priests offering the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass in the Catholic Church are required to use a chalice of
gold, if possible. It's no coincidence that the whore has a golden cup in her hand.
A Catholic priest offers the golden chalice full of the Precious Blood of Our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The whore offers a cup (chalice) full of
abomination and filthiness. The mimicry is obvious. The whore, as usual, is
mimicking, acting and pretending to be the Catholic Church, but she is not.
In particular, this verse is
referring to the Novus Ordo Missae (the New Mass), which does not
contain the Blood of Jesus Christ but an offering which is an abomination in
His sight.
Apocalypse 18:6-
"Render to her as she also hath rendered to you; and double unto her
double according to her works: in the cup wherein she hath mingled,
mingle ye double unto her." 29
The word mingle means to mix. 30
In the Catholic Mass, the Church mingles the water with the wine in the
chalice.
Pope
Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Session 8, Nov. 22, 1439, "Exultate
Deo":
"For blessed Alexander, the fifth Pope after blessed Peter, says: 'In the
offerings of the sacraments which are offered to the Lord within the
solemnities of Masses, let only bread and wine mixed with water be offered
as a sacrifice. For either wine alone or water alone must not be offered in
the chalice of the Lord, but both mixed, because it is read that both,
that is, blood and water, flowed from the side of Christ.' Then also,
because it is fitting to signify the effect of this sacrament, which is the
union of the Christian people with Christ. For water signifies the people,
according to the passage in the Apocalypse: 'the many waters... are many
people' [Apoc. 17:15]... Therefore,
when wine and water are mixed in the chalice the people are made one
with Christ, and the multitude of the faithful is joined and connected with Him
in whom it believes.'" 31
The symbolism of Apocalypse
18:6 - mingling in a cup - could not be more obvious without giving away the
mystery of the verse. It's an
obvious reference to the Mass, which has been completely perverted by the
harlot. She has nothing left to offer to God in her cup but filthiness and
abomination (Apoc. 17:4). Furthermore, this verse (18:6) points to a specific
point in the Mass, the mixing of wine and water. This action of mixing
signifies the union of the Christian people with Christ (the Catholic Church),
as Pope Eugene IV defined at the Council of Florence. In one and the same
verse, therefore, God is revealing that the whore is conducting massive
spiritual fornication in areas which regard the Catholic Mass and the Catholic
Church as a whole. It is a startling description of the Vatican II Church under
Antipope John Paul II.
7. The whore is characterized
by fornication and whoredom.
Apocalypse 17:1-2
"Come, I will show thee the condemnation of the great harlot, who
sitteth upon many waters, With whom the kings of the earth have committed
fornication; and they who inhabit the earth have been made drunk with the
wine of her whoredom." 32
Apocalypse 18:3-
"Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication; and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with
her; and the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her
delicacies." 33
Any scripture scholar will tell
you that when the term fornication is used in Holy Scripture, many times it
describes inauthentic worship or spiritual infidelity. And when a “great harlot”
committing world-wide fornication is spoken of in this context, it clearly
indicates apostasy from the one true faith. The whore of Babylon is guilty of spiritual fornication to
such an extent that this is the action which characterizes her title - the
"great harlot." By such a description, God is directly contrasting
the whore with the Catholic Church, who is a woman who is characterized by
her unwavering fidelity to her Spouse, Jesus Christ.
Pope
Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (# 10), Jan. 6, 1928:
"During the lapse of centuries, the mystical Spouse of Christ has never
been contaminated, nor can she ever in the future be contaminated, as Cyprian
bears witness: 'The Bride of Christ cannot be made false to her Spouse: she
is incorrupt and modest. She knows but one dwelling, she guards the sanctity of
the nuptial chamber chastely and modestly.'" 34
And as the whore is famous for
her impurity, the Catholic Church is known for her chastity.
Pope
St. Siricius, epistle (1) Directa ad decessorem to Himerius, Feb. 10,
385:
"And so He has wished the beauty of the Church, whose spouse He is, to
radiate with the splendor of chastity, so that on the day of judgement,
when He will have come again, He may be able to find her without spot or
wrinkle [Eph. 5:27] as He instituted her through His apostle." 35
The Church is known as
"the immaculate Bride of Christ." The "great harlot,"
therefore, could represent nothing but the greatest mockery of the immaculate
Bride of Christ in history. The contrast in titles alone identifies the great
harlot as a counterfeit Bride of Christ - i.e., a counterfeit Catholic Church.
Pope
Hadrian I, Second Council of Nicaea, 787:
"...Christ our God, when He took for His Bride His Holy Catholic
Church, having no blemish or wrinkle, promised he would guard her and
assured his holy disciples saying, I am with you every day until the
consummation of the world." 36
8. The whore has separated from
her Spouse.
Apocalypse 18:7-
"As much as she hath glorified herself, and lived in delicacies, so much
torment and sorrow give ye to her; because she saith in her heart: I sit a
queen, and am no widow; and sorrow I shall not see." 37
In another amazing verse, the
Apocalypse tells us that the whore says to herself, "I sit a queen, and am
no widow." She isn't a widow because her Spouse is not dead.
Apocalypse
1:17-18
"And when I had seen him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his
right hand upon me, saying: Fear not. I am the First and the Last, And alive,
and was dead, and behold I am living forever and ever, and have the keys
of death and of hell." 38
The whore's Spouse was Jesus
Christ, who is not dead, but lives forever. She has separated herself from
Jesus Christ by leaving His traditions and teachings. Instead of being a
faithful Spouse, the whore has become her own queen, who is happy imposing on
others her own will and glory, her own teachings and religion.
But whereas the whore has
separated herself from the Catholic Church by forming a religion and a Church
of her own, the Bride of Christ - the Catholic Church - always maintains union
with Her Spouse, even if most of the world has left Her to join the whore.
Pope
Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi (# 89), June 29, 1943:
"This opinion is false; for the divine Redeemer is most closely united
not only with His Church, which is His beloved Spouse, but also with each
and every one of the faithful, and he ardently desires to speak with them heart
to heart, especially after Holy Communion." 39
9. The light of the lamp shall
shine no more in the whore.
Apocalypse 18:23-
"And the light of the lamp shall shine no more at all in thee; and the
voice of the bridegroom and the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee:
for thy merchants were the great men of the earth, for all nations have been
deceived by thy enchantments." 40
The "light of the
lamp" is a reference to the sanctuary lamp found in Catholic churches. This
red lamp signifies Christ's real presence in the Eucharist. This lamp can
hardly be found in Vatican II churches. In most cases, it has been moved to the
side or to the back of the church. But more than the displacement of the
sanctuary lamp, Apocalypse 18:23
is indicating that Christ's real presence is no longer found in the Vatican II
Church.
"The voice of the
bridegroom and the bride" in Apocalypse 18:23 is a reference to Christ and
His Church.
Pope
Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi (# 86), June 29, 1943:
"But the Catholic faith and the writings of the holy Fathers reject such
false teaching as impious and sacrilegious; and of the mind of the Apostle of
the Gentiles it is equally abhorrent, for although he brings Christ and His
Mystical Body into a wonderfully intimate union, he nevertheless distinguishes
one from the other as Bridegroom and Bride (Eph. 5:22-23)." 41
If there were any doubt about
who the Bridegroom and the Bride were, Pope Pius XII obliterates it by quoting St. Paul. Jesus Christ is
the Bridegroom, and His Mystical Body, the Church, is His immaculate Bride.
When the Apocalypse makes reference to the voice of the Bridegroom and the
Bride, it is another confirmation that the whore of Babylon is the Vatican II Church, which has
abandoned the teaching (or voice) of the Bridegroom (Jesus Christ) and the
Bride (His Church).
10. The voice of the pipe is no
longer heard in the whore.
Apocalypse 18:22-
"And the voice of harpers, and of musicians, and of them that play on
the pipe, and on the trumpet, shall no more be heard at all in thee..."
42
Few people today know that
"trumpets and harps were the standard instruments for liturgical music in
St. John's day, as organs are today in the west." 43
By including the three primary instruments of Catholic liturgical music
throughout history, St. John is warning us that traditional Catholic liturgical
music as a whole will "no more be heard at all" in the whore. And
hasn't this come true?
Since Vatican II, Gregorian
chant, our beautiful musical tradition, has been replaced by every type of secular
music and instrument under the sun. It's so bad now that one could enter a
modern "Catholic" Church and hear anything from boisterous drums to
electric guitars. You could walk into
one of these churches and even be treated to rock music. Yet, what's perhaps
most disappointing about all of this is that most people don't realize that
these modern "Catholic" churches aren't Catholic at all, but belong
entirely to the whore of Babylon.
11. All the world is drunk with
the wine of her whoredom.
Apocalypse 18:3-
"Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication; and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with
her." 44
Apocalypse 14:8-
"And another angel followed, saying That great Babylon is fallen, is fallen; which made
all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication." 45
Apocalypse 16:19-
"And great Babylon
came in remembrance before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the
indignation of His wrath." 46
Apocalypse 17:1-2
"Come, I will shew thee the condemnation of the great harlot, who sitteth
upon many waters. With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication;
and they who inhabit the earth, have been made drunk with the wine of
her whoredom." 47
The whore of Babylon is condemned repeatedly for
fornication having to do with wine. Why? An examination of the changes to the
words of the consecration of the wine in the Sacrament of the Eucharist may
give us the answer.
The Roman Church has always
used the same words in the consecration of the Sacrament of the Eucharist.
Pope
Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Session 11, Feb. 4, 1442, "Cantate
Domino":
"However, since no explanation was given in the aforesaid decree of the
Armenians in respect to the form of words which the holy Roman Church,
relying on the teaching and authority of the apostles Peter and Paul, has
always been wont to use in the consecration of the Lord's Body and Blood,
we concluded that it should be inserted in this present text. It uses this form
of words in the consecration of the Lord's Body: For this is my body.
And of His blood: For this is the chalice of my blood, of the new and
eternal testament, the mystery of faith, which shall be shed for you and for
many unto the remission of sins." 48
These words of consecration are
the words that Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself used.
Pope
Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Session 8, Nov. 22, 1439, "Exultate Deo":
"The form of this sacrament are the words of the Savior with which He
effected this sacrament. A priest speaking in the person of Christ effects
this sacrament. For, in virtue of those words, the substance of bread is
changed into the body of Christ and the substance of wine into His blood. In
such wise, however, that the whole Christ is contained both under the form of
bread and under the form of wine..." 49
When Jesus Christ specifically
decrees that certain words be preserved in a sacrament, these words constitute
the "substance of the sacrament."
Pope
Pius XII, Sacramentum Ordinis (# 1), Nov. 30, 1947:
"...the Church has no power over the 'substance of the sacraments,' that
is, over those things which, with the sources of divine revelation as
witnesses, Christ the Lord Himself decreed to be preserved in a sacramental
sign..." 50
Sacred Tradition, which is one
of the sources of divine revelation, is a witness to the fact that Christ the
Lord decreed the words of consecration as they have always been found in the
canon of the Mass, to be preserved in a sacramental sign. Pope Eugene IV
defined this as a dogma at the Council of Florence. Therefore, the words of
consecration given at the Council of Florence
constitute the substance of the Sacrament of the Eucharist, according to
the definition of Pope Pius XII above.
The Church has no power over
the substance of the sacraments.
Pope
St. Pius X, Ex quo, Dec.
26, 1910:
"...it is well known that to the Church there belongs no right
whatsoever to innovate anything touching on the substance of the sacraments..."
51
Despite all of this, the
Vatican II Church has changed the substance of the Sacrament of the Eucharist.
In the Novus Ordo Missae (the New Order of Mass) they have tampered
severely with the words of consecration always used in the Roman Rite of the Mass. They have removed
the words "the mystery of faith" and they have changed the word
"many" to the word "all." Because this change affects the
substance of the sacrament, the inevitable result is that all New Masses which
use the word "all" in the consecration are invalid. Though the Latin
version of the New Mass did not change the word "many" to
"all", it did remove the words "the mystery of faith." Such
a removal renders all Latin versions of the New Mass invalid as well.
This somewhat long discussion
of the words of consecration will hopefully help identify why the whore of Babylon is condemned
repeatedly for fornication in regard to wine. The reason that the whore is
condemned for wine violations is because that is exactly what the Vatican II Church
has done. In the New Mass, invalidating changes have been made to the WINE
PORTION of the words of consecration. These changes to the wine portion of
the consecration invalidate both consecrations.
Pope
St. Pius V, De Defectibus, chapter 5:
"The words of Consecration, which are the form of this Sacrament, are
these: For this is my Body. And: For this is the Chalice of my Blood,
of the new and eternal testament: the mystery of faith, which shall be shed for
you and for many unto the remission of sins. Now if one were to remove,
or change anything in the form of the consecration of the Body and Blood, and
in that very change of words the [new] wording would fail to mean the same
thing, he would not consecrate the Sacrament."
The Vatican II Church has
"made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication" (Apoc. 14:8).
12. The whore is drunk with the
blood of the saints.
Apocalypse 17:6-
"And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the
blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And I wondered when I had seen her, with
great admiration." 52
Apocalypse 18:24-
"And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of
all that were slain upon the earth." 53
The whore can be said to be
drunk with the blood of the saints on many levels. The first that comes to mind
is ecumenism as it is practiced by the Vatican II Church. Prior to Vatican II,
ecumenism referred to the apostolic endeavor to convert the world to
Catholicism. Today, it refers to the effort to bring all religions together as
one without conversion, while respecting all religions as essentially equal. In
fact, the Vatican II Church even goes so far as to refer to religions which do
not worship the Most Holy Trinity as "great religions."
Vatican
II document Ad Gentes # 10:
"For two billion people - and their number is increasing by day - have not
heard the gospel message or have scarcely heard it... Of these people, some
adhere to one of the great religions, to others the very notion of God
remains foreign, while others expressly deny the existence of God and at times
even attack it." 54
Antipope
Paul VI, Ecclesiam Suam (# 107), August 6, 1964:
"Then we have those worshippers who adhere to other monotheistic systems
of religion, especially the Moslem religion. We do well to admire these
people for all that is good and true in their worship of God. And finally we have
the followers of the great Afro-Asiatic religions." 55
Antipope
John Paul II, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (47.8), Dec. 30, 1987:
"I likewise address this appeal to the Jewish people, who share with us
the inheritance of Abraham, 'our father in faith' and the tradition of the Old
Testament, as well as to the Muslims who, like us, believe in the just and
merciful God. And I extend it to all the followers of the world's great
religions." 56
It is an incredible blasphemy
against Almighty God to refer to religions which reject Him as "great
religions."
John
3:35-36:
"The Father loveth the Son: and he hath given all things into His hand. He
that believeth in the Son, hath life everlasting; but he that believeth not
the Son, shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him." 57
John
8:23-24
"And He said to them: You are from beneath, I am from above. You are of
this world, I am not of this world. Therefore I said to you, that you shall die
in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He, you shall die in your
sin." 58
Pope
Leo XIII, Custodi Di Quella Fede (# 15), Dec. 8, 1892:
"Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of
belonging to masonry or affiliated groups. Know them by their fruits and avoid
them. Every familiarity should be avoided, not only with those impious
libertines who openly promote the character of the sect, but also with those
who hide under the mask of universal tolerance, respect for all religions,
and the craving to reconcile the maxims of the Gospel with those of the
revolution. These men seek to reconcile Christ and Belial, the Church of God and the state without God." 59
Ecumenism goes directly against
the divinely revealed truth that the gods of the non-Catholic religions are
devils (psalm 95:5; 1 Cor. 10:20),
and it puts Christ on a level with Lucifer.
Pope
Pius IX, Qui Pluribus (# 15), Nov. 9, 1846:
"Also perverse is that shocking theory that it makes no difference to
which religion one belongs, a theory greatly at variance even with reason.
By means of this theory, those crafty men remove all distinction between virtue
and vice, truth and error, honorable and vile action. They pretend that men
can gain eternal salvation by the practice of any religion, as if there could
ever be any sharing between justice and iniquity, any collaboration between
light and darkness, or any agreement between Christ and Belial." 60
The Vatican II Church and
Antipope John Paul II are the world's ecumenical leaders, constantly hosting
interfaith gatherings in Rome
and abroad. Pope Pius XI in his 1928 encyclical Mortalium Animos
condemned the ecumenism of today thoroughly. He stated that interfaith (i.e.,
ecumenical) gatherings are founded on "that false opinion which
considers all religions to be more or less good and praiseworthy..." 61
He
goes on to state:
"from which it clearly follows that one who supports those who hold these
theories and attempt to realize them, is altogether abandoning the divinely
revealed religion." 62
Pope
Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (# 10):
"So, Venerable Brethren, it is clear why this Apostolic See has never
allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of non-Catholics: for
the union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one
true Church of Christ..." 63
To consider all religions as
more or less good and praiseworthy, and even great! - which is what the Vatican
II Church does - blasphemes the memory of the saints and martyrs whose flesh
was torn with iron hooks, bodies were fed to the lions, and heads were chopped
off because they refused to say that "all religions are more or less good
and praiseworthy." The very foundation of their sanctity was their
conviction that only the religion established by Jesus Christ, the Catholic
Church, is good and praiseworthy, the rest being inventions of the devil.
Pope
Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (# 11), Jan. 6, 1928:
"The Catholic Church is alone in keeping the true worship." 64
Pope
St. Pius X, Iucunda Sane (# 9), March 12, 1904:
"Yet at the same time We cannot but remind all, great and small, as
Pope St. Gregory did, of the absolute necessity of having recourse to this
Church in order to have eternal salvation, to follow the right road of
reason, to feed on the truth, to obtain peace and even happiness in this
life." 65
Pope
Gregory XVI, Summo Iugiter Studio (# 6), May 27, 1832:
"Therefore, they must instruct them in the true worship of God, which
is unique to the Catholic religion." 66
Pope
St. Gregory the Great:
"The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship
God truly except in her and asserts that all who are outside of her will
not be saved." 67
How many martyrs, such as St. Thomas More, gave their lives for one
article of the Catholic faith? Ecumenism renders their blood-shedding acts
worthless, pointless and meaningless.
Pope
Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 8), June 29, 1896:
"It was thus the duty of all who heard Jesus Christ, if they wished for
eternal salvation, not merely to accept His doctrine as a whole, but to assent
with their entire mind to all and every point of it, since it is unlawful to
withhold faith from God even in regard to one single point." 68
This is why the Vatican II Church is said to be drunk with the blood of
martyrs and of saints (Apoc. 17:6;18:24),
and all those who support this Antichrist activity headed by Antipope John Paul
II are drunk as well.
Apocalypse
13:5-7
"And he opened his mouth unto blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name,
and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to
make war with the saints, and to overcome them. And power was given him over
every tribe, and people, and tongue, and nation." 69
Apocalypse
18:20, God's Judgment on
the Whore-
"Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God
hath judged your judgment on her." 70
Conclusion
It's quite obvious, in my
opinion, that the Vatican II sect of Antipope John Paul II is the whore of Babylon. And contrary to
what the Protestant heretics believe, the fact that ecclesiastical Rome's apostasy from the
Catholic faith in the last days is predicted in scripture, proves rather than
disproves the authenticity of the Catholic Church. For the tribulation of the
last days will be one which focuses on deceiving the true faithful, and
undermining the true Faith.
Apocalypse
11:2-
"But the court, which is without the temple, cast out, and measure it not:
because it is given unto the Gentiles, and the holy city they shall tred
under foot two and forty months." 77
It should be noted that
"two and forty months" (Apoc. 11:2), "a thousand two hundred and
sixty days" (Apoc. 12:6), and "a time, and times, and half a
time" (Apoc. 12:14)
and 3 and 1/2 years are regarded by scholars as symbolic of any period of
persecution.
Luke
21:34-35
"And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with
surfeiting and drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and that day come upon
you suddenly. For as a snare it shall come upon all that sit upon the face
of the whole earth." 78
A snare is a device used to catch
animals. Now if the snare of the last days involves a counterfeit Catholic
Church set up from Rome,
and a spiritual invasion of the holy city (Rome), then the "animal" that the
devil is trying to catch is Traditional Catholicism. This is another proof that
the Catholic religion is the one and only true religion.
It is our hope that this
scriptural evidence against the Vatican II Church will strengthen Catholics in
their opposition to it. The biblical prophecies which pinpoint our present
situation also enable Catholics to have a better understanding of how God views
the developments and events of the last 40 years.
But most of all, the Apocalypse
uncovers the false resistance to this apostasy, even among the so-called
traditionalists, who advocate a position in reference to this harlot church
which demands that they remain united to Antipope John Paul II and the Vatican
II sect. Such a false "We resist you..." places them right in the
very bosom and womb of the harlot. By their own profession, they are still
obstinately united to the "mother of the fornications." They still
confuse the great harlot with the immaculate Bride of Christ. They still taint
a pure and unsullied resistance to the harlot by sticking themselves in the
midst of her abominable dominion.
Apocalypse 18:4-5
"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go out from her, my
people; that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of
her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and the Lord hath
remembered her iniquities." 79
If unrepentant, these people
will surely lose their souls and go into the eternal fire for blaspheming the Church of Christ the King, which has no fellowship
with the works of darkness, no part with the unbeliever, and no concord with
the woman of iniquity. Though much of the world has been engulfed by the great
harlot, the immaculate Bride of Our Lord still exists in all her purity, though
she has been reduced to a remnant and forced underground. This woman, the
remnant Catholic Church in the last days, is described in chapter 12 of the
Apocalypse after the vision of the woman clothed with the sun, Our Lady of
Fatima.
Apocalypse
12:6-
"And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she
had a place prepared by God, that there they should feed her a thousand two
hundred and sixty days." 80
Apocalypse
12:14-
"And there were given to the woman two wings of a
great eagle, that she might fly into the desert unto her place, where she
is nourished for a times and times, and half a time, from the face of the
serpent." 81
If we have not joined already,
we must enter this remnant Catholic Church in the wilderness. We must maintain
"the faith once delivered to the saints" (Jude 1:3), and come closer
to God by receiving the true sacraments, and practicing devotion to the
Immaculate Heart of Mary and the holy rosary.
Apocalypse
12:17-
"And the dragon was angry against the woman: and went to make war with the
rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of
Jesus Christ." 82
Apocalypse
12:12-
"Here is the patience of the saints, who keep the commandments of God, and
the faith of Jesus." 83
Endnotes
1 The Holy Bible, Douay-Rheims Version, New
Testament, Rockford, IL: TAN Books, p. 292.
2 The
Holy Bible, p. 292.
3 Denzinger, The Sources of Catholic Dogma, B.
Herder Book Co., Thirtieth edition, 1957, no. 945.
4 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 293.
5 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 97.
6 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 292.
7 The Papal Encyclicals, by Claudia Carlen, Raleigh: The Pierian
Press, 1990, Vol. 1 (1740-1878), p. 28.
8 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 293.
9 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 297.
10 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 292.
11 The Papal Encyclicals, Vol. 1 (1740-1878), p.
206.
13 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 293.
14 Message of Our Blessed Mother to Melanie of La
Salette France,
Sept. 19, 1846.
15 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 292.
17 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 292.
18 The Papal Encyclicals, Vol. 2 (1878-1903), p.
403.
19 The Papal Encyclicals, Vol. 3 (1903-1939), p.
318.
20 The Papal Encyclicals, Vol. 4 (1939-1958), p.
50.
21 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 292.
22 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 293.
23 The Holy Bible, Old Testament, p. 91.
24 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 39.
25 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 128.
26 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 62.
27 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 101.
28 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 292.
29 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 293.
30 The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary, Second
edition, Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1985, p. 538.
32 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 292.
33 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 293.
34 The Papal Encyclicals, Vol. 3 (1903-1939), p.
317.
36 Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, Sheed
& Ward and Georgetown
Univ. Press, 1990, Vol.
1, p. 133.
37 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 293.
38 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 280.
39 The Papal Encyclicals, Vol. 4 (1939-1958), p.
55.
40 The Holy Bible, New Testament, pp. 293-294.
41 The Papal Encyclicals, Vol. 4 (1939-1958), p.
54.
42 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 293.
43 Scott Hahn, The Lamb's Supper, Doubleday,
1999, p. 120.
44 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 293.
45 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 290.
46 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 291.
47 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 292.
48 Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, Vol. 1,
p. 581.
49 Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, Vol. 1,
p. 547.
52 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 292.
53 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 294.
54 Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, Vol. 2,
p. 1019.
55 The Papal Encyclicals, Vol. 5 (1958-1981), p.
157.
56 The Encyclicals of John Paul II, Huntington, IN:
Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, 1996, p. 474.
57 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 107.
58 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 115.
59 The Papal Encyclicals, Vol. 2 (1878-1903), p.
304.
60 The Papal Encyclicals, Vol. 1 (1740-1878), p.
280.
61 The Papal Encyclicals, Vol. 3 (1903-1939), p.
313.
62 The Papal Encyclicals, Vol. 3 (1903-1939), p.
314.
63 The Papal Encyclicals, Vol. 3 (1903-1939), p.
317.
64 The Papal Encyclicals, Vol. 3 (1903-1939), p.
318.
65 The Papal Encyclicals, Vol. 3 (1903-1939), p.
22.
66 The Papal Encyclicals, Vol. 1 (1740-1878), p.
231.
67 The Papal Encyclicals, Vol. 1 (1740-1878), p.
230.
68 The Papal Encyclicals, Vol. 2 (1878-1903), p.
392.
69 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 289.
70 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 293.
71 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 293.
72 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 293.
73 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 293.
74 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 628.
75 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 269.
76 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 288.
77 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 287.
78 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 97.
79 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 293.
80 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 288.
81 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 288.
82 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 288.
83 The Holy Bible, New Testament, p. 290.
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