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Intended Catholic Dictatorship
Independent Individualist ^ | 8/27/10 | Reginald Firehammer

Posted on 08/27/2010 11:45:13 AM PDT by Hank Kerchief

Intended Catholic Dictatorship

The ultimate intention of Catholicism is the restoration of the Holy Roman Empire. That has always been the ambition, at least covertly, but now it is being promoted overtly and openly.

The purpose of this article is only to make that intention clear. It is not a criticism of Catholics or Catholicism (unless you happen to think a Catholic dictatorship is not a good thing).

The most important point is to understand that when a Catholic talks about liberty or freedom, it is not individual liberty that is meant, not the freedom to live one's life as a responsible individual with the freedom to believe as one chooses, not the freedom to pursue happiness, not the freedom to produce and keep what one has produced as their property. What Catholicism means by freedom, is freedom to be a Catholic, in obedience to the dictates of Rome.

The Intentions Made Plain

The following is from the book Revolution and Counter-Revolution:

"B. Catholic Culture and Civilization

"Therefore, the ideal of the Counter-Revolution is to restore and promote Catholic culture and civilization. This theme would not be sufficiently enunciated if it did not contain a definition of what we understand by Catholic culture and Catholic civilization. We realize that the terms civilization and culture are used in many different senses. Obviously, it is not our intention here to take a position on a question of terminology. We limit ourselves to using these words as relatively precise labels to indicate certain realities. We are more concerned with providing a sound idea of these realities than with debating terminology.

"A soul in the state of grace possesses all virtues to a greater or lesser degree. Illuminated by faith, it has the elements to form the only true vision of the universe.

"The fundamental element of Catholic culture is the vision of the universe elaborated according to the doctrine of the Church. This culture includes not only the learning, that is, the possession of the information needed for such an elaboration, but also the analysis and coordination of this information according to Catholic doctrine. This culture is not restricted to the theological, philosophical, or scientific field, but encompasses the breadth of human knowledge; it is reflected in the arts and implies the affirmation of values that permeate all aspects of life.

"Catholic civilization is the structuring of all human relations, of all human institutions, and of the State itself according to the doctrine of the Church.

Got that? "Catholic civilization is the structuring of all human relations, of all human institutions, and of the State itself according to the doctrine of the Church." The other name for this is called "totalitarianism," the complete rule of every aspect of life.

This book and WEB sites like that where it is found are spreading like wildfire. These people do not believe the hope of America is the restoration of the liberties the founders sought to guarantee, these people believe the only hope for America is Fatima. Really!

In Their Own Words

The following is from the site, "RealCatholicTV." It is a plain call for a "benevolent dictatorship, a Catholic monarch;" their own words. They even suggest that when the "Lord's Payer," is recited, it is just such a Catholic dictatorship that is being prayed for.

[View video in original here or on Youtube. Will not show in FR.]

Two Comments

First, in this country, freedom of speech means that anyone may express any view no matter how much anyone else disagrees with that view, or is offended by it. I totally defend that meaning of freedom of speech.

This is what Catholics believe, and quite frankly, I do not see how any consistent Catholic could disagree with it, though I suspect some may. I have no objection to their promoting those views, because it is what they believe. Quite frankly I am delighted they are expressing them openly. For one thing, it makes it much easier to understand Catholic dialog, and what they mean by the words they use.

Secondly, I think if their views were actually implemented, it would mean the end true freedom, of course, but I do not believe there is any such danger.

—Reginald Firehammer (06/28/10)


TOPICS: Activism; Catholic; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
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To: wmfights
This from a member of a church that teaches bowing down to idols, praying to the dead, works buying salvation, works of one person can be applied to another, and the continual need for grace refills. Thank you.

You've been around here long enough to know that none of your slurs against Catholics are true.

I'll stick with what Scripture teaches rather than the garbage taught by a bunch of fools who don't have enough sense to hold to Scripture as the rule of their faith.

Oh? ALL of them?

11,401 posted on 10/14/2010 2:14:13 PM PDT by Judith Anne (Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.)
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To: wagglebee
Does he have a jet? A pentecostal preacher just ain't doing it right if he can't afford his own jet.

Correct. Definitely not a Benny Hinn (with demonic hair) or Jimmy Swaggart (with demonic track pants)...

11,402 posted on 10/14/2010 2:15:23 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.)
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To: Mad Dawg; RnMomof7

I like history and facts and the facts are that the Early Christians’ practises and beliefs in the case of mass, priests, etc. are adequately and in fact extensively proven to be similar to the practises and beliefs as handed down and followed in The CHurch


11,403 posted on 10/14/2010 2:19:00 PM PDT by Cronos (Ojciec i Syn i Duch Swiety)
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To: MarkBsnr
Thank you for the kudos.

LOL !

You're very good; I consider you a "secondary source."

11,404 posted on 10/14/2010 2:19:01 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Natural Law; metmom; Cronos
"The claim was made that the Bible is read in it’s entirety at each mass each day."

What a blatant distortion and misrepresentation of what cronos actually posted. Cronos said we read the entire Bible in the mass, not the entire Bible in a single mass.

Yup she made a mistake. Shame on her.

Yup Cronos made a false claim. Double shame on him.

11,405 posted on 10/14/2010 2:20:41 PM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
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To: wmfights
No wonder your theology differs so significantly from Christianity.

This from a member of a church that teaches bowing down to idols

I am not a member of such a church.

praying to the dead

Ditto

works of one person can be applied to another

If you mean prayers, then we are guilty.

and the continual need for grace refills.

I like the black raspberry and chocolate flavour.

I'll stick with what Scripture teaches

You've shown you haven't, except for out of context snippets. Why not stick with what Jesus teaches. You might be safer and you would be more Christian.

rather than the garbage taught by a bunch of fools who don't have enough sense to hold to Scripture as the rule of their faith.

Oh, oh, you are going to hack off all those here who hold Calvinist beliefs.

11,406 posted on 10/14/2010 2:21:29 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.)
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To: wagglebee

No, I don’t think so and he probably owns a ford.


11,407 posted on 10/14/2010 2:23:25 PM PDT by Jaded (Stumbling blocks ALL AROUND, some of them camouflaged well. My toes hurt, but I got past them.)
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To: caww; RnMomof7
Nice and simple point -- Rn doubted that Early Christians practised the same practises and believed the same beliefs as practised and believed in the Church. I posted extensive examples that her statement was wrong.

You say a flood of information, however you neglect that she doubted various points like priests, the mass, etc. and to prove each I have posted more than one example, because to cite just one would not be considered "sufficient" by Rn or the others.

The net result is that we have adequate proof that the NT Christians faith was/is the same as the Catholic Church.
11,408 posted on 10/14/2010 2:26:41 PM PDT by Cronos (Ojciec i Syn i Duch Swiety)
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To: wagglebee; Mad Dawg; D-fendr; Cronos; Jaded; Judith Anne
The YOPIOS crowd is reluctant to address the FACT that without widespread literacy and the means to mass-produce Bibles, what they call Christianity COULD NOT HAVE EXISTED prior to the invention of the printing press in the 15th century.

What the "Catholic Apologist" crowd is reluctant to address is the FACT that the Gutenberg Press made the Reformation inevitable.

11,409 posted on 10/14/2010 2:27:36 PM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
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To: D-fendr
You're very good; I consider you a "secondary source."

I have an idea what our pagan friends consider me...

11,410 posted on 10/14/2010 2:29:49 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.)
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To: MarkBsnr
"No backflips, no cartwheels, no speaking in tongues, no lightning from his earlobes, or phlegm from the lungs, no snakes or scorpions or pigs running about the stage?"

Please tell me they didn't do away with the Vulcan mindmeld healing grip too. That would be beyond the pale.

11,411 posted on 10/14/2010 2:30:45 PM PDT by Natural Law (A lie is a known untruth expressed as truth. A liar is the one who tells it.)
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To: Alex Murphy; metmom; RnMomof7; Dr. Eckleburg; Iscool; presently no screen name
Yes, you have to read the New Testament — which is what is done each day in Church at mass.

And, unlike some of your groupings, we read the NT, OT in their entirety

—> we, Christ’s Church, the One Holy Apostolic Catholic Church ARE the New Testament Church. This is evidenced in the reading of Acts, in the writings of First Century Christians (Didache, +Ireneus etc).
11,412 posted on 10/14/2010 2:30:45 PM PDT by Cronos (Ojciec i Syn i Duch Swiety)
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To: Cronos

I had the impression that your statements about yourself and about the early history of the Church were the case.

The other side has a sort of permanent full court press going on. So impeaching sources, impeaching those who cite the sources, misstating what we profess, and constant rope-a-dope are what we have to expect.


11,413 posted on 10/14/2010 2:33:17 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: OLD REGGIE; RnMomof7; Dr. Eckleburg; metmom; Quix; caww; 1000 silverlings
Then especially for you, here are some other examples:

on Altars,

+Gregory of Nyssa (AD 394)
"This altar whereat we stand is by nature only common stone, nothing different from other stones, whereof our walls are made and our pavements adorned; but after it is consecrated and dedicated to the service of God, it becomes a holy table, an immaculate altar."

11,414 posted on 10/14/2010 2:34:46 PM PDT by Cronos (Ojciec i Syn i Duch Swiety)
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To: OLD REGGIE; RnMomof7; Dr. Eckleburg; metmom; Quix; caww; 1000 silverlings
And, more for you -- do you doubt +Augustine's works as well?

+Augustine of Hippo (AD 398) whom the reformatters tragically did not read enough of
""[T]here are many other things which most properly can keep me in [the Catholic Church’s] bosom.

The unanimity of peoples and nations keeps me here.

Her authority, inaugurated in miracles, nourished by hope, augmented by love, and confirmed by her age, keeps me here.

The succession of priests, from the very see of the apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after his resurrection, gave the charge of feeding his sheep [John 21:15–17], up to the present episcopate, keeps me here.

And last, the very name Catholic, which, not without reason, belongs to this Church alone, in the face of so many heretics, so much so that, although all heretics want to be called ‘Catholic,’ when a stranger inquires where the Catholic Church meets, none of the heretics would dare to point out his own basilica or house" (Against the Letter of Mani Called "The Foundation" 4:5 [A.D. 397]).

11,415 posted on 10/14/2010 2:36:20 PM PDT by Cronos (Ojciec i Syn i Duch Swiety)
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To: OLD REGGIE; wagglebee; Mad Dawg; D-fendr; Cronos; Jaded; Judith Anne
What the "Catholic Apologist" crowd is reluctant to address is the FACT that the Gutenberg Press made the Reformation inevitable.

What casual students of history are reluctant to address is the FACT that the availability of book presses made tracts of all kinds in quantity to distribute to the masses. The only FACT of relevance here is that with the availability of cheap printed works, literacy would be inevitable. Now we wander into the use of mass print and the consequences thereof.

11,416 posted on 10/14/2010 2:36:29 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.)
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To: wmfights
"garbage taught by a bunch of fools"

as opposed to the Reformist trash taught by insufferable cretins?

11,417 posted on 10/14/2010 2:37:48 PM PDT by Natural Law (A lie is a known untruth expressed as truth. A liar is the one who tells it.)
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To: OLD REGGIE; RnMomof7; Dr. Eckleburg; metmom; Quix; caww; 1000 silverlings
And for more on Apostolic Succession+Clement (AD 80)
"Through countryside and city [the apostles] preached, and they appointed their earliest converts, testing them by the Spirit, to be the bishops and deacons of future believers. Nor was this a novelty, for bishops and deacons had been written about a long time earlier. . . . Our apostles knew through our Lord Jesus Christ that there would be strife for the office of bishop. For this reason, therefore, having received perfect foreknowledge, they appointed those who have already been mentioned and afterwards added the further provision that, if they should die, other approved men should succeed to their ministry" (Letter to the Corinthians 42:4–5, 44:1–3 [A.D. 80]).
Hegesippus (AD 180)
"When I had come to Rome, I [visited] Anicetus, whose deacon was Eleutherus. And after Anicetus [died], Soter succeeded, and after him Eleutherus. In each succession and in each city there is a continuance of that which is proclaimed by the law, the prophets, and the Lord" (Memoirs, cited in Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 4:22 [A.D. 180]).
And +Ireneus
"It is possible, then, for everyone in every church, who may wish to know the truth, to contemplate the tradition of the apostles which has been made known to us throughout the whole world. And we are in a position to enumerate those who were instituted bishops by the apostles and their successors down to our own times, men who neither knew nor taught anything like what these heretics rave about" (Against Heresies 3:3:1 [A.D. 189]).

"But since it would be too long to enumerate in such a volume as this the successions of all the churches, we shall confound all those who, in whatever manner, whether through self-satisfaction or vainglory, or through blindness and wicked opinion, assemble other than where it is proper, by pointing out here the successions of the bishops of the greatest and most ancient church known to all, founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious apostles, Peter and Paul—that church which has the tradition and the faith with which comes down to us after having been announced to men by the apostles. For with this Church, because of its superior origin, all churches must agree, that is, all the faithful in the whole world. And it is in her that the faithful everywhere have maintained the apostolic tradition"

"Since therefore we have such proofs, it is not necessary to seek the truth among others which it is easy to obtain from the Church; since the apostles, like a rich man [depositing his money] in a bank, lodged in her hands most copiously all things pertaining to the truth, so that every man, whosoever will, can draw from her the water of life. . . . For how stands the case? Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient churches with which the apostles held constant conversation, and learn from them what is certain and clear in regard to the present question?"

"The true knowledge is the doctrine of the apostles, and the ancient organization of the Church throughout the whole world, and the manifestation of the body of Christ according to the succession of bishops, by which succession the bishops have handed down the Church which is found everywhere" (ibid., 4:33:8).

11,418 posted on 10/14/2010 2:38:17 PM PDT by Cronos (Ojciec i Syn i Duch Swiety)
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To: OLD REGGIE; Mad Dawg; RnMomof7

Ah, OR, next you’ll be doubting the Bible too. Oh, wait, don’t the Unitarians already do that? As well as deny the Trinity and the divinity of Christ?


11,419 posted on 10/14/2010 2:39:46 PM PDT by Cronos (Ojciec i Syn i Duch Swiety)
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To: Natural Law
Please tell me they didn't do away with the Vulcan mindmeld healing grip too. That would be beyond the pale.

Sadly, there is only the Faith and the love of Christ. We would never be mistaken for children of the Reformation.

11,420 posted on 10/14/2010 2:41:32 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.)
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