Ratzinger's condemnation of my church reflects not on me, but on him and all who blindly look upon him as "another Christ."
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be ondemned." -- Matthew 12:36-37"But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
"But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be ondemned." -- Matthew 12:36-37
Yep, the Pope wants to be looked upon as "another Christ". Consider the following that emphasizes the Pope as the successor of the Roman Emperors. They are all from Roman Catholics.
1. Duc de Broglie (Hostoire de l'Eglise, VI, pp. 424-456): "The Bishop of Rome mounted the throne whence the Emperors fell, adn took, little by little, the position renderd vacant by the desertion of the successors of Augustus."
2. The editor of the "Acta Sanctae Sedis, V., p. 324, said of Pope Pius IX: "The Captain who gloriously fills the place of the ancient Caesars."
3. Pope Pius IX, in his "Discorsi", I., p. 253, said: "The Caesar who now addresses you, and to whom alone are obedience adn fidelity due."
4. Cardinal Manning, in his "Temporal Power" (Preface, pp. 42-46), said: "From the abandonment of Rome [by Caesar] was the liberation of the Pontiffs." (See 2 Thess. 2:7.) "He was elevated to be, in his Divine Master's Name, King of Kings and Lord of Lords." (See 2 Thess. 2:4.) "The abandonment of Rome...left them free to become independent sovereigns, and to take up the sovereignty the Emperor had just laid down." page 50.
5. Dr. Dollinger (The Pope and the Council, p. 165): "The Popes called their acts by the same name as the Caesarean laws - Rescripts adn Decrees." "The notions about the plenary powers of the Caesars prevalent int he latter days of the Roman Empire had their influence here." On page 133 he says: "...the donation of Constantine was brought forward to show that the Pope was the rightful possessorr as heir of the Roman Caesars in Italy." On the Column of Trajan at ROme, the names of the Caesar who erected it, and of the Pope who restored it, are on the base, and both the Caesar and the Pope style themselves "Pontifex Maximus"!
6. The monk, Damian, time of Hidebrand (Halam's "Middle Ages", II, p. 275), makes Jesus Christ tell the Bishop of Rome that He has removed the regal power and conferred the entire Imperial Roman government upon the Pope.
7. The Orator of the tenth Sessionof the Fifth Lateran Council (Harduin, IX, 1789) declared that Constantine's removal to Bysantium ceded to Bishop Sylvester the Roman seat of power.
8. The Imperial title, "Augustus", formerly belonging to the Caesars, adn the almost equivalent title, "His Majesty", were subsequently bestowed by the Pope upon Charlemagne and his successors, as a token of his own supremacy, as Imperator of the Roman earth (see the Pope's "Optimum Decretum" cited by Glaber Rodulphus, AD 900).
9. Just as Caesar had the power of making or unmaking sovereigns, assigning kingdoms, or taking them away, so the BIshops of Rome claimed the right to degrade or depose sovereigns, adn to deprive them of kingdoms (see Baronius, "Annals"; Foulis, "Roman Treasons", p. 115; Waddinton, Ch. SVI, p. 283; Daubuz, p. 585).
10. Pius VII, when he fulminated an "Excommunication against Napolion", june 10th, 1809, claimed this very authority, saying, "Let them learn that they are subject to our Throne, and to our commands" (Abbe de Pradt, "Quatre Concordats").
11. Of course these Popes claimed to possess this deposing power, in virtue of being successors of Peter and Vicars of Christ - not as successors of Caesar; but the claim was false, for no such power was bestowed on Peter, whereas this power WAS bestowed by the Roman Republic upon Caesar, as its mouthpiece and executive officer; adn it was solely as successors of Caesar that the Popes became imbued with the idea of temporal power. The Church of Rome, in its Breviary (Mary 25th), has a "Saints day" in honor of Pope Gregory XII, because he "deprived the Emperor Henry IV of his kingdom, and released his subjects form their oaths of allegiance to him." Innocent III, Honorius III, Gregory VIII, all used this Caesarean power, enforcing it by the terrors of religious interdict, falsely claimed from Christ.
This is just a sampling of some of the things said by Roman Catholic adherents. Does it strick you as odd that they would admit to what they said if they didn't truly believe it? Talk about Satan deceiving the world...
So why don’t you post from original sources, “doctor”?