<b>Landmark</b> event.
Under John Paul And The Rat the catholic church is being completely reverted to the old catholic ways.
The catholic church has now reinstated the indulgence: in the Middle Ages, the church used to sell tickets to get the gullible, illiterate, ignorant christian population's grandpas and grandmas out of purgatory and into heaven. That's how the church made truckloads of money which the debauched popes spent in the vatican. The christian con was so blatant, it led to Martin Luther's protesting -> protestantism.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/10/ame...6528.php?page=2
<b>For Catholics, a revived tradition reopens a door to heaven</b>
via <b>Catholic Church sells Tickets to Heaven</b>
http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2009/02/rat...lic-church.html
Read at link.
This bit is interesting:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Getting Catholics back into the confession booth, in fact, was one of the underlying motivations for reintroducing the indulgence.</b> In a 2001 speech, Pope John Paul II described the newly reborn tradition as "a happy incentive" for confession.
"Confessions have been down for years, and the church is very worried about it," said the Reverend Tom Reese, a Jesuit and former editor of the weekly Catholic magazine America. In a secularized culture of pop psychology and self-help, he said, "the church wants the idea of 'personal sin' back in the equation."
"Indulgences are a way of reminding people of the importance of penance," he added. "The good news is we're not selling them anymore."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Two things:
1. Why does the catholic church want to drive its sheep back into the confession booth? Why, ex father confessor Joseph McCabe himself tells us:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"The crowd you will see on any Saturday night in a Catholic Church awaiting their turn to confess is enough to make you despair of modern intelligence in the mass. ...Remember that I was once a father confessor. They just reel off mechanically a list of lies, quarrels, thefts, drinking, etc. and in almost every case a few points about sex. ... And for every woman or girl who sincerely wants guidance there are fifty who just love the intimate talk about sex that is permitted with the priest in the confessional. ... <b>That it promotes morals and reduces crime is bunk. The one object of it is to consolidate the power of the priest over the laity."</b>
-- The Holy Faith Of Romanists, by Joseph McCabe, historian and former Franciscan monk<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
2. Although the representatives of the terrorist conclave (catholicism) say that they won't be <i>selling</i> it and that it is for the purposes of getting more people back into the confessional onlee, I am sure they will one day start charging money for the indulgences again. Just like earlier popes had decided to sell indulgences whenever they needed to raise money (see further below). In fact, it may be sooner than we think: the catholic church needs to make back all the money it lost in sexual abuse/paedophilia cases where it bankrupted itself, and what better way than to get the money from fleecing its own sheep as it had done for so long?
http://freetruth.50webs.org/C4a.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Protestant reformer Luther (1483-1546) is admired by ignorant Protestants in general and Lutherans in particular for having extricated the "true Christianity" from the heresy of Catholicism. He's best known for having nailed the 95 Theses (Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences, 1517) to the door of Wittenberg Church, thus exposing the indulgences scandal created by Rome's Pontiff. In fact, Luther became convinced that the Pope was the Antichrist himself and taught his adherents the same.
Yet even today few know the very inhumane and irrational sides of Martin Luther, though his works are now more widely available outside of Germany and in translation too.
[...]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://freetruth.50webs.org/C2b.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>BENEDICT VIII 1012-1024</b> Became Pope after assassinating his predecessor, Sergius IV. Pope Victor III (1086-87) spoke of his "rapes, murders and other unspeakable acts". Bishop Beno accused Benedict of "many vile adulteries and murders". The Archbishop of Narbonne accused him of "simony, assassination and usury; of disbelieving the Eucharist and the immortality of the soul; of employing violence to obtain the secrets of the confessional". He also was accused of "living in concubinage with his two nieces and having children by them" and <b>"using the money received from indulgences to pay for the Saracens' invasion of Sicily".</b>
<b>URBAN VI 1378-1389</b> Warmonger who resorted to bribery, and who, according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, was poisoned. Described as "one of the most unstable popes in history" in Richard McBrien's Lives Of the Popes. <b>He ordered England to fight against France because France had taken the side of his rival, Clement VII. He promised indulgences and other "spiritual rewards" to anyone who would take up arms.</b>
Before 1380 he was known for his drunken rages, even having climbed the Vatican battlements at one time to excommunicate the gatherings below.
In 1380 Urban excommunicated the King and Queen of Naples. This caused 6 Roman cardinals, tired of Urban, to conspire with the King and Queen to have the Pope deposed. However, their plans having failed, Urban had them tortured and had 5 of them executed.
<b>BONIFACE IX 1389-1404</b> Simonist, nepotist and murderer.
"A murderer who used simony to fill the depleted papal coffers", according to Sex Lives of the Popes and <b>who "also charged for indulgences, the canonisation of saints and the authentication of recently discovered religious relics, such as Christ's foreskin which was doing the rounds at the time."</b> "It is said that he charged one ducat for every document he signed as pope ... much of the money went to his brothers, his 'nephews' and his mother." He also granted permissions for Jubilees to be held in cities outside Rome, resulting in vast amounts of cash being channelled back into the papal treasury.
<b>JULIUS II 1503-1513</b> Epithet: "Pontefice Terribile". To the great warrior Pope Julius II, "religion was not even a hobby". He loved war over the church and defied canon law by donning full armour and riding off into battle at the head of the papal army to restore papal authority in Umbria. Julius was the pontiff responsible for hiring the Swiss troops who still guard the Vatican.
The Emperor Maximilian described Julius as "a drunken and wicked pope" who, like Cesare Borgia, suffered from syphilis given to him by one of his many "paramours". Not only had he fathered 3 daughters before his election, contemporary chroniclers wrote how he had abused many young men.
<b>His act of introducing a new system of indulgences in order to raise funds for the new St Peter's Basilica was said to have provided fuel for the fire of the Protestant Reformation.</b>
<b>LEO X 1513-1521</b> "How much we have profited by the legend of Christ" - Leo X, in a position to know.
He embarked on a Papal life of unimaginable extravagance, indulging in expensive carnivals, bull-fights, banquets, theatrical performances and the like. Like many of his Papal predecessors, he was also widely known to have had illicit relations with boys.
Leo X would often hunt on his private game reserve, which was kept for the exclusive use of himself and his cardinals. Any trespassers caught on the property had their hands and feet cut off, their homes burned and their children sold into servitude.
To raise funds for his lavish lifestyle, Leo sold cardinal's hats to atheists and other unbelievers. I<b>n 1515, two years after his election, the vast treasure left by Leo's predecessor Julius II was dissipated. Before his death, Leo tried to pull the church out of its hole by colluding with a German archbishop to sell indulgences. However, this made things all the worse for the Church by causing the emergence of Protestantism.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->The TRUE religion. Mark it.
Again from
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/10/ame...6528.php?page=2
<b>For Catholics, a revived tradition reopens a door to heaven</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The return of indulgences began with Pope John Paul II, who authorized bishops to offer them in 2000 as part of the celebration of the church's third millennium. But the offers have increased markedly under his successor, Pope Benedict, who has made plenary indulgences part of church anniversary celebrations nine times in the last three years. The current offer is tied to the yearlong celebration of St. Paul, which continues through June.
The indulgences, experts said, tend to be advertised more openly in dioceses where the bishop is more traditionalist, or in places with fewer tensions between liberal and conservative Catholics.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Shows that the rollback to the traditional catholic terrorism started with John Paul and continues with his favourite, Ratzy.
John Paul as we know brought back christian exorcism (which Angelo Roncalli had done away with earlier for being superstitious medieval nonsense). No doubt Ratzy - who was previously head of the Holy Inquisition under its renamed dissembling title of 'Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith' before making it to pope - will bring back into view that other prime catholic tradition: <i>publicly</i> reinstating the official use of the inquisition so it can be applied whenever they choose again. Not that the inquisition was ever disbanded, rather the opposite: it had been affirmed as a continuing right of the church against all heretics <i>and heathens</i>. But we can probably expect the holy monopoly church to <i>publicly</i> insist on the Right To Inquisition again, even within the term of the current Vatican Rat.
Of course, faithful Indian catholics like Lucio Mascara~nhas already call for the inquisition of the Hindus of India (<- it's what happens to people when they convert to christoterrorism. Don't blame the zombie. Blame the disease: christianism.) That's because christoterrorists keep thinking everyone in the world is under the jurisdiction of their jeebusjehovallah and to be judged and punished by their christoterrorism. They consider us all potential sheep and, consequently, that inconvertibles too are potential meat for their inquisitional butchery (to feed to the non-existent cannibal jeebusjehovallah). The same logic is what made them inquisition Hindus in Goa, native American Traditionalists in the Americas and of course the ancient GrecoRomans:
http://www.ysee.gr/index-eng.php?type=en...ovestories <- Keep looking for the word "inquisitor" to read on how the early christoterrorist Inquisitors of the 6th century tortured the traditionalists of Greece and Rome to death/conversion.
Under John Paul And The Rat the catholic church is being completely reverted to the old catholic ways.
The catholic church has now reinstated the indulgence: in the Middle Ages, the church used to sell tickets to get the gullible, illiterate, ignorant christian population's grandpas and grandmas out of purgatory and into heaven. That's how the church made truckloads of money which the debauched popes spent in the vatican. The christian con was so blatant, it led to Martin Luther's protesting -> protestantism.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/10/ame...6528.php?page=2
<b>For Catholics, a revived tradition reopens a door to heaven</b>
via <b>Catholic Church sells Tickets to Heaven</b>
http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2009/02/rat...lic-church.html
Read at link.
This bit is interesting:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Getting Catholics back into the confession booth, in fact, was one of the underlying motivations for reintroducing the indulgence.</b> In a 2001 speech, Pope John Paul II described the newly reborn tradition as "a happy incentive" for confession.
"Confessions have been down for years, and the church is very worried about it," said the Reverend Tom Reese, a Jesuit and former editor of the weekly Catholic magazine America. In a secularized culture of pop psychology and self-help, he said, "the church wants the idea of 'personal sin' back in the equation."
"Indulgences are a way of reminding people of the importance of penance," he added. "The good news is we're not selling them anymore."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Two things:
1. Why does the catholic church want to drive its sheep back into the confession booth? Why, ex father confessor Joseph McCabe himself tells us:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"The crowd you will see on any Saturday night in a Catholic Church awaiting their turn to confess is enough to make you despair of modern intelligence in the mass. ...Remember that I was once a father confessor. They just reel off mechanically a list of lies, quarrels, thefts, drinking, etc. and in almost every case a few points about sex. ... And for every woman or girl who sincerely wants guidance there are fifty who just love the intimate talk about sex that is permitted with the priest in the confessional. ... <b>That it promotes morals and reduces crime is bunk. The one object of it is to consolidate the power of the priest over the laity."</b>
-- The Holy Faith Of Romanists, by Joseph McCabe, historian and former Franciscan monk<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
2. Although the representatives of the terrorist conclave (catholicism) say that they won't be <i>selling</i> it and that it is for the purposes of getting more people back into the confessional onlee, I am sure they will one day start charging money for the indulgences again. Just like earlier popes had decided to sell indulgences whenever they needed to raise money (see further below). In fact, it may be sooner than we think: the catholic church needs to make back all the money it lost in sexual abuse/paedophilia cases where it bankrupted itself, and what better way than to get the money from fleecing its own sheep as it had done for so long?
http://freetruth.50webs.org/C4a.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Protestant reformer Luther (1483-1546) is admired by ignorant Protestants in general and Lutherans in particular for having extricated the "true Christianity" from the heresy of Catholicism. He's best known for having nailed the 95 Theses (Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences, 1517) to the door of Wittenberg Church, thus exposing the indulgences scandal created by Rome's Pontiff. In fact, Luther became convinced that the Pope was the Antichrist himself and taught his adherents the same.
Yet even today few know the very inhumane and irrational sides of Martin Luther, though his works are now more widely available outside of Germany and in translation too.
[...]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://freetruth.50webs.org/C2b.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>BENEDICT VIII 1012-1024</b> Became Pope after assassinating his predecessor, Sergius IV. Pope Victor III (1086-87) spoke of his "rapes, murders and other unspeakable acts". Bishop Beno accused Benedict of "many vile adulteries and murders". The Archbishop of Narbonne accused him of "simony, assassination and usury; of disbelieving the Eucharist and the immortality of the soul; of employing violence to obtain the secrets of the confessional". He also was accused of "living in concubinage with his two nieces and having children by them" and <b>"using the money received from indulgences to pay for the Saracens' invasion of Sicily".</b>
<b>URBAN VI 1378-1389</b> Warmonger who resorted to bribery, and who, according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, was poisoned. Described as "one of the most unstable popes in history" in Richard McBrien's Lives Of the Popes. <b>He ordered England to fight against France because France had taken the side of his rival, Clement VII. He promised indulgences and other "spiritual rewards" to anyone who would take up arms.</b>
Before 1380 he was known for his drunken rages, even having climbed the Vatican battlements at one time to excommunicate the gatherings below.
In 1380 Urban excommunicated the King and Queen of Naples. This caused 6 Roman cardinals, tired of Urban, to conspire with the King and Queen to have the Pope deposed. However, their plans having failed, Urban had them tortured and had 5 of them executed.
<b>BONIFACE IX 1389-1404</b> Simonist, nepotist and murderer.
"A murderer who used simony to fill the depleted papal coffers", according to Sex Lives of the Popes and <b>who "also charged for indulgences, the canonisation of saints and the authentication of recently discovered religious relics, such as Christ's foreskin which was doing the rounds at the time."</b> "It is said that he charged one ducat for every document he signed as pope ... much of the money went to his brothers, his 'nephews' and his mother." He also granted permissions for Jubilees to be held in cities outside Rome, resulting in vast amounts of cash being channelled back into the papal treasury.
<b>JULIUS II 1503-1513</b> Epithet: "Pontefice Terribile". To the great warrior Pope Julius II, "religion was not even a hobby". He loved war over the church and defied canon law by donning full armour and riding off into battle at the head of the papal army to restore papal authority in Umbria. Julius was the pontiff responsible for hiring the Swiss troops who still guard the Vatican.
The Emperor Maximilian described Julius as "a drunken and wicked pope" who, like Cesare Borgia, suffered from syphilis given to him by one of his many "paramours". Not only had he fathered 3 daughters before his election, contemporary chroniclers wrote how he had abused many young men.
<b>His act of introducing a new system of indulgences in order to raise funds for the new St Peter's Basilica was said to have provided fuel for the fire of the Protestant Reformation.</b>
<b>LEO X 1513-1521</b> "How much we have profited by the legend of Christ" - Leo X, in a position to know.
He embarked on a Papal life of unimaginable extravagance, indulging in expensive carnivals, bull-fights, banquets, theatrical performances and the like. Like many of his Papal predecessors, he was also widely known to have had illicit relations with boys.
Leo X would often hunt on his private game reserve, which was kept for the exclusive use of himself and his cardinals. Any trespassers caught on the property had their hands and feet cut off, their homes burned and their children sold into servitude.
To raise funds for his lavish lifestyle, Leo sold cardinal's hats to atheists and other unbelievers. I<b>n 1515, two years after his election, the vast treasure left by Leo's predecessor Julius II was dissipated. Before his death, Leo tried to pull the church out of its hole by colluding with a German archbishop to sell indulgences. However, this made things all the worse for the Church by causing the emergence of Protestantism.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->The TRUE religion. Mark it.
Again from
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/10/ame...6528.php?page=2
<b>For Catholics, a revived tradition reopens a door to heaven</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The return of indulgences began with Pope John Paul II, who authorized bishops to offer them in 2000 as part of the celebration of the church's third millennium. But the offers have increased markedly under his successor, Pope Benedict, who has made plenary indulgences part of church anniversary celebrations nine times in the last three years. The current offer is tied to the yearlong celebration of St. Paul, which continues through June.
The indulgences, experts said, tend to be advertised more openly in dioceses where the bishop is more traditionalist, or in places with fewer tensions between liberal and conservative Catholics.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Shows that the rollback to the traditional catholic terrorism started with John Paul and continues with his favourite, Ratzy.
John Paul as we know brought back christian exorcism (which Angelo Roncalli had done away with earlier for being superstitious medieval nonsense). No doubt Ratzy - who was previously head of the Holy Inquisition under its renamed dissembling title of 'Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith' before making it to pope - will bring back into view that other prime catholic tradition: <i>publicly</i> reinstating the official use of the inquisition so it can be applied whenever they choose again. Not that the inquisition was ever disbanded, rather the opposite: it had been affirmed as a continuing right of the church against all heretics <i>and heathens</i>. But we can probably expect the holy monopoly church to <i>publicly</i> insist on the Right To Inquisition again, even within the term of the current Vatican Rat.
Of course, faithful Indian catholics like Lucio Mascara~nhas already call for the inquisition of the Hindus of India (<- it's what happens to people when they convert to christoterrorism. Don't blame the zombie. Blame the disease: christianism.) That's because christoterrorists keep thinking everyone in the world is under the jurisdiction of their jeebusjehovallah and to be judged and punished by their christoterrorism. They consider us all potential sheep and, consequently, that inconvertibles too are potential meat for their inquisitional butchery (to feed to the non-existent cannibal jeebusjehovallah). The same logic is what made them inquisition Hindus in Goa, native American Traditionalists in the Americas and of course the ancient GrecoRomans:
http://www.ysee.gr/index-eng.php?type=en...ovestories <- Keep looking for the word "inquisitor" to read on how the early christoterrorist Inquisitors of the 6th century tortured the traditionalists of Greece and Rome to death/conversion.