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Catholicism Unveiled

What Hides Behind the Public Image?

Mary Ann Collins, A Former Catholic Nun

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The first time that I list an author, I give his name and the title of his book. After that, I just give his name. If you want information about his book, then look for the author in the Bibliography. Authors are listed alphabetically.

There are some things that you can easily find for yourself. Therefore, I didn’t give you Internet addresses for them. (That helps keep the price of the book down by making it shorter.) Following is information about how to find these things.

FINDING VALUABLE RESOURCES ONLINE

You can read papal encyclicals online. To find them, do an Internet search for the Latin title of the encyclical plus the name of the Pope who wrote it. Be sure that you spell the Latin words correctly. (You may be able to find the encyclical using only one or two key Latin words instead of the entire title. It’s worth trying, because you are less likely make typing errors.)

The documents of the Second Vatican Council are online. Search for “Vatican Council II” or “Second Vatican Council.”

Declarations (canons) of the Council of Trent are online. Search for “Council of Trent.” You might want to search for “Council of Trent” plus “justification” or “justified.”

“The Catholic Encyclopedia” is online. To find articles, search for the title of the article plus “Catholic Encyclopedia.” (For example, “scapulars + Catholic Encyclopedia.”)

The “Catechism of the Catholic Church” is online with a search engine. You can search for words or paragraph numbers. To find it, search for “Catechism of the Catholic Church.”

You can find the “Code of Canon Law” online by searching for its title. You can use the FIND function to search for the numbers of the laws that you want to see.

THE “FIND” FUNCTION

you can quickly locate things within Internet articles by using the FIND function. Click on EDIT. When you get the drop-down menu, click on FIND. You will get a dialog box with a place where you can type the word or phrase that you are searching for. Type it and then hit ENTER.

HYPHEN PROBLEMS

There have been times when I was online, and copied the address of the document, and put it into something that I was writing. Later, I copied the address from my article, pasted it into my browser, and got an error message instead of the article. I discovered that sometimes hyphens disappear or get replaced by question marks or other characters. If that happens to you, check the original address carefully, and then make sure that there is no missing hyphen or additional character in your browser.

GOOD PICTURES

There is a website for the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. It has a “virtual tour” that shows numerous chapels that honor Mary. The pictures of the statues and mosaics, and the accompanying prayers, novenas, and information, will give you some insight into devotional practices relating to Mary. If the following address doesn’t work for you, then do a search for “National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.”

http://www.NationalShrine.com

ONLINE LINKS TO GOOD ARTICLES

I have another book that is available online. It has appendixes with links to numerous articles about doctrine and history, and hundreds of pictures. They are divided into categories, so you can easily locate what you are looking for.

http://www.UnmaskingCatholicism.com

Chapter 1

Hiding Behind Words

1. John A. Hardon, “Pocket Catholic Dictionary,” page 295 (“merit”). Hardon is a Catholic priest with a doctorate in theology.

2. “The Rites of the Catholic Church,” Volume 1, pages 394-407. Quoted in James G. McCarthy, “The Gospel According to Rome: Comparing Catholic Tradition and the Word of God,” page 22.

3. John A. Hardon, pages 166-167 (“grace”).

4. Pope Boniface VIII, “Unam Sanctam,” November 18, 1302. (See the very last sentence.) Pope Eugene IV, “Cantate Domino,” 1441. Pope Pius IX, “Quanto Conficiamur Moerore,” August 10, 1863. (See paragraph 8.) Pope Leo XIII, “Super Quibusdam,” June 29, 1896. (See paragraph 16.) Pope Pius XII, “Mystici Corporis Christi,” June 29, 1943. (See paragraph 41.) Pope Pius XII, “Ad Apostolorum Principis,” June 29, 1958. (See paragraphs 45 and 46.)

A conservative Catholic website has an article with quotations from popes and saints who say that there is no salvation apart from the Pope.

http://www.romancatholicism.org/digest/ad5-1.html

“Outside the Catholic Church There Is Absolutely No Salvation,” “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness,” No. 6. You can read this newsletter at the website of a Catholic monastery. Look for the article on the home page.

http://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com

5. Pope Pius IX, “Ineffabilis Deus,” December 8, 1854. (See the last paragraph of the encyclical.) Pope Pius IX, “Ubi Primum,” February 2, 1849. (See paragraph 5.) Pope Pius X, “Ad Diem Illum Laetissium,” February 2, 1904. (See paragraphs 12 through 15.) Pope Benedict XV, “Inter Sodalicia,” March 22, 1918. (Quoted in “The Church Teaches,” published by the Jesuit fathers of St. Mary’s College, pages 210-211.) Pope Pius XI, “Miserentissimus Redemptor,” May 8, 1928. You can see some quotations from popes at the following website.

http://www.reachingcatholics.org/pastpopes.html

6. “The Catechism of the Catholic Church,” paragraph 969.

7. Pope John Paul II, “Veritatis Splendor” (“Splendor of the Truth”), August 6, 1993. (See paragraph 120. )

8. Brian H. Edwards, “God’s Outlaw: The Story of William Tyndale and the English Bible,” pages 168-170.

A biography of William Tyndale. This has information about men reading the Bible out loud in English so that crowds of people could hear it.

http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/10/06.html

http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/260.html

Chapter 2

Was the Early Church Roman Catholic?

1. Malachi Martin, “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church,” pages 31-33. A major theme of this book is the radical change that occurred in the Church as a result of Constantine. Malachi Martin recently died. He was a Catholic priest, a theologian, and a Vatican insider. He was the personal confessor of Pope John XXIII.

2. Paul Johnson, “A History of Christianity,” pages 67-68. Johnson is a Catholic and a prominent historian.

3. Malachi Martin, page 33. Paul Johnson, page 67.

4. Paul Johnson, pages 68-69.

5. Paul Johnson, page 69.

6. Malachi Martin, pages 33-34.

7. Malachi Martin, pages 34-35.

8. James G. McCarthy, “The Gospel According to Rome: Comparing Catholic Tradition and the Word of God,” pages 231-232. McCarthy is a former Catholic.

9. Claudio Rendina, The Popes: Histories and Secrets (Santa Ana, California: Seven Locks Press, 2002), pages 29 and 41-45. Richard P. McBrien, Lives of the Popes (San Francisco, California: Harper Collins Publishers, 1997), pages 45-46 and 57-58. Hans Kung (translated by John Bowden), The Catholic Church: A Short History (New York: Modern Library: 2001, 2003), pages 33-44. Malachi Martin, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church, pages 19-38. Paul Johnson, A History of Christianity” pages 67-69 and 99-103. (The quotation is from page 69.)

10. Theodosius was forbidden to go into the Cathedral of Milan or to take the sacraments. This is excommunication, being cut off from the Church. Theodosius had to repent in order to be restored to the Church. Articles about this event are online at the following addresses.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/articlesnew/00413.html

“Theodosius,” “The Catholic Encyclopedia,” Volume XIV, 1912.

“St. Ambrose Humiliates Theodosius the Great”

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/theodoret-ambrose1.html

Christopher S. Mackay, “Theodosius.” See the section, “Theodosius in the Thrall of Ambrose”

http://www.ualberta.ca/~csmackay/CLASS_379/Theodosius.html

11. Paul Johnson, pages 113-119.

12. Articles about Weems and the cherry tree story.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/gw/gwmoral.html

http://www.virginia.edu/gwpapers/lesson/life/life1.html

13. Malachi Martin, pages 11-28. Martin was a Catholic priest, an eminent theologian, and a professor at the Vatican’s Pontifical Institute. He describes the wide variety of beliefs and practices within the early Church. He says that there was as much variety back then as there is between different denominations now.

14. “Catechism of the Catholic Church,” paragraph 891. It is available online with a search engine. If these addresses don’t work for you, then do an Internet search for the title. You can also go to the home pages below and look for it. (To find the home page, delete everything after “.org”.)

http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc.htm

http://www.christusrex.org/www2/kerygma/ccc/searchcat.html

15. William Webster, “The Church of Rome at the Bar of History,” pages 63-71.

16. William Webster, pages 81-85.

17. Pope Pius IX, “Quanta Cura” (“Condemning Current Errors”), December 8, 1864. The “error” is given in Section 3, second paragraph. Paragraph 6 formally condemns all of the “errors” that are described in the encyclical.

Pope Pius IX, “The Syllabus of Errors,” December 8, 1864, paragraphs 15, 77, and 78. “The Syllabus of Errors” accompanied the encyclical “Quanta Cura.” In reading it, remember that Pius condemned every statement that you are reading.

Pope Leo XIII, “Libertas Praestantissimum” (“On the Nature of Human Liberty”), June 20, 1888, paragraph 42.

18. “Dignitatis Humanae” (“Declaration on Religious Liberty”). In Austin Flannery (editor), “Vatican Council II, The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents,” New Revised Edition, Volume 1, pages 799-812.

19. “Code of Canon Law,” page 427, Canon 1366. Canon Law provides the legal basis for everything that the Roman Catholic Church does. Even the Inquisition and the persecution of Protestants were based on Canon Law. The 1983 “Code of Canon Law” was translated into English in 1988. It is available online. (You can find it by searching for the title.)

20. Articles by Catholic liberals and Catholic conservatives who have documented numerous discrepancies between the Second Vatican Council, Pope John Paul II, and the decrees of previous popes and councils.

“The Errors of Pope Pius IX.” This article has extensive quotations, with references to encyclicals of Pope Pius IX, and documents from the Second Vatican Council. This is from a very liberal Catholic website.

http://www.womenpriests.org/teaching/piusix.htm

“Summary of the Principal Errors of Vatican II Ecclesiology.” From the website of True Catholic, an extremely conservative Catholic website.

http://www.truecatholic.org/v2ecclesio.htm

Lucian Pulvermacher, “Vatican II Council--Accepts Freedom of Religion, Teaches Heresy,” “Caritas Newsletter,” August 19, 1989.

http://www.truecatholic.org/car8908.htm

21. Patrick John Pollock, “101 Heresies of Anti-Pope John Paul II”

http://www.truecatholic.org/heresiesjp2.htm

22. Lucian Pulvermacher, “Papal Election,” “Caritas Election News” #1

http://www.truecatholic.org/electionnews1.htm

Chapter 3

Was Peter a Pope?

1. Vatican finances are a major theme of David Yallop’s book, “In God’s Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I.” This book is well written, thoroughly researched, and gripping. Vatican insiders asked Yallop to investigate the Pope’s death because they believed that he had been murdered. Yallop did his homework. He interviewed Mafia gangsters and Vatican insiders

Chapter 4
THE POPES

1. William Webster, The Church of Rome at the Bar of History, pages 63-71. Peter de Rosa, Vicars of Christ, 208-209. (De Rosa is a practicing Catholic and a former Catholic priest. While he was a priest, he did research in the Vatican Archives.) Hans Küng, The Catholic Church: A Short History, page 60. (Küng is a Catholic theologian.) Claudio Rendina, The Popes: Histories and Secrets, pages 112-114. J.N.D. Kelly, The Oxford Dictionary of Popes, pages 70-71. Richard P. McBrien, Lives of the Popes, pages 101-103.

2. Malachi Martin, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church, pages 85-89. (Martin was a Catholic priest and a Vatican insider. He did research in the Vatican Archives. His books are a plea for reform.) Claudio Rendina, pages 153-157. Richard P. McBrien, pages 124-125.

There is some confusion as to whether this Pope was Stephen III or Stephen IV. This is because an earlier Stephen (who would have been Stephen II) was elected Pope but he died before he was consecrated. (Richard P. McBrien, page 121.)

3. Richard P. McBrien, pages 150-151, 435. Malachi Martin, page 123. Claudio Rendina, pages 215-217. J.N.D. Kelly, pages 118-120. (Martin and Kelly tell about the murders.)

4. Russell Chamberlin, The Bad Popes, pages 40-61. Peter de Rosa, pages 211-215. Hans Küng, page 79. Richard P. McBrien, pages 157-159, 435. Claudio Rendina, pages 226-229. J.N.D. Kelly, pages 126-127.

5. Russell Chamberlin, pages 25-39. Malachi Martin, page 119. Hans Küng, page 79. Richard P. McBrien, pages 153 (under “John X”), 154-155 (under “John XI”).

6. Malachi Martin, page 131. Claudio Rendina, pages 243-247. (Martin tells about the murders.)

7. Malachi Martin, pages 130-132. Claudio Rendina, pages 248-251. Richard P. McBrien, pages 168-170. (Martin gives detailed information about Benedict’s cruelty.)

8. Jonathan Riley-Smith,The Crusades: A History. Thomas Asbridge, The First Crusade: A New History: The Roots of Conflict Between Christianity and Islam. Jonathan Phillips, The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople. Robert Chazan, European Jewry and the First Crusade. Carole Hillenbrand, The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives.

9. Russell Chamberlin, pages 62-76. Malachi Martin, page 132. Peter de Rosa, pages 54-56. Claudio Rendina, pages 251-254. J.N.D. Kelly, pages 142-144. Richard P. McBrien, pages 170-172.

10. Russell Chamberlin, pages 77-126. Malachi Martin, page 171-176. Claudio Rendina, pages 376-379. Paul Johnson, A History of Christianity, pages 191, 218-219. Richard P. McBrien, pages 229, 232, 435. (Chamberlin, Martin and Rendina tell about the destruction of Palestrina.)

11. Peter de Rosa, pages 84-88. Richard P. McBrien, pages 240-242. Claudio Rendina, pages 376-379. (De Rosa tells about destroying a village.)

12. Peter de Rosa, pages 103-110. Richard P. McBrien, pages 267-269, 437. Russell Chamberlin, pages 161-208. J.N.D. Kelly, pages 252-254. Hans Küng, pages 119-120. Claudio Rendina, pages 431-436. Paul Johnson, pages 280, 363. (McBrien, Kelly and de Rosa tell how Pope Alexander VI and his son Cesare murdered people and seized their property.)

In the Vatican, there is a portrait of Pope Alexander VI wearing gold vestments that are covered with jewels. There is a large, full-color picture in Albert Skira, Treasures of the Vatican, page 86. There is a smaller full-color picture in the National Geographic book, Inside the Vatican, page 49. (Although it is smaller, you can still see the gold and jewels.) There is also a small black-and-white picture in Richard P. McBrien, Lives of the Popes. (Following page 392 there is a series of numbered pictures. The portrait of Alexander VI is Picture 10.)

13. Peter de Rosa, pages 111-113. Paul Johnson, page 280. Claudio Rendina, pages 438-441. J.N.D. Kelly, pages 255-256. Richard P. McBrien, pages 270-272.

14. Russell Chamberlin, pages 209-252. Malachi Martin, pages 202-203. Claudio Rendina, pages 441-446. J.N.D. Kelly, pages 256-258.

15. Paul Johnson, pages 194-198, 161. Peter de Rosa, pages 57-66. Hans Küng, pages 85-92.

A scholarly article about this is online. William Webster, Forgeries and the Papacy: The Historical Influence and Use of Forgeries in Promotion of the Doctrine of the Papacy. The author is a former Catholic.

http://www.christiantruth.com/forgeries.html

16. Malachi Martin, pages 141-142. Claudio Rendina, pages 309-316. (Page 314 gives information about his persecution of the Albigensians and other “heretics.”)

17. Fox’s Book of Martyrs, pages 45-47. J.A. Wylie, The History of Protestantism, book 1, pages 39-45. Paul Johnson, pages 199-201, 252. Peter de Rosa, pages 66-74, 152-155. Hans Küng, pages 87-103.

18. Richard P. McBrien, pages 466-468. “Antipope,” The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume I, 1907. (You can read this online if you search for “The Catholic Encyclopedia” + antipope.)

19. Malachi Martin, pages 141-142. Peter de Rosa, pages 406-407 and 420-421. Hans Kung, pages 92-93.

20. James G. McCarthy, The Gospel According to Rome, pages 231-232. James McCarthy is a former Catholic

21. Malachi Martin, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church, pages 19-38. (Malachi Martin recently died. He was a Catholic priest and a Vatican insider.) Peter de Rosa, Vicars of Christ, page 45. ( Peter de Rosa is a practicing Catholic and a former Catholic priest.)

22. Paul Johnson, A History of Christianity, pages 194-197. (Paul Johnson is a Catholic.) Peter de Rosa, pages 62-64. Malachi Martin, pages 137-146.

23. Malachi Martin, page 140. Claudio Rendina, The Bad Popes, pages 268-274. (Page 274 says that Gregory wanted to make the countries of Europe become feudal estates of the Pope, with all of the kings meekly obeying him.) J.N.D. Kelly, The Oxford Dictionary of Popes, pages 154-156. Richard P. McBrien, Lives of the Popes, pages 185-188.

24. Peter de Rosa, pages 66-69. Paul Johnson, page 199. Claudio Rendina, pages 309-316. (Page 310 says that Innocent was convinced that he had “total power” over other men.) J.N.D. Kelly, pages 186-188. Richard P. McBrien, pages 209-211.

25. Bruce L. Shelley, Church History in Plain Language, page 215. Russell Chamberlin, The Bad Popes, pages 87-93. J.N.D. Kelly, page 209. Richard P. McBrien, page 435. (This says that Boniface liked to dress in “imperial regalia”.)

26. Russell Chamberlin, pages 93-123. Claudio Rendina, pages 357-364. J.N.D. Kelly, pages 208-210. Richard P. McBrien, pages 229-232.

Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam, November 18, 1302. The quotation is near the end. You can read this encyclical online. If the following links don’t work, then do a search for “Unam Sanctam”.

http://www.newadvent.org/docs/bo08us.htm

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/b8-unam.html

27. Paloma Pajares Ayuela, Cosmatesque Ornament: Flat Polychrome Geometric Patterns in Architecture (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002). Chapter 2 (“Rome”) tells how wealthy medieval popes used purple and gems in papal architecture in order to show their imperial power. The purple came from porphyry (a rock that has crystals embedded in a purple groundmass).

28. Claudio Rendina, pages 420-423. Richard P. McBrien, pages 263-264.

Dr. Richard M. Podhajny, “History, Shellfish, Royalty, and the Color Purple” in Paper, Film & Foil Converter, July 1, 2002. (This is a technical, industrial magazine. Color is important to the printing industry. The article discusses the history of the colors purple and scarlet.) You can read the article in their online edition of the magazine.

http://pffc-online.com/ar/paper_history_shellfish_royalty

Herbert Norris, Church Vestments: Their Origin & Development, pages 162-163. (This tells when scarlet came into use for vestments.) National Geographic, Inside the Vatican, pages 46-47. (This shows cardinals wearing scarlet vestments.)

29. Herbert Norris, pages 108-115. This discussion of the papal tiara includes several pictures of popes wearing tiaras. Albert Skira, Treasures of the Vatican, page 86. This shows a portrait of Pope Alexander VI kneeling, with his tiara on the ground in front of him.

Richard P. McBrien. Following page 392, there is a series of numbered pictures. Pictures 2, 3, 9 and 13 show popes wearing the papal crown (tiara).

You can see pictures of the papal tiara online. Google has a search engine just for pictures (images). Go to Google’s home page. You will see some words that are underlined. Click on “Images.” Then search for “tiara” or for “pope + tiara” or for “papal tiara”.

http://www.Google.com

30. Richard P. McBrien, Lives of the Popes. Following page 392, there is a series of 40 pictures that have numbers. Pictures 13, 19, 20, 23, and 27 show popes seated on thrones.

National Geographic, Inside the Vatican, pages 92-93. This photograph shows a life-sized statue of Saint Peter sitting on a papal throne inside Saint Peter’s Basilica. Pages 48-49 show the Pope being carried on a portable throne.

Six pictures of popes with the papal crown (tiara). Two of these pictures show Popes Pius XII and John XXIII seated on an ornate papal throne.

http://www.geocities.com/rexstupormundi/papalcrown.html

31. Eric Convey and Tom Mashberg, "Law Grilled in Deposition” in The Boston Herald, May 8, 2002. The third and fourth paragraphs discuss Cardinal Law’s dual citizenship.

32. Herbert Norris, pages 8, 183-185. National Geographic, page 58. This shows a ring of Pope Pius IX. It has so many diamonds on it that you can barely see the gold.

“Rings” in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIII, 1912. “Pectorale” in the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XI, 1911. This is the pectoral cross which is worn by popes, cardinals, bishops, and abbots. It is made of precious metal (gold, silver, platinum) and ornamented with jewels (diamonds, pearls, etc.). It contains a relic of a saint.

33. Herbert Norris, Church Vestments: Their Origin & Development. The entire book describes vestments that, for high-ranking churchmen, are often decorated with gold and jewels. Even their gloves have gold on them, and sometimes jewels as well. This was especially true during the Middle Ages, but it is also true today.

National Geographic, pages 59, 71, 83, 202, and 209. Page 59 shows a chalice of Pope Pius X that is solid gold and set with numerous diamonds. (When you look at it, you see more diamonds than gold.) Page 71 shows Pope John Paul II wearing a gold miter and vestments decorated with gold. Page 83 shows Pope John Paul II wearing gold vestments. (They are made of gold cloth, as opposed to just being decorated with gold.) Page 202 shows gloves and shoes of Pope Pius XII. They are decorated with gold. One pair of shoes has jewels on them. (They appear to be rubies and emeralds.) Page 209 shows a miter that was worn by Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul I. It is decorated with gold and set with many jewels.

34. Albert Skira, Treasures of the Vatican, page 31. This shows a picture of the statue of Saint Peter wearing vestments of gold and scarlet, with a gold crown that is studded with jewels.

National Geographic, Inside the Vatican, pages 92-93. This shows a nun kissing the foot of the statue. It also shows a close-up of the foot that has been worn smooth from being kissed so much.

35. “Mozzetta” in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume X, 1911. This is a special red cape worn by the Pope. In the six winter months, he wears a mozzetta trimmed with white ermine. In the six summer months he wears a lighter mozzetta without ermine.

Herbert Norris, pages 114 and 179. (Page 114 shows Pope Sixtus IV wearing a tiara and mozetta. Page 179 discusses the mozetta.)

36. National Geographic, pages 48-49. This shows the Pope being carried on the sedia gestatoria (the portable papal throne). Richard P. McBrien, Lives of the Popes has pictures of the Pope being carried on the sedia gestatoria on the front cover of the book and on page 11.

“Sedia Gestatoria” in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIII, 1912. “Pontifical Mass” in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XII, 1911. This describes the use of the sedia gestatoria (portable papal throne) for the solemn procession that occures during a Pontifical Mass.

You can see pictures of the sedia gestatoria online. Google has a search engine just for pictures (images). Go to Google’s home page. You will see some words that are underlined. Click on “Images.” Then search for “sedia”.

http://www.Google.com

37. Paul Johnson, page 503.

38. You can see dozens of pictures of the Sistine Chapel if you do an Internet search for “Christus Rex” + “Sistine Chapel”. It will lead you to a page called “Cappella Sistina”. It has 27 categories listed. If you click on one of them, you will get a webpage with small pictures on it. If you click on the small pictures, you will get larger ones.

To see the Vatican museums, search for “Christus Rex” + “Museums.” To see Saint Peter’s Basilica and the Pontifical Palace, search for “Christus Rex” + “Vatican city”. (It will say “Citta del Vaticano.”)

You can also find good pictures by doing a Google search for “images”. Go to Google’s home page. You will see some words that are underlined. Click on “Images.” Then click on “Sistine Chapel” or “Vatican museums” or whatever else you are looking for.

http://www.Google.com

Chapter 5

Forged Documents and Papal Power

1. Hans Küng, “The Catholic Church: A Short History” (translated by John Bowden), page 61. The author is a Catholic theologian and a priest. Pope John XXIII appointed him to be a theological consultant during the Second Vatican Council. In 1979, the Vatican disciplined him because he opposed the doctrine of papal infallibility.

2. William Webster, pages 62-63. Peter de Rosa, pages 58-61, 174, 208. Paul Johnson, page 195. (Johnson and de Rosa are Catholics.)

3. “Benedict Levita,” “The Catholic Encyclopedia,” Volume II, 1907. Benedict Levita is the pseudonym of the author of the “Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals.”

4. Peter de Rosa, page 59.

The use of forged documents in developing papal power. The author is a former Jesuit priest.

http://www.crusadeforcatholics.com/newpage63.htm

http://www.remnantofgod.org/x-jesuit.htm

5. Peter de Rosa, page 166.

6. Paul Johnson, pages 170-172.

7. Peter de Rosa, page 59.

8. Orthodox Christian Information Center, “The False Decretals of Isidore.” This is an excerpt from the book, “The Papacy” by Abbee Guette. The author was a devout Catholic and a historian. As a result of his historical research about the papacy, he eventually joined the Orthodox Church.

http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/decretals.htm

“The Great Schism of 1054” (a sermon given at a Russian Orthodox Cathedral)

http://www.stjohndc.org/Homilies/9606a.htm

9. William Webster, pages 62-63. Peter de Rosa, page 60.

10. William Webster, page 63. Peter de Rosa, page 60.

11. William Webster, “Forgeries and the papacy: The Historical Influence and Use of Forgeries in Promotion of the Doctrine of the Papacy.” This article gives detailed accounts of Thomas Aquinas’ use of forged documents. Aquinas mistakenly believed them to be genuine.

http://www.christiantruth.com/forgeries.html

12. Pius X, “Pieni l’animo” (“On the Clergy in Italy”), July 28, 1906. (See paragraph 6.)

13. William Webster, “Forgeries and the Papacy: The Historical Influence and Use of Forgeries in Promotion of the Doctrine of the Papacy”

http://www.christiantruth.com/forgeries.html

The use of forged documents in developing papal power. The author is a former Jesuit priest.

http://www.crusadeforcatholics.com/newpage63.htm

http://www.remnantofgod.org/x-jesuit.htm

14. The Medieval Papacy. This article includes a good summary of information about forged documents and their use to increase papal power.

http://www.christianchronicler.com/history1/medieval_papacy.html

The use of forged documents in developing papal power. The author is a former Jesuit priest.

http://www.crusadeforcatholics.com/newpage63.htm

http://www.remnantofgod.org/x-jesuit.htm

15. “The Great Schism of 1054"

http://www.stjohndc.org/Homilies/9606a.htm

Chapter 6

Undermining the Bible

1. William Webster, page 8.

“The Canon of the New Testament: A Brief Introduction”

http://www.tmch.net/ntcanon.htm

2. Walter A. Elwell (editor), “Evangelical Dictionary of Theology,” page 141.

3. Paul Johnson, page 273.

Laymen and laywomen were forbidden to read the Bible in their native language, unless a bishop or an inquisitor gave them permission in writing.

http://www.justforcatholics.org/a79.htm

4. “Tyndale, William,” “World Book Encyclopedia 2000” (on CD-Rom)

“English Bible History.” In 1517, seven people were burned at the stake for teaching their children to say the Lord’s Prayer in English.

http://http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/

“The History of the English Bible”

http://www.williamtyndale.com/0biblehistory.htm

5. Paul Johnson, page 273.

6. Brian H. Edwards, pages 168-170.

A biography of William Tyndale. Men read the Bible out loud in English, while crowds of people listened.

http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/10/06.html

http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/260.html

William Tyndale translated the Bible into English. His Bibles were burned. Tyndale was burned at the stake. Between 1400 and 1557 over 1,000 English men and women were burned at the stake for the sake of the Gospel.

http://www.williamtyndale.com/0crimesofwilliamtyndale.htm

7. “Wycliffe, John,” “Lollards,” and “Bible,” “World Book Encyclopedia 2000” (on CD-Rom).

8. “Tyndale, William” and “Bible,” “World Book Encyclopedia 2000” (on CD-Rom). See Note 6 for online articles about Tyndale.

9. “Bible,” “World Book Encyclopedia 2000” (on CD-Rom)

10. Pope Pius IX, “Qui Pluribus” (“On Faith and Religion”), November 9, 1846. See paragraph 14.

Pope Pius IX, “Nostis et Nobiscum” (“On the Church in the Pontifical States”), December 8, 1849. See paragraph 14.

Articles about the beatification of Pope Pius IX.

http://www.concilium.org/english/PiusIX.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/am/s171619.htm

11. Pope Pius IX, “Quanta Cura” (“Condemning Current Errors”), December 8, 1864. The “error” is given in Section 3, second paragraph. The condemnation of all of the “errors” described in the encyclical is given in paragraph 6.

Pope Pius IX, “The Syllabus of Errors,” December 8, 1864. See paragraphs 15, 77, and 78. “The Syllabus of Errors” accompanied the encyclical “Quanta Cura.” In reading it, remember that Pius condemned every statement that you are reading.

Pope Leo XIII, “Libertas Praestantissimum” (“On the Nature of Human Liberty”), June 20, 1888. See paragraph 42.

12. “Catechism of the Catholic Church,” paragraph 891.

13. “Catechism of the Catholic Church,” paragraphs 80, 84 and 97.

14. “Catechism of the Catholic Church,” paragraphs 78, 113, 2650, and 2661.

15. “Catechism of the Catholic Church,” paragraphs 85, 87, 100, 113, 862, 891, 2037.

16. J.A. Wylie, “The Papacy: Its History, Dogmas, Genius, and Prospects;” Volume II, “Dogmas of the Papacy,” Chapter 2, “Scripture and Tradition” (London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co., 1888). You can read this chapter online.

http://www.fbinstitute.com/papacy/b2c2.html

http://www.wayoflife.org/papacy/02-02.htm

http://www.historicist.com/papacy/b2c2.html

17. Walter A. Elwell (editor), “Evangelical Dictionary of Theology,” pages 66-67.

18. Gregory Koukl, “The Apocrypha,” 1998. This website has a search engine. Search for “apocrypha.”

http://www.str.org

19. The Epistle of Jude refers to an event that is described in the “Book of Enoch,” a work that was familiar to Jude’s readers. However, Jude does not state or imply that the “Book of Enoch” is inspired Scripture. Rather, he uses it in a manner that is similar to modern pastors who use well-known books or movies as sermon illustrations. The “Book of Enoch” is not one of the Apocrypha. It is not part of the Catholic Bible.

20. The “Book of Tobit” is available online. Do an Internet search for “Book of Tobit.”

21. “International Standard Bible Encyclopedia,” Electronic Database, 1996, by Biblesoft (a Bible study program).

Chapter 7

The Council of Trent

1. “Anathema,” “The Catholic Encyclopedia,” Volume I, 1907. The ritual is described in detail, with a lengthy quotation. You can read it online. If this address doesn’t work for you, then do an Internet search for “anathema + Catholic Encyclopedia” and you should find the article. Articles from “The Catholic Encyclopedia” take a while to load. At first you will just see a blank page. Then you will see a heading. After a while, the article will appear.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01455e.htm

2. This article from a Baptist website gives general information about the Council of Trent. It quotes a number of decrees relating to Evangelical doctrines.

http://www.biblebc.com/Roman%20Catholicism/summary_of_trent.htm

http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/trent.htm

Canons of the Council of Trent that deal with justification, the eucharist (communion), and the mass.

http://www.biblebc.com/Roman%20Catholicism/council_of_trent_full.htm

Canons of the Council of Trent that deal with communion (the eucharist)

http://codesign.scu.edu/arth12/text_counciloftrent.html

The entire text of the Council of Trent is available online. If these addresses don’t work for you, then do a search for “Council of Trent.”

http://history.hanover.edu/early/trent.htm

http://history.hanover.edu/texts/trent/ctbull.html

http://www.pax-et-veritas.org/Councils/trent/trent.htm

The Council of Trent covered a lot of material, including many things that are probably not of interest to most people. If you read the book (either as a book or online), I suggest that you look for the following:

4th session, decree concerning the canonical scriptures (this says that Bibles must include the apocryphal books) (what it calls “Tobias,” modern Catholic Bibles call the “Book of Tobit”)
6th session, canons on justification (especially canons 12, 24, and 33)
7th session, canons on baptism (especially canons 3, 5, 13)
13th session, canons on the eucharist (communion) (especially canons 1 and 8)
14th session, canons on the sacrament of penance (especially canons 1, 7, 8)
22nd session, canons on the mass (especially canons 1, 2, 3, 5)
25th session, the decree on Purgatory, and the decree on the invocation and veneration of saints, relics of saints, and “sacred images”

3. “Lumen Gentium” (“Dogmatic Constitution on the Church”), paragraph 51. In Austin Flannery (Editor), “Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents,” Volume 1, New Revised Edition, page 412.

The documents produced by the Second Vatican Council are available online. If the following addresses don’t work for you, then do an Internet Search for “Vatican Council II” or “Second Vatican Council.”

http://www.stjosef.at/council/

http://www.stjosef.at/council/search/

http://www.cin.org/vatiidoc.html

http://www.rc.net/rcchurch/vatican2/

4. “Optatum Totius” (“Decree on Priestly Training”), “Conclusion.” In Austin Flannery, Volume 1, page 724.

5. Pope John XXIII said that he accepts what the Council of Trent declares about justification. (It declares that any person who believes that we are saved by faith alone is anathema.) He also confirmed all past anathemas against “false doctrine”--in other words, the Protestant doctrines that were condemned by the Council of Trent.

http://www.angelfire.com/ky/dodone/J23.html

All Catholic clergymen who participated in the Second Vatican Council signed a document stating that they accepted the declarations of the Council of Trent. (This is in the opening paragraph of the article.)

http://www.biblebc.com/Roman%20Catholicism/summary_of_trent.htm

http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/trent.htm

6. You can check this out for yourself. “The Catechism of the Catholic Church” is available online with a search engine. Do a search for “Council of Trent.” If these addresses don’t work for you, then do an Internet search for “Catechism of the Catholic Church.”

http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc.htm

http://www.christusrex.org/www2/kerygma/ccc/searchcat.html

7. “The Catechism of the Catholic Church,” Paragraph 891.

Chapter 8

Hunting “Heretics”

1. Paul Johnson, A History of Christianity, pages 112-119. (The author is Catholic.) Bruce Shelley, Church History in Plain Language (updated 2nd edition), page 128.

“Inquisition,” The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VIII, 1910. This article says that, under the Law of Moses, people in Old Testament times were killed or tortured for heresy. That is not correct. They were stoned to death if they tried to get other people to abandon the God of Israel and worship “foreign gods.” This was not torture; it was the usual method of execution, and it killed people pretty quickly. Worshiping “foreign gods” was not heresy. According to Catholic Canon Law, heresy means having a baptized Christian disagree on a point of doctrine. For example, during the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church said that it was heresy to believe that people are saved by faith alone (as opposed to faith plus works). Worshiping “foreign gods” was not in any way comparable to heresy. It would be the equivalent of telling people to abandon Christianity and worship Hindu gods. (To read the article online, search for inquisition + “Catholic Encyclopedia”.)

2. Code of Canon Law, page 247, Canon 751. According to this law, “heresy” applies to people who have been baptized. However, most Catholics are baptized as infants, when they have no say in the matter. Also, the law does not say that it only applies to baptized Catholics, so it could be interpreted to apply to people who have been baptized as Protestants. During the Protestant Reformation, people who had been born and raised Protestant were killed as “heretics.” For centuries, the Waldensians and other Bible-believing Christians (who were never baptized as Catholics) were persecuted as “heretics.” In Spain, Jews and Muslims (unbaptized people) were persecuted as “heretics.”

3. Paul Johnson, page 273.

4. Fox’s Book of Martyrs, pages 176-184. “Tyndale, William,” World Book Encyclopedia 2000 (on CD-Rom).

5. If you want to get a feel for the times, read Brian H. Edwards’ book, God’s Outlaw: The Story of William Tyndale and the English Bible. There is a website devoted to William Tyndale.

http://www.williamtyndale.com

6. Paul Johnson, pages 254-255; 273.

7. Paul Johnson, pages 119-120.

8. Gabriel Audisio, The Waldensian Dissent: Persecution and Survival, pages 11-12.

9. Bill Jackson, The Noble Army of “Heretics,” chapter 5, “Waldenses” pages 55-72. Dr. Jackson combines excellent scholarship with touching portraits of heroic people. He personally visited the valleys where the Waldensians lived and he studied their original documents. You can read this chapter online.

http://www.NobleArmy.com

http://www.angelfire.com/ky/dodone/NA5.html

10. Paul Johnson, page 251.

11. Peter de Rosa, Vicars of Christ, pages 66-69. Claudio Rendina, The Popes: Histories and Secrets, pages 309-316. (Page 310 says that Innocent was convinced that he had “total power” over other men.) J.N.D. Kelly, The Oxford Dictionary of Popes, pages 186-188. Richard P. McBrien, Lives of the Popes: The Pontiffs from St. Peter to John Paul II, pages 209-211. Paul Johnson, page 199.

12. Bruce Shelley, page 185.

13. Russell Chamberlin, The Bad Popes, pages 87-93. J.N.D. Kelly, page 209. Richard P. McBrien, page 435. Bruce Shelley, page 215.

14. Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam, November 18, 1302. See the very last sentence. (To read this online, search for Boniface + “Unam Sanctam”.)

15. Gabriel Audisio, page 11.

16. Bruce Shelley, pages 206-209.

17. J.A. Wylie, History of Protestantism, Volume III, Book 16, pages 1155-1252. Fox’s Book of Martyrs, pages 43-45. Bill Jackson, pages 61-72.

18. Gabriel Audisio, summary from the back cover of the book

19. Gabriel Audisio, pages 189-190. Bill Jackson, pages 55-72. You can read this online.

http://www.NobleArmy.com

http://www.angelfire.com/ky/dodone/NA5.html

20. Hans Kung, The Catholic Church: A Short History, pages 94-97. Fox’s Book of Martyrs, pages 60-87. Paul Johnson, pages 253-255. Bruce Shelley, pages 211-212.

Chapter 9

False Credentials

1. Bill Jackson, “The Noble Army of ‘Heretics.’” See chapter 1 (“Montanus and Tertullian”) and chapter 2 (“Martyrs before Roman Catholicism Started”). You can read these online.

http://www.NobleArmy.com

http://www.angelfire.com/ky/dodone/NA1.html

http://www.angelfire.com/ky/dodone/NA2.html

2. Malachi Martin, pages 11-28. Martin was a Catholic priest, an eminent theologian, and a professor at the Vatican’s Pontifical Institute. He describes the wide variety of beliefs and practices within the early Church. He says that there was as much variety back then as there is between different denominations now.

3. This is the subject of the book “On This Slippery Rock” by Dr. Eric Svendsen. I have personally corresponded with people who have been told these things. You can order Dr. Svendsen’s book at Amazon.com or at his website.

http://www.ntrmin.org

4. Eric Svendsen, “30,000 Protestant Denominations?” This is chapter 5 of “On This Slippery Rock.” You can read it online.

http://www.ntrmin.org/30000denominations.htm

Eric Svendsen, “The Roman Catholic Challenge.” Dr. Svendsen posed 18 questions and offered a $100,000 prize to any person who could give him the official Catholic answer (an answer that Catholics officially agree on) to any of his questions. If they could answer just one, they would win the money. Nobody was able to do it, not even professional Catholic apologists. The questions and a summary of responses are online.

http://www.ntrmin.org/rcchallenge.htm

5. Malachi Martin, “The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church.”

6. True Catholic’s website has articles about the state of the papacy

http://www.truecatholic.org

7. Malachi Martin, “The Jesuits.”

8. Wesley J. Smith, “Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America.”

9. Mary Ann Collins, “New Age Catholicism.” This article is extensively documented. It has notes with links to numerous online articles.

http://www.catholicconcerns.com/New-Age.html

10. See the sections “Catholic Feminists” and “New Age Morals” in my article, “New Age Catholicism.”

http://www.catholicconcerns.com/New-Age.html

11. Randy England, “The Unicorn in the Sanctuary: The Impact of the New Age on the Catholic Church,” pages 75-77. The author is Catholic.

12. Randy England, pages 3 and 77.

13. Randy England, pages 6-9 and 135-146.

14. With one exception, these articles come from Catholic websites. I put the Protestant one first because it is a good, short overview with quotations from Catholic sources.

Bill Jackson, “Scapulars”

http://www.angelfire.com/ky/dodone/Scapulars.html

“The Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel” (Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima)

http://members.aol.com/ccmail/scapular.html

“Brown Scapular” (Catholic Information Network)

http://www.cin.org/saints/brownsca.html

“St. Simon Stock,” “The Catholic Encyclopedia,” Volume XIII, 1912.

“Scapular,” “The Catholic Encyclopedia,” Volume XIII, 1912.

15. “The Rosary, Brown Scapular, and the Sabbatine Privilege” (Our Lady of the Rosary Library)

http://olrl.org/pray/rosary.html

“Sabbatine Privilege,” “The Catholic Encyclopedia,” Volume XIII, 1912.

16. Pictures of four-way medals and five-way medals. These are sold at online Catholic stores. If the Internet addresses don’t work, then do searches for “four way medal” and “five way medal.”

http://www.discountcatholicstore.com/four_way.htm

http://www.sacredheart.com/Medals_Five_Way_Medal_Round_Style.htm

http://www.sacredheart.com/Medals_Four_Way_Cross_Medal.htm

http://www.sacredheart.com/CR-SS4444_Maltese_Cross.htm

17. Websites of online Catholic stores. You can see pictures of medals, rosaries, chaplets, scapulars, statues, and other religious objects. You can also do Internet searches for specific items, such as holy cards, rosary bracelets, or the Brown Scapular.

http://www.DiscountCatholicStore.com

http://www.YourCatholicStore.com

http://www.InHisName.com

http://www.CatholicMart.com

http://www.MyCatholicStore.com

http://www.CatholicFamilyCatalog.com

http://www.CatholicShopper.com

http://www.Catholic.org/shopping

http://www.CatholicShopping.com

http://www.JustCatholic.com

http://www.CatholicStore.com

18. Michael S. Rose, “Goodbye, Good Men: How Liberals Brought Corruption into the Catholic Church.” You can find information about the book online by doing an Internet search for “Michael Rose Goodbye Good Men.”

19. The Introduction to “Goodbye, Good Men” is available online. So are feedback testimonials of seminarians and priests who have read the book. There is a collection of excerpts from reviews. At the end of each excerpt, there is a place that you can click if you want to read the entire review.

http://www.goodbyegoodmen.com

20. “Goodbye, Good Men” only briefly discussed Fox’s “creation-centered spirituality.” I have added additional information about it based on the following sources:

Randy England, “The Unicorn in the Sanctuary: The Impact of the New Age on the Catholic Church, “chapter 6 (pages 118-134). This chapter is called, “Woman Church, Witchcraft, and the Goddess.” It is available on a Catholic website.

http://www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/FOX.HTM

Mitch Pacwa, “Catholicism for the New Age: Matthew Fox and Creation-Centered Spirituality.” The author is a Catholic priest.

http://www.equip.org/free/DF105.htm

Chapter 10

According to Tradition

1. “Some Important Marian Apparitions.”

http://members.aol.com/bjw1106/marian5.htm

2. “Life Application Study Bible,” notes on the Book of Romans

3. “Some Important Marian Apparitions”

http://members.aol.com/bjw1106/marian5.htm

4. Paul Johnson, page 226.

5. Paul Johnson, pages 105-107 and 161-166.

6. “Some Important Marian Apparitions”

http://members.aol.com/bjw1106/marian5.htm

7. Dave Hunt, “A Woman Rides the Beast,” pages 239-240.

8. William Steuart McBirnie, “The Search for the Twelve Apostles,” page 103.

Chapter 11

The Numbers Game

There are no notes for this chapter.

Chapter 12

What Is Our Source of Authority?

1. Open Doors has been smuggling Bibles and other Christian materials into Communist and Muslim nations for over 40 years. Their website gives information about the persecution of Christians in various countries.

http://www.opendoorsusa.org

2. “Catechism of the Catholic Church,” paragraphs 80, 84, 97. It is available online with a search engine. If these addresses don’t work for you, then do an Internet search for “Catechism of the Catholic Church.”

http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc.htm

http://www.christusrex.org/www2/kerygma/ccc/searchcat.html

3. “Catechism of the Catholic Church,” paragraphs 78, 98, 113, 2650, and 2661.

“Tradition and the Magician’s Hat.” This article shows how tradition keeps shifting, is unwritten, and cannot be pinned down. Therefore, it is like the magician’s hat. Theologians can pull anything they want to out of it. They can also ignore anything that is inconvenient.

http://www.justforcatholics.org/a169.htm

4. “Catechism of the Catholic Church,” paragraphs 85, 100, 113, 891, and 2051.

5. “Catechism of the Catholic Church,” paragraphs 87, 2037.

6. “Ineffabilis Deus” (“Apostolic Constitution on the Immaculate Conception”). Encyclical of Pope Pius IX, issued December 8, 1854. Near the end of this papal bull there is a section called “The Definition.” The statements that I described are in the last paragraph of that section. If the following links don’t work, then do a search “Ineffabilis Deus.”

http://www.newadvent.org/docs/pi09id.htm

http://www.pax-et-veritas.org/Popes/pius_ix/ineffabi.htm

http://www.geocities.com/apologeticacatolica/ineffabilis.html

http://www.naorc.org/documents/ineffabilis_deus.htm

http://www.legacyrus.com/library/Vatican/ImmaculateConcept.htm

7. Paul Johnson, page 308.

8. Lord Acton (a nineteenth century Catholic historian)

9. Malachi Martin, “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church,” pages 85-89, 132.

10. David Yallop, “In God’s Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I.”

11. “Statement by CONCILIUM on the Planned Beatification of Pope Pius IX”

http://www.concilium.org/english/PiusIX.htm

“Upset over Beatification of Pius IX”

http://www.abc.net.au/am/s171619.htm

Chapter 13

Faith Versus Works

1. “Life Application Study Bible,” notes on the Epistle to the Galatians.

Chapter 14

The Good Thief

1. For a good, well documented presentation of the difference between Biblical simplicity and Catholic complexity, see Mike Gendron’s article, “Jesus Christ Is Sufficient to Save Sinners Completely.”

http://www.reachingcatholics.org/save_sinners.html

Chapter 15

Devotion to Mary

1. James G. McCarthy, pages 181-184 and 199-200.

2. Pictures of Pope John Paul II putting a gold crown on a statue of Mary

http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/crown.htm

Pictures of statues of Mary that wear crowns. (I have divided the address into two sections, because of its width.

http://www.sspxasia.com/Newsletters/2001/Oct-Dec/

Procession_in_honour_of_Our_Lady_of_the_Rosary.htm

Pictures of a crowned statue of Mary. The statue is carried in a procession. (I have divided the address into two sections, because of its width.)

http://www.sspxasia.com/Newsletters/2001/Oct-Dec/

Procession_in_honour_of_Our_Lady_of_the_Rosary_page_5.htm

Pictures of replicas of statues of Our Lady of Lourdes and Our Lady of Fatima. The crowns on these replicas are made of porcelain that is painted gold. The original statues at Lourdes and Fatima wear real crowns made of real gold.

http://www.pacificheritage.com/images/Products/fatimachild22.JPG

http://www.pacificheritage.com/images/Products/fatimag45.JPG

http://www.pacificheritage.com/images/Products/Lo90.JPG

3. Dave Hunt, pages 239-240.

4. James Anderson (Associated Press), “Giant Statue of Mary Part of Shrine Plan,” “Lexington Herald-Leader,” July 17, 1999.

http://www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/071799/faithdocs/shrine17.htm

5. Jim Tetlow, “Messages from Heaven,” Chapter 1. This is privately published. You can buy the book from D&K Press (800-777-8839).

6. William Webster, page 87.

7. Pope Pius IX, “Ubi Primum” (“On The Immaculate Conception”), February 2, 1849. The paragraphs are numbered. Paragraph 5 says that salvation comes through Mary. If these addresses don’t work for you, then do a search for “Ubi Primum.”

http://www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/P9UBIPR2.HTM

http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/pope0255a.htm

http://papal-library.saint-mike.org/PiusIX/Encyclicals/Ubi_Primum2.html

8. Pope Benedict XV, “Inter Sodalicia,” March 22, 1918. Quoted in Donald G. Bloesch, “Essentials of Evangelical Theology,” Volume 1, page 196.

9. The Queenship Marian Center for World Peace promotes the doctrine that Mary is Advocate, Mediator, and Co-Redemptrix. It sells books glorifying Mary and promoting this doctrine. It promotes a petition asking the Pope to officially declare the doctrine. Their online catalog gives information about the petition's progress, and about church leaders who support the doctrine. Go to the following link and look for “Vox Populi.”

http://www.queenship.org

10. “Catechism of the Catholic Church.” This book comes in numerous editions and languages. Because it has numbered paragraphs, statements can be accurately located in spite of the variety of editions. It is available online with a search engine. You can search by topic or paragraph number. If these addresses don’t work for you, then do an Internet search for “Catechism of the Catholic Church.”

http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc.htm

http://www.christusrex.org/www2/kerygma/ccc/searchcat.html

If you read the “Catechism,” remember that the authors are not only giving instructions to Catholics, they are also trying to keep them from being persuaded by a Protestant perspective. For example, the book says that Catholics should be devoted to Mary, but then it turns around and says that this does not constitute worship.

11. William Webster, pages 72-77.

12. Paul Johnson, pages 511-512. Peter de Rosa, pages 318-319.

The text of Saint Augustine’s book, “On Marriage and Concupiscence,” can be read online. (If the link doesn’t work, then search for “Augustine” plus the title.)

http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/15071.htm

13. William Webster, pages 81-85.

14. William Webster, pages 22-33. For a description of how pious practices can become official Catholic doctrine, and how this conflicts with both Scripture and the writings of the Early Fathers, see James G. McCarthy, pages 281-309. You can see some of these pious practices for yourself. My book “Unmasking Catholicism” has an appendix that gives links to hundreds of pictures, including devotional practices.

15. James G. McCarthy, pages 181-184 and 199-200.

16. James McCarthy, “Catholicism: Crisis of Faith” (video). You can order it from D&K Press (800-777-8839).

17. Jim Tetlow, “Messages from Heaven,” Chapter 1. (He also produced a video with the same title.) Tetlow is a former Catholic.

18. Jim Tetlow, “Messages from Heaven” (video). The main subject of the video is apparitions of Mary, but it also deals with other things. You can order it from D&K Press (800-777-8839). You can watch the video online at the following website.

http://www.harpazo.net/EternalProductions/ApparitionsofMary/

19. Jim Tetlow, “Messages from Heaven” (video). You can watch it online.

http://www.harpazo.net/EternalProductions/ApparitionsofMary/

Chapter 16

The Presence of God

1. Monstrances are ornate containers that are used to display Hosts (large, consecrated communion wafers) so that people can worship the Hosts. Websites with color pictures are given below.

http://www.monstrans-de-kel.nl/monst6.html

http://www.lightofmary.org/coadorermonpic.htm

http://www.monstrans-de-kel.nl/foto_index1.html

http://www.monstrans-de-kel.nl/foto_index2.html

http://www.gachaska.org/monstrancesunburstaltar.htm

http://pages.tias.com/1056/PictPage/523111.html

Two web pages, each having 12 small pictures of monstrances. If you click on them, you will see larger pictures.

Websites where people come to look at a webcam picture of a consecrated Host that is inside a monstrance. They look at the Host and worship it.

http://www.monksofadoration.org/chapel.html

http://www.savior.org/

http://members.core.com/~orcat27/tour0.htm

Chapter 17

Catholic Mysticism

1. Following are some Internet articles with information about pagan mysticism

Mysticism in the World’s Religions

http://www.unityarts.com/mysticisminworldreligions.html

Hindu and Muslim Mysticism

http://www.unityarts.com/hinduandmuslimmysticism.html

Sufi/Islami mysticism

http://www.digiserve.com/mystic/Muslim/

Hindu mysticism

http://www.digiserve.com/mystic/Hindu/

Buddhist mysticism

http://www.digiserve.com/mystic/Buddhist/

http://www.hindutva.org/AnwarShaikh/Mysticism/BuddhistMysticism.html

2. Randy England, “The Unicorn in the Sanctuary: The Impact of the New Age on the Catholic Church,” pages 75-77. The author is Catholic.

Ray Yungen, “A Time of Departing: How a Universal Spirituality Is Changing the Face of Christianity,” pages 60-63. According to this book, Merton was heavily involved in the mysticism of the Sufis (Islamic mystics). He promoted Buddhist and Hindu mystical traditions. He has been a strong New Age influence on Catholicism. His influence is now spreading to mainline Protestant denominations.

An article about Thomas Merton’s appreciation for Eastern mysticism

http://www.angelfire.com/ky/dodone/Merton.html

3. Randy England, pages 6-9 and 135-146.

4. Randy England, pages 101-107.

5. Abbot M. Basil Pennington, “Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, 1090-1153"

http://www.osb.org/cist/bern.html

6. “St. Bernard of Clairvaux,” “The Catholic Encyclopedia,” Volume II, 1907.

7. “Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint,” online edition of the “Columbia Encyclopedia”

http://www.bartleby.com/65/be/BernardCSt.html

8. Painting of Bernard of Clarivaux kneeling before Mary as Queen of Heaven

http://www.kfki.hu/keptar/english/p/pesce/muvek/szbernat.html

9. There is a quotation under the heading “Readings” that is attributed to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintb08.htm

10. “A Mystical Legend on Canvas” (from a Franciscan website)

http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/Dec1997/Wiseman.asp

11. “Saint Catherine of Siena Virgin”

http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/CATSIENA.htm

“St. Catherine of Siena,” “The Catholic Encyclopedia,” Volume III, 1908.

12. Julian of Norwich

http://www.saintnicholas.contactbox.co.uk/archive/julian.htm

13. “Mary and the Holy Spirit in the Writings of John of the Cross”

http://www.icspublications.org/archives/others/cs6_10.html

14. The Brown Scapular

http://www.rc.net/lansing/ctk/cc/ocds1.html

http://www.cin.org/saints/brownsca.html

15. “Saint Teresa of Jesus and the Virgin Mary”

http://www.helpfellowship.org/Info/st_teresa%20and%20mary.htm

16. “Mary and the Holy Spirit in the Writings of John of the Cross”

http://www.icspublications.org/archives/others/cs6_10.html

17. Order of Nazorean Essenes

http://essenes.crosswinds.net/bnei7.htm

18. “Quietism,” “The Catholic Encyclopedia,” Volume XII, 1911.

“Madame Jeanne Guyon, Method of Prayer, 1648-1717”

http://homechurch.org/spirituality/guyon_prayer.html

19. “Quietism,” online edition of the “Columbia Encyclopedia,” sixth edition, 2001.

http://www.bartleby.com/65/qu/quietism.html

Chapter 18

Mixing Paganism with Christianity

1. A picture of Pope John Paul II, at the multi-faith service in Assisi, Italy, which he convened and led In October, 1986. Leaders of pagan religions participated, praying to their gods. I apologize for the harsh tone of the text that accompanies this picture. It is on an ultra-conservative Catholic website called True Catholic. They believe that the Pope is a heretic, because he has said and done things that are contrary to Catholic doctrine, as declared by previous popes and Catholic Church councils.

http://www.truecatholic.org/nop/jp2assisi.htm

“October 1986: The Day Assisi Became the ‘Peace Capitol’ of the World,” “American Catholic,” January 1987. This takes a while to load because it has some pictures.

http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Assisi/PeaceCapital.asp

John Cotter, “Assisi Assessed,” Saint Benedict Center. The author is a Catholic who is an expert on syncretism (combining Christianity with pagan religions)

http://www.catholicism.org/PAGES/Assisi.htm

This article appears to be written by a conservative Catholic. It has several pictures. One of them shows Pope John Paul II at the multi-faith service at Assisi in 1986. This takes a while to load, because of the pictures.

http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/5816/jp2.html

2. A picture of the altar that was used for the religious service in Assisi. There is a statue of Buddha on top of the Tabernacle (an ornate container for consecrated bread).

http://www.truecatholic.org/nop/jp2buddha.htm

3. An article about the multi-faith service that Pope John Paul II convened at Assisi, in 2002. Leaders of pagan religions participated in the service.

http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk/CN/02/020123.htm

An article from CNN. It includes descriptions of the multi-faith services at Assisi in both 1986 and 2002.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/01/24/pope.assisi0825/

4. A picture of the Pope with a Buddhist patriarch. The text gives quotations from the Pope, including his statement that salvation can be found through Buddhism.

http://www.truecatholic.org/nop/jp2buddhist.htm

5. The Pope visited Benin. He apologized because westerners have rejected African religions, including voodoo. This article is written by an African who endorses African religions and approves of what the Pope did.

http://www.mamiwata.com/pope.html

http://afgen.com/afr_pope.html

http://www.secularhumanism.org/ahal/ReligionCult.html#ANewLook

6. These books are available at Amazon.com.

7. Randy England, “Unicorn in the Sanctuary: The Impact of the New Age on the Catholic Church,” pages 72-74.

8. Randy England, pages 70-72.

9. Peter Jones, “Pagans in the Pews: How the New Spirituality Is Invading Your Home, Church and Community,” page 127.

10. A series of 27 web pages with color pictures of the Sistine Chapel. Three of these web pages have pictures of prophets and sybils. A sybil is a pagan prophetess.

http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sistine/0-Tour.html

If this address doesn’t work for you, then go to the home page and click on “The Sistine Chapel.” The home page is below. If that doesn’t work, then do an Internet search for “Christus Rex.” You can also search for “Sistine Chapel + picture,” or “Christus Rex + Sistine Chapel.”

http://www.christusrex.org

Pictures of Raphael’s painting, “The School of Athens.” Some of these pictures will be enlarged if you click on them. This is a fresco, which means that it is painted on plaster.

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/R/raphael/school_athens.jpg.html

http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/raphael/raf_ath4.html

http://www.christusrex.org/www1/stanzas/S2-Segnatura.html

11. A series of 22 web pages with color pictures of the Vatican museums. A number of them have statues of Greek, Roman, and Egyptian gods and goddesses.

http://www.christusrex.org/www1/vaticano/0-Musei.html

If this address doesn’t work for you, then go to the home page and click on “The Vatican Museums.” The home page is below.

http://www.christusrex.org

12. A series of 14 web pages with color pictures of Saint Peter’s Basilica, the Pontifical Palace, and the Vatican Gardens. Each page has a number of small pictures that give different perspectives and details. If you click on them, you will see larger pictures.

http://www.christusrex.org/www1/citta/0-Citta.html

If this address doesn’t work for you, then go to the home page and click on “The Vatican City.” The home page is below. If that doesn’t work, then do an Internet search for “Christus Rex.” You can also search for “St. Peter’s + picture,” or “Christus Rex + Saint Peter’s,” or “Christus Rex + St. Peter’s.”

http://www.christusrex.org

13. “Tacitus on the Christians.” This historical document describes the martyrdom of Christians in the Circus Maximus.

http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/christianity/tacitus.html

Description and picture of the Circus Maximus. It mentions the obelisk.

http://www.crystalinks.com/romearchitecture.html

The Circus Maximus (Circus of Nero, where Christians were slaughtered).

http://www.romeguide.it/MONUM/ARCHEOL/ccircus_maximus/circus.htm

Pictures of the Obelisk in front of Saint Peter’s Basilica. (If you click on the small pictures, you will see larger ones.)

http://www.christusrex.org/www1/citta/B-Exterior.html

If this address doesn’t work, then go to the address below and click on “Basilica di San Pietro: Exterior.”

http://www.christusrex.org/www1/citta/0-Citta.html

If that doesn’t work, then go to the home page.

http://www.christusrex.org

Chapter 19

Ecumenism

1. “Unitatis Redintegratio” (“Decree on Ecumenism”), Paragraph 24. In Austin Flannery (Editor), “Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents,” Volume 1, page 470.

http://www.stjosef.at/council/

http://www.stjosef.at/council/search/

http://www.cin.org/vatiidoc.html

http://www.rc.net/rcchurch/vatican2/

2. “Reflections and Suggestions Concerning Ecumenical Dialogue” (Post Conciliar Document No. 42). In Austin Flannery, pages 540-541. The quotation is on page 541.

3. Pope Boniface VIII, “Unam Sanctam,” 1302. (See the last sentence.)

4. Pope Pius IX, “Quanto Conficiamur Moerore” (“On Promotion of False Doctrines”), August 10, 1863, paragraph 8.

Pope Pius IX, “Nostis et Nobiscum” (“On the Church in the Pontifical States”), December 8, 1849. See paragraph 10.

5. “Catechism of the Catholic Church,” paragraph 891.

6. “Code of Canon Law,” Latin-English edition, New English Translation, page 427, Canon 1366. Canon Laws provide the legal basis for everything that the Roman Catholic Church does. Even the Inquisition and the persecution of Protestants were based on Canon Law.

7. Opening Speech of Pope John XXIII to the Second Vatican Council. See the section, “How to Repress Errors.” If these addresses don’t work, then you can do a search for “opening speech + Vatican II + John XXIII.” You can also search for “Second Vatican Council” or “Vatican Council II.” You should find some websites that have documents from the Council. Some of these websites should include the opening speech of Pope John XXIII.

http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/v2.html

http://www.ourladyswarriors.org/teach/v2open.htm

http://www.rc.net/rcchurch/vatican2/j23open.txt

http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/pope0261i.htm

Chapter 20

Catholicism Behind the Veil

1. “The Code of Canon Law,” Canon 1311.

2. ”Pius (Popes),” online edition of the 1911 Edition of the “Encyclopedia Britannica.” Most of the article deals with Pius IX. At the very end, there is a short paragraph about Pius X. Use the FIND function to search for “concordat.”

http://3.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PI/PIVOT.htm

H. Wickham Steed, Walter Alison Phillips, and David Hannay, “A Short History of Austria-Hungary”. Chapter X, “Party Government in Austria.” This book is reproduced from the eleventh edition of the “Encyclopaedia Britannica” by permission of the Publishers. To find the information about the 1855 concordat, use the FIND function to search for “concordat.”

http://historicaltextarchive.com/austria/chap10.htm

3. Charles Krauthammer, “Why Didn’t the Church Call the Cops?,” “The Washington Post, Friday,” June 7, 2002, page A27.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9255-2002Jun6.html

Eric Convey and Tom Mashberg, “Law Grilled in Deposition,” “Boston Herald.” Paragraphs 3 and 4 discuss Cardinal Law’s dual citizenship and possible diplomatic immunity.

www2.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/blaw05082002.htm

4. Mike Gendron, “Protestant Pastors Converting to Rome,” “Proclaiming the Gospel” (March/April 2004, Vol. 13, No. 2), page 3. The author is a former Catholic. You can read his newsletter online.These statistics only include pastors who contacted the Coming Home Network, which was founded in 1993. They do not include pastors who converted before 1993, or who converted without contacting the network. They also do not include pastors who are considering converting to Catholicism, but have not contacted the network.

http://www.pro-gospel.org

5. I read an Internet article about an entire church that converted to Catholicism. At the time, I didn’t know that I would be writing this book, and I didn’t keep the website address. I’ve searched for that article, but I haven’t been able to find it again.

6. A member of that church contacted me several times, asking for advice. He was very distressed by the situation.

Afterword

1. “The Rites of the Catholic Church” (New York: Pueblo Publishing Co., 1990), Volume 1, pages 394-407. Quoted in James G. McCarthy, “The Gospel According to Rome: Comparing Catholic Tradition and the Word of God,” page 22.

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