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The Papacy And The Civil Power – Chapter VI. Claim of Divine Power

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Claim of Divine Power over Temporals by Pius IX.—Its Extent.—He alone Defines its Limits.—Effect of this in the United States.—Principles of the Constitution within the Jurisdiction of the Papacy. —Germany, Italy, etc. —The Pope stirs up Insurrection there.—The Jesuits Expelled.—Papists in the United States Justify Resistance to the Law of Germany.—Same Laws in the United States.—Effect upon Allegiance.—Bavarian Protest. —Abuse of the Confessional.—Power of Absolution.—The Immoral Bearings of the Confessional.

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The Two Babylons Chapter VI. Religious Orders. Section II — Priests, Monks, and Nuns

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If the head be corrupt, so also must be the members. If the Pope be essentially Pagan, what else can be the character of his clergy?

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The Two Babylons Chapter IV. Section II — Justification by Works

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The worshippers of Nimrod and his queen were looked upon as regenerated and purged from sin by baptism, which baptism received its virtue from the sufferings of these two great Babylonian divinities. But yet in regard to justification, the Chaldean doctrine was that it was by works and merits of men themselves that they must be justified and accepted of God.

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The Two Babylons Chapter I. Distinctive Character of the Two Systems.

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The Chaldean Mysteries can be traced up to the days of Semiramis, who lived only a few centuries after the flood, and who is known to have impressed upon them the image of her own depraved and polluted mind.

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Confession of Sin, Penance, and Indulgences

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Indulgences have been a source of enormous revenue to the Vatican; by appealing to the superstitious fears of their people, high and low, the popes have filled their coffers with gold.

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Abraham Lincoln’s views about Rome, the Pope, the Vatican, the Jesuits and their influence on American society

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The true motive power of the Confederacy behind the walls of the Vatican, the schools of the Jesuits, the convents of the nuns, and the confessional boxes of Rome.

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Quotations Dealing with the History of the Jesuits

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It is impossible to read history except in the context of an army of JESUITS, masters of deceit, treachery, treason, infiltration, subversion, assassination, insurrection, civil war and coercion, plotting for the good of the papacy, and the defeat of all the Pope’s foes anywhere in the world.

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Roman Catholicism By Lorraine Boettner Chapter XVIII Intolerance, Bigotry, Persecution

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The official doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church, is that it alone is the true church, that all other churches and religious groups are in error, either heretical or pagan, and that such churches and groups have not even the right of existence.

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Roman Catholicism By Lorraine Boettner Chapter XIII Ritualism

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Roman Catholic people have to struggle with ritualism and superstition, forms and ceremonies which impress the eye but deaden the soul to spiritual truth.

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Roman Catholicism By Lorraine Boettner Chapter XII Penance, Indulgences: Salvation by Grace or by Works?

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Protestantism is primarily a reassertion of New Testament Christianity, the teaching that salvation is by faith rather than works. Romanism, on the other hand, teaches that salvation depends ultimately upon ourselves, upon what we do, that one can “earn” salvation by obedience to the laws of the church.

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Roman Catholicism By Lorraine Boettner Chapter IX The Confessional

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Catholic Church says “In the confessional the minister has the power to forgive all crimes committed after baptism.” The Bible says only God can forgive sins.

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Is The Catholic Confessional A Cause Of Crime?

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By Joseph Zacchello This article is from a PDF file on LutheranLibrary.org written in 1944. It was published by The Converted Catholic Magazine and edited by former Roman Catholic priest, Leo Herbert Lehmann. If you see the word “recently,” just think it was recent relative to 1944. But I believe the subject of this article is still relevant today. If you’ve seen the film, “The Godfather,” I think you know … Continue reading →

Catholicism’s Moral Code

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A THOROUGH UNDERSTANDING of Roman Catholicism is not possible without a grasp of the peculiar structure of its system of moral theology. It is the key to its world wide political power.

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