Charles Chiniquy was known as a preacher who helped start the reformation in the Bible belt in the midwest. Yes he said that jesuits killed Abraham Lincoln. Only God can knows if that one was true or not.
If you want defenders of the protestant church who also preach against the catholic church, try the likes of D.L. Moody, Charles Spurgeon, William Tyndale, Martin Luther, John Knox, Miles Coverdale, John Wycliffe, John Rogers; then of course our modern experts on false teachings, John Ankerberg, Dave Breese, JR Church, Jimmy DeYoung, Russ Doughten, Daymond Duck, Arno Froese, Phillip Goodman, John Hagee, Ed Hindson, Dave Hunt, Thomas Ice, Terry James, Grant Jeffrey, David Jeremiah, Gary Kah, Tim LaHaye, Zola Levitt, David Allen Lewis, Hal Lindsey, Chuck Missler, David Noeble, Charles Pack, Donald Perkins, Randall Price, David Reagan, Larry Spargimino, Perry Stone, John Walvoord. There are more who know the truth than you know.
Well, no, in fact, they didn't. They looked for records that Rivera said should exist. They don't. Rivera says he was a bishop. He wasn't. He said he was a Jesuit. He wasn't. He said he graduated from a particular seminary. He didn't. He said he was in specific places at specific times. His whereabouts could be checked against secular records. He wasn't where he claimed to be, he didn't do what he claimed he did, he wasn't who he said he was. He's a liar, just as Chick is a liar.
Charles Chiniquy was known as a preacher who helped start the reformation in the Bible belt in the midwest. Yes he said that jesuits killed Abraham Lincoln. Only God can knows if that one was true or not.
Charles Chiniquy was a renegade priest with moral issues, and a liar to boot.
Any idiot who bothers to read history, and isn't full of bigoted, insane foolishness, can see that John Wilkes Booth (not a Catholic, and with no known Catholic connection) killed Lincoln, and he was motivated by Confederate sympathies, not Jesuit ones. The only remote connection any of this has to Catholicism is that the conspirators met in a boarding house owned by a Catholic lady, Mary Suratt. Mrs. Suratt was executed, although all of the conspirators agreed she was innocent.
As I said, Protestantism deserves better than to be defended by liars and reprobates like Chick, Rivera, and Chiniquy.