Billy Graham, The Catholic Church, and Halley’s Bible Handbook
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This is a section from Dr. Cathy Burn’s book, Billy Graham and His Friends, from the section, MARY IS THE CENTER. All emphasis in bold font are from the author.
Vatican II, however, was the instrument that helped the Vatican open up the door to the ecumenical movement. New Ager and occultist, Robert Muller, bragged: “There is no doubt that Paul VI, together with John XXIII and John Paul II, will be remembered as the three great Popes of Peace, pioneers of a momentous transcendence of the Catholic Church into the New Age.”
In spite of this, the Billy Graham organization recommended the biography of John XXIII which “contained hundreds of pages of the Pope’s devotion to Mary and the saints, worship of the Eucharistic wafer, and his trust in the sacraments for salvation….” Graham “commended it in ads as ‘a classic in devotion.’”
Pope John XXIII remarked: “Mary is the center of all things in the sight of God.” He also said: “Mary is the center and light of all theology. Without Mary’s light, theology is in darkness, in heresy. Without Mary, and if it were not for Mary, God would not have made the world.’”
Graham himself said in 1966: “I find myself closer to Catholics than the radical Protestants.”
Cardinal Cushing, a Roman Catholic from Boston, made an interesting comment to the press in the early 1950’s that “if he had half a dozen Billy Grahams, he would not worry about the future of his [Catholic] church!” In fact, Graham bragged: “No ranking member of the Catholic hierarchy spoke out against the [1957 New York Madison Square Garden] Crusade, and I suspect many Catholics knew of my friendship with various Catholic leaders.”
Graham confessed: “My goal, I always made clear, was not to preach against Catholic beliefs or to proselytize people who were already committed to Christ within the Catholic Church.”
He added: “I was grateful for the statement one U. S. Catholic newspaper made as it reviewed our first South American trip: ‘Never once, at least in our memory, has [Billy Graham—B.G.] attacked the Catholic Church.’”
The July 1972 issue of The Catholic Digest,
In 1978 Graham stated: “I found that my beliefs are essentially the same as those of orthodox Catholics.”
“The Detroit Free Press for Sept. 29, 1991, quoted Graham as saying, ‘The Roman Catholics know that I’m not against them, and in my thinking, rightly or wrongly, I represent all the churches.’”
Not only does Graham not attack the falseness in the Catholic Church but he even protects the wrong. For instance,
“around 1961, Billy Graham bought the rights to Halley’s Pocket Bible Handbook. The original Halley’s, up until the 22nd edition (1959), warned about the Jesuits. There are chapters about the Roman Papacy and the Jesuits. According to Mrs. Halley, Mr. Halley spent years working on those chapters and never would have permitted the book to be changed. However, when he died, Billy Graham bought the rights, and removed all the research and warning about the Jesuits in the editions Billy Graham printed.”
(End of the section.)
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