HOW Wealthy the Philippine Catholic Church?

The Philippine Catholic Church is not obliged to pay taxes.

But in the Bible, Jesus Christ paid taxes.

Matthew 17:24 And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute?  

Matthew 17:25 He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?  

Matthew 17:26 Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.  

Matthew 17:27 Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.

CHRIST IS THE EXAMPLE OF CHRISTIANS TO FOLLOW (read 1 Peter 2:21)

It is clear that the Catholic Church in the Philippines does not imitate what Christ did.

It is another clear fact that THIS CHURCH IS NOT OF GOD.

Catholic Church asks for baptism fees

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When my daughter was baptized, we wanted the priest that married us to do the baptism. We did the prep work in the parish we belong to now. The policy in the church where the baptism occured was that a gratuity was to be given to the priest. We gave him $100 when he married us, so we gave him $50 for the baptism, and it seemed to be well receieved.

http://forums.catholic.com/showpost.php?s=b39e32d56a24dd6fb0be4f14af71bfe6&p=2096327&postcount=6

I have never had a parish ask me for a certain amount for any sacrements or services (such as a mass intention for the dead). I have always received an envelope however, and have put in it whatever we could. We've been blessed to be able to offer $50.

Please do not hesitate to baptise your baby because of cost. Contact the church as soon as possible! If they again state that it costs $50, tell them how much you can afford to offer. I would be appalled if they refused the baptism based on costs!

MY COMMENT:

In the Bible, the teaching of God should not be paid.

Proverbs 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Apostle Paul preached the Gospel freely

2 Corinthians 11:6 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

No wonder why there are no priests ready to debate anti Catholic preachers in order to defend their faith. read below what Christ said here:

John 10:12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.

John 10:13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

Expense in Beatifying or Canonizing a saint

Non Catholics are better people than Catholics

"WE READILY ADMIT THAT SOME PERSONS WHO DO NOT CONFESS THE CATHOLIC FAITH ARE BETTER PEOPLE THAT ARE SOME WHO DO; THAT THEY ARE MORE SINCERE AND UPRIGHT, PRESUMABLY MORE PLEASING TO GOD, AND APPARENTLY MORE LIKELY TO SAVE THEIR SOULS"

(THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND YOU by Henri De Lubac, S. J. Page 88)

My refutations:

This is the proof that The Catholic Church is not of God. why? the real Christian Church should be the church of the saints.

1 Corinthians 1:2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

Catholic Church's Bible burning

A clear proof that the Catholic Church is against God's words proving that It was established by the devil or Satan.

The Church In Decline: France’s Vanishing Catholics

France is an overwhelmingly Catholic country -- up to 88 percent of the population belongs to the Roman Catholic church, according to the CIA World Factbook. However, the number of active believers has been falling for decades.

Nonetheless, France boasts a glorious and splendid Catholic legacy -- from the iconic Notre Dame cathedral in Paris to its status as one of the first countries to adopt Catholicism as its official religion. In fact, when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in the year 800, France’s history became inseparable from that of the Catholic Church

Moreover, Avignon in the south of France served as the papal seat from 1309 to 1377 -- the last of the so-called ‘Avignonese popes’ was Gregory XI, who was born Pierre-Roger De Beaufort in Limoges-Fourche. (No Frenchman has served as the Holy Father since then.)

But now in the second decade of the 21st century, with the College of Cardinals having elected a new Pontiff in the Vatican -- Pope Francis of Argentina -- France’s Catholic Churches are increasingly bereft of parishioners.

The numbers are grim. Last year, according to reports, more than one-third (35 percent) of France’s population and almost two-thirds (63 percent) of youth said they belonged to “no religion.”
Very few people, an estimated 1-in-20 of the French, regularly attend Mass anymore.
Father Innocent Feugna, an African deacon who toils at St Pierre de Guise in northern France, complained that his congregation in aging and dying out.
“Here I'm preaching to pensioners,” he lamented to BBC.

"In Cameroon, [the Catholic] Mass is animated, it's alive -- here [in France], services are still flat and cold. In Cameroon, the churches are full. We've got children. We've got adults, all ages. It's completely different from France."

Not only are France’s church-goers aging, so are church officials -- the average priest in the country is now 75, forcing the importation of foreigners to conduct religious services.

"Young people have different aspirations," Feugna stated. "Their interests lie elsewhere. The Church perhaps doesn't have the right message for young people here."

Needless to say, it is very hard to find potential priests among French youth, commented Douglas Yates, assistant professor of political science at the American University of Paris and professor at the American Graduate School in Paris.

“As the priests in France get older, they are being replaced by Africans, particularly in rural areas, a phenomenon that draws not a little attention in the mass media,” he said,  “If the trend continues, the Catholic church will become a minority religion.  Already it is eye-to-eye with agnostic and atheists. Modern France is a secular society.”

Members of France’s own Catholic Church have admitted as such -- noting that the number of baptisms has plunged by almost 25 percent since 2000, while the number of Catholic wedding services has dropped by 40 percent over that period.

“The Catholics are dispersed throughout the country, more heavily in the rural areas than in the urban centers, but nevertheless geographically omnipresent,” said Yates.

“Demographically, the practicing Catholic population is gray haired, as anyone could see who walks into a French church.  Many churches are so ill-attended that they are abandoned, or sold to the commune (often turned into private homes, restaurants or even cafes).”

Interestingly, despite its adherence to Catholicism, France has had a stormy relationship with the Vatican.

Odon Vallet, a French religion and Vatican scholar, explained to FRANCE 24, why there have been no French popes in over 600 years.

“This historical absence can be explained, notably, by the difficult relationship that Church and French kings had with the papacy,” he noted.

“And it’s important to remember that Napoleon put a pope in prison.”

Moreover, while the embrace of Catholic values appears to be slipping from the French consciousness, the rocky road for the legalization of same-sex marriage would suggest that some church teachings have deep roots.

A bill approving gay marriage (and the right of gay couples to adopt) was passed in the lower house of parliament last month – but it was hardly unanimous. The measure passed in the National Assembly by a vote of 329 in favor to 229 against, while 10 deputies abstained.

The bill remains subject to approval by the senate before it becomes law.

Already, Paris has witnessed huge protests against the bill from social conservatives and church figures.

Last year, Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois, the archbishop of Paris, warned a group of French bishops in Lourdes that same-sex marriage "would be a transformation of marriage that would affect everyone" and amounted to a form of “deceit.”

Indeed, Yates notes that Catholicism should not be discounted as a force in French society.

“The Cathedral remains a pillar of the identity of most French cities, and the parish church the symbolic center of small town France,” he said.

“One of the most visible showings of French Catholics were the public protests against gay marriage that filled the streets of Paris this winter. If those crowds are any indication, French Catholics have a voice equal to other social forces.”

Yates also points out that the French media that has not only given an extensive amount of space and time to covering the papal conclave, but it has been extremely careful not to offend its French audiences.

“One could say that while the French are no longer a practicing country, they remain nominally Catholic, and retain something of this in their national identity,” he noted.

Brazil: Catholic Church on the decline

FROM: http://www.pulsamerica.co.uk/2012/07/02/brazil-catholic-church-on-the-decline/

Catholic Church on the decline

Between 2000 and 2010, the number of Brazilians describing themselves as Catholics has dropped by 12.2%. This record fall brings the proportion of Catholics down to 65% – the lowest share since religious affiliations was first surveyed in 1872. In 2000, 74% of the population had classified themselves as Catholics.

Over the same period, the number of Evangelical Christians increased by 44%, following a 77% increase from 1990 to 2000. Evangelicals now represent 22% of the population. According to the data, which was gathered in the 2010 Census and published this Friday, 8% of Brazilians now declare themselves to be without a religion.

At 30 years, Catholics are on average older than Evangelicals at 27, but have almost the same average age as more traditional Protestant denominations, like Lutheranism. Children under 10 years are listed under their mothers’ religion.

The survey data also shows some interesting correlations between religion, race, and socio-economic status. Evangelicals are on average poorer than Catholics, suggesting that low-income Brazilians are more likely to give up the Catholic faith. Curiously, 19.7% of higher income Brazilians (those earning in excess of five minimum wages per month) regard themselves as spiritualists.

Traditional Protestant Churches show the highest proportion of white believers, probably a consequence of European immigration. Rather unsurprisingly, the Candomblé sect, a cult of African origin, counts the highest share of black followers.

Demographic shifts mean Europe no longer Catholic Church's center

Overall, Catholics in Europe have declined from 38.5 percent to 23.7 percent of the population since 1970, according to the World Christian Database compiled by the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary of South Hamilton, Mass.

However, the church's relative strength in Europe has declined sharply as the Catholic population worldwide quadrupled over the past century to nearly 1.2 billion, according to the Vatican's statistical yearbook for 2013.

Church attendance in the Philippine is declining

Nearly one of 10 Pinoy Catholics thinking of leaving Church, poll finds

Pollster Social Weather Stations' February survey has found that 9.2 percent, or nearly one out of every 10 Catholics who are registered voters, "sometimes think of leaving the Church."

Though they have no data from the past which would show a trend of Filipino Catholics renouncing their religion, pollster Social Weather Stations said Sunday that its recent survey gave credence to the assertion of Jesuit priest and university president Fr. Joel Tabora SJ that "people have been leaving the Catholic Church," partly as a result of "theological bullying."

SWS said it took the survey on its own account, "as a public service" in response to a blog post by Tabora who also wrote, “It is time, I think, for [SWS president] Mahar Mangahas to take out his social survey tools to help us understand what is happening.”

Broken down, of the Catholics who sometimes think of leaving the Church:

- 4.9 percent considered themselves very religious
- 9.1 percent considered themselves somewhat religious
- 16.1 percent considered themselves not very religious
- 57.3 percent said they have no religious belief.

The pollster conducted a poll among 1,200 registered voters from February 15 to 17 which dealt with four matters:

- thinking about leaving the Catholic Church (asked of Catholics only)
- church attendance
- self-comparison of church attendance at present with attendance five years ago
- self-assessed religiosity

SWS said Tabora "had no hand” in designing the questionnaire.

Of the 9.2 percent of Catholics who sometimes think of leaving the Church, 2.5 percent said they "strongly agree" and 6.7 percent "somewhat agree" with the statement, "Sometimes I think that I might leave the Catholic Church."

This was the first time SWS fielded such a question and thus it did not have earlier data that would establish if there was a trend.

However, the poll did reveal that thoughts of leaving the Catholic Church are more common among Catholics "who do not consider themselves as very religious, who attend Church monthly at most, and whose church attendance is less now than five years ago."

In terms of church attendance, Catholics who sometimes think of leaving the Church included:

- 5.4 percent among weekly churchgoers
- 7.1 percent among those who attend several times a month
- 12.9 percent among those who attend once a month
- 14.5 percent among those who attend several times a year
- 18.0 percent among those who attend once a year at most.

The survey covered not only Catholics but other religions. Of the 1,200 voters surveyed, 81 percent were Catholics, 6 percent Protestants, 3 percent Iglesia ni Cristo, and 3 percent of other Christian denominations.

And the "slightly downward" trend of religious-service attendance applied to Catholics, Iglesia ni Cristo members and Muslims as well.

The exceptions are the Protestants and other Christians among whom more attend “more frequently” than those who do “less frequently.”

Church attendance

The SWS survey showed 43 percent of respondents attend church/masjid at least once a week, while 22 percent attend church/masjid two or three times a month.

Another 21 percent attend once a month, nine percent attend two to 11 times a year and 5 percent attend once a year at most.

"Only 37 percent of Catholics attend church weekly. In comparison, there are nearly twice as many of other Christians who are weekly churchgoers: 64 percent among Protestants, 70 percent among Iglesia ni Cristos and 62 percent among other Christians," it said.

It added 75 percent of Muslims attend masjid at least weekly.

SWS said that in 70 SWS surveys of church attendance from 1991 to 2013, weekly attendance was always lower among Catholics in general.

The SWS said the highest recorded weekly church attendance among Filipinos was 66 percent in July 1991, the first time SWS asked the question.

It added the highest recorded weekly church attendance among Catholics was 64 percent, also in July 1991.

Among all Filipinos, the 43 percent weekly church attendance in February 2013 matches the 43-percent low first recorded in March 2008.

The SWS added the latest 37 percent weekly church attendance of Catholics in February 2013 matches the all-time low 37 percent weekly church attendance of Catholics in March 2008.

It added the decline in Catholics' weekly church attendance from 1991 to 2013 is highly significant, statistically speaking.

Five year trend

The survey also revealed that 54 percent of Catholics said their frequency of church attendance is the same now as it was five years ago, in 2008.

But 18 percent said they attend church more frequently in 2013 than in 2008, while 28 percent said they attend less frequently in 2013 than five years ago, for a net difference of -9.

Among Protestants, 26 percent attend church more frequently now, while 14 percent said they do so less frequently now, for a net difference of +12.

Among Iglesia ni Cristos, 14 percent attend church more frequently now, while 36 percent attend less frequently now, for a net difference of -22.

Among other Christians, 26 percent attend church more frequently now and 25 percent attend less frequently now, for a net difference of +1.

Among Muslims, 14 percent attend masjid more frequently now, and 40 percent attend less frequently now, for a net difference of -26.

Religious affiliation

From 1991 to 2013, SWS said the average annual percentage of adults identifying themselves as Catholics in the SWS surveys varied between a high of 88 percent in 1997 and a low of 80 percent in 2007.

It said this indicates "a very slight, but statistically significant, downward trend in the 22-year period."

SWS said that in 1991 and 1994, 85 percent of adults reported themselves as Catholics, and 87 percent in 1996 and 88 percent in 1997.

But this declined to 83 percent in 1998, went up to 85 percent in 1999 and 2000, 82 percent in 2001, and 84 percent in 2002.

"From 2003 to the present it has fluctuated narrowly between 83 percent and 80 percent. The latest proportion of 81 percent in 2013 is statistically less than the initial 85 percent of 1991," SWS said.

Self-assessed religiosity

In the survey, only 29 percent of Catholics consider themselves very religious, compared to 50 percent among Protestants, 43 percent among Iglesia ni Cristo and 41 percent among those from other Christian denominations.

Among Muslims, 38 percent consider themselves very religious.

"Compared with other religious groups, Catholics are the least religious," the SWS said.

The February 2013 Pre-Election Survey was conducted from February 15 to 17, using face-to-face interviews of 1,200 registered voters divided into random samples of 300 each in Metro Manila, Balance of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.

Sampling error margins of ±3% for national percentages and ±6% for area percentages applied to the survey. — DVM/HS, GMA News

Catholics' corruption of Morals as attested by a Catholic priest

 

“ I am SORRY TO CONFESS that CORRUPTION OF MORALS is too often found among professing CATHOLICS. We cannot close our eyes to the painful fact that too many of them, far from living up to the teachings of their Church, are sources of melancholy scandal.

“It must be that scandals come, but woe to him by whom the scandal cometh.” I also admit that the SIN OF CATHOLICS IS MORE HEINOUS IN THE SIGHT OF GOD than that of their separated brethren, because they abuse more grace. ”

—— James Cardinal Gibbons, FAITH OF OUR FATHERS

Catholic priests are ALTER CHRISTUS or another Christs

A wolf in sheep's clothing

One of the titles of the Catholic priests is "ALTER CHRISTUS" meaning Another Christ. CLICK HERE TO SEE THAT WHAT I AM SAYING IS TRUE Here it is clear that the priests of the Catholic Church are the fulfillment that was warned by our Lord Jesus Christ a long time ago that FALSE CHRISTS will appear.

"For many will come in my name claiming ,I am CHRIST and will deceive many. (Matthew 24:5)

"For FALSE CHRIST and false prophets will appear..."(Matthew 24:24)

According to Apostle St. Paul is they will teach OTHER JESUS to mislead even the elects.

"But I 'am afraid that just Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning ,your minds may somehow .be led from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ .For if someone comes to you and preaches a JESUS OTHER than THE JESUS we preached ,or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received ,or a different GOSPEL from the one you accepted ,you put with it easily enough. (2 Corinthians 11:3-4)

That the false Christs will dress as sheeps but they are ferocious wolves

"Watch out for FALSE Prophets come to you in SHEEP'S CLOTHING but in wardly they are ferocious WOLVES.(Mat.7:15)

They will pretend as sheeps by pretending that they are Christ.

but in reality, they are ferocious wolves with a horn similar to a sheep but they speak like the dragon.

"Then I saw another BEAST ,coming out of the earth ,he had TWO HORN LIKE A LAMP ,but he spoke like a DRAGON. (Revelation 13:11)

This is how the Catholic priests pretend that they proclaim themselves as ALTER CHRISTUS or ANOTHER CHRIST but in reality is they are MALE PROSTITUES OF THE SHRINE'S

"They die in thier youth among MALE PROSTITUTES OF THE SHRINE'S". (Job 36:14 NIV)

The Catholic priests bear the title of being an "ALTER CHRISTUS" here you can see that the real Anti Christs are the Catholic priests.

Catechism testifies that Catholic doctrines are unbiblical

1) Buhay Katoliko ni Gerald Linsen (there is a part that you can read it says) "Purgatory nowhere in the Bible"

2) Question box by Bertrand Conway p. 287 "Confession is nowhere mentioned in the Bible"

3) Ang Pananampalataya ng ating mga ninuno by James Cardinal Gibbon p. 10 "Ang pagkukrus ay batay sa tradisyon at wala sa Kasulatan"

ENGLISH: The Faith of our fathers by James Cardinal Gibbon p. 10 "Sign of the Cross is based on tradition and nowhere in the Scripture"

4) Spirit of Catholicism by Karl Adam p. 50 "Catholic does not derive his faith from Scriptures"

5) Mga Doktrinang Cristiana para sa Bagong Kaanib ng Iglesia by Bill Wakefield p.20-21"walang nakatala sa Bibliya na bautismo sa bata"

ENGLISH: Christian Doctrines for the new members of the Church by Bill Wakefield p. 20-21 "No record in the Bible the infant baptism"

6) New Catholic Encyclopedia p. 304 Vol. 14 "The Holy Trinity is not taught in the Old Testament"

7) I was a priest by Lucien Vinet p. 44 "Purgatory is not mentioned in New Testament or by the Christians.... Mass and Purgatory is an invention and use to earn profits....  they cannot answer you if you ask them with sincerity"

REFUTATIONS:

A) Jesus Christ said to Search the Scriptures (read John 5:39)

B) Saint Paul said "ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written" (1 Corinthians 4:6)

C) God said these "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: " (Joshua 1:8)

What happened to Israel when they did not follow the Scriptures?

2 Kings 22:13 "For great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us. "

Conclusion: All doctrines that you should believe must always in favor of what was written in the Scriptures if you are God's real believer.

Catholic Church is also a CULT

The symbol of the Unholy Roman Catholic Church

Some arrogant Catholic defenders online especially fans of Priest Abe Arganiosa always name call both ADD and INC religion as a cult.

those bastard dont even know that their own paganic faith introducing as a Christian is also a CULT.

THESE ARE THE PIECES OF EVIDENCE SUPPORTING MY CLAIM:

PROOF 1: THEY HAVE A SPECIAL CULT INSIDE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

"The Second Vatican Council(October 1962), in stressing the particular character of Marian devotion, says: 'Mary has by grace been exalted above all angels and men to a place second only to her Son, as the most holy Mother of God who was involved in the mysteries of Christ: she is rightly honoured by a special cult in the Church' (Lumen gentium, n. 66)", the Holy Father said at the General Audience of Wednesday, 15 October, as he reflected on the development of Marian devotion in the history of the Church.

MARY HAS ALWAYS BEEN SPECIALLY VENERATED
Pope John Paul II

PROOF 2: THEY HAVE CULTIC REALITIES, ELEMENTS AND EXPRESSION

CONGREGATION FOR DIVINE WORSHIP
AND THE DISCIPLINE OF THE SACRAMENTS

Prot. N. 1532/00/L

DECREE

In affirming the primacy of the Liturgy, "the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed...and fount from which all her power flows" (Sacrosanctum Concilium,10), the Second Vatican Council nevertheless reminds us that "the spiritual life, however, is not limited solely to participation in the Liturgy" (ibidem, 12). The spiritual life of the faithful is also nourished by "the pious practices of the Christian people", especially those commended by the Apostolic See and practised in the particular Churches by mandate of the Bishop or by his approval. Mindful of the importance that such cultic expressions should conform to the laws and norms of the Church, the Council Fathers outlined their theological and pastoral understanding of such practices: "pious devotions are to be ordered so as to harmonize with the Sacred Liturgy and lead the Christian people to it, since in fact the Liturgy by its very nature is far superior to any of them" (ibidem,13).

23. The Apostolic and post-apostolic periods are marked by a profound fusion of the cultic realities which are now called Liturgy and popular piety.

The cult of martyrs, which was of great importance for the local Churches, preserves traces of popular usages connected with the memory of the dead(26). Some of the earliest forms of veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary(27) also reflect popular piety, among them the Sub tuum praesidium and the Marian iconography of the catacombs of St. Priscilla in Rome.

The local Churches, guided by clear pastoral and evangelizing principles, did not hesitate to absorb into the Liturgy certain purified solemn and festive cultic elements deriving from the pagan world.

Extracts from the address of His Holiness Pope John Paul II
to the Plenary Meeting of
The Congregatiion for Divine Worship
and the Discipline of the Sacraments
(21 September 2001)

PROOF 3: To find more why Catholic Church is a cult, click this webpage:

http://www.remnantofgod.org/6signs.htm

Arrogant Catholic defenders who used to name call ADD and INC religion as a cult, stopping doing that because your paganic faith just introducing as a Christian is also a CULT!

Rizal retraction is a fraud in Catholic perspective

-The retraction document is flawed. The first sentence says "I declare myself a catholic and in this Religion in which I was born and educated I wish to live and die". Rizal only had seven hours to live at that time the retraction was made and it was night time, the friars suggested that he had slept that time. The words to live and die is wrong.

-The second sentence says that he is retracting to the Church. Rizal would never retract to the Church, because the Church was never his enemy, his enemies were the friars alone.

-The place where Rizal was buried was where enemies of the Church was buried. There were two cemeteries, one for Christians and one for the sinners. If Rizal retracted, why was he not buried in the cemetery for Christians.

-Trining, his sister, said that he did not retract.

-The document was found 30 years after Rizal's death.

List of Catholic Church's cover up of their sex scandals

In 2001, while he was a cardinal, he issued a secret Vatican edict to Catholic bishops all over the world, instructing them to put the Church's interests ahead of child safety.

"When abusive priests are discovered, the response has been not to investigate and prosecute but to move them from one place to another. So there's total disregard for the victims and for the fact that you are going to have a whole new crop of victims in the next place. This is happening all over the world."

The investigation could not come at a worse time for Pope Benedict, who is desperately trying to mend the Church's relations with the Muslim world after a speech in which he quoted a 14th Century Byzantine emperor who said that Islam was spread by holy war and had brought only evil to the world.

Source: London Evening Stardard (http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23369148-pope-led-cover-up-of-child-abuse-by-priests.do)

BRIBERY:

1. Catholic church kept quiet on paedophile case

http://www.swedishwire.com/politics/4065-catholic-church-kept-quiet-on-paedophile-case

2.Pope 'led cover-up of child abuse by priests'

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23369148-pope-led-cover-up-of-child-abuse-by-priests.do

3.German Catholic Church to compensate abuse victims

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68M4CI20100923

4. Irish Catholic church aide calls for more compensation to abuse victims

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/5379228/Irish-Catholic-church-aide-calls-for-more-compensation-to-abuse-victims.html

5.Catholic Church pays 660 million dollars to victims of its religious abuses

http://www.factnet.org/?p=140

6. Catholic sex abuse cases

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_sex_abuse_cases

[Pell contradicting his own admission, while Brisbane archbishop admits to secrecy clause.] SYDNEY (NSW) Australia: (ABC version) Catholic Archbishop of Sydney George Pell claims he made an honest mistake on Sixty Minutes last night about the confidentiality required of child sex abuse victims compensated by the church. Archbishop Pell told the program that two girls abused by a phedophile priest in Victoria were offered compensation that required them not to publicly disclose the details of their abuse. However, at a media conference in Sydney today, Archbishop Pell says he was unprepared for the questioning and has denied the victims were expected to keep quiet under the terms of the payment ...
 
SOURCE: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethicscontents4.htm

Archbishop admits money offer, (BBC version); SYDNEY (NSW) Australia: Just days after angrily denying that he tried to cover up sexual abuse of children by priests, Sydney Catholic Archbishop George Pell has been forced to admit offering victims thousands of dollars, in a programme aired on Australian television on Sunday night. Dr Pell was presented with a copy of a letter sent on his behalf offering nearly $30,000 (50,000 Australian dollars) to the family of two women who had been sexually abused as children by a priest. Initially he denied that allegation, however later admitted an offer had been made. The parents were warned that if they did not accept it, any legal action they might take would be "strenuously defended" by the Church, the Associated Press news agency reported. -- British Broadcasting Corporation, "Bishop admits abuse money offer,"

SOURCE: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2022620.stm   MONDAY JUNE 3, 2002

My comment: Instead of excommunicating these priests as Apostle Saint Paul ordered his Christian brethen to removed from the Church who are fornicators and adulterers inside of it, the Catholic clergy bribed, hid the rapist priests to another place and protected them instead.

A clear proof that the Catholic Church is not of God or the continuation of First Century Christian Church.

THE VATICAN'S OPEN HATRED AND DENIAL OF THE WORD OF GOD...

The Bible does not contain all the teaching of the Christian religion, nor does it formulate all the duties of its members." The Faith of Millions, pp. 153-154

"Now the Scriptures alone do not contain all the truths which a Christian is bound to believe, nor do they explicitly enjoin all the duties which he is obliged to practice." The Faith of Our Fathers, p. 72

"Can you learn to save your soul just by reading the Bible? No...because the Bible does not have everything God taught." A Catechism for Adults, Q. 1, p. 52

The Roman Church cunningly declares the Word of God is unable to educate the Christian regarding his or her lifestyle. The Vatican also claims the Scriptures are completely unable to direct the lost unto Salvation. However, the Word of God says quite clearly...

2 Timothy 3:15 - "For from thy infancy thou hast known the Sacred Writings, which are able to instruct thee unto salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus."

Catholic saints favor the SOLA SCRIPTURA principle

CLICK EACH IMAGE TO SEE IT LARGER AND CLEARER:

St. Agustine

St. Basil

Chrysostom

 Cyril of Jerusalem

St. Gregory of Nyssa

Catholic priests' celibacy hurtful truth

Si Papa Pablo VI, sa kaniyang liham na Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (Priestly Celibacy, 1967) ay sumang-ayon sa hindi pag-aasawa bilang isang kahilingan para sa mga klero, subali’t inamin niya na “ang Bagong Tipan na nag-iingat ng turo ni Kristo at ng mga Apostol . . . ay hindi hayagang nag-uutos na huwag mag-asawa ang banal na mga ministro . . . Si Jesus mismo ay hindi gumawa nito bilang isang kahilingan nang piliin Niya ang Labindalawa, ni hiniling ito ng mga Apostol para sa mga nangasiwa sa unang Kristiyanong mga komunidad.”—The Papal Encyclicals 1958-1981 (Falls Church, Va.; 1981), p. 204.

The English translation:

Pope Paul VI, in his letter Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (Priestly Celibacy, 1967) agrees not to marry as a wish for the clergy. but he admitted "The New Testament which takes care of Christ's teachings and the apostles is not openly commanding not to marry the holy ministers.  Jesus himself did not teach it as a wish. when he chose the twelve. nor ask it to the apostles for those who ruled the early Christian communities.

What is the main reason why Apostle Saint Paul advised not only to the ministers of the Gospel but to all members of Christianity that it is better not to marry?

1 Corinthians 7:35 I am saying this for your own good, NOT TO RESTRICT you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord. (NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION)

1 Corinthians 7:35 I say this for your own benefit, not to LAY ANY RESTRAINT UPON YOU, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord. (REVISED STANDARD VERSION)

1 Corinithans 7:35 I am saying this only to help you, NOT TO PUT BRIDLE ON YOU, but so that everything is as it should be, and you are able to give your undivided attention to the Lord. (CATHOLIC BIBLE - NEW JERUSALEM BIBLE)

BRIDLE - 2. anything that RESTRAINS or curbs: His common sense is a bridle to his quick temper.

1 Corinthians 7:35 And this I say for your own profit, NOT that I may PUT A LEASH on you, but for what is proper, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction. (NEW KING JAMES VERSION)

LEASH - 2. check; curb; RESTRAINT: to keep one's temper in leash; a tight leash on one's subordinates.

Papacy is unhistorical and w/o basis in the Catholic documents

 THE FLAG OF THE VATICAN

"Most scholars reject as unhistorical The tradition that the Apostle Peter was ,and was recognised as being the first Bishop of Rome."(The Christian Society ,Neill Stephen.London :Great Bretain Collins Clear -type press.1952 p.36)

A testimony of a Catholic bishop about "PAPACY" who is Bishop Joseph George Strossmayer

"Now having read the whole New testament ,I declare before God ,with my hand raised to that great crucifix, that I have found no trace of the papacy as it exits at this moment ."(p.4)

"Finding no trace of the papacy in the days of the apostles, I said to my self I shall find what I am search of in the annals of the church. Well,I say it frankly I have sought for a pope in the first four centuries, and I have not found him." (Bishop Strossmayer's Speech( in the Vatican council of 1870 ,p.10)

"Ignasius wrote six of his letters outside Rome urging the people to rally behind their bishop as a sign of unity ,but in his letters to Romans he never mentioned a Roman bishop.(Saints & sinners by Eamon Duffy p.7)

Catholic Church makes a fortune in the German Porn Business

 FROM: http://www.worldcrunch.com/catholic-church-makes-fortune-german-porn-business/3995

Weltbild, one of Germany’s largest publishing companies, happens to be owned and operated by the Catholic Church. But that has not stopped it from publishing books that many of the faithful find offensive.

Die Welt/Worldcrunch

"Weltbild," Germany’s largest media company, sells books, DVDs, music and more -- and also happens to belong 100% to the Catholic Church. Few people knew about this connection until this month when Buchreport, a German industry newsletter, reported that the Catholic company also sells porn.
A Church spokesman responded: “Weltbild tries to prevent the distribution of possibly pornographic content.”

Well, it's prevention efforts have apparently not been so successful. For more than 10 years, a group of committed Catholics has been trying to point out what is going on to Church authorities, and they are outraged at the hypocrisy of the spokesman's statement. In 2008, the group sent a 70-page document to all the bishops whose dioceses have shared ownership of Weltbild for 30 years, detailing evidence of the sale of questionable material.

Today, the Augsburg-based company employs 6,400 people, has an annual turnover of 1.7 billion euros, and an online business in Germany second only to Amazon. Weltbild is also Germany’s leading book seller, controlling 20% of the domestic bookstore market. Profits are regularly reinvested in the company with an eye to rapidly increase the market share – an increase that is only possible if Weltbild continues to sell materials that are not compatible with the teachings of the Church.

The 2,500 erotic books in their online catalogue, including those from Blue Panther Books, an erotic book publisher owned by Weltbild, are only one example. Their titles include: “Anwaltshure” (Lawyer’s Whore), “Vögelbar” (F—kable) and “Schlampen-Internat” (Sluts’ Boarding School).

The Church also owns a 50% share in publishing company Droemer Knaur which produces pornographic books, and so indirectly is also a publisher of pornographic material, titles including “Nimm mich hier und nimm mich jetzt!” (Take Me Here, Take Me Now!), and “Sag Luder zu mir!” (Call Me Slut!).

Not all Canon from the Septuagint are in the Catholic Bible

The Catholic Defenders' accusations that Protestants reduced the Canon of Scriptures is also their doing.

Pope Benedict XVI denies that Lord Jesus is the Messiah

God obeys at a Catholic priest

 "The priest speaks and heaven obeys;the priest commands and God is obedient."

(A PRIEST FOREVER By Francis J. Ripley. Imprimatur: E. Morrogh Bernard, Vicarius Generalis.,page 20)

MY REFUTATIONS:

A blatant blasphemy.

Man should be the one to follow God.

If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.  (Deuteronomy 30:10)

IF MAN WILL NOT FOLLOW GOD, THIS WILL HAPPEN:

But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:  (Deuteronomy 28:15)

Deuteronomy 28:16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

Deuteronomy 28:17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.

Deuteronomy 28:18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

Deuteronomy 28:19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

Deuteronomy 28:20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT:

Matthew 6:9  After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Matthew 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

MY LAST REFUTATIONS IS THAT IT WAS GOD WHO COMMANDED WHAT THE PRIESTS SHOULD DO ACCORDING TO HIS WILL AND NOT GOD WILL OBEY TO THE PRIESTS ACCORDING TO THEIR WILL:

Leviticus 21:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:

then continue reading the whole Chapter 21 of Leviticus.

FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT:

1 Timothy 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

We must remember that Apostle Paul's writings are commandments of God (read 1 Corinthians 14:37)

Lent's pagan origin

". . . The forty days abstinence of Lent was directly borrowed from the worshippers of the Babylonian goddess. Such a Lent of forty days, 'in the spring of the year', is still observed by the Yezidis or PAGAN DEVIL-WORSHIPPERS OF KOORDISTAN, who have inherited it from their early masters, the Babylonians. . ."

(THE TWO BABYLONS or THE PAPAL WORSHIP. By the Rev. Alexander Hislop. Page 105)

MY REFUTATIONS:

1 Peter 4:2 As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.  

1 Peter 4:3 For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. (NIV)

Vatican document confirms there is Vicarivs Filii Dei

The title appears in volume 99, page 21, in the entry for VICARIO DI GESU' CRISTO [Vicar of Jesus Christ], where it states very briefly that the

inscription VICARIUS FILII DEIis to be found in the VATICAN.

— Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni (Dictionary of Historical-Ecclesiastical Erudition from St. Peter to the Present), Gaetano Moroni

Catholic Heresy Replacing Christ with Mary! 2011

JUST CLICK THIS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWAmpXWYgIM&feature=player_embedded

Underneath the Vatican EVIDENCE SATANIC

Satanism in the Catholic Church

VICARIVS FILIIDEI is also Vicarius Christi

Catholic statue of Mary and child Jesus similar to Isis

Catholic Church's payout for sexual abuse on Guinness Word Records 2009

ANTI BIBLE CATHOLIC CHURCH

The Catholic Church favors Marxism ideology

 
1. We saw the evolution of the magisterial doctrine in relation to Marxism from John XXIII to John Paul II`s 1981 encyclical on labor.

In this article we shall examine the Instrucyion on Certain Aspects of ``Theology Of Liberation``,issued by the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith CDF- dated August 6 1984-

Marxism In Recent Vatican Doctrine ,II 1984 Instruction On Theology Of Liberation; A Doctrinal U turn- J.Kotkukapally

2. There are some valid and useful elements in Marxism - Cardinal Ratzinger-September 3, 1984

3. L`Osservatore Romano, 10 september 1984, p.5 The Cardinal Onc

Catholic Church teachings are unbiblical as said by some Cathechism books

1) Buhay Katoliko ni Gerald Linsen (there is a part that you can read it says) "Purgatory nowhere in the Bible"

2) Question box by Bertrand Conway p. 287 "Confession is nowhere mentioned in the Bible"

3) Ang Pananampalataya ng ating mga ninuno by James Cardinal Gibbon p. 10 "Ang pagkukrus ay batay sa tradisyon at wala sa Kasulatan"

ENGLISH: The Faith of our fathers by James Cardinal Gibbon p. 10 "Sign of the Cross is based on tradition and nowhere in the Scripture"

4) Spirit of Catholicism by Karl Adam p. 50 "Catholic does not derive his faith from Scriptures"

5) Mga Doktrinang Cristiana para sa Bagong Kaanib ng Iglesia by Bill Wakefield p.20-21"walang nakatala sa Bibliya na bautismo sa bata"

ENGLISH: Christian Doctrines for the new members of the Church by Bill Wakefield p. 20-21 "No record in the Bible the infant baptism"

6) New Catholic Encyclopedia p. 304 Vol. 14 "The Holy Trinity is not taught in the Old Testament"

7) I was a priest by Lucien Vinet p. 44 "Purgatory is not mentioned in New Testament or by the Christians.... Mass and Purgatory is an invention and use to earn profits....  they cannot answer you if you ask them with sincerity"

REFUTATIONS:

A) Jesus Christ said to Search the Scriptures (read John 5:39)

B) Saint Paul said "ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written" (1 Corinthians 4:6)

C) God said these "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: " (Joshua 1:8)

What happened to Israel when they did not follow the Scriptures?

2 Kings 22:13 "For great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us. "

Conclusion: All doctrines that you should believe must always in favor of what was written in the Scriptures if you are God's real believer.

Satan smuggled an influence to Catholicism

"CERTAINLY SATAN TRIES TO SMUGGLE IN AN INFLUENCE THAT IS OPPOSED TO GOD INTO ALL HUMAN UNDERTAKINGS, EVEN IN THE CHURCH. HE EVEN OPENLY PR0M0TES IT"

(THE NEW CHURCH AND OUR CHILDREN, Imprimatur: Patrick Casey,Vicar General,page 85)

Purgatory an invention

"WE EX-PRIEST,KNOW VERY WELL THAT MASS AND PURGATORY ARE INVENTIONS THAT ARE EXCEEDINGLY PROFITABLE,BUT DO N0T ASK A PRIEST WHO IS STILL IN B0NDAGE TO ROME TO EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT MASS REALLY IS AND HOW IT HAS COME INTO BEING. HE CANN0T ANSWER YOU WITH SINCERITY"

(I WAS A PRIEST by Lucien Vinet, page 44)

Hidden priest-nun relationship

"TRUE, IN THE MIDDLE AGES,TUNNELS WERE BUILT BETWEEN CONVENTS AND MONASTERIES TO FACILITATE SECRET MEETING OF THE PARTIES CONCERNED,BUT THE M0DERN PRIEST'S TECHNIQUE IS N0 DIFFERENT FR0M ANY OTHER M0DERN R0MEO. IF NUNS AND PRIESTS,IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES,DO INDULGE IN R0MANCES,TUNNELS ARE N0 L0NGER NECESSARY. FOR EXAMPLE, THERE IS N0 TUNNEL BETWEEN THE C0NVENT AND THE REDEMPT0RIST M0NASTERY IN A SMALL MANIT0BA T0WN,BUT IT IS NO L0NGER SECRET THAT SH0CKING R0MANCES HAVE OCCURED BETWEEN THE GOOD FATHERS AND THE H0LY NUNS. SEXUAL CRIMES OF NUNS,PRIESTS,BISH0PS AND POPES ARE ACCEPTED FACTS THAT CANN0T BE DENIED. OUR OLD TEACHER, A RELIGIOUS BR0THER,USED TO TELL US THAT HELL IS 'PAVED' WITH HEADS OF POPES,BISH0PS AND PRIEST' "

(I WAS A PRIEST by Lucien Vinet,page 28)

Catholic practices have pagan origins

"SHE DOES N0T HESITATE EVEN TO TAKE OVER PAGAN RITUAL AND PAGAN SYMBOLS, WHENEVER SUCH THINGS CAN BE CHRISTIANISED AND REFORMED"

(THE SPIRIT OF CATHOLICISM, page 166)

"EASTER- . .THE ENGLISH NAME FOR THE SUNDAY OF THE RESURRECTI0N OF OUR LORD. . . MEAT,EGGS AND OTHER FOODS FORMERLY FORBIDDEN IN LENT ARE BLESSED, AND THERE ARE STILL NUMEROUS LOCAL CUSTOMS, SOME OF PAGAN ORIGIN"

(A CATHOLIC DICTI0NARY, pages 160-161)

"THEN L0OK AT EASTER. WHAT MEANS THE TERM EASTER ITSELF? IT IS N0T A CHRISTIAN NAME.."

(THE TWO BABYLONS, page 103)

THE TEACHINGS FROM THE HOLY BOOK OF GOD NAMED THE BIBLE IF IT'S OKAY TO ADOPT THE PAGAN WAYS:

1 Peter 4: 3 For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.

1 Peter 4:4 They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you. (New International Version)

ANOTHER:

Ephesians 4:17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

German Catholic Church sells porn book seller

The Catholic church in Germany is to sell Weltbild, its bookselling arm, after the unit admitted last month to publishing pornographic novels, the company says.

Weltbild is one of the Germany's main book enterprises, with annual sales of 1.6 billion euros (2.1 billion dollars) and a workforce of 6,400. Its interests include general publishing, a main national bookshop chain and book clubs.

Catholic leaders were outraged that the profitable company's book range included steamy pulp novels with titles like "Boarding School for Sluts" and "The Lawyer's Whore" and advice on how to practice esoteric superstitions that are condemned by Catholic doctrine.

Germany's 27 bishops met this week to press the 12 bishops who co-own Weltbild to end the investment after Weltbild had defended its commercial policy of publishing whatever books meet market demand.
Weltbild, based in the southern city of Augsburg, said it welcomed the decision to seek new ownership "without delay."

Pope Benedict XIV, who urged German bishops in September to get rid of worldly wealth, appeared to influence the debate, telling Catholics they should be "energetically opposing the distribution of erotic and pornographic material."

SOURCE: http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/2011/11/22/catholic-church-sells-porn-book-seller

1870, the year the name ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH became the official name

The Roman Catholic Church” by a Catholic Priest Edward k. Taylor

“ Catholic… was first used by St, Ignatius , bishop of Antioch in Syria who was martyred about 110 A.D.

“ The Church founded by Christ is here , for the first time , Called the Catholic Church ,…. It was to stress the unity of the universal Church that ST. IGNATIUS INVENTED THE NAME.

Catholic Church's External

A Handbook of Catholic Usage by Rt. Rev. Msgr. John F Sullivan, D.D. Completely Revised by Rev. John C. O’Leary, Ph.D.

Nihil obstat: John M.A Fearns, S.T.D., Censor Librorum, Imprimatur: Francis Cardina Spellman Archbishop of New York, Copyright 1951 by P.J Kennedy and Sons, New York, USA.

p.226

It’s interesting to note how often our church has availed herself of practices which were I common use among pagans, and which owed their origin to their appropriateness expressing something spiritual by material means. The Church and her clergy are ‘all things to all men, that they may gain Christ,’ and she has often found that it was well to take what was praiseworthy in other forms of worship and adapt it to her own purpose, for the sanctification of her children.

“Thus it is true, in a certain sense, that some Catholic Rites and ceremonies are a reproduction of those pagan creeds; but they are taking of what was the best part from paganism, the keeping of symbolical practices which express the religious instinct that is common to all races and times.”

http://www.amazon.com/externals-Catholic-Church-handbook-usage/dp/B0006AWBRO

Most Catholics have pleasure in unrighteousness

". . . Catholics on the other hand have been too satisfied in their acceptance of corruption as the normal thing in public life. As a result of all this, a serious vein of cynicism in public affairs still runs through the Catholic body. One finds it among the priests and people alike. "who gets what, when, and how' characterizes the thinking even today of many a Catholic"

(POLITICS. . . GOVERNMENT. . . CATHOLICS By Gerome G. Kerwin, Ph. D. Imprimatur: Francis Cardinal Spellman., page 94)

Catholic Defender of the Philippines debate cheating

For non Filipino speakers:

He (Catholic Defender) changed the content of his Confraternity Bible with the words ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH in Matthew 16:18 sadly his enemy minister has his own copy and proved such words do not exist.

The enemy minister is wearing eye glasses.

Catholic saints favor SOLA SCRIPTURA

A Catholic painting depicting Jesus Christ and his saints are with him in heaven.

Catholic Church always teach that the Protestants, ADD and INC religion are the only ones in the Christian denominations to teach SOLA SCRIPTURA and the Catholic Church is not only the Bible but also with their so called Traditions claiming to be an apostolic when teaching doctrines within her flock.

let's unmask the Church's hypocrisy. Is it true that the SOLA SCRIPTURA belief first came from the Protestants?

NO! Because before Protestantism was founded, there are lot of saints who first believed on it.

Here are these saints:

Men of the world give many further rules about the way to speak, which I think we may pass over; as, for instance, the way jesting should be conducted. For though at times jests may be proper and pleasant, yet they are unsuited to the clerical life. For in the first place, HOW CAN WE ADOPT THINGS WHICH WE DO NOT FIND IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES?

(St. Ambrose, On the Duties of the Clergy, Book I Ch. 23)

We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the Gospel has come down to us, which they did at one time proclaim in public, and, at a later period, by the will of God, HANDED DOWN TO US IN THE SCRIPTURES, TO BE THE GROUND AND PILLAR OF OUR FAITH

(St. Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies, Book III Ch.1)

But while the latter proceeded, on the subject of the soul, as far in the direction of supposed consequences as the thinker pleased, we are not entitled to such licence,

I mean that of affirming what we please; WE MAKE THE HOLY SCRIPTURES THE RULE AND THE MEASURE OF EVERY TENET; we necessarily fix our eyes upon that, and approve that alone which may be made to harmonize with the intention of those writings.

(St. Gregory of Nyssa c. 335-395, "On the Soul and the Resurrection")

Bring me not human reasonings and syllogisms, for I rely on the divine Scripture alone. ~ Theodoret of Cyrus

The holy and inspired Scriptures are fully sufficient for the proclamation of the truth. ~ St. Athanasius

The reason is that only canonical Scripture is a measure of faith. ~ St. Thomas Aquinas

But as we do not deny what is written, so we do reject what is not written. ~ St. Jerome

Biblically speaking, The saints for the moment are telling the Truth because before they said that, It was the teaching of Apostle Saint Paul before:

That ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another. (1 Corinthians 4:6)

Gnosis, Gnosticism and it's influence on the Roman Catholic Church

 

 

Plato: Copy of portrait bust by Silanion

What is Gnosis?

"THE meaning of the term Gnosis or Knowledge, as applied to a system of philosophy, may be illustrated by the language of Plato towards the end of the fifth book of the Republic, in which he distinguishes between knowledge(gnosis) and opinion(doxa) ...

The mystery of the ages contained in the secret doctrine of all religions
Marie Sinclair Caithness
Stanford University Library
STANFORD, CA 94305 United States
page 87


What is Gnosticism?

GNOSTICISM (nds'ti-siz'm), (Gr. yruxrtt, no'sis, knowing).

... still it is the opinion of Dr. Burton that it was the Greek writings of Plato which gave the extraordinary impulse of their genius, and, if we may use the word, of their fashion, to the lost writings of the Gnostics, as well as to those which remain to us of Philo and Plotinus; in a word, that Platonist, Philonist, and Gnostic, are but emanations at different distances from the Gnosis of Plato.

The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural Dictionary
Samuel Fallows
San Francisco State University Library
Map Library
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132 United States

Plato! Remember this name!!

What is the influence of Gnosticism to the Roman Catholic Church?

Augustine in his skepticism turned to Plato, or rather the modified form of his day. His writings show this influence in their best and largest thinking. One of his greatest admirers (Grattry) says: "Saint Augustine has borrowed much from Plato: ... he never denies the fact."

Beacon lights of Christian history
Author: Albert Walkley
Publisher: Boston : Unitarian Sunday-School Society
Graduate Theological Union
SFTS Library
BERKELEY, CA 94709 United States

Plato allegedly influenced Augustine.

Who is "Saint" Augustine?

Augustine of Hippo [SAINT] [DOCTOR]
"one of the greatest saints that ever lived."

www.catholic.org

Who si Plato?

Plato is known today as one of the greatest philosophers of all time.

www.historyforkids.org

So, Augustine is considered by Catholics as the greatest "saint" to ever lived was influence by Plato, the greatest Greek philosopher of all time.

With regards to the service of God and of being Christian, is it allowed by the Apostles that Christians be influenced by the gnosis(knowledge) of philosophers? of course NOT!!

Colossians 2:8
See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces[a] of this world rather than on Christ.

If there's a church now existing that can be called gnostic based on the influence of gnosticism unto it, it safe to say it is the Roman Catholic Church.