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.”

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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."

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Who si Plato?

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

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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.