Continued from Mystery Confusion – By Ronald Cooke

A Reformed Theonomy or Jesuit Vaticanomy?

Throughout much of church history the papacy has been the instigator of wars and intrigue among nations. As the popes gained more power in the dark ages they would play off one prince against another. Wars resulted from such antagonisms. The general public many times was left in a state of disarray and confusion after the bloodshed and massacres ended.

After the Reformation the Jesuits worked all kinds of mischief to destabilize Protestant governments. In England, in the Elizabethan era, all kinds of Romish plots and Jesuit conspiracies were the order of the day. England, at that time was rightly perceived to be the most powerful opponent of Rome, and therefore every effort was made to undermine and overthrow that Protestant kingdom. The effort continues today unabated.

Some Roman Catholic writers claim that such plots were exaggerated and an unnecessary anti-papal hysteria created. Yet when one studies that time it is obvious that the historical records substantiate the charge. One can only imagine the thrill of horror which must have gone through England when the plot by Guy Fawkes, to blow up the Houses of Parliament, was discovered before it could be executed. Guy Fawkes, and his well-known Gunpowder Plot, certainly substantiates beyond dispute that such plots were indeed taking place in England at that time. *

* An English singing star was recently interviewed on television and asked about Halloween. She said she did not know much about Halloween for she had always kept Nov. 5, when Guy Fawkes would be burned in effigy to commemorate the Gunpowder Plot. She then went on to link the Roman Catholic IRA and their bombs with Guy Fawkes and the attempt to destroy Protestant liberty even today. Needless to say the interviewer was taken aback by such truth! Not knowing much about modern singers I do not know her name.

The System of Rome has always worked in many ways to gain control of a nation. At times violence is used, as in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Northern Ireland in recent times, at other times and in other nations, a different approach is used.

In the United States, which has the largest Protestant population of any country in the world, Rome has been using the method of political propaganda to try to convert the United States to Roman Catholicism. The Jesuits began their propaganda barrage in the 1930’s. They used the euphemism “Christian Social Order” to advance their cause.

It is surely nothing short of incredible that the “Reformed” theonomist took up the Jesuit idea a generation later. As true Reformation Protestantism has declined in the United States, a PATHETIC pretender has arisen to take its place called, Reformed Theonomy.

The lovely term “Christian Social Order” has now been taken up by Evangelicals, Charismatics, Reformed, and the so-called Christian Right, as the goal to be achieved by all these Protestants working together with Roman Catholics in the political arena. Some of the stronger evangelicals repudiate certain dogmas of Rome, but have agreed, that in order to “save” America, the help of Roman Catholics is needed in the social and political areas. So theological differences have been shelved in order to focus attention on crucial social and moral problems.

The Reformed Theonomist is in the forefront of this “cultural struggle.” The Reformed Theonomists have written large tomes on the need for “Christian Reconstruction” to begin in the United States. They have proclaimed loud and often that biblical LAW is to be the basis of such a Christian Reconstruction.

The more I have studied Reformed Theonomy the more I have come to realize that although many naive people now call it “Reformed” Theonomy, it is more correctly a Roman Catholic Theonomy and, if one wanted to get technical, really a JESUIT VATICANOMY! In fact, I have found almost every major emphasis of the purported “Reformed” Theonomy to be present in the writings of the Jesuits earlier in this century. Every important TERM and CONCEPT used by the “Reformed” Theonomist, is taken whole from the Jesuits.

Terms such as, RECONSTRUCTION, the CULTURAL STRUGGLE, or KULTURKAMPF, the LAW as the basis of this reconstruction, the praising of the MEDIEVAL PRE-REFORMATION SYSTEM, the attacks on the REFORMATION, as still-born, the idea of reconstruction coming through an HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM, and the idea of using all segments of society such as doctors, lawyers, politicians, even entertainment, as a help to this reconstruction of society, are all taken whole from the Jesuits. Even the term “Christian Social Order” was first coined by the Jesuits.

The whole idea of creating a Christian Social Order goes back to a postmillennial eschatology. Postmillennialism taught that the church would preach its message and the greater part of the earth would be converted and then Christ would return to a primarily converted world.**

** For further reading see our studies on Reconstructionism, Antichrist, and Premillennialism.

However, historic postmillennialism was quite different from Jesuit postmillennialism. Protestant postmillennialists, such as George Whitefield, believed that the papacy was the ANTICHRIST! Jesuit-Reformed-Theonomists hold no such view of the papacy. The Jesuits have worked to bring the papacy into a place of dominance and control so that in essence a papal Vaticanomy, the rule of the pope, can be achieved. The Reformed Theonomist is apparently willing to work with the papacy to achieve whatever goal he has in mind.

The Jesuit idea of a “Christian” Social Order, was a social order governed by the pope of Rome. They have not been slack in teaching the necessity of submission to the pope, the man they call the Vicar of Christ, but the man, the historic Protestant postmillennialists called the Antichrist!

To find the roots of Reformed Reconstructionism one must go back about eighty years to the writing of the German Jesuits. The Jesuit writer “Father” Hugger wrote just after the close of World War I about the need for social reconstruction.

We are facing a ruinous state of affairs. Once again the work of restoration will have to be accomplished by the youth. Will the congregation of Mary not go forth for the third time as the instrument of RECONSTRUCTION chosen by Divine Providence?¹

Jesuit “Father” Overmanns wrote almost at the same time that “the rock of positive moral Christian law is the foundation of this reconstruction.”² The Jesuit magazine “America” wrote, long before the Reformed Theonomist James B. Jordan extolled a government by hierarchy, that leadership in the reconstruction of America would not come from the laity, but from the top down, through the Hierarchy.

The German Jesuits also wrote about the KULTURKAMPF — the cultural struggle which the Reformed Theonomists also envision. This cultural struggle was then imported into the United States in the early 1930’s by the Jesuits. The Reformed Theonomist apparently thinks the cultural struggle is more important than the spiritual struggle in which God’s people have always been involved throughout history. The believing remnant throughout church history has always fought with the Whore of Babylon and indeed like the dissenters before the Reformation, and the Protestant Reformers and those who followed them, have always seen this struggle as the main war that is to be fought as far as this world is concerned.

The Jesuits had to be careful what they said and how they said it, earlier in this century, for the United States was much more biblically Protestant then than she is now. So, true to her lamb-like nature when in the minority, the Jesuits carefully introduced their social philosophy and their subtle attacks on the American way of life.

The Jesuits started their work in the Roman Catholic ethnic enclaves in the big cities for the most part. At that time, their message never got beyond the Roman Catholic audience. McDonough, in writing about the Jesuit Husslein, wrote that his message was

so interlarded with special pleading for Catholic causes — against secular education (does that not sound familiar) and the evils imputed to the Reformation generally that his message could not have reached far beyond the Catholic ghetto.³

Husslein, and his fellow Jesuits, longed for a return to the Medieval Construct. They viewed big business and American ingenuity as “the monstrous product of Protestant individualism.”⁴

They used their attacks against secular education and Protestant individualism to set the table for their attempt to “return” the United States to a pre-Reformation social order. This Romanized Medieval Construct they called the Christian Social Order. McDonough writes,

The dream of a political economy that was distinctively (Roman) Catholic + and that offered an alternative to capitalism and communism entered the United States from continental Europe during the mid-thirties in the guise of an attempt by the Jesuits to introduce a blueprint for a Christian Social Order.⁵

The Jesuits have worked hard to denigrate Protestantism and glorify Romanism. They used euphemisms such as the Christian Social Order helped to enhance the message. What Christian, for instance, could be against a Christian social order? It sounds inviting. It sounds like heaven on earth.

It in fact sounded so good that so-called “Reformed” theonomists, and Charismatics such as Pat Robertson, have made it their own. Apparently someone forgot to tell these men that the word “Christian” did not mean Protestant Bible believing Christian, but in fact, really meant Roman Catholic.⁺ It was a ROMAN CATHOLIC SOCIAL ORDER, such as prevailed then in Spain and Portugal and later in Brazil, that the Jesuits were espousing.

Just before World War II, the Jesuit, Edward Dowling, added his voice to the criticisms being raised against American Protestantism. Addressing the question, “Is Democracy Doomed?” he said that the Protestant Reformation from which Anglo-American democracy developed was

the only revolution in history that went backward, the rise of the rich against the poor. The rebellion of Luther had brought in its train not only political upheaval but also capitalist individualism and social injustice.⁶

It is almost incredible that any thinking individual could make such a statement. For obviously the first social justice that millions of Roman Catholics ever received, was when they fled from places like the papal states to America.

+ The word Catholic is now used to describe Roman Catholicism. The word catholic simply means universal. A person can have catholic reading tastes meaning that he reads widely. Roman Catholics use the word catholic I believe purposely today, to try to equate what I perceive as Mystery Babylon religion, with the true catholic church, which is the church universal, the elect of God, the body of Christ, of which, I do NOT believe, the Roman Catholic system is a part.

Malachi Martin, the Roman Catholic ex-Jesuit, wrote concerning the Papal States just before they were taken from the papacy:

Between 1823 (death of Pius VII) and 1846 (when Pius IX was elected), almost 200,000 citizens of the papal states were severely punished (death, life imprisonment, exile, galleys) for political offences; another 1.5 million were subject to constant police surveillance and harassment.

There was a gallows permanently in the square of every town and city and village… A special tribunal sat permanently in each place to try, condemn, and execute the accused… Every pope tore up the stream of petitions that constantly came asking for justice, for the franchise, for reform of the police and prison system. When revolts occurred in Bologna, in the Romagna, and elsewhere they were put down with wholesale executions, sentences to lifelong hard labor… to exile, to torture. Secret societies abounded. Assassinations, robberies crime in general increased.⁷

Millions of Roman Catholics fled Europe in the nineteenth century, and found political justice for the first time in their lives, in a state which arose from the GLORIOUS Protestant Reformation. An additional fact, which shows the utter fallacy in Dowling’s words, is that MILLIONS CONTINUE TO FLEE FROM ALL OVER LATIN AMERICA TO THIS VERY HOUR, to come to a land totally different from their own. A land arising from the blessings of Protestantism, to escape from lands STILL CURSED by that very social order that Dowling espoused!

One would think from reading the “politically conservative” literature of today that Protestantism was a great evil and Romanism a wonderful blessing to any state. Yet history does not show this to be true.

Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn in his large tome on “Leftism” manages, like the Jesuits, to throw a few barbs at Protestantism. He manages with a supercilious backhand to equate all dissenting movements from Rome before the Reformation with what he calls “Leftism.” Leftism, of course, to most conservative Americans is a bad word. So by equating all dissenting and Protestant movements with leftism, he manages to leave his readers with the idea that only Roman Catholicism can generate any real stand against all forms of Leftism, such as national socialism, and international communism.

He does not stop there. He proceeds to claim that the England of the Puritans was also a “breeding ground for leftist heresies which found their way to the United States.”⁸ So again he manages to cast suspicion upon Protestantism as a fertile field where all kinds of leftist evils flourish, without so much as a word of documentation.

Three hundred pages later he again manages quite a broadside against Protestantism by saying that “leftism is always motivated by hatred.”⁹ So if Puritans and Protestants are leftist then one can only assume according to Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn’s⁺⁺ great logic, that Protestants and Puritans are motivated by hatred while the Holy Roman Catholic Church must be always motivated by love and kindness!

++ Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn taught for awhile at Fordham University. It is a well-known Jesuit school. Whether he himself, was a Jesuit or not, I do not know. But he certainly sounds like one.

He never explains why Protestant nations on the whole tend to produce a better life style than Roman Catholic nations. Nor does he explain why so many countries in Latin America are still so riddled with poverty, disease, and crime, after more than 400 years of papal domination?

Dowling, Husslein, and their fellow Jesuits espoused the same system that Morales Erhlich later desired for El Salvador, CORPORATISM.^& This is a favorite political system of Rome supposedly halfway between Capitalism and Communism. It is a favorite of Roman Catholic authoritarian systems. It was popular at that time in Spain and Portugal, under Franco and Salazar, and some elements of it could also be seen in Argentina and Brazil.

& Corporatism is a system of government which is centered in one body which has absolute authority. This body consists of representatives of major industries each of which controls all phases of its own field of endeavor.

While the Jesuits may have lauded such a system and sought to bring it to the United States, it has never been too popular with Protestants. In places like Spain, Protestants were repressed. They had very little freedom and were not allowed in Franco’s Spain to publicly advertise the names of their churches or their church services. They were not allowed to publicly proselytize for new converts. The Corporatism of Spain was a completely closed system as far as Protestantism was concerned.

What was even worse, in Spain persecution was unleashed against dissenters and forced conversions were common. Dissenters were jailed and murderous games were played upon them by their Roman Catholic guards. Patricio P. Escobali in his book Death Flow tells of the firing squads that dissenters would be taken to and then after thinking they were going to be executed would be returned to their cells by laughing guardsmen. Some men would almost faint. For on occasion they would be shot so one never knew whether his time had come or not. This trick was also used by the North Vietnamese, but it preceded them by many years.

As McDonough entitled his book about the Jesuits, Men Astutely Trained, the Jesuits are nothing, if not astute. They work hard at their task. They use all means to achieve their ends, that is why they were always viewed with suspicion by knowledgeable Protestants. So the Jesuits went to work to broaden the appeal for their Roman Catholic Social Order.

First, by continually referring to it as a CHRISTIAN social order, they impressed many unwary Protestants who were disillusioned at the way America was going, morally and spiritually. In fact, this is why the Reformed theonomist has jumped on the Jesuit bandwagon. He was tired of what he perceived as an escapist pietistic Protestantism, which ignored governments, and looked for apocalyptic deliverance to save the day. So he is willing to work with Roman Catholics in the “social arena” to defeat secular humanism.

Secondly, the Jesuits established the Institute of Social Order at West Baden, Indiana, in 1943. Two hundred Jesuits from across the United States met on Labor Day weekend to chart their course for the future of Romanism in the United States. Their plan of action was summed up in this way:

“to combine social philosophy, propaganda, and action.”¹⁰

McDonough in speaking of the propaganda of the Jesuits maintains that, “the writing of this handful of Jesuits struck a chord among Protestants as well.”¹¹ They tried with their propaganda to picture a return “to rustic simplicities and dreamed of the restoration of a manorial way of life, self sufficient like a feudal demesne (estate).”¹²

No doubt this did appeal to some Protestants.^&& At this juncture in American history there was a giant social upheaval taking place. Millions were leaving the family farm and either going into factories or to the battle front in World War II, either way, the breakup of the relatively peaceful rustic lifestyle was a reality, and heart wrenching, to those involved. Whether Protestants wanted to go back to a medieval manorial lifestyle governed by the papal hierarchy is another thing entirely.

&& It is true that America is now going down spiritually. But this is because she is forsaking her glorious Reformation heritage. She is now listening in many ways to Rome and turning toward a system of idolatry which sits under the judgment of God.

The Jesuits knew that they were operating in a predominantly Protestant country. So they had to be careful how they used their propaganda. They used, what they perceived as unfair labor practices against minorities, as a platform to help spread their message of a more “Christian” social order. So they attacked some of the harsher aspects of industrialization. They always managed to link Reformation Protestantism to them.

The Jesuit, Joseph Husslein, excoriated what he called, “the selfish spirit of rationalistic capitalism that sprang into being after the Reformation.”¹³ He viewed the pre-capitalist world of Europe as MORE egalitarian spiritually and materially MORE democratic — than the systems which followed.”¹⁴ (emphasis added)

Only a person steeped in the System of Rome could ever make such a statement and actually believe it. For obviously, pre-Reformation Europe was a terrible place to live if one refused to knuckle under to the System of Rome. In fact, dissenters who refused to accept the System of Rome KNEW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING OF EGALITARIANISM. They were hunted down, imprisoned, tortured, and massacred in practically every century of the Middle Ages, and their goods and property taken from them by the Inquisition.

So the System which preceded the Reformation not only was not more egalitarian, nor even less egalitarian, than the system which followed the Reformation, EGALITARIANISM DID NOT EXIST BEFORE THE REFORMATION IN ANY PLACE WHERE THE SYSTEM OF ROME DOMINATED! Egalitarianism applied only to those who submitted to the Papacy.^#

# The Vaudois, Waldenses, Bogomiles, Lollards, and Hussites were all harried and persecuted by this glorious egalitarian system lauded by Husslein and his Jesuit colleagues. These dissenters were driven almost to extinction under the NON-egalitarian system of the Roman Antichrist!

Even worse, the religion of the times before the Reformation consisted primarily of masses for the dead, mariolatry and idolatry, and endless pilgrimages to useless shrines. The spiritual darkness could almost be felt in the papal theonomy achieved by Innocent III.

It is important to note that what the Jesuits envisioned for the United States seventy years ago — a Medieval Construct — is the very same idea the papacy has for Europe today. Arthur Noble writes about the re-medievalised Europe the papacy is working to achieve today:

Historically, the concept of the nation-state has been anathema to the Vatican, whose tactics have been to rob sovereign nations of their nationhood and to (reduce them) to mere states or provinces of a single European nation-state controlled by her, even sub-dividing them internally where it suited her purposes. Her present goal is unchanged to RECREATE a RE-MEDIEVALISED Europe of small, ineffectual state which she can easily dominate. Already the map of Europe is becoming strikingly reminiscent of the period before World War I. The dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy after the War (produced) nation-states on its former territory, such as Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Hungary. As Czechoslovakia recently split into its two constituent states, as Yugoslavia violently disintegrates into a jigsaw puzzle of its provinces and Hungary may still fall apart into ethnic regions, the familiar and unmistakable tactics of Rome become increasingly discernible (emphasis added).

It is important to note that even secular writers notice that the same tactics are being applied to the United States today only they do not see Rome behind them. B. A Nelson, in his work The Coming Triumph of Mexican Irredentism states the following:

(Latino) separatism, considered from a perspective south of the Rio Grande, is Mexican Irredentism.^## Given a continuation of present demographic trends, it is certain as any projection of the future can be, that by the year 2080 the United States will have begun a process of geopolitical dissolution initiated by the proximate triumph of Mexican irredentism.¹⁶

## Irredentism is derived from the policy of certain Italians in 1878, who sought to join Italy to adjacent regions which were populated largely by Italians, but ruled by other governments. It is now used to describe any country which takes over another country by spreading into that country and thus assimilating the foreign state into itself. Modern examples are to be seen in the North of Ireland where Roman Catholics have been filtering in from Eire for the past seventy-five years, and in Kosovo where the Albanians have been doing likewise. Rome has used this strategy for centuries, and is still using it today, to try to gain power in countries where she lacks it and ultimately make them subservient to the Papacy.

If one substitutes Roman Catholicism for the word Mexican, for in this case they are synonymous, then he sees the same thing in the future for the United States as is happening in Europe today. Rome works slowly but surely to achieve her ends. She takes the long view. For she knows that her prohibition against any form of family planning will produce big families, who by the sheer weight of numbers begin to take over a society and mold it for the Vatican.

For example, the population of Mexico is now doubling every twenty years. Millions of illegal Mexican immigrants stream into the United States in such overwhelming numbers that all kinds of border controls with armed guards are being put in place to try to stop them.

The Reformation certainly had its limitations, but it can safely be said that it was the root cause of more freedom and economic opportunity than any other movement in history since the advent of the Christian Church. In Civilization and the Protestant Reformation, John W. Robbins summarizes Max Weber as follows:

Max Weber, the German sociologist in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, argued that capitalism historically emerged in Protestant countries because they inculcated those virtues that led to the development of capitalism: hard work, honesty, frugality, thrift, punctuality. These virtues, coupled with the idea of a calling, provided the impetus ending serfdom and establishing a free political and economic order.

The Vatican, however, has detested the Reformation and has waged unceasing warfare against it educationally, theologically, sociologically, politically, and even militarily. Rome has been unrelenting in its attempts to picture Luther, Calvin, and their Reformation, as an evil that needs drastic correction.

Husslein certainly never gave up in his attack upon capitalism and Protestantism. He described Protestant capitalism as an “economic monstrosity of pagan selfishness.” Over against this “pagan” selfishness Husslein set, what he called, “idealized medievalism.”¹⁹

Husslein shrewdly spelled out his message in the United States, but he wanted everyone who read his writings to understand clearly what he was saying:

Suppressed Catholicism is at the center of the social unrest. Suppressed Catholicism is the spirit struggling for liberation beneath the cracking, breaking, bursting shell of an UNNATURAL and UNCHRISTIAN social order. It is the PRE-REFORMATION spirit of social freedom, which the CHURCH ALONE can prevent from degenerating into lawlessness or injustice once it has achieved its liberation (emphasis added).²⁰

So while many writers blame the Protestants in the North of Ireland for the unrest there, this Jesuit priest acknowledges that it is Roman Catholicism which is at the CENTER of social unrest in Protestant countries. That it is Roman Catholicism which is struggling to break down the “unnatural” and “unchristian” social order created by the Protestant Reformation. And just in case people do not understand he also states categorically that the Roman Catholic church ALONE, nothing else can obviously do it, can prevent the liberation achieved by Catholicism from degenerating into anarchy. So his ideal social order is one ruled by the Pope of Rome where all the unnatural and unchristian elements of Protestantism have been destroyed, in other words a true Vaticanomy!

It is interesting to note that while Reformed theonomists see the great KULTURKAMPF as a battle with the forces of secular humanism, Rome sees the cultural struggle mainly as against the “unnatural” and “unchristian” social order created by Protestantism.

This same note is sounded in Ireland where there are few atheists. The battle there is plain for all to see: it is a battle which RAGES between antichristian Rome and the Bible-Protestantism of Ulster. At least in the island of Ireland there are no doubts as to who is fighting who: the great kulturkampf of the Jesuits is to overthrow Protestantism and unite the island under the domination of the same foreign state which curses El Salvador, the Vatican!

One writer in the Daily Telegraph likened the Protestants of Eire (the Roman Catholic part of Ireland) to “enfeebled Red Indians on remote reservations” which is a true picture of Protestants in Eire. The same writer also wrote of the “KULTURKAMPF (of the Roman Catholics) going so well”²¹ in the North of Ireland, that the Protestants there were hard pressed to retain their liberties. The Bible Protestants of Northern Ireland certainly understand the KULTURKAMPF of the Jesuits against Protestantism, even if the Reformed Theonomists of the United States do not!

It is amazing how plain spoken some of the Jesuits were in the United States and yet many Protestant Americans even to this day, do not seem to grasp what the Jesuits were saying. The Jesuit priest, Francis Talbot in 1930, certainly spoke plain enough to those who understand English:

The old Protestant culture is about at the end of its rope. The first settlers of our country established this distinctly Protestant culture, being chiefly from Protestant countries, so that our history from the beginning of the Republic has been predominantly non-Catholic. It has given the complexion to the country, entered our legislation, sociology and economics, is the basis of our commerce and industry and fact, has formed a great part of the American people. For one hundred and fifty years the Protestant element was strongest, and we admit it.

This Christian culture is a wave receding, and we Catholics are living in a most important day, with one culture vanishing, and another gaining strength. Why can’t we make the United Sates Catholic in legislation, Catholic in justice, aims, and ideals? We are the greatest numerically in the country, strong and growing in the arts and education. We are now ready to expand. Now is the time to organize and strike hard to put the Catholic ideal before all.²²

In 1937 the Apostolic Delegate to the United States added his voice to the Roman Catholic chorus:

What we do want and what we shall work for to attain by all our means is a state completely Catholic, because such a country only can represent the ideal of human progress and because a Catholic people has the right to organize itself socially and politically according to the tenets of its faith.²³

This is the “Christian Social Order” the “Reformed” Theonomists are fighting to achieve in the United States today. They imagine that Rome is working with them to produce a “Reformed” theonomy; they do not understand that Rome has a Vaticanomy in mind which is a complete DESTRUCTION of anything Reformed, or anything to do with the Reformation!

Since the 1930’s the amount of papal propaganda in the United States has increased dramatically. From lecturing to the Roman Catholic ethnic enclaves Rome graduated to much larger audiences. Cardinal Spellman became the confidante to six different American Presidents, and was probably the key player in getting President Kennedy to intervene in Vietnam to try to uphold the Roman Catholic System in South Vietnam. Bishop Sheen made the Roman System more popular to millions of deluded Americans via his nationwide television ministry.

The voices of Rome which had been somewhat muted in the previous years now took on a much more strident tone. “Father” Patrick O’Brien writing in L’Aurora in December, 1950 announced:

We, the Hierarchy of the Holy Catholic Church, … if necessary, shall change, amend, or blot out the present Constitution so that the President may enforce his, or rather our, humanitarian program and all phases of human rights as laid down by our saintly Popes and the Holy Mother Church … We are going to have our laws made and enforced according to the Holy See and the Popes and the canon law of the Papal Throne. Our entire structure must be rebuilt on that basis. Our educational laws must be constructed to end that atheism, the Red Peril of totalitarianism, Protestantism, Communism, Socialism, and all other of like ilk and stamp, be driven from this fair land … We control America and we do not propose to stop until America or Americans are genuinely Roman Catholic and remain so.²⁴

At almost the same time the official diocesan organ of the Roman Catholic System in Buffalo, New York, declared its intention of more quickly setting up a Vaticanomy in the United States. The Union and the Echo, stated that at the rate of 126,000 converts a year to Romanism, it would take too long to “convert” the United States, so the writer of this article advocated THEN, the same things the “Reformed” theonomists advocated a generation later:

We must convert… Politics, Economics, Sociology, Business, Entertainment, Labor and Management, the Department of the State, and the Executive Branch of our government to Christian and hence Catholic principles.²⁵

Here the Hierarchy of Rome spells out clearly its goals for the United States. It is amazing when one takes into consideration the goals of the Christian Coalition, just how close they are to the goals of the Roman Catholic System. The Christian Coalition is bent on “saving” America with a UNION of Evangelicals, Reformed, and Roman Catholics all working together in these various areas to establish what must be a Vaticanomy the rule of the Pope.

The Jesuits claim they are going to produce a “Christian” Social Order. The Hierarchy claims they are going to “convert” the United States to a country run by Roman Catholic principles. So if such goals were to be attained, the society produced by them can only be a Vaticanomy. So let us look then at the Vaticanomy of El Salvador. In this country the Roman Catholic Hierarchy surely must have attained their “Christian” Social Order, for they have been ruling that region for around 400 years. Surely their goals have been achieved after 400 years of pursuing them.

The Roman Catholic System has been in Central America since Pedro Arias de Avila beheaded Balboa and Hernandez in 1517. The Spaniards were to reign uncontested for three hundred years. In 1821 various rebellions broke out in Central America and the Spanish yoke was thrown off in the “entire territory now known as Central America, and since split up into five republics,”²⁶ Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, El-Salvador, and Nicaragua. While the Spaniards were sent packing, the Roman Catholic System actually increased its hold over the people.

Justo Rufino Barrios led a revolt and became president of Guatemala in 1867 he proclaimed “freedom of the press” and the suppression of all Roman Catholic religious orders.”²⁷ He tried to unify all of Central America under one central government but various cabals in Honduras and El Salvador kept the project from succeeding. Barrios was killed in a war with El Salvador and his reforms perished with him, leaving Rome in the driver’s seat throughout Central America.

So the Roman Catholic System has been in Central America for about 90 years longer than the Puritan-Protestant system has been in the United States. The Puritan pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. Puritan Protestantism developed its social order in the United States. The Roman Catholic System developed its Vatican social order in Central America and El Salvador.

So we can evaluate El Salvador in light of its heritage. We can see what was produced by the Roman System where there was no power to block the growth of a Roman Catholic Social Order.

The study of history is important. For by looking back one can from his present vantage point examine statements made in the past and see if what was predicted has come to pass or not. For example, C. E. Wilcox made certain statements about the power of Rome in both the United States and Canada in his study in the early part of this century, entitled Must Canada Split. Wilcox believed back then that “the Roman Catholic church has made impossible the assimilation of French Quebec into the rest of Canada, and has made a split in the Dominion INEVITABLE.” (emphasis added)²⁸

Wilcox, although generating very little support for his view sixty some years ago, can now be considered something of a prophet. For Quebec has been tottering on the brink of separation from the rest of Canada for the past ten years, and the agitation continues to this present hour.

At about the same time that Wilcox was writing, Roman Catholic Bishop John F. Noll referred to the public school system of the United States as “Public Enemy Number One.”²⁹ Noll and his friends were advocating state support for the Roman Catholic parochial school system. Today they have achieved that goal in Wisconsin and are about to achieve it in several other states.

I do not defend the present public school system but I certainly do not want my tax dollars going to support the parochial school system of Rome. Schools should pay for themselves, those who oppose them should not have to support systems which are diametrically opposite to what they believe.

Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, said more than four hundred years ago: “let the beginning be as it may, as long as the outcome is ours.” Certainly as one looks at Europe, Latin America, and North America, he would have to say that the outcome at present favors the Jesuits rather than the Reformers.

References

1. Lehmann, L. H., Behind the Dictators, Agora Pub. Co., NY, NY, 1944, p. 6.
2. Stimmen Der Zeit, June, 1919, p. 171.
3. McDonough, Peter, Men Astutely Trained, MacMillan, NY, NY, 1992, p. 56.
4. Ibid., p. 60.
5. McDonough, op.cit., p. 38.
6. Ibid., p. 86.
7. Martin, Malachi, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church, Bantam Books, NY, NY, 1983, p. 213.
8. Von Kuchnelt-Leddihn, Erik, Leftism, Arlington House Publishers, New Rochelle, NT, 1974, p. 58.
9. Ibid., p. 406.
10. McDonough, op.cit., p. 38.
11. Ibid., p. 30.
12. Ibid., p. 29.
13. Noble, Arthur, The European Union and the Ecumenical Movement, Revivalist, Jan., 1999, p. 26.
14. Nelson, B. A., The Coming Triumph of Mexican Irredentism, Immigration Control Foundation, Alexandria, VA, 1984, p. 3.
15. Robbins, John W., Civilization and the Protestant Reformation, Trinity Foundation, Box 68, Unicoi, TN, 1994, p. 6.
16. McDonough, op.cit., p. 51.
17. Ibid., p. 52.
18. Ibid., p. 53.
19. Daily Telegraph, July 12, 1997, Editorial.
20. Montano, Walter M., Behind the Purple Curtain, Cowman Publications, Los Angeles, CA, 1950, pp. 283-284.
21. Ibid., p. 234.
22. Noble, op.cit., p. 11.
23. Montano, op.cit., p. 234.
24. Noble, op.cit., p. 11.
25. Loc.cit.
26. Lodge, Henry Cabot, History of Nations, Vol. XXII, Collier and Sons, NY, NY, 1928, p. 436.
27. Ibid., p. 438.
28. Montano, op.cit., p. 234. 29. Ibid., p. 247.

(To be continued.)