The only people in the world, it seems, who believe in the conspiracy theory of history are those of us who have studied it. While Franklin D. Roosevelt might have exaggerated when he said “Nothing happens in politics by accident; if it happens, it was planned that way,” Carroll Quigley – Bill Clinton’s favorite professor at Georgetown University – boldly admitted in his Tragedy & Hope ( 1 9 6 6 ) that (a) the multitudes were already under the control of a small but powerful group bent on world domination and (b) Quigley himself was a part of that group. — Pat Shannon, Journalist-at-Large, MEDIA BYPASS

The argument of two parties should represent opposed ideas and policies, one perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinate and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can “throw the rascals out” at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. The policies that are vital and necessary for America are no longer subjects of significant disagreement, but are disputable only in details of procedure, priority, or method.” https://undertheradarmedia.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/bill-clintons-mentor-carroll-quigley-reveals-fraud-of-the-two-party-system/

http://www.carrollquigley.net/Lectures/Dissent_Do_We_Need_It.htm

What the Seal of the United States of America represents, to anyone who takes it seriously, is a Ministry of Sin. A speech by Jesuit political scientist Michael Novak, published in the January 28, 1989 issue of America, the weekly magazine of American Jesuits, sums it up eloquently enough: The framers wanted to build a “novus ordo” that would secure “liberty and justice for all”.... The underlying principle of this new order is the fact of human sin. To build a republic designed for sinners, then, is the indispensable task.... There is no use building a social system for saints. There are too few of them. And those there are are impossible to live with!... Any effective social system must therefore be designed for the only moral majority there is: sinners.  Rulers of Evil p224

The 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia described the Rothschild's as "the guardians of the papal treasure". "Rothschild". Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901–1906, Vol. 2, p. 497  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family

Pope Francis urged members of all religions and those belonging to no church to unite to defend justice, peace and the environment and not allow the value of a person to be reduced to "what he produces and what he consumes". Francis, elected a week ago as the first non-European pope in 1,300 years, met leaders of non-Catholic Christian religions such as Orthodox, Anglicans, Lutherans and Methodists, and others including Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-idUSBRE92D05P20130320

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Theologie vs. Fundamentalismus Auf dem Deutschen Evangelischen Kirchentag in Stuttgart haben die Theologen sich gegen Fundamentalismus ausgesprochen. Prof. Wilhelm Eppler (Kassel) nannte den Bibel-Fundamentalismus „ein Krisensymptom unserer Zeit“. Eppler zufolge weist Fundamentalismus drei Merkmale auf: 1. Heilige Texte brauchen keine Interpretation, sie müssen nur umgesetzt werden. 2. Anderes Denken und Glauben darf es nicht geben. 3. Der Dialog wird verweigert. http://www.x-pansion.de/c-news/detail/news/stuttgarter-pfarrer-leugnet-die-auferstehung-jesu/

By Inés San Martín Vatican correspondent January 26, 2015 ROME — At the end of a week devoted to the press for Christian unity, Pope Francis said on Sunday that the way ahead is for various denominations to reject “proselytism and competition” among themselves. https://cruxnow.com/church/2015/01/26/pope-says-christian-unity-means-rejecting-proselytism-and-competition/

"Father I pray that those who believe in me will be one so the world will know you sent me."  That prayer of Jesus in the 17th chapter of the Gospel according to John is the reason Roman Catholics and a variety of Protestant Christians met together on May 23rd, 2105 in Phoenix, Arizona. … There was a declaration made that day by those in attendance to see the Church in Phoenix becoming relationally unified in a way that would make the claims of Jesus visibly seen and felt by those within and outside of the church. …My impression of our day but even more of the effort and working together of so many leading up to Saturday's meeting gives me hope that the church in all of its rich diversity can live and work as one family in the unity of the Holy Spirit. .. Joe Tosini ..Founder, John 17 Movement  http://www.john17movement.com/

OUR VISION The John 17 Movement is a contagious call to all professing Christians to relate together properly, beckoning us to embrace the final prayer of Jesus. On the eve of his death, He pleaded: "Father may all who believe in me be one so the world will know you sent me." This final plea stands as the most authoritative strategic direction for followers of Jesus.  As we respond, the church—in all her rich diversity—will emerge as the attractive “city on a hill” potently demonstrating the authenticity of Jesus’ claims.   Joe Tosini  Founder of John 17 Movement  http://www.john17movement.com/ourvision/

A personal letter from Pope Francis to Giovanni Traittori—and the rest of us in Phoenix trying to bring God’s people together… http://v2.garykinnaman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/letterfromvatican.jpg

Pope Francis has called for unity among evangelicals, Catholics, and Christians from other denominations, emphasizing that "we are one in Christ" and warning that division between the groups is the work of the devil. "Division is the work of the 'Father of Lies,' 'the Father of Discord,' who does everything possible to keep us divided," Francis said in a video message to a gathering sponsored by the John 17 Movement, according to Catholic Herald. http://www.gospelherald.com/articles/55719/20150526/pope-francis-calls-for-unity-between-evangelicals-catholics-division-the-work-of-devil.htm

After the lunch, the Pope rested in another room 15 minutes then came out and took three prepared questions answering them very openly and candidly. All reporters and Papal guards were asked to leave and we were alone with him, one Catholic and 60 Protestants!  One of the questions was 'what sorrows and what joys have you encountered on this path of reconciliation?' He expressed his greatest sorrow comes from Fundamentalist Christians as well as Fundamentalist Moslems and Jews. They are not willing to dialogue in any meaningful way but instead retreat into their own camps and hurtle accusations and hateful comments. He said that he liked to talk openly as we were there that afternoon. He mentioned we must negotiate and dialogue from the basis of our identity, that which we believe and what gives us our uniqueness. Dialogue is talking about the differences between identities without hostility. His greatest joy was in discovering the Pentecostal/Charismatics while presiding as Cardinal of Argentina. He first thought we were all 'Samba Christians' singing lively music back then. He then expressed that our greatest gifts to the Body of Christ worldwide was the gift of celebration and adoration in worship and the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives and in theology. He said that the Catholic Church and others need these gifts residing in us. http://www.john17movement.com/news/2014/8/13/test-blog

He said that if we try to build unity around doctrinal issues we will only achieve it after the Apocalypse!  It must first start with friendship, humility and receiving one another like we were presently experiencing and let The Lord accomplish this work. The Pope asked us a question: what do you want from us (The Catholic Church)? Giovanni answered with two things. First was to be recognized as a valid part of CHRIST'S body the Church. To this the Pope responded; we have already removed the word 'sect' when referring to Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches which had been used for years for various groups. He said they would use that only when referring to groups who deny the basic tenants of the Christian faith. Secondly Giovanni stressed the need for Reformation in the Catholic Church to the basic foundations of our faith. Francis stated that we are 'saved by grace'. The last question concerned the place of the Jews  in redemption and were they replaced by the church? Francis answered that 'we (Catholics) are the inheritors of the Gentile church' and the Jews must go along at their own pace. He expressed his faith that they will come to knowledge of Christ. There will come a unity someday. He also spoke about his hope for a dialogue of peace between Jews and Palestinians. http://www.john17movement.com/news/2014/8/13/test-blog

The Hermetic tradition represents a non-Christian lineage of Hellenistic Gnosticism. The tradition and its writings date to at least the first century B.C.E., and the texts we possess were all written prior to the second century C.E. The surviving writings of the tradition, known as the Corpus Hermeticum (the "Hermetic body of writings") were lost to the Latin West after classical times, but survived in eastern Byzantine libraries. Their rediscovery and translation into Latin during the late-fifteenth century by the Italian Renaissance court of Cosimo de Medici, provided a seminal force in the development of Renaissance thought and culture. These eighteen tracts of the Corpus Hermeticum, along with the Perfect Sermon (also called the Asclepius), are the foundational documents of the Hermetic tradition.    http://gnosis.org/library/hermet.htm

The House of Medici (/ˈmɛdɨtʃi/ med-i-chee; Italian pronunciation: [de ˈmɛːditʃi]) was a banking family, political dynasty and later royal house that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de' Medici in the Republic of Florence during the late 14th century. The family originated in the Mugello region of the Tuscan countryside, gradually rising until they were able to fund the Medici Bank. The bank was the largest in Europe during the 15th century, seeing the Medici gain political power inFlorence — though officially they remained citizens rather than monarchs. The Medici produced four Popes of the Catholic Church—Pope Leo X (1513–1521), Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), Pope Pius IV (1559–1565), and Pope Leo XI(1605);[1] two regent queens of France—Catherine de' Medici (1547–1559) and Marie de' Medici (1600–1610); and, in 1531, the family became hereditary Dukes of Florence. In 1569, the duchy was elevated to a grand duchy after territorial expansion. They ruled the Grand Duchy of Tuscany from its inception until 1737, with the death of GianGastone de' Medici. The grand duchy witnessed degrees of economic growth under the earlier grand dukes, but by the time of Cosimo III de' Medici, Tuscany was fiscally bankrupt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Medici

The Hermetic tradition represents a non-Christian lineage of Hellenistic Gnosticism. The central texts of the tradition, the Corpus Hermeticum were lost to the West in classical times. Their rediscovery and translation during the late-fifteenth century by the Renaissance court of Cosimo de Medici, provided a seminal force in the development of Renaissance thought and culture. The complete Corpus Hermeticum is comprised of 18 tracts. Only the first and primary thirteen of these are presently contained in our library. The texts presented here are taken from the very fine translation of G.R.S. Mead, Thrice Great Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis, Volume II (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906). http://www.mindserpent.com/American_History/religion/gnostism/corpus_hermeticum/hermet.htm

Another Medici, Leo X’s first cousin, Giulio d’Medici. Giulio took the papal name Clement VII. Just as Leo X’s corruption had ignited Luther, Clement VII’s shrewdness determined how the Church would deal with the proliferation of Bibles. Clement was personally advised by the cagey N i c c o l o Machiavelli, inventor of modern political science, and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Chancellor of England. Machiavelli and Wolsey opined that both printing and Protestantism could be turned to Rome’s advantage by employing movable type to produce a literature that would confuse, diminish, and ultimately marginalize the Bible. Cardinal Wolsey, who would later found Christ Church College at Oxford, characterized the project as “to put learning against learning.”4

4. “Since printing cannot be put down, it is best to set up learning against learning, and by introducing all persons to dispute, to suspend the laity between fear and controversy. This at most will make them attentive to their superiors and teachers.” Quoted in Lord Herbert’s Life of Henry VIII.  Rulers of Evil  P. 304

Against the Bible’s learning, which demonstrated how man could have eternal life simply by believing in the facts of Christ’s death and resurrection, would be put the learning of the gnostics. Gnosticism held out the hope that man could achieve everlasting life by doing good works himself. To put it succinctly, Bible-learning was Christ-centered; gnostic learning was man-centered. An enormous trove of gnostic learning had been brought from the eastern Mediterranean by agents of Clement VII’s great-grandfather, Cosimo d’Medici. Suppressed since the Emperor Justinian had piously shut down the pagan colleges of A t h e n s back in 5 2 9 , these celebrated mystical, scientific and philosophical scrolls and manuscripts flattered humanity. They taught that human intelligence was competent to determine truth from falsehood without guidance or assistance from any god. Since, as Protagoras put it, “man is the measure of all things,” man could control all the living powers of the universe. If elected and initiated into the secret knowledge, or gnosis, man could master the cabalah – the “royal science” of names, numbers, and symbols – to create his very own divinity. Cosimo had stored huge quantities of this pagan material in his library in Florence. Rulers of Evil P. 23,240

Superior General[edit] At the 19th General Congregation Ricci was elected Superior General of the Society of Jesus at the second ballot. Quite aware of some serious defects in the Society he said during the Congregation: The hatred that the Society is experiencing in some quarters comes partly from the arrogance of the writings of some of ours. The crisis with the Catholic Bourbon royal courts was coming to a head: expulsion from Portugal the year after his election (1758), from France in 1764, from Spain and Naples in 1767, from the Duchy of Parma in 1768. The helpless Ricci saw it all. As long as Clement XIII was pope, the Society was somehow protected in Rome. The Pope gave a new public approval of the Society (the bull ApostolicumPascendi, of 1769). To Ricci the Pope advised courage, prayer and patience. The spiritually inclined Superior General sent circular letters to the Jesuits on Fervent perseverance in Prayer (1763), On greater fervour in prayer in 1769, and just a few months before the suppression of the Society another one on a New incentive to Prayer (February 1773). Clearly he was not in touch with what was going on. But pressure on the Holy See was increasing and at the conclave called (in 1769) to elect a successor to Clement XIII the Suppression of the Jesuits was the main issue. Clement XIV was elected; it is not clear whether he made a promise to have the Society suppressed. After his election Clement XIV took harsh and humiliating decisions against the Society in order to placate its enemies, but political pressure went on unrelenting and the Pope finally suppressed the order (Dominus ac Redemptor of 21 July 1773), the main reason being that he wanted to 'restore peace in the Church'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Ricci

The book was first translated into the French language in 1772 by French Jesuit Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (Astronomer to the emperor of China) and a partial translation into English was attempted by British officer Everard Ferguson Calthrop in 1905. The first annotated English language translation was completed and published by Lionel Giles in 1910 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War

It was a grave moment and not a few of those present feared that their lives would be the forfeit for their audacity. In the midst of the debate a fierce voice rang out. The debaters stopped and turned to look upon the stranger. Who was this man who had suddenly appeared in their midst and transfixed them with his oratory? They had never seen him before, none knew when he had entered, but his tall form and pale face filled them with awe.  His voice ringing with a holy zeal, the stranger stirred them to their very souls. His closing words rang through the building: “God has given America to be free!” As the stranger sank into a chair exhausted, a wild enthusiasm burst forth. Name after name was placed upon the parchment: the Declaration of Independence was signed. But where was the man who had precipitated the accomplishment of this immortal task – who had lifted for a moment the veil from the eyes of the assemblage and revealed to them a part at least of the great purpose for which the new nation was conceived? He had disappeared, nor was he ever seen again or his identity established.2 Hall, The Secret Teachings, etc., p CLXVIII https://books.google.ca/books?id=FDSab8rWZScC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

His voice ringing with a holy zeal, the stranger stirred them to their very souls. His closing words rang through the building: “God has given America to be free!” As the stranger sank into a chair exhausted, a wild enthusiasm burst forth. Name after name was placed upon the parchment: the Declaration of Independence was signed. But where was the man who had precipitated the accomplishment of this immortal task – who had lifted for a moment the veil from the eyes of the assemblage and revealed to them a part at least of the great purpose for which the new nation was conceived? He had disappeared, nor was he ever seen again or his identity established.2 Hall, The Secret Teachings, etc., p CLXVIII

All countries were expelling the Jesuits and shipping them by whatever means to the Papal States. Some, too old for such treatment died and others left Religion or became secular priests. By 1773 the Suppression was complete. On August 16 the Brief of Suppression was read to the assembled Jesuits and they dispersed to various locales and to other works. On August 17 Ricci, the unfortunate General, was bundled off to prison in Castel Sant'Angelo where he languished for two years not even permitted to celebrate Mass or receive visitors. Eventually he died there on November 24, 1775 after 15 years as General. He testified to the end that the Society was innocent of all the accusations thrown against it. By order of Pope Pius VI his solemn funeral was held in the Church of San Giovanni de' Fiorentini the church closest to Ricci's prison. By order of the same Pope his body was taken to the Gesú a few hundred meters away and laid to rest in the crypt with the Generals who preceded him. However, Ricci's imprisonment and death and the Letter of Suppression did not bring the desired end of the Society. The Letter was valid only in those countries where it was officially promulgated.  http://www.reformation.org/general-number18.html

Frederick of Prussia recognizing the value of the Jesuits as educators refused to promulgate the Brief. So, too, Catherine II of Russia forbade its promulgation for the same reason, recognizing that without the education provided by the Jesuits there would be disastrous effects on her subjects. …. With both Papal acquiescence and Royal approval the Jesuits continued to live and work as Jesuits. Catherine encouraged them to open a Novitiate and paid no heed to other governments who opposed what she did in her own realm. Stanislaus Czerniewicz died on July 7, 1785 and the Fathers called the Second Congregation of White Russia to elect a successor.  http://www.reformation.org/general-number18.html

Jesuit drama, program of theatre developed for educational and propagandist purposes in the colleges of the Society of Jesus during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Cultivated as a medium for disseminating Roman Catholic doctrine, drama flourished in the Jesuit schools for more than 200 years, evolving from modest student exercises to elaborate productions that often rivaled the contemporary public stage in polish and technical skill. The earliest recorded performance of a Jesuit play was in 1551, at the newly founded Collegio Mamertino at Messina, in Sicily. In less than 20 years, plays were being performed at more than a dozen of the new Jesuit colleges springing up in cities across the Continent, including Rome, Sevilla (Seville), Córdoba, Innsbruck, Munich, and Vienna.  By the mid-17th century there were nearly 300 Jesuit colleges in Europe, and in almost every one at least one play was given each year. Originally plays were to be pious in nature, expressing true religious and moral doctrines; they were to be acted in Latin, decorously, and with little elaboration; and no female characters or costumes were to appear. All these rules were relaxed or revised as Jesuit drama evolved. Favourite subjects came from biblical histories, the lives of saints and martyrs, and incidents in the life of Christ, but Jesuit playwrights also drew upon material from pagan mythology, ancient history, and contemporary events, all reinterpreted in terms of Catholic doctrine. Dramas were frequently performed in the national languages or with vernacular prologues that explained the Latin text. Jesuit plays became increasingly elaborate, and their stagecraft kept pace with all the newest technical developments of European theatre. Music was an important element in most of the plays, ranging from simple songs to works that called for a large orchestra and chorus. The elaborate musical productions of Austria and southern  Germany reflected the influence of Italian opera as well as the long tradition of music in the church. The colleges of France even included ballet in their performances. The extravagance and luxury of many of the Jesuit productions came under heavy attack. Many of the productions were enormously expensive, and it was charged that students in some colleges did little more than prepare and perform plays. Opponents of the Jesuit order seized upon such charges and made them part of the wave of anti-Jesuit feeling that grew in the mid-18th century. Dramatic performances were prohibited or limited in many areas, and they ceased altogether in 1773, when the Society of Jesus was temporarily suppressed. https://www.britannica.com/art/Jesuit-drama

For almost five hundred years, theater has played a vital role in the curricula of Jesuit schools. Today—in Dallas—Jesuit Theater builds on that tradition by offering a broad range of opportunities for students. Each year, there are four major productions at Jesuit. We have recently performed a Greek tragedy, a Shakespearean comedy, a French absurdist play, a Victorian comedy, and numerous contemporary American dramas. Another important aspect of our program is the Drama Troupe. This group of seniors performs at local middle schools on a weekly basis as a part of Jesuit’s Community Service Program. The Drama Troupe writes and directs its own shows, aiming to educate kids about topics including how to do well in high school and how to treat others with respect and dignity. We also have an oustanding Technical Theater program that includes a full scene shop and a comedy improv troupe that meets on a weekly basis. Jesuit supports these activities with a broad curricular offering, including Theater Arts, Stage Acting, Stagecraft, and Directing for Theater. Our theater program is robust, unpretentious, and open to all students. We encourage you to come be a part of Jesuit Theater. http://www.jesuitcp.org/theater

Embedded in the ratio studiorum were the elements of entertainment, of dramatic production – composition, rhetoric, and eloquence. These courses interlinked with the Spiritual Exercises to intensify the experientiality of C a t h o l i c doctrine over Scripture and Protestantism. They resulted in a genre of spectacular plays that won distinction as “Jesuit theatre.” Ruler of Evil P 66

Jesuit priest Athenasius Kircher (1602-1680) contributed powerfully to Jesuit theatre as sensory experience. With his megaphone, which enabled the voice of one to reach thousands, Kircher invented broadcasting. He also fathered modern camera theory with his perfection of the lanterna magica. The magic lantern projected sharp images through a lens upon a screen, giving audiences the illusion of burning cities and conflagrations. Kircher’s work influenced the creation of the phenakistoscope (1832), the zoetrope (1860), the kinematoscope (1861), the kineograph (1868), the praxinoscope (1877), and finally, Thomas A l v a Edison’s kinetograph for filming action to be projected onto a screen through his kinetoscope (1894). Rulers of Evil p. 69

After World War II, during September 1957, Pope John XXIII gave Jesuit theatre even broader horizons with his encyclical Miranda prorsus (“Looking ahead”), saying, Men must be brought into closer communion with one another. They must become socially minded. These technical arts (cinema, sound broadcasting, and television) can achieve this aim far more easily than the printed word. [Italics mine] The Catholic Church is keenly desirous that these means be converted to the spreading and advancement of everything that can be truly called good. Embracing, as she does, the whole of human society within the orbit of her divinely appointed mission, she is directly concerned with the fostering of  civilization among all peoples. John XXIII urged that Pius XI’s national film reviewing offices be entrusted to men who are experienced in cinema, sound broadcasting, and television, under the guidance of a priest specially chosen by the Bishops.... At the same time We urge that the faithful, and particularly those who are militant in the cause of Catholic Action [Jesuits and their protégés], be suitably instructed, so that they may appreciate the need for giving to these offices their willing, united, and effective support. In 1 9 6 4 , Pope Paul VI amplified Miranda prorsus with the decree Inter mirifica (“Among the Wonders”), saying “it is the Church’s birthright to use and own ... the press, the cinema, radio, television and others of a like nature.” Paul cited a special responsibility for the proper use of the means of social communication [which] rests on journalists, writers, actors, designers, producers, exhibitors, distributors, operators, sellers, critics – all those, in a word, who are involved in the making and transmission of communications in any way whatever.... They have power to direct mankind along a good path or an evil path by the information they impart and the pressure they exert. It will be for them to regulate the economic, political, and artistic values in a way that will not conflict with the common good.... P 72

The quality of entertainment’s content was decreed in a section of Inter mirifica encouraging ”the chronicling, the description  or the representation of moral evil [which] can, with the help of the means of social communication and with suitable dramatization, lead to a deeper knowledge and analysis of man and to a manifestation of the true and the good in all their splendor.” Emboldened by this papal decree, social communicators since 1965 have pushed the constitutional guarantees of “free speech” to the limit by chronicling, describing, and representing moral evil with such progressively vivid, repulsive, prurient, yet often appealing detail that entertainment has become, in the opinion of many, a veritable technological “how to” of moral evil. It clearly does not lead audiences to a deeper appreciation of Holy Scripture. This fact identifies entertainment today as a successful Jesuit theatrical mission. P 73

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The thirty-third episode of the show aired in Season 2, and was titled "The War of the Simpson's".  The episode features a plot that gives tribute to Ernest Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea and features a battle for the ages between Homer Simpson and General Sherman.  Let us quickly examine the numerology of Sherman. Sherman = 1+8+5+9+4+1+5 = 33 Simpson = 1+9+4+7+1+6+5 = 33 Think about it, a battle between two 33s, in the thirty-third episode.   http://freetofindtruth.blogspot.ca/2014/02/33-watch-simpsons.html

Sammy Davis Jr. is famous for being a member of the Church of Satan. Interestingly enough long after Sammy Davis JR renounced his Satanic worship, he was accepted into the Knights of Malta. http://www.conspirazzi.com/tag/sammy-davis-jr/

The Times then tries to reassert the film's group-hug dhimmi status with a quick quote from a cooperative priest who says exactly what they want to hear: The Rev. George Dennis, a Jesuit priest and a history professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, who was one of five experts provided with the script for ''Kingdom of Heaven,'' said he was impressed by its nuance and accuracy. ''Historically I found it pretty accurate,'' he said. ''I can't think of any objections from the Christian side. And I don't think Muslims should have any objections. There's nothing offensive to anyone in there, I don't think.'' Not so fast, George! UCLA professor Khaled Abu el-Fadl has plenty to complain about, despite your protestations and despite Scott's attempt to present Muslims as heroes and the Christians as villains: But Khaled Abu el-Fadl, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies Islamic law, vehemently disagreed, calling the screenplay offensive and a replay of historic Hollywood stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims. http://www.zombietime.com/kingdom_of_heaven/

Jesus' arm is dislocated in order to make his hand reach the nail hole, meaning that his arms should be fully extended and straight at all times. However on almost all shots of him on the cross, his body sags forward with his arms bent at an almost 90 degree angle. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335345/goofs

…The devil is now called Darkness by the Church, whereas, in the Bible he is called the "Son of God" (see Job), the bright star of the early morning, Lucifer (see Isaiah). There is a whole philosophy of dogmatic craft in the reason why the first Archangel, who sprang from the depths of Chaos, was called Lux (Lucifer), the "Luminous Son of the Morning," or man-vantaric Dawn. He was transformed by the Church into Lucifer or Satan, because he is higher and older than Jehovah, and had to be sacrificed to the new dogma. (Blavatsky, Secret Doctrine P 71)

Jehovah -- esoterically (as Elohim) -- is also the Serpent or Dragon that tempted Eve, and the "Dragon" is an old glyph for "Astral Light" (Primordial Principle), "which is the Wisdom of Chaos." (Blavatsky, Secret Doctrine P73) https://books.google.ca/books?id=jOL32rv4bIEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Mel Gibson told CHRISTIANITY TODAY: "I've been actually amazed at the way I would say the evangelical audience has—hands down—responded to this film more than any other Christian group." What makes it so amazing, he says, is that "the film is so Marian."  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/februaryweb-only/melgibson.html

Gibson calls her … "a tremendous co-redemptrix and mediatrix." (David Neff. "Mel, Mary, and Mothers", ChristianityToday.com, 02/20/04) http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/march/1.30.html

That Jesus said, "It is accomplished" rather than "It is finished"? According to Rome, it was the Eucharist which was "accomplished" at the cross? "The Eucharist, the sacrament of our salvation accomplished by Christ on the cross, is also a sacrifice of praise in thanksgiving for the work of creation...." (Catechism of the Catholic Church, #1359; reported in NEWS1899) http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p2s2c1a3.htm

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The list of actors employed by these papal criminals is most impressive.  ….. Hollywood is merely “The Jesuit Theater,” nothing more!  Jews involved are “papal court Jews,” worshiping their god Mammon, the pope being Satan’s human master of all Mammon.  For the Military Company of Jesus, the Praetorian Guard of the Papal Caesar, has horded all the world’s gold in its central banks and has issued all the fiat currencies.  http://vaticanassassins.org/2012/02/02/motion-picture-association-of-america-ruled-by-black-popes-knights-of-malta/

Prior to transitioning into the entertainment sector, Mr. Saxton was a President of Texca Petroleum Oil and Gas Operating Company, former Vice President at NASD broker/dealer for 21st Century Securities, as well as a Commodities Broker for a boutique Commodities firm. In 2004, Mr. Saxton was inducted as a Knight by the Knights of Malta Coptic Catholic. Sir Steven Saxton’s nomination has been endorsed by Grand Master H.S.H Prince Antonio Ruspoli, approved by Cardinal Stephanos II, Patriarch of Alexandria, blessed by his eminence, Pope John Paul II and is on record at the Vatican in Rome. xtfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>, the Praetorian Guard of the Papal Caesar, has horded all the world’s gold in its central banks and has issued all the fiat currencies.   http://www.hollywoodstudios.co/steven-saxton

Personality John is shown to be extremely sophisticated (despite his age). He often speaks in a sophisticated way, which his younger brother Michael usually mimics and repeats (albeit in a more simplistic way- i.e. John: "Oh, I should like very much to cross swords with some real buccaneers". Michael: "Yeah, and fight pirates, too!"). He also shows interest in piracy, which may explain why he plays the part Captain Hook in his nursery games with his younger sibling. John is also shown that he is brave and clever, cause when he and Micheal were playing with the Lost Boys, he was the leader. John is, as well, very mature, but loves his time being very adventurous and playful. http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/John_Darling

At the Vatican, on April 24, 2005, the day of the His “Coronation”, Benedict XVI receives the Miter. http://chiesaviva.com/mitra%20satanica%20ing.pdf

According to USA Today James Foley was educated at the Catholic Jesuit college in Milwaukee http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/24/james-foley-beheading-victim-had-deep-faith/14544151/

"Jihadi John", "John the Beatle", and "Jailer John" are pseudonyms associated with a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, ISIS, or "Islamic State"), known for beheading several hostages in 2014 and 2015. As of February 2015, some news outlets have identified Jihadi John as a man named Mohammed Emwazi. Jihadi John had previously been associated with Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, among others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihadi_John

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So, for instance, June 24, John the Baptist's day, was appointed a Masonic holiday on which the members were to assemble, perform certain rites, and partake of a common meal." (Jews and Freemasons in Europe, 1723-1939, Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1970, p.13). …..  The Bunch of Grapes Tavern, mentioned in the Poe chapter was called the "St. John's Lodge No. 1". Satanist Aleister Crowley (a 33 degree Mason) sometimes used the alias "John St. John". …. But none of this usage has anything to do with piety. In actuality it is a vicious mockery. What is memorialized is the manner of St. John's death. It is a constant source of celebration and a constant reminded to anti-Masons of what can happen to them. Just as Masons identify closely with Sabbataian kabbalism they also venerate the votaries of this cause throughout history. Hence their insult to St. John is doubled by the fact that they are actually seeking to honor the whore Salome.  http://www.ukcolumn.org/oldforums/index.php?p=/discussion/9114/beheading-decapitation-is-associated-with-the-ninth-degree-of-the-scottish-rite-of-freemasonry

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, officially the Cathedral Church of Saint John: The Great Divine in the City and Diocese of New York, is the cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. It is located in New York City on Amsterdam Avenue between West 110th Stree and 113th Street in Manhattan's Morningside Heights neighborhood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Saint_John_the_Divine

Edwina Sandys’s the granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill sculptured Christa.   In 1975, Sandys caused near apoplexy in some circles with her sculpture of a female Christ. Installed in the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine during Holy Week in 1984, “Christa” made her famous. https://books.google.co.za/books?id=f-UCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13&dq=female+christ+on+display&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjItfXmpaHPAhUI6GMKHeDdDi0Q6AEIIzAB#v=twopage&q&f=false

According to Arthur Waitte’s New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, the Boston Tea party was Masonic and carried out by the members of the St. John’s Lodge http://vigilantcitizen.com/sinistersites/sinister-sites-st-john-the-divine-cathedral/

"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. "But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism.  "The country behind this propaganda is the US . . ." – Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook.   http://suspiciousdeaths.blogspot.com/2010/05/robin-cook.html http://suspiciousdeaths.blogspot.ca/2010/05/robin-cook.html

“As such the book is a defense of every Jesuit priest that shoulders a carbine and joins the jungle guerillas. It makes clear why Jesuits can be ministers with portfolio in Marxist governments, why Jesuits can attack John Paul II on his teaching on sexual morality, why Jesuits spend their days and their lives solving union problems, organizing sugar cane workers, running factories, constructing low cost housing, helping the planned parenthood federation of America spread the use of contraceptives, run nationwide hospitals and dispensary networks, organize political  demonstrations for this and against that, according s the issues of the day are presented by the “teaching Authority” of the “peoples church”. These are the actions of the new faith, true to the new theology according to which the material needs of men must be the prior object of the Church’s efforts. Malachi Martin “The Jesuits” p 489 

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NEW YORK, March 17, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan led Manhattan’s St. Patrick’s Day parade on Tuesday as grand marshal, despite backlash from faithful Catholics unhappy with the organizers’ decision to allow an openly homosexual activist group to march in the event. “I’m as radiant as the sun, so thanks be to God for the honor and the joy,” said Cardinal Dolan on Tuesday morning, as he led 250,000 marchers down Fifth Avenue – including a delegation from “Out @ NBC Universal,” a group of gay activists who work for NBC, the network that televises the parade. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-dolan-marches-with-homosexual-activists-at-nyc-st.-patricks-parade

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White House officials are downplaying calls to focus on Islamist terrorism in a three-day summit aimed at preventing violent extremism, insisting that recent attacks should not lead to stereotyping of certain communities as higher risk. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/17/white-house-islamic-terror-extremism-summit

The international conference, which begins on Tuesday in Washington and will seek ways of deterring home-grown terrorism, has been criticized by Republicans for failing to single out Islamist extremism for particular scrutiny despite having been convened by Barack Obama in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris and coming amid concern over radicalization by the Islamic State, or Isis, and just days after a terrorist attack in Denmark. But the administration is adamant that delegates should also discuss lessons from other conflicts, such as the fight against Farc in Colombia and attacks by Christians on Sikh or Jewish targets, and rejects criticism it is being overly politically correct in taking such a broad approach. “You can call them what you want; we are calling them terrorists,” said a senior administration official in a briefing for reporters ahead of the summit. “We are not treating these people are part of a religion.”  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/17/white-house-islamic-terror-extremism-summit

Pope Francis called on religious communities to condemn terrorism, especially Muslim leaders. He said: “I express my hope that religious, political and intellectual leaders, especially those of the Muslim community, will condemn all fundamentalist and extremist interpretations of religion which attempt to justify such acts of violence.” http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/01/12/pope-francis-paris-attacks-the-result-of-a-deviant-form-of-religion/

Pope Francis called on religious communities to condemn terrorism, especially Muslim leaders. He said: “I express my hope that religious, political and intellectual leaders, especially those of the Muslim community, will condemn all fundamentalist and extremist interpretations of religion which attempt to justify such acts of violence.” http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/01/12/pope-francis-paris-attacks-the-result-of-a-deviant-form-of-religion/

Pope Francis strongly condemned violence in the Middle East Friday, in an interview with  the Vatican correspondent of Barcelona-based daily La Vanguardia. Following his first visit to the Middle East as pope last month, the pontiff criticized fundamentalism in Christianity, Islam and Judaism as a form of violence.    "A fundamentalist group, even if it kills no one, even it strikes no one, is violent. The mental structure of fundamentalism is violence in the name of God."    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/181689#.VPAyBdWqqko

New York (AsiaNews) - The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon announced during the meeting against Extremism Violent held in Washington this week that the agency plans to hold in the coming months a global meeting with religious leaders from around the world with order to "send a strong message of tolerance, solidarity and reconciliation." The meeting brought together representatives of 60 countries aiming to join efforts to prevent radicalization and recruitment of individuals, especially young people, by radical organizations. To the UN Secretary General, the meeting of religious leaders at the UN should serve to "promote mutual understanding and reconciliation", at a time of "great suffering" around the world with "innocent shot dead in schools" and " children brutally kidnapped. " https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fbr.radiovaticana.va%2Fnews%2F2015%2F02%2F21%2Fban_ki-moon_prop%25C3%25B5e_reuni%25C3%25A3o_de_l%25C3%25ADderes_religiosos_na_onu%2F1124792&edit-text=&act=url

  In his speech, Ban Ki-moon warned of the apogee of a "new generation" of transnational terrorist groups that pose a "serious threat to peace and global security." The strategy of these "extremists," he warned, is planned to "deliberate" way to polarize and terrorize, provoke and divide us. The majority of the victims, stated, are Muslims. To meet this challenge - defended the maximum head of the UN - "we need to have a cool head, common sense and not get carried away by fear" and "win the battle in the minds of new generations", and it all begins in schools, where can teach "compassion and empathy" to children. Moon also stressed the importance of combating ideologies "poisonous" associated with extremism and are therefore in many cases of "oppression, corruption and injustice." The forces "anti-immigration" existing in some countries also "feed" the extremists. (JE) https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fbr.radiovaticana.va%2Fnews%2F2015%2F02%2F21%2Fban_ki-moon_prop%25C3%25B5e_reuni%25C3%25A3o_de_l%25C3%25ADderes_religiosos_na_onu%2F1124792&edit-text=&act=url

Seventh-Day Adventism cannot change its views on the Catholic Church being the Whore of Babylon without admitting that it was wrong on Sunday worship. It cannot admit that Sunday worship is not the mark of the beast without changing its views on the Jewish Sabbath. Seventh-Day Adventism cannot cease to be anti-Catholic without ceasing to be Seventh-Day Adventism. ……NIHIL OBSTAT: I have concluded that the materials presented in this work are free of doctrinal or moral errors. Bernadeane Carr, STL, Censor Librorum, August 10, 2004 http://www.catholic.com/tracts/seventh-day-adventism

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(Vatican Radio)  The orderly development of "a civil, pluralistic society requires” that the “authentic spirit of religion” not be “confined” to “personal conscience but that its significant role in the construction of society is recognized,” said Pope Francis in his remarks to the Italian president. … Though independent, church and state share “the common responsibility” of meeting people’s “spiritual and physical needs…with humility and dedication,” he said. http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/04/18/pope_religion_should_not_be_confined_to_personal_conscience/1137800

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3. At times we are called to gaze even more attentively on mercy so that we may become a more effective sign of the Father’s action in our lives. For this reason I have proclaimed an Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy as a special time for the Church, a time when the witness of believers might grow stronger and more effective. The Holy Year will open on 8 December 2015, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. This liturgical feast day recalls God’s action from the very beginning of the history of mankind. After the sin of Adam and Eve, God did not wish to leave humanity alone in the throes of evil. And so he turned his gaze to Mary, holy and immaculate in love (cf. Eph 1:4), choosing her to be the Mother of man’s Redeemer. …….. I will have the joy of opening the Holy Door on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. On that day, the Holy Door will become a Door of Mercy through which anyone who enters will experience the love of God who consoles, pardons, and instills hope.  ……. On the following Sunday, the Third Sunday of Advent, the Holy Door of the Cathedral of Rome – that is, the Basilica of Saint John Lateran – will be opened. In the following weeks, the Holy Doors of the other Papal Basilicas will be opened. On the same Sunday, I will announce that in every local church, at the cathedral – the mother church of the faithful in any particular area – or, alternatively, at the co-cathedral or another church of special significance, a Door of Mercy will be opened for the duration of the Holy Year. …… 4. I have chosen the date of 8 December because of its rich meaning in the recent history of the Church. In fact, I will open the Holy Door on the fiftieth anniversary of the closing of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council. The Church feels a great need to keep this event alive. ….. We recall the poignant words of Saint John XXIII when, opening the Council, he indicated the path to follow: “Now the Bride of Christ wishes to use the medicine of mercy rather than taking up arms of severity…  The Catholic Church, as she holds high the torch of Catholic truth at this Ecumenical Council, wants to show herself a loving mother to all; patient, kind, moved by compassion and goodness toward her separated children”.[2] Blessed Paul VI spoke in a similar vein at the closing of the Council: “We prefer to point out how charity has been the principal religious feature of this Council… the old story of the Good Samaritan has been the model of the spirituality of the Council… a wave of affection and admiration flowed from the Council over the modern world of humanity. Errors were condemned, indeed, because charity demanded this no less than did truth, but for individuals themselves there was only admonition, respect and love. Instead of depressing diagnoses, encouraging remedies; instead of direful predictions, messages of trust issued from the Council to the present-day world. The modern world’s values were not only respected but honored, its efforts approved, its aspirations purified and blessed…  http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_letters/documents/papa-francesco_bolla_20150411_misericordiae-vultus.html

Another point we must stress is this: all this rich teaching is channeled in one direction, the service of mankind, of every condition, in every weakness and need”.[3]   22. A Jubilee also entails the granting of indulgences. This practice will acquire an even more important meaning in the Holy Year of Mercy…. To gain an indulgence is to experience the holiness of the Church, who bestows upon all the fruits of Christ’s redemption, so that God’s love and forgiveness may extend everywhere. Let us live this Jubilee intensely, begging the Father to forgive our sins and to bathe us in his merciful “indulgence.” 23. There is an aspect of mercy that goes beyond the confines of the Church. It relates us to Judaism and Islam, both of which consider mercy to be one of God’s most important attributes. … I trust that this Jubilee year celebrating the mercy of God will foster an encounter with these religions and with other noble religious traditions; may it open us to even more fervent dialogue so that we might know and understand one another better; may it eliminate every form of closed-mindedness and disrespect, and drive out every form of violence and discrimination.  http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_letters/documents/papa-francesco_bolla_20150411_misericordiae-vultus.html

24. My thoughts now turn to the Mother of Mercy. May the sweetness of her countenance watch over us in this Holy Year, so that all of us may rediscover the joy of God’s tenderness. No one has penetrated the profound mystery of the incarnation like Mary. Her entire life was patterned after the presence of mercy made flesh. The Mother of the Crucified and Risen One has entered the sanctuary of divine mercy because she participated intimately in the mystery of His love. … Our prayer also extends to the saints and blessed ones who made divine mercy their mission in life. I think especially of the great apostle of mercy, Saint Faustina Kowalska. May she, who was called to enter the depths of divine mercy, intercede for us and obtain for us the grace of living and walking always according to the mercy of God and with an unwavering trust in his love. … Given in Rome, at Saint Peter’s, on 11 April, the Vigil of the Second Sunday of Easter, or the Sunday of Divine Mercy, in the year of our Lord 2015, the third of my Pontificate. http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_letters/documents/papa-francesco_bolla_20150411_misericordiae-vultus.html

In another message, Mary told the seers: “Tell this priest, tell everyone, that it is you who are divided on earth. The Muslims and the Orthodox, for the same reason as Catholics, are equal before my Son and I. You are all my children.”26   Mary’s message of peace, unity, and tolerance is one that a distressed and perplexed world craves.   26 Richard J. Beyer, Medjugorje Day By Day, Notre Dame, IN., Ave Maria Press, 1993, April 6th meditation.

[However,] It is our firm belief that the fears some entertain concerning the Moslems are not to be realized, but that Islam, instead, will eventually be converted to Christianity – and in a way that even some of our missionaries never suspect. It is our belief that this will happen not through the direct teaching of Christianity but through a summoning of the Moslems to a veneration of the Mother of God… Missionaries in the future will, more and more, see that their apostolate among the Moslems will be successful in the measure that they preach Our Lady of Fatima.108  P 35   108 Fulton J. Sheen, The World’s First Love – Mary, Mother of God, San Francisco, CA, Ignatius Press, reprinted 1996, pp. 201, 204.

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Francis also said Catholic charismatics have a special role to play in healing divisions among Christians by exercising "spiritual ecumenism" or praying with members of other Christian churches and communities who share a belief in Jesus as lord and savior. https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/francis-chronicles/pope-charismatic-rally-stadium-invites-them-vatican-2017

Finally Pope Francis invited the crowd, which included charismatics from 55 countries, to come to St. Peter’s Square for Pentecost in 2017 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the movement. The Catholic charismatic movement began during a retreat held in 1967 with students and staff from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. “I expect all of you, charismatics from around the world, to celebrate your great jubilee with the pope at Pentecost 2017 in St. Peter’s Square,” the Pope said. http://emmanuelcommunity.com/announcement/pope-francis-invites-us-to-rome-2017/

Prophecy of Rabbi Judah Ben Samuel Rabbi Judah Ben Samuel was a top Talmudic scholar in Germany . Just before he died in the year 1217 he prophesied that the Ottoman Turks would rule over the holy city of Jerusalem for eight jubilees. That is 400 years (8 x 50). The Ottoman Turks did take control of Jerusalem 300 years after the Rabbi’s death in 1517 and as according  to the prophecy, the Ottoman Turks then lost Jerusalem 400 years later in 1917. The Rabbi then went on to say that after the eight jubilees, the ninth jubilee would have Jerusalem being a no-man’s-land, which it was from 1917 to 1967 until the Six-Day-War. The Rabbi’s prophecy then stated that in the tenth Jubilee that Jerusalem would be controlled by Israel, and then the Messianic end times would begin. That would then bring the time to 2017.  https://heavenawaits.wordpress.com/70-years-and-the-last-jubilee/

Most people are unaware that they are in the most violent war of all times and the number of casualties will be in the billions. The pit of hell has been opened, and demons have been gathering in souls for damnation. Loss of faith in God has allowed these demons to come upon the earth, and it is possible that the world will soon experience the Great Tribulation spoken of in the Bible. Few will survive these apocalyptic end times!

Religion News Services reports that the two sides have decided to “bury the hatchet” for the upcoming commemoration of the commencement of the Protestant movement.  The Vatican and the Lutheran World Federation released a joint document, “From Conflict to Communion,” in Geneva on Monday (June 17, 2013) that said “there’s little purpose in dredging up centuries-old conflicts.” … “In the document, the two churches recognize that in the age of ecumenism and globalization, the celebration requires a new approach, focusing on a reciprocal admission of guilt and on highlighting the progress made by Lutheran-Catholic dialogue in the past 50 years.”  … “The fact that the struggle for this truth in the 16th century led to the loss of unity in Western Christendom belongs to the dark pages of church history,” and “In 2017, we must confess openly that we have been guilty before Christ of damaging the unity of the church.” The document also affirms that the two sides (Lutherans and Catholics) “have come to acknowledge that more unites than divides them.” http://www.religionnews.com/2013/06/18/lutherans-and-catholics-bury-the-hatchet-for-reformations-500th/ https://www.ncronline.org/news/lutherans-and-catholics-bury-hatchet-reformations-500th

From Conflict to Communion | Lutheran–Catholic Common Commemoration of the Reformation in 2017 The Lutheran–Roman Catholic Commission on Unity invites all Christians to study its report open-mindedly and critically, and to walk along the path towards the full, visible unity of the Church.   https://www.lutheranworld.org/content/resource-conflict-communion-basis-lutheran-catholic-commemoration-reformation-2017

The fact that the struggle for this truth in the sixteenth century led to the loss of unity in Western Christendom belongs to the dark pages of church history. In 2017, we must confess openly that we have been guilty before Christ of damaging the unity of the church. This commemorative year presents us with two challenges: the purification and healing of memories, and the restoration of Christian unity in accordance with the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ (Eph 4:4–6). (P 7) The following text describes a way »from conflict to communion« – a way whose goal we have not yet reached. Nevertheless, the Lutheran–Roman Catholic Commission on Unity has taken seriously the words of Pope John XXIII, »The things that unite us are greater than those that divide us (P8)

7. The year 2017 will see the first centennial commemoration of the Reformation to take place during the ecumenical age. It will also mark fifty years of Lutheran-Roman Catholic dialogue. As part of the ecumenical movement, praying together, worshipping together, and serving their communities together have enriched Catholics and Lutherans. They also face political, social, and economic challenges together. The spirituality evident in interconfessional marriages has brought forth new insights and questions. Lutherans and Catholics have been able to reinterpret their theological traditions and practices, recognizing the influences they have had on each other. Therefore, they long to commemorate 2017 together.

14. For more than a hundred years, Pentecostal and other charismatic movements have become very widespread across the globe. These powerful movements have put forward new emphases that have made many of the old confessional controversies seem obsolete. The Pentecostal movement is present in many other churches in the form of the charismatic movement, creating new commonalities and communities across confessional boundaries. Thus, this movement opens up new ecumenical opportunities while, at the same time, creating additional challenges that will play a significant role in the observance of the Reformation in 2017. (P14)

21. Twentieth-century Catholic research on Luther built upon a Catholic interest in Reformation history that awakened in the second half of the nineteenth century. These theologians followed the efforts of the Catholic population in the Protestant-dominated German empire to free themselves from a one-sided, anti-Roman, Protestant historiography. The breakthrough for Catholic scholarship came with the thesis that Luther overcame within himself a Catholicism that was not fully Catholic. According to this view, the life and teaching of the church in the late Middle Ages served mainly as a negative foil for the Reformation; the crisis in Catholicism made Luther’s religious protest quite convincing to some.

16. What happened in the past cannot be changed, but what is remembered of the past and how it is remembered can, with the passage of time, indeed change. Remembrance makes the past present. While the past itself is unalterable, the presence of the past in the present is alterable. In view of 2017, the point is not to tell a different history, but to tell that history differently. (P16)  This is Jesuit rhetoric

32. The dialogue partners are committed to the doctrines of their respective churches, which, according to their own convictions, express the truth of the faith. The doctrines demonstrate great commonalities but may differ, or even be opposed, in their formulations. Because of the former, dialogue is possible; because of the latter, dialogue is necessary. …. However, what appears to be an opposition in expression is not always an opposition in substance. In order to determine the exact relationship between respective articles of doctrine, texts must be interpreted in the light of the historical context in which they arose. That allows one to see where a difference or opposition truly exists and where it does not. (P 22)

53. When Luther did not see a biblical basis in Rome’s statements, or thought that they even contradicted the biblical message, he began to think of the pope as the Antichrist. By this, admittedly shocking, accusation, Luther meant that the pope did not allow Christ to say what Christ wanted to say and that the pope had put himself above the Bible rather than submitting to its authority. The pope claimed that his office was instituted iure divino (»by divine right«), while Luther could not find biblical evidence for this claim. (P29)  56. In response, Emperor Charles V delivered a remarkable speech in which he set forth his intentions. The emperor noted that he had descended from a long line of sovereigns who had had always considered it their duty to defend the Catholic faith »for the salvation of souls« and that he had the same duty. The emperor argued that a single friar erred when his opinion was in opposition to all of Christianity for the last thousand years.17 (P30)

By grace alone 124. Together Catholics and Lutherans confess: »By grace alone, in faith in Christ’s saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works« (JDDJ 15). The phrase »by grace alone« is further explained in this way: »the message of justification . . . tells us that as sinners our new life is solely due to the forgiving and renewing mercy that God imparts as a gift and we receive in faith, and never can merit in any way« (JDDJ 17).43 (P49)

141. Luther understood the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper as a testamentum, the promise of someone who is about to die, as is evident from the Latin version of the words of institution. At first, Luther perceived Christ’s promise (testamentum) as promising grace and forgiveness of sins but, in the debate with Huldrych Zwingli, he emphasized his belief that Christ gives himself, his body and blood, that are really  present. Faith does not make Christ present; it is Christ who gives himself, his body and blood, to communicants, whether or not they believe this. Thus, Luther’s opposition to the contemporary doctrine was not that he denied the real presence of Jesus Christ, but rather concerned how to understand the »change« in the Lord’s Supper. (P54)

Lutheran–Roman Catholic dialogue on the eucharist 153. The question of the reality of the presence of Jesus Christ in the Lord’s Supper is not a matter of controversy between Catholics and Lutherans. The Lutheran–Roman Catholic dialogue on the eucharist was able to state: »The Lutheran tradition affirms the Catholic tradition that the consecrated elements do not simply remain bread and wine but rather by the power of the creative word are given as the body and blood of Christ. In this sense Lutherans also could occasionally speak, as does the Greek tradition, of a change« (Eucharist 51).50 Both Catholics and Lutherans »have in common a rejection of a spatial or natural manner of presence, and a rejection of an understanding of the sacrament as only commemorative or figurative« (Eucharist 16).51 (P58) How sad that Lutherans should agree to this

155. To the question of the real presence of Jesus Christ and its theological understanding is joined the question of the duration of this presence and with it the question of the adoration of Christ present in the sacrament also after the celebration. »Differences related to the duration of the eucharistic presence appear also in liturgical practice. Catholic and Lutheran Christians together confess that the eucharistic presence of the Lord Jesus Christ is directed toward believing reception, that it nevertheless is not confined only to the moment of reception, and that it does not depend on the faith of the receiver, however closely related to it this might be« (Eucharist 52). (P58) And Lutherans signed this?

The word “transubstantiation” derives from Latin — trans (across), and substantia (substance). The term is employed in Roman Catholic theology to denote the idea that during the ceremony of the “Mass,” the “bread and wine” are changed, in substance, into the flesh and blood of Christ, even though the elements appear to remain the same. This doctrine, has no basis in Scripture. There are traces of the dogma in some of the post-apostolic writings and the concept was vigorously defended in the early 9th century A.D. It was adopted by the 4th Lateran Council (A.D. 1215), formalized at the Council of Trent (A.D. 1545-63), and was reaffirmed at the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/477-what-are-transubstantiation-and-consubstantiation

“ Whereupon they made report, dated the 10th of November, 1646, that they found it to be an excellent divine work, worthy the light and publishing, especially in regard that Luther, in the said Discourses, did revoke his opinion which he formerly held, touching Consubstantiation in the Sacrament. Whereupon the House of Commons, the 24th of February, 1646, did give order for the printing thereof. …  “Given under my hand the third day of July, 1650. “Henry Bell” https://books.google.ca/books?id=n-IFAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Even so we must let the words of Christ remain, and speak of the sacraments in suis terminis, (in their terms) with such words as Christ used and spake; as “Do this,” https://books.google.ca/books?id=n-IFAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

What signifies it to dispute and wrangle about the abominable idolatry of elevating the sacrament on high to show it to the people, which has no approbation of the Fathers, and was introduced only to confirm the errors touching the worship thereof, as though bread and wine lost their substance, and retained only the form, smell, taste. This the papists call transsubstantiation, and darken the right use of the sacrament; whereas, even in popedom, at Milan, from Ambrose’s time to the present day, they never held or observed in the mass either canon or elevation, or the Dominus vobiscum. (The Lord be with you)(Table Talk P. 227) https://books.google.ca/books?id=n-IFAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

163. Even though in Luther’s understanding all Christians are priests, he does not regard them all as ministers. »It is true that all Christians are priests, but not all are pastors. For to be a pastor one must be not only a Christian and a priest but must have an office and a field of work comitted to him. This call and command make pastors and preachers.«58 (P 61)

174. Within this framework, the Council developed the notion of the priesthood of the baptized and addressed its relationship to the ministerial priesthood. In Catholic theology, the ordained minister is sacramentally empowered to act in the name of Christ as well as in the name of the church. 175. Catholic theology is convinced that the office of bishop makes an indispensible contribution to the unity of the church. Catholics raise the question of how, without the episcopal office, church unity can be maintained in times of conflict. They have also been concerned that Luther’s particular doctrine of the common priesthood did not adequately maintain the church’s hierarchical structures, which are seen as divinely instituted. (P65) Really?

Ignatius of Antioch In the first part of the second century Ignatius, the bishop of Syrian Antioch, wrote several letters while being escorted under armed guard to Rome where he was to be martyred. In his letters we encounter for the first time an ecclesiology which exalts one "bishop" over the rest of the "presbytery.“   http://www.auburn.edu/~allenkc/openhse/clergy.html  

Tertullian next develops clerrification The distinction between clergy and laity.  … In the New Testament, the Greek word kleros can mean "lot" (as in "casting lots") or "that which is assigned by lot, portion, share."8 Paul wrote that God has enabled Christians "to share in the inheritance (klerou) of the saints in the light" (Col. 1:12, NRSV). Christians are "heirs (kleronomoi) according to the promise" (Gal. 3:29, NRSV). In this sense, all Christians constitute "the clergy.   "http://www.auburn.edu/~allenkc/openhse/clergy.html

On Sacraments: Cyprian claimed that the bishop is a sacrificing priest. Both Jews and Gentiles were familiar with the idea of priests and sacrifices but Cyprian was the first to relate this new religion (Christianity) with the older ones in this way.   The earlier doctrine of the priesthood of all believers began to be abandoned and slipped into the background, almost into oblivion. In Cyprian is found the germ of the division of the Sacrament into two: (a) the Eucharist - the sacrifice of thanksgiving; (b) the mass - a new development. And now the bishop became a sacrificing priest and the bloodless but real sacrifice that he offered was the passion of our Lord. http://www.dacb.org/stories/tunisia/cyprian_.html

Service to the church universal 186. Lutherans and Catholics agree that the ministry serves the church universal. Lutherans »presuppose that the congregation assembled for worship stands in an essential relation to the universal church« and that this relation is intrinsic to the worshipping congregation, not something added to it (ApC 285). Even though Roman Catholic bishops »exercise their pastoral government over the portion of the People of God committed to their care, and not over other churches nor over the universal Church,« each bishop is obliged to be »solicitous for the whole church« (LG 23). The Bishop of Rome by virtue of his office is »pastor of the whole Church« (LG 22). (P69)

194. In the course of history, the Lutheran ministerial office has been able to fulfill its task of keeping the church in the truth so that nearly five hundred years after the beginning of the Reformation it was possible to declare a Catholic–Lutheran consensus on the basic truths of the doctrine of justification. If, according to the judgment of the Second Vatican Council, the Holy Spirit uses »ecclesial communities« as means of salvation, it could seem that this work of the Spirit would have implications for some mutual recognition of ministry. Thus, the office of ministry presents both considerable obstacles to common understanding and also hopeful perspectives for rapprochement.71 How condescending

Scripture and tradition Luther’s understanding of Scripture, its interpretation, and human traditions 195. The controversy that broke out in connection with the spread of Luther’s Ninety-five Theses on indulgences very quickly raised the question of which authorities one can call upon at a time of struggle. The papal court theologian Sylvester Prierias argued in his first answer to Luther’s theses on indulgences: »Whoever does not hold to the teaching of the Roman church and the pope as an infallible rule of faith from which the Holy Scripture also derives its power and authority: he is a heretic.«72 And John Eck replied to Luther: »The Scripture is not authentic without the authority of the church.«73 The conflict very quickly went from being a controversy about doctrinal questions (the right understanding of indulgences, penance, and absolution) to a question of authority in the church. In cases of conflict between different authorities, Luther could regard only Scripture as the ultimate  judge because it had shown itself to be an efficacious and powerful authority, while other authorities merely drew their power from it. (P72)

Scripture and tradition Luther’s understanding of Scripture, its interpretation, and human traditions 195. The controversy that broke out in connection with the spread of Luther’s Ninety-five Theses on indulgences very quickly raised the question of which authorities one can call upon at a time of struggle. The papal court theologian Sylvester Prierias argued in his first answer to Luther’s theses on indulgences: »Whoever does not hold to the teaching of the Roman church and the pope as an infallible rule of faith from which the Holy Scripture also derives its power and authority: he is a heretic.«72 And John Eck replied to Luther: »The Scripture is not authentic without the authority of the church.«73 The conflict very quickly went from being a controversy about doctrinal questions (the right understanding of indulgences, penance, and absolution) to a question of authority in the church. In cases of conflict between different authorities, Luther could regard only Scripture as the ultimate  judge because it had shown itself to be an efficacious and powerful authority, while other authorities merely drew their power from it. (P72)

NB  Towards consensus 216. In the Lutheran–Roman Catholic conversations a clear consensus has emerged that the doctrine of justification and the doctrine of the church belong together. This common understanding is stated in the document Church and Justification: »Catholics and Lutherans together testify to the salvation that is bestowed only in Christ and by grace alone and is received in faith. They recite in common the creed, confessing ›one holy catholic and apostolic Church.‹ Both the justification of sinners and the Church are fundamental articles of faith« (Church and Justification, 4). (P 79) She will not suffer loss of children

222. Because they believe that they belong to the one body of Christ, Lutherans emphasize that their church did not originate with the Reformation or come into existence only 500 years ago. Rather, they are convinced that the Lutheran churches have their origin in the Pentecost event and the proclamation of the apostles. Their churches obtained their particular form, however, through the teaching and efforts of the reformers. The reformers had no desire to found a new church, and according to their own understanding, they did not do so. They wanted to reform the church, and they managed to do so within their field of influence, albeit with errors and missteps. (P81) And the Lutherans signed this?

Pope Francis has asked Waldensian Christians to forgive the Catholic Church for historic persecution. Earlier today Francis became the first pontiff in history to visit a Waldensian evangelical church, when he attended the Waldensian temple in Turin. The Pope is currently taking part in a two-day visit to the city in northern Italy. The Waldensian church, which was founded in the 12th century, was rejected by the Catholic Church and its members were brutally persecuted during the Middle Ages. http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/06/22/pope-francis-asks-waldensian-christians-to-forgive-the-church/

“On the part of the Catholic Church, I ask your forgiveness, I ask it for the non-Christian and even inhuman attitudes and behaviour that we have showed you,” said Pope Francis. He added: “In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, forgive us!” http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/06/22/pope-francis-asks-waldensian-christians-to-forgive-the-church/

230. Because Jesus Christ before his death prayed to the Father »that they may be one,« it is clear that a division of the body of Christ is opposed to the will of the Lord. It contradicts also the express apostolic admonition that we hear in Ephesians 4:3–6: be »eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit – just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call – one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.« The division of the body of Christ is opposed to the will of God.

He was the first not simply to repeat the regret of his predecessor Paul VI and the council fathers regarding the painful memories, but actually to do something about it. He also related the request  or forgiveness to the office of bishop of Rome. In his encyclical Ut Unum Sint, he alludes to his visit to the World Council of Churches in Geneva on 12 June 1984, admitting, »the Catholic conviction that in the ministry of the bishop of Rome she has preserved in fidelity to the Apostolic Tradition and faith of the Fathers, the visible sign and guarantor of unity constitutes a difficulty for most other Christians, whose memory is marked by certain painful recollections.« He then added, »As far as we are responsible for these, I join with my predecessor Paul VI in asking forgiveness.«88 (P85) This is no confession at all

238. Catholics and Lutherans realize that they and the communities in which they live out their faith belong to the one body of Christ. The awareness is dawning on Lutherans and Catholics that the struggle of the sixteenth century is over. The reasons for mutually condemning each other’s faith have fallen by the wayside. Thus, Lutherans and Catholics identify five imperatives as they commemorate 2017 together. 239. Lutherans and Catholics are invited to think from the perspective of the unity of Christ’s body and to seek whatever will bring this unity to expression and serve the community of the body of Christ. Through baptism they recognize each other mutually as Christians. This orientationrequires a continual conversion of heart. (P 87) Over? Really?  

As the power of Rome expanded into many parts of Greece, Attalus the last king of Pergamos died in 133 BC and left in his will all the dominions of Pergamos to the Roman people. Thus the kingdom of Pergamos was merged into the dominions of Rome. However, for some years there was no one who could openly lay claim to all the dignity and powers inherent in the title of the kings of Pergamos, namely that of Sovereign Pontiff, The powers of the Roman Pontiffs were therefore somewhat restricted, but this situation changed dramatically with the arrival of Julius Caesar.  It was from Julius Caesar's name that the Roman emperors took their title of "Caesar." … Caesars also held the position of "Pontifex Maximus," … https://fr-fr.facebook.com/notes/michael-terrence-ampem/the-antichrist-pontifex-maximus-the-papacy-and-its-origin/381876440975

Julius Caesar was elected to the position of Pontifex Maximus in 63 BC. He subsequently assumed the position of supreme ruler of the Roman state. Thus he had vested in him all the powers and functions of the Babylonian Pontiff, and he was the true legitimate successor to Belshazzar. Not satisfied with this, he was declared to be Jupiter's incarnation on 25th December 48 BC in the temple of Jupiter in Alexandria. The Encyclopaedia Britannica [81 also says about Julius Caesar: "There are signs that in the last six months of his life he aspired not only to a monarchy in name as well as in fact, but also to a divinity which Romans should acknowledge as well as Greeks, Orientals, and barbarians." Julius Caesar, by laying claim to be divine, followed the pattern of the Kings of Pergamos. The Roman Emperors that followed Julius Caesar were commonly regarded as gods.  https://www.facebook.com/notes/michael-terrence-ampem/the-antichrist-pontifex-maximus-the-papacy-and-its-origin/381876440975

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/462782328797159425

Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.), for example, noted that Obama “may think he’s king,” but he is not, while Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas) sent out a message blasting the president as a lying “Socialistic dictator.” More recently, as Obama steps up his deeply unpopular rule-by-decree campaign, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) compared Obama to the late British tyrant and oppressor of the American colonies, King George III. “The Declaration of Independence had, I believe, 26 abuses that King George had committed against Englishmen,” Sen. Cruz said while unveiling a list of Obama’s abuses. “Well, this particular report lists 76.” http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/18234-critics-slam-white-house-for-tweeting-picture-of-obama-as-king

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/03/22/402904/US-has-strategy-to-dominate-world

The United States and Europe have drawn a long-term globalist strategy to achieve total domination of the world, a US military veteran and journalist in Denmark says. “The United States, along with Europe, have a plan to globalize and dominate the entire world,” Ron Ridenour told Press TV on Saturday. “We can see them trying to do this also even to Russia, which is a major power, and they’re trying to create a non-existing conflict with Ukraine,” Ridenour said. “They have economic interests and long-range globalist political interests which are always combined with economic interests and they will not allow any government that is not friendly to them, that is in fact hostile to them, to dominate.” Ridenour said the US military feels no obligation to ever leave Afghanistan amid reports that the United States is reconsidering plans to withdraw nearly all American troops from Afghanistan by the end of next year. President Barack Obama is expected to announce his new plan next week for slowing down the pace of troop drawdown between now and the end of 2016. Obama is meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani next week in Washington. The new withdrawal plan will not require troop levels to fall to about 5,000 by the end of this year, a pledge the US president made last May when he laid out a schedule for ending the 14-year war. US officials said the Obama administration is abandoning that commitment and is poised to keep many of the 9,800 troops currently in Afghanistan well into next year. “Whatever president comes forth after Obama, she or he will see themselves as ‘defenders against terrorism,’ so it will be in their political interest and image-building interest to continue to stay [in Afghanistan] until they can make sure that their politics and their economics win out,” Ridenour said. http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/03/22/402904/US-has-strategy-to-dominate-world

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http://beforeitsnews.com/prophecy/2015/02/wow-pope-to-address-congress-during-blood-moon-tetrad-and-day-of-atonement-plus-talk-of-an-asteroid-that-same-week-what-it-all-means-2467186.html

Timing is everything! When major leaders of the world purposefully plan to address other leaders on specific holidays and/or major solar events there is more to it then what meets the eye. In this case Pope Francis (also portrayed as PetrusRomanus by Malachy’s prophecy) will be addressing the United States congress around both the day of Atonement— the most sacred Jewish holiday that revolves around repentance—as well as the during the blood moon tetrad. Here is the breaking report…  http://beforeitsnews.com/prophecy/2015/02/wow-pope-to-address-congress-during-blood-moon-tetrad-and-day-of-atonement-plus-talk-of-an-asteroid-that-same-week-what-it-all-means-2467186.html

The President of the United States has said he wants fellow world leaders to reflect on Pope Francis’s encyclical. Laudato Si’, published yesterday, called for humanity to change its approach to the environment and the way it judged progress. Barack Obama spoke of the responsibility that his own job title brings in leading the way towards a change in global environmental policy. http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/06/19/obama-calls-for-world-leaders-to-heed-pope-franciss-message/

“I welcome His Holiness Pope Francis’s encyclical, and deeply admire the Pope’s decision to make the case – clearly, powerfully, and with the full moral authority of his position – for action on global climate change,” he said. “As we prepare for global climate negotiations in Paris this December, it is my hope that all world leaders and all God’s children will reflect on Pope Francis’s call to come together to care for our common home. “We have a profound responsibility to protect our children, and our children’s children, from the damaging impacts of climate change.” … Also echoing Obama’s sentiment was the United Nations secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon. He said he believed a “new dialogue” had to be opened regarding the future of the planet. He said: “It is an issue of social justice, human rights and fundamental ethics.” http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/06/19/obama-calls-for-world-leaders-to-heed-pope-franciss-message/

It is in the Eucharist that all that has been created finds its greatest exaltation. Grace, which tends to manifest itself tangibly, found unsurpassable expression when God himself became man and gave himself as food for his creatures. The Lord, in the culmination of the mystery of the Incarnation, chose to reach our intimate depths through a fragment of matter. He comes not from above, but from within, he comes that we might find him in this world of ours. In the Eucharist, fullness is already achieved; it is the living centre of the universe, the overflowing core of love and of inexhaustible life. Joined to the incarnate Son, present in the Eucharist, the whole cosmos gives thanks to God. Indeed the Eucharist is itself an act of cosmic love: “Yes, cosmic!  Because even when it is celebrated on the humble altar of a country church, the Eucharist is always in some way celebrated on the altar of the world”.166 The Eucharist joins heaven and earth; it embraces and penetrates all creation. The world which came forth from God’s hands returns to him in blessed and undivided adoration: in the bread of the Eucharist, “creation is projected towards divinization, towards the holy wedding feast, towards unification with the Creator himself”.167 Thus, the Eucharist is also a source of light and motivation for our concerns for the environment, directing us to be stewards of all creation. https://books.google.ca/books?id=XGnVDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

On Sunday, our participation in the Eucharist has special importance. Sunday, like the Jewish Sabbath, is meant to be a day which heals our relationships with God, with ourselves, with others and with the world. Sunday is the day of the Resurrection, the “first day” of the new creation, whose first fruits are the Lord’s risen humanity, the pledge of the final transfiguration of all created reality. It also proclaims “man’s eternal rest in God”.168 In this way, Christian spirituality incorporates the value of relaxation and festivity. We tend to demean contemplative rest as something unproductive and unnecessary, but this is to do away with the very thing which is most important about work: its meaning.  http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/06/18/full-text-laudato-si/

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Pope Francis wraps up the first leg of a three-nation South American pilgrimage Wednesday after issuing an impassioned call for a new economic and ecological world order where the goods of the Earth are shared by everyone, not just exploited by the rich. http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2015/07/08/pope-south-america/29853197/

"The goods of the Earth are meant for everyone, and however much someone may parade his property, it has a social mortgage," Francis said. "The tapping of natural resources, which are so abundant in Ecuador, must not be concerned with short-term benefits." http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2015/07/08/pope-south-america/29853197/