The Jesuit Theonomy

Jesuit Theonomy and the State

Perhaps some need to rethink their wholehearted acceptance of Jesuit theonomy before they are completely overwhelmed by it. As the various Roman Catholic priests are being charged as pedophiles, and perverts, it is interesting to note what is happening in many of the subsequent court proceedings.

The Jesuits have taught for centuries that an “ecclesiastic” has the RIGHT to escape trial by the civil courts of the land. This Jesuit teaching is being pushed hard at the present time in Canada and the United States. The Jesuits maintain that an “ecclesiastic” is not subject to trial by state courts.

The Jesuit Gury spelled out in detail more than one hundred years ago the Jesuit position on state law. He wrote:

Quest. Are ecclesiastics obliged to obey civil laws? Ans. No; not the laws in force which are contrary to their profession, or to their sacred canons.

Ferdinand de Castro Palao said no less clearly: An ecclesiastic, as such, being exempted from lay jurisdiction, it follows certainly that he cannot be condemned by a lay judge.

Busenbaum: The clergy being exempted by divine right from civil authority, civil laws cannot bind them directly or by compulsory force; it follows that the secular (law) cannot punish them.

Dicastille: that the clergy must be exempted from lay authority even in temporal things, is evident, because nobody is under subjection to one who has no jurisdiction over him… They are exempted from the lay power, not only by canonical, civil, and human rights, but also by divine rights.¹

This is the reason why many Roman Catholic priests, now charged with sodomizing young boys all over Canada and the United States, are kept from coming to trial. The “Church” teaches, and believes, that the civil courts do not have any jurisdiction in this matter. According to the “Church” the particular overseers can deal with this matter.

If it were not for the so-called secular state NONE of these priests would ever be tried for their alleged crimes. Some obviously have been tried in various places, but many more have thus far escaped court trials and public disclosures of their evil doings.

Lindsey Tanner wrote an article for the Associated Press entitled “Catholic Church investigates pedophile Priests.” In this article it was pointed out that:

in 1988, the bishops’ conference issued a national policy recommending that dioceses follow CIVIL LAW and remove priests from parishes when complaints arise.²

This, of course was only a recommendation, many dioceses are still stonewalling as of this writing.

The stalling tactics by the local Roman Catholic Diocese here in Altoona, are in sharp contrast to how Protestant ministers fare when they run afoul of the law. The local cases dealing with Roman Catholic priests, who allegedly have sodomized young boys, have all been sealed from the public. However, a Lutheran minister was arraigned publicly for allegedly passing out obscene materials to minors. There was no one with the power apparently, to keep his case from the public even though his crime was not as serious as sodomy.

God has ordained the STATE not the church, to execute the law. The State has the responsibly to punish evil-doers and uphold the law. The Jesuits put the Roman Catholic priest above the law of the land. They have worked, and are now working, to get the State to join forces with their apostate religion, to shield the law-breaking priests of Rome.

The sealing of the indictments here in Pennsylvania of Roman Catholic priests, who have sodomized young altar boys, furnishes us a very up-to-date view of how theonomy DOES NOT WORK! The men bringing these suits, were only young boys when the alleged abuse took place. In the face of the stonewalling tactics of the Diocese, allowed by the state courts, they are, one by one, dropping the suits. Some of them have gone on record as saying that they want to get on with the rest of their lives. They cannot keep waiting for trials which never occur.

The local case involving one of these priests has remained sealed to the public, causing several related articles to appear in the Altoona Mirror. The reporter covering the case has asked several times why the public cannot get access to what is going on behind closed doors. No answer has been forthcoming as of this writing.

The Diocese has maintained right along the Jesuit position: the State has no jurisdiction over the church records concerning the accused priest. So it has refused to give the courts, and the prosecuting attorney, access to records relating to the case. Several times the court applied for the records only to be turned away each time.

The strange tactics of Rome demonstrate what happens when “ecclesiastics” believe they are above the law. Rome believes that the state only receives its legitimacy from the “church.” Therefore the priests are not subject to civil law. This is a cameo of theonomy.

All this proves that in Pennsylvania, we still need the secular state to protect our children from the predatory priests out there prowling for them. For if the “church” ruled here; it would be even worse than it is now. At least at the present time, the possibility still remains, that those religious people who break the law, might still be called to account for their actions. Think of what it would be like if the Roman Catholic dioceses had more power than they already have.

The State is ordained of God and has an important function to fulfill in the overall government of God. This is especially true when an apostate religion seeks to dominate the state.

The State, which punishes evildoers and upholds the law, is ordained of God; idolatrous religion is REBELLION against God. It makes for a corrupt society whenever an idolatrous and apostate religion is so entwined with the government, as in some Latin American countries, as to render the state incapable of upholding the law.**

** In a documented case scores of workers were paid and then gunned down mercilessly after the nut harvest was over in rural Brazil. As of this writing more street children have been gunned down and cleared off the streets by the police. The church has the backing of the government to keep family planning information from the people. So the excess people are cleared off the streets by government sponsored death squads when important dignitaries come to the city. Abortion is not the only way to kill unwanted children. You can gun them down too.

Henry Alford had an interesting observation on the restraint of evil mentioned in II Thess. 2:7. Many modern writers take the restrainer mentioned in this passage to be the Holy Spirit. The older writers usually took the word translated “restrain” to refer to the power of the Roman Empire. Alford believed that it signified the God-ordained state which helps to restrain evil. So that when the state breaks down in its God-appointed role justice disappears.

Alford wrote:

As the Fathers took them (katechon the Greek term for the power which holds back evil, and katechoon the Greek word for the person who restrains evil) of the Roman Empire and Emperor, standing and ruling in their time, repressing the outbreak of sin and enormity, — so we have been taught by history to widen this view, and understand them of the FABRIC OF HUMAN POLITY, and THOSE WHO RULE THAT POLITY, by which the great up-bursting of godlessness is kept down and hindered… seeing that as often as these outbursts have taken place, their course and devastations have been checked by the knitting up again of this fabric of temporal power: seeing that this power wherever the seeds of evil are most plentiful, is strictly a COERCIVE power, and that there only is its restraining hand able to be relaxed, where the light and liberty of the Gospel are shed abroad: seeing that especially has this temporal power ever been in conflict with the Papacy, restraining its pretensions, modifying its course of action, witnessing more or less against its tyranny and its lies. (emphasis his)³

As Alford noted: it is only where the gospel has made a great impact that the coercive power of the state can be relaxed. So that only in Protestant countries can any real liberty be experienced. For those who believe, and receive the gospel, have disciplined themselves. Wherever a people have not come under the influence of the true gospel all kinds of state power is needed to curb evil. As the idolatrous religion of Roman Catholicism comes more and more to the fore in the United States today, more and more laws are needed to try to stem the tide of iniquity that a lawless, idolatrous, religion ALWAYS PRODUCES!

Alford also rightly saw, that the Inquisition which Rome inflicted upon the world for five centuries would have still been going on in his day, had not certain states finally got enough power to stop the “church’s” torture, massacre, and murder. Only as states emerged from the long, dark, night of medievalism, were they finally able to get enough strength to stop the juggernaut of the Spanish Inquisition, which had been spawned by the theonomy of idolatrous Romanism.

As Bishop J. C. Ryle cried out: why in the world would any one want to go back to Popery after enjoying the blessings of Christ? Is it because these people have never really enjoyed the blessings of the gospel that they can so easily go back to popish bondage?

Ryle’s words need to be printed up in the Senate of the United States, in the Oval Office, in the House of Representatives, and in all the offices of these befuddled evangelicals today: “Let us think twice before we help to bring back the reign of Popery.”⁴

References

1. Bert, Op.cit., pp. 80-81.
2. Panama City Herald, July 24, 1993, p. 7A.
3. Alford, Henry, Greek New Testament, Vol. III, p. 69.
4. Ryle, op.cit., p. 72.

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