"As Pope Benedict's is a state visit, he will meet Prime Minister David Cameron, who is expected to host a state banquet in his honour - though the Pope himself may not attend, to allow himself time to rest. The trip has been organised by UK bishops in conjunction with government departments." Michael Hirst, The UK visits of Benedict XVI and John Paul II compared (September 8, 2010) http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11186463

"Pope Benedict 2007: ""With respect for the differences between different religions, we are all called to work for peace and an effective effort to promote reconciliation between peoples."" But he also made it clear that he will never budge on traditional Catholic teaching, that Catholicism alone is the one true faith." Pope decries 'religious' violence (October 21 2007). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7055147.stm

"As Pope Benedict's is a state visit, he will meet Prime Minister David Cameron, who is expected to host a state banquet in his honour - though the Pope himself may not attend, to allow himself time to rest. The trip has been organised by UK bishops in conjunction with government departments." Michael Hirst, The UK visits of Benedict XVI and John Paul II compared (September 8, 2010)

"His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, and President Bill Clinton had a private conversation that lasted about 20 minutes. The president thanked the Pope, on behalf of the American people, for his profound spiritual and moral guidance....President Clinton expressed appreciation for the positive role of the Holy See in international affairs and wished the Pope good health as he prepared the Church for the advent of its third millennium. The Holy Father spoke of the leading position of the United States in international matters and reaffirmed that the president and all the leaders of the United States were in his prayers. (Declaration on Meeting Between the Pope and President Clinton, Vatican Information Service January 26, 1999, http://visnews-en.blogspot.ca/1999_01_27_archive.html).

"George Bush 2001: The best way to honor Pope John Paul II, truly one of the great men, is to take his teaching seriously, is to listen to his words and put his words and teachings into action here in America. This is a challenge we must accept. " George W. Buch, Remarks to Catholic Leaders, March 21, 2001 http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/03/20010322.html

"Pope Benedict 2007: ""With respect for the differences between different religions, we are all called to work for peace and an effective effort to promote reconciliation between peoples."" But he also made it clear that he will never budge on traditional Catholic teaching, that Catholicism alone is the one true faith." Pope decries 'religious' violence (October 21 2007). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7055147.stm

"His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, and President Bill Clinton had a private conversation that lasted about 20 minutes. The president thanked the Pope, on behalf of the American people, for his profound spiritual and moral guidance....President Clinton expressed appreciation for the positive role of the Holy See in international affairs and wished the Pope good health as he prepared the Church for the advent of its third millennium. The Holy Father spoke of the leading position of the United States in international matters and reaffirmed that the president and all the leaders of the United States were in his prayers. (Declaration on Meeting Between the Pope and President Clinton, Vatican Information Service January 26, 1999, http://visnews-en.blogspot.ca/1999_01_27_archive.html).

"The great challenge of the church today is to become mother," he said. "If the church is not a mother -- I know it is bad to say this, but she becomes an 'old maid,'" and cannot bring forth children. The church does not become a mother by going door to door and offering to sign people up as if it were "an association called the Catholic Church," he said. Rather, the church is a mother when she does what mothers do: offer love, tenderness, a caring gaze, almost endless patience, a welcome and compassion." "Pope Francis, as quoted in Cindy Wooden,  Church rediscovers its role as mother by welcoming, loving, pope says (June 17 2014) http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1402489.htm"

"The great challenge of the church today is to become mother," he said. "If the church is not a mother -- I know it is bad to say this, but she becomes an 'old maid,'" and cannot bring forth children. The church does not become a mother by going door to door and offering to sign people up as if it were "an association called the Catholic Church," he said. Rather, the church is a mother when she does what mothers do: offer love, tenderness, a caring gaze, almost endless patience, a welcome and compassion." "Pope Francis, as quoted in Cindy Wooden,  Church rediscovers its role as mother by welcoming, loving, pope says (June 17 2014) http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1402489.htm"

"Nowhere is the contrast between Benedict XVI and Francis more tangible than in the degree to which the papacy seems to have recovered its diplomatic and geopolitical swagger. The normalization of relations between the U.S. and Cuba in December 2014 came about in part thanks to Francis, who wrote private letters to President Obama and Cuban president Raúl Castro that reportedly helped break the ice between the two leaders.“Francis is not resigned to a passive vision of world affairs,” said Marco Impagliazzo, president of the Rome-based Community of Sant’Egidio, a Catholic organization active in conflict resolution and peace brokering, in a 2014 interview. “We must prepare for a new age of political audacity for the Holy See.” John L. Allen Jr., "How Pope Francis’s Vatican Got Its Political Swagger Back" TIME (March 5, 2015) http://time.com/3729869/francis-politics/

Jesuit Oath ianpaisley.org

Latin: "Sacrosancta Lateranensis ecclesia omnium urbis et orbis ecclesiarum mater et caput." English: "Most Holy Lateran Church, of all the churches in the city and the world, the mother and head." or as Google translates it: “The mother of all the churches of the city and the world, the head of the church, and this sacred Lateran”

The Vatican has decreed that the Catholic Church is the "mother of all churches" and banned the term "sister churches" to describe other denominations, in two new documents that could harm Vatican efforts towards unity with other believers.   Lloyd Rundle, “Other churches are no sisters of ours, the Vatican insists,” The Independent (September 4, 2000): http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/other-churches-are-no-sisters-of-ours--the-vatican-insists-699556.html. other-churches-not-sisters jpg

Jesuit Oath reformation.org

"The sacrament of confession kept Jesuit information channels loaded with vital state secrets. It also furnished the Society an ideal vehicle for influencing political action. One of the most dramatic instances is found in the famous memoir of François de la Chaize, Jesuit confessor to the painfully diseased King of France from 1675 until 1709. “Many a time since,” wrote La Chaize, when I have had him [Louis XIV] at confession, I have shook hell about his ears, and made him sigh, fear, and tremble, before I would give him absolution. By this I saw that he had still an inclination to me, and was willing to be under my government; so I set the baseness of the action before him by telling the whole story, and how wicked it was, and that it could not be forgiven till he had done some good action to balance that, and expiate the crime. Whereupon he at last asked me what he must do. I told him that he must root out all heretics from his kingdom. Louis obeyed his confessor by revoking the Edict of Nantes (October 1685), which immediately resulted in: the demolition of all the remaining Protestant temples throughout France, and the entire prohibition of even private worship under penalty of confiscation of body and property; the banishment of all Protestant pastors from France within fifteen days; the closing of all Protestant schools; the prohibition of parents to instruct their children in the Protestant faith; the injunction upon them, under a penalty of five hundred livres in each case, to have their children baptized by the parish priest, and brought up in the Roman Catholic religion; the confiscation of the property and goods of all Protestant refugees who failed to return to France within four months; the penalty of the galleys for life to all men, and of imprisonment for life to all women, detected in the act of attempting to escape from France." Frederick Tupper Saussy, Rulers of Evil (Reno: Ospray Bookmakers, 1999): 64 http://www.granddesignexposed.com/pdf/RulersofEvil.pdf 

Frederick Tupper Saussy, Rulers of Evil (Reno: Ospray Bookmakers, 1999): 64 http://www.granddesignexposed.com/pdf/RulersofEvil.pdf

Heiken, Grant; Funiciello, Renato; de Rita, Donatella The Seven Hills of Rome: A Geological Tour of the Eternal City (Princeton University Press, 2013): 174

Heiken, Grant; Funiciello, Renato; de Rita, Donatella The Seven Hills of Rome: A Geological Tour of the Eternal City (Princeton University Press, 2013): 174

Heiken, Grant; Funiciello, Renato; de Rita, Donatella The Seven Hills of Rome: A Geological Tour of the Eternal City (Princeton University Press, 2013): 174

Jesuit Oath biblebelievers.org

"George Bush 2001: The best way to honor Pope John Paul II, truly one of the great men, is to take his teaching seriously, is to listen to his words and put his words and teachings into action here in America. This is a challenge we must accept. " George W. Bush, Remarks to Catholic Leaders, March 21, 2001 http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/03/20010322.html

If anyone shall say, that, in the sacred and holy sacrament of the Eucharist, the substance of the bread and the wine remains conjointly with the blood and body of our Lord Jesus Christ, and shall deny that wonderful and singular change of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the blood, the species only of the bread and wine remaining, which conversion the Catholic Church most aptly calls Transubstantiation; let him be anathema Theodore Alois Buckley (Trans.) "Canons on the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist," The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent (London: George Routledge, 1851) 77.

"“The Jesuit Order, therefore, stands before us as the embodiment of a system which aims at temporal political domination through temporal political means, embellished by religion, which assigns to the head of the Catholic religion – the Roman Pope – the role of a temporal overlord, and under shelter of the Pope-King, and using him as an instrument, desires itself to attain the dominion over the whole world.” Count von Hoensbroech (German Noble and ex-Jesuit), Alice Zimmern (Trans), Fourteen Years a Jesuit Volume II (New York: Cassell and Company, LTD., 1911): 430. https://archive.org/stream/fourteenyearsjes02hoen#page/430/mode/2up

Futurism: This approach argues that Revelation looks beyond the first century to the period immediately before the end times. Thus the book was not written for those who received it, but for those living much later. Jesuit scholars after the Reformation refined this approach to prove that current attempts to identify the Pope as the Antichrist could not possibly be true since the Antichrist will not be revealed until far into the future, just before the Parousia (Christ's Second Coming). Revelation described the plight of Christians in the late first century, and its apocalyptic symbols pointed directly to [the city of] Rome as the church’s persecutor...Most modern [preterist] interpreters prefer this approach and insist that the book was never intended to predict conditions or events beyond the first century. Jerry L. Walls (Ed), The Oxford handbook of eschatology (Oxford University Press, 2007): 366 https://books.google.ca/books?id=N1XYXMTe1jYC&pg=PA366&lpg=PA366&d#v=onepage&q&f=false

Protestantism is becoming decomposed; it is falling to pieces; We are beginning to gain from it some men of note...Protestantism is already wearing out and sinking to decay. Yes, we are destined to insult its last agonies, to march over its broken skeleton and its scattered bones! O let us hasten this dissolution by our strong and united efforts! The Abbate Jacopo Leone, The Jesuit Conspiracy: The Secret Plan of the Order (London: Chapman and Hall, 1848): 111 https://books.google.ca/books?id=AFUVAwAAQBAJ&

Jesuit Oath from in book.

Protestantism is becoming decomposed; it is falling to pieces; We are beginning to gain from it some men of note...Protestantism is already wearing out and sinking to decay. Yes, we are destined to insult its last agonies, to march over its broken skeleton and its scattered bones! O let us hasten this dissolution by our strong and united efforts! The Abbate Jacopo Leone, The Jesuit Conspiracy: The Secret Plan of the Order (London: Chapman and Hall, 1848): 111 https://books.google.ca/books?id=AFUVAwAAQBAJ&

The laity are gathered together in the People of God and make up the Body of Christ under one head. Whoever they are they are called upon, as living members, to expend all their energy for the growth of the Church and its continuous sanctification, since this very energy is a gift of the Creator and a blessing of the Redeemer. The lay apostolate, however, is a participation in the salvific mission of the Church itself. Through their baptism and confirmation all are commissionedto that apostolate by the Lord Himself. Moreover, by the sacraments, especially holy Eucharist, that charity toward God and man which is the soul of the apostolate is communicated and nourished. Now the laity are called in a special way to make the Church present and operative in those places and circumstances where only through them can it become the salt of the earth (2*). Thus every layman, in virtue of the very gifts bestowed upon him, is at the same time a witness and a living instrument of the mission of the Church itself "according to the measure of Christ's bestowal".(197)...Therefore, by their competence in secular training and by their activity, elevated from within by the grace of Christ, let them vigorously contribute their effort, so that created goods may be perfected by human labor, technical skill and civic culture for the benefit of all men according to the design of the Creator and the light of His Word. May the goods of this world be more equitably distributed among all men, and may they in their own way be conducive to universal progress in human and Christian freedom. In this manner, through the members of the Church, will Christ progressively illumine the whole of human society with His saving light. Moreover, let the laity also by their combined efforts remedy the customs and conditions of the world, if they are an inducement to sin, so that they all may be conformed to the norms of justice and may favor the practice of virtue rather than hinder it. Pope Paul VI, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium (November 21, 1964) http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html

I cannot too much impress upon the minds of my readers that the Jesuits by their very calling, by the very essence of their institution, are bound to seek, by every means, right or wrong, the destruction of Protestantism...Either the Jesuits fulfill the duties of their calling, or not. In the first instance, they must be considered as the the biggest enemies of the Protestant faith; in the second, as bad and unworthy priests; and in both cases, therefore, to be equally regarded with aversion and distrust. G.B. Nicolini, History of the Jesuits: Their Origin, Progress, Doctrine, and Design (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854): v. http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofjesuitsop00nico#page/n11/mode/1up 

The laity are gathered together in the People of God and make up the Body of Christ under one head. Whoever they are they are called upon, as living members, to expend all their energy for the growth of the Church and its continuous sanctification, since this very energy is a gift of the Creator and a blessing of the Redeemer. The lay apostolate, however, is a participation in the salvific mission of the Church itself. Through their baptism and confirmation all are commissionedto that apostolate by the Lord Himself. Moreover, by the sacraments, especially holy Eucharist, that charity toward God and man which is the soul of the apostolate is communicated and nourished. Now the laity are called in a special way to make the Church present and operative in those places and circumstances where only through them can it become the salt of the earth (2*). Thus every layman, in virtue of the very gifts bestowed upon him, is at the same time a witness and a living instrument of the mission of the Church itself "according to the measure of Christ's bestowal".(197)...Therefore, by their competence in secular training and by their activity, elevated from within by the grace of Christ, let them vigorously contribute their effort, so that created goods may be perfected by human labor, technical skill and civic culture for the benefit of all men according to the design of the Creator and the light of His Word. May the goods of this world be more equitably distributed among all men, and may they in their own way be conducive to universal progress in human and Christian freedom. In this manner, through the members of the Church, will Christ progressively illumine the whole of human society with His saving light. Moreover, let the laity also by their combined efforts remedy the customs and conditions of the world, if they are an inducement to sin, so that they all may be conformed to the norms of justice and may favor the practice of virtue rather than hinder it. Pope Paul VI, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium (November 21, 1964) http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html

The Jesuit Order at last reached the pinnacle of its power in the early eighteenth century. It had become more influential and more wealthy than any other organization in the world. It held a position in world affairs that no oath-bound group of men has ever held before or since....Fr. Cordara, S.J., admitted that ‘nearly all the Kings and Sovereigns of Europe had only Jesuits as directors of their consciences, so that the whole of Europe appeared to be governed by Jesuits only.' E. Boyd Barrett, The Jesuit Enigma (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927): 209. http://www.archive.org/stream/MN5086ucmf_0#page/n235/mode/2up

"For [Protestants] who believe in Christ and have been truly baptized are in communion with the Catholic Church even though this communion is imperfect. The differences that exist in varying degrees between them and the Catholic Church-whether in doctrine and sometimes in discipline, or concerning the structure of the Church-do indeed create many obstacles, sometimes serious ones, to full ecclesiastical communion. The ecumenical movement is striving to overcome these obstacles...   This is the way that, when the obstacles to perfect ecclesiastical communion have been gradually overcome, all Christians will at last, in a common celebration of the Eucharist, be gathered into the one and only Church in that unity which Christ bestowed on His Church from the beginning. We believe that this unity subsists in the Catholic Church as something she can never lose, and we hope that it will continue to increase until the end of time. Second Vatican Council's Decrees on Ecumenism: Unitatis Redintegratio (November 21, 1964). http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19641121_unitatis-redintegratio_en.html

“At what then do the Jesuits aim? According to them, they only seek the greater glory of God; but if you examine the facts you will find that they aim at universal dominion alone. They have rendered themselves indispensable to the Pope, who, without them, could not exist, because Catholicism is identified with them. They have rendered themselves indispensable to governors and hold revolutions in their hands; and in this way, either under one name or another, it is they who rule the world…” Luigi Desanctis, Popery, Puseyism and Jesuitism (London: D. Catt, 1905; translated by Maria Betts from the original Italian edition published as Roma Papale in 1865): 139. https://uncontrolledopposition.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/popery_pusseism_jezuitism-small.pdf

Their special obedience to the Pope naturally caused the Jesuits to fight against the greatest danger to the Catholic Church, Protestantism. Through this fight, the Jesuits developed political talents which soon made the members of the order the most versatile representatives of the Catholic Church in worldly affairs. In order to achieve this goal, a complicated organization of the utmost rigidity was developed...They recognized only the superiority of [the Jesuit Superior General] and the Pope. This gave them great worldly power. Furthermore, from their inception they devoted much interest to education, and early in their history were appointed to many highly important chairs of theology at the leading universities of Europe. "Jesuit Order” or “Jesuits,” World Scope Encyclopedia (1955) Quote of a quote http://www.biblemagazine.com/magazine/vol-25/v25i1mag.pdfhttp://www.biblemagazine.com/magazine/vol-25/v25i1mag.pdf

"For [Protestants] who believe in Christ and have been truly baptized are in communion with the Catholic Church even though this communion is imperfect. The differences that exist in varying degrees between them and the Catholic Church-whether in doctrine and sometimes in discipline, or concerning the structure of the Church-do indeed create many obstacles, sometimes serious ones, to full ecclesiastical communion. The ecumenical movement is striving to overcome these obstacles...   This is the way that, when the obstacles to perfect ecclesiastical communion have been gradually overcome, all Christians will at last, in a common celebration of the Eucharist, be gathered into the one and only Church in that unity which Christ bestowed on His Church from the beginning. We believe that this unity subsists in the Catholic Church as something she can never lose, and we hope that it will continue to increase until the end of time. Second Vatican Council's Decrees on Ecumenism: Unitatis Redintegratio (November 21, 1964). http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19641121_unitatis-redintegratio_en.html

"The Jesuits now hold the view that, in many instances, a good intention can justify even the choice of less good means...the Jesuits had devised an artifice whereby it was made possible for a person to speak untruthfully without being guilty of telling a formal lie...it was possible to swear false oaths and practice every form of deception and fraud."   René Fulop-Miller, The Power and Secret of the Jesuits (Kessinger Publishing, 1930): p. 172

"In this Catholic “Counter-Reformation,” the Jesuits were certainly the most able fighters. They strove everywhere, as missionaries in the most remote lands and as upholders of the faith in Protestant areas, to influence the masses in the direction of the Catholic church through the medium of confession."   René Fülöp-Miller, The Power and Secret of the Jesuits (Kessinger, 1930): p. 185

"The Jesuits, however, have not limited their service in the “army of Christ” to the stillness of the cloister or to the debates of ecclesiastical convocations, but have extended it to their whole world, to the cabinets of rulers and ministers, to parliaments and universities, to the audience halls of Asiatic despots, to the campfires of the Red Indians, to observatories, physiologial and psychological institutes, the states of theatres, the congresses of learned men and the tribunes of political orators." [René Fulop-Miller, The Power and Secret of the Jesuits (Kessinger, 1930): p. 469].

"There was no crime too great for them to commit, no deception too base for them to practice, no disguise too difficult for them to assume. Vowed to perpetual poverty and humility, it was their studied aim to secure wealth and power, to be devoted to the overthrow of Protestantism, and the re-establishment of the papal supremacy." "It was a fundamental principle of the order that the end justifies the means. By this code, lying, theft, perjury, assassination, were not only pardonable but commendable, when they served the interests of the church. Under various disguises the Jesuits worked their way into offices of State, climbing up to be the counselors of kings, and shaping the policy of nations." (The Great Controversy 1888, Page 217)

 “In the days of Rome’s supremacy there were instruments of torture to compel assent to her doctrines. There was the stake for those who would not concede to her claims. There were massacres on a scale that will never be known until revealed in the judgment. Dignitaries of the church studied… to invent means to cause the greatest possible torture and not end the life of the victim. In many cases the infernal process was repeated to the utmost limit of human endurance, until nature gave up the struggle, and the sufferer hailed death as a sweet release. Such was the fate of Rome’s opponents." Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy: p. 463

 “In the days of Rome’s supremacy there were instruments of torture to compel assent to her doctrines. There was the stake for those who would not concede to her claims. There were massacres on a scale that will never be known until revealed in the judgment. Dignitaries of the church studied… to invent means to cause the greatest possible torture and not end the life of the victim. In many cases the infernal process was repeated to the utmost limit of human endurance, until nature gave up the struggle, and the sufferer hailed death as a sweet release. Such was the fate of Rome’s opponents." Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy: p. 463

“This war would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits.  We owe it to Popery that we now see our land reddened with the blood of her noblest sons.”   “The Protestants of both the North and South would surely unite to exterminate the priests and the Jesuits, if they could learn how the priests, the nuns, and the monks, which daily land on our shores, under the pretext of preaching their religion…are nothing else but the emissaries of the Pope, of Napoleon III, and the other despots of Europe, to undermine our institutions, alienate the hearts of our people from our constitution, and our laws, destroy our schools, and prepare a reign of anarchy here as they have done in Ireland, in Mexico, in Spain, and wherever there are any people who want to be free.”  Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, Charles Chiniquy, (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1968; originally published in 1886) p. 699.

 “The general of the Jesuits insists on being master, sovereign, over the sovereigns. Wherever the Jesuits are admitted they will be masters, cost what it may. Their society is by nature dictatorial, and therefore it is the irreconcilable enemy of all constituted authority”  Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, Charles Chiniquy, (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1968; originally published in 1886) p. 685; quoting Memorial of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena, General Montholon, Vol. II, p. 62, 174