Sowing Atheism: Robert Bowie Johnson, Jr.

By Robert Bowie Johnson, Jr.

Late last year, virtually uncommented upon, the late William F. Buckley’s influential conservative magazine, “National Review,” officially relinquished the spiritual high-ground to the Neo-Darwinists, and urged all other “thoughtful” conservatives to do the same. Jim Manzi wrote the four-page article of surrender entitled, “The Origin of the Species, and Everything Else,” in the October 8th, 2007 issue. In it, he abandons the authority of what the apostle Paul called the “Sacred Scriptures” (without even mentioning them), in favor of the authority of the atheistic Neo-Darwinist consensus which now rules what those people call “science.”

Manzi reasons that since Thomas Aquinas relied on the thinking of Aristotle and Augustine, it makes sense to incorporate “the best available non-theological thinking into our religious views.” He does not tell us, however, how to discern what non-theological thinking is the “best available.” And he certainly does not quote from Proverbs 30:5-6, “Every word of God is pure … Add thou not unto His words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.”

To Manzi, ultimate truth does not lie in the revealed Word of God, but rather in a man-centered philosophy, what he calls “a deep intellectual tradition” ranging back to Aristotle, a pupil of the idol-worshipper, Plato, and a tutor of the idol-worshipper, Alexander the Great. Darwinism goes back to that same man-centered way of thinking„the way of Cain. In both philosophical systems, the creature’s opinions and desires trump the Creator’s words.

EVOLUTION ‘THEORY’ so stupid even some monkeys don’t want to hear it.

Manzi writes that “most major denominations … have accepted evolution as fully consistent with theistic faith.” God help us! What do these pseudoscience-hip denominations celebrate at their services: the lies that Moses, Jesus, and Paul told about humanity’s origins?

Typically, Manzi does not offer any evidence for evolution. I have never seen any evidence anywhere that we evolved from worms, reptiles, and monkeys, have you? An astute letter-writer to “The Washington Times” recently pointed out, “A scientist who could prove that one species actually evolved into another would receive great acclaim, including a Nobel Prize, and that has not happened.”

Lack of evidence has never been a problem for Darwinists. Let me give you a classic example from “The Washington Post” of what passes, in their newsroom, for proof of evolution. On March 17, 2005, the “Post” published an article by Rick Weiss entitled, “Human X Chromosome Coded” with the subhead, “Sequence Confirms How Sex Evolved and Explains Some Male-Female Differences.” Despite the promising subhead, Weiss presented no evidence confirming how “sex as we know it” evolved, just these two utterly speculative sentences: “It happened about 300 million years ago, long before the first mammals. A conventional chromosome in a forebear of humans„probably a reptile of some sort„apparently underwent a mutation that allowed it to direct the development of sperm-producing testes.”

Lucky for us that this very special “probably a reptile of some sort” didn’t choke on a catfish before its magical mutation; otherwise, today we wouldn’t be enjoying “sex as we know it.”

EARLY RELATIVE of ‘National Review’ writer Manzi? Just asking….theoretically.

You would be outraged if the “Post” falsely published that your grandfather was a serial rapist. But when the “Post” says we’re all descended from reptiles by chance, oh well. When little Johnny comes home from school and asserts that he’s descended from reptiles and monkeys, what can you say? The “Washington Post” wrote that scientists have confirmed it as fact! Didn’t you see the headline?

The“Washington Post” routinely transmutes arrant evolutionary speculation into “facts,” presenting them as such to a largely trusting audience. Is this new faux-reporting technique, employed not only by The “Post,” but by the majority of mainstream “science” journalists today, becoming part of the “deep intellectual tradition” the “National Review” would have us embrace? No, it is journalistic deceit: atheistic humanist propaganda masquerading as objectivity. Now that the “National Review” has rolled over, it, too, can play a part in this supreme scam.

But doesn’t the hierarchy of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) say that evolution is true, that it is a “fact”? Yes, they do„and that’s exactly what makes them incompetent as scientists. They cannot discern the difference between saying something is true and proving it is true. The NAS admits that it has no evidence for the spontaneous chemical generation of life from dead matter. They further admit that they have no “plausible hypothesis” for it, either. The NAS has no bona fide evidence for the alleged evolution of the sexes. This is important because Jesus says in Mark 10:6 that “from the beginning of creation God makes them male and female.” And consider this most carefully: out of the two million or so species on this planet, the NAS cannot pick a single one and identify the specific species from which it allegedly evolved.

Molecules-to-man evolution is nothing but a concocted rationale for atheism. Once our Creator is denied, all that is left to explain our existence is time and chance. The NAS hierarchy is thoroughly atheist. NAS spokesman, atheist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, has said publicly, “I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t … How come this number isn’t zero?”

‘MISSING LINK’ still missing.

Do the editors of The “Post” and of the “National Review” realize that, by touting evolution as truth, they are proclaiming themselves to be worm-reptile-monkey people? And since they believe they evolved over eons through countless random mutations, are they not insisting that they are basically mutants?

William F. Buckley was a devout Roman Catholic. The current editors of his once-great magazine have now made the Virgin Mary and her Son the offspring, by chance, of insects, worms, and reptiles. When is the pope, I wonder, going to make the official ex cathedra proclamation of this?

I search for a positive side to this idiotic thinking on the part of the editors of “National Review.” Perhaps this is it: liberal and conservative mutants, their philosophies now dovetailing into one common belief about their origins, can walk arm-in-arm, outstripping Descartes as they boast to one another, “By chance 300 million years ago, two reptiles had sex; therefore, we are.”

Mr. Johnson, who holds a general science degree from West Point, is the author of “The Parthenon Code: Mankind’s History in Marble, Noah in Ancient Greek Art,” and most recently, “Sowing Atheism: The National Academy of Science’s Sinister Scheme to Teach Our Children They’re Descended from Reptiles.” His Web site, www.solvinglight.com, offers a free download of it.

http://www.ship-of-fools.com/mystery/2002/501Mystery.html

Apparently this Jesuit run school and church gave an ordination service and participated for the incoming Anglican Bishop.

The Church was shown in a documentary about "Robbie" the real possessed person in the Exorcist (1). It was parish that the exorcist, Fr. Bowdern, was from. He died in 1983, perhaps he could come back and exorcise the Spirit of Ecumenism from the Church. Or read Apostolicae Curae
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcist
2. Pics of church  http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=St.+Francis+Xavier+College+Church&m=text

Ecumenical Chapel at
St. Paul Outside the Walls

“Ecumenism is the Enemy
of the Immaculata” - St. Maximilian Kolbe

by John Vennari

At the Vatican Press Conference on January 21, 2008, Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, archpriest of St. Paul Outside the Walls, confirmed that the major Roman Basilica will open an "ecumenical chapel"

    The Papal Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls will open an ecumenical chapel where non-Catholic religions may perform their own liturgies and prayer services. The initiative is part of the Pauline year to begin in June, 2008. Sadly, the opening of the chapel has every indication of being part of Pope Benedict XVI’s ecumenical program that he urged upon his newly-created Cardinals in the consistories of both March 2006 and November 2007.
    One can rightly imagine how St. Maximilian Kolbe would react against this new program. In 1933, when the ecumenical movement began to get underway, St. Maximilian Kolbe saw it for what it was. He declared ecumenism as the enemy of the Blessed Virgin Mary; a movement to be opposed and destroyed.
    The mission St. Maximilian entrusted to his Knights of the Immaculata was that of converting the whole world to the Catholic Church. He said,”Only until all schismatics and Protestants profess the Catholic Creed with conviction, when all Jews voluntarily ask for Holy Baptism – only then will the Immaculata have reached its goals.”
    “… In other words” Saint Maximilian insisted, “there is no greater enemy of the Immaculata and her Knighthood than today’s ecumenism, which every Knight must not only fight against, but also neutralize through diametrically opposed action and ultimately destroy. We must realize the goal of the Militia Immaculata as quickly as possible: that is, to conquer the whole world, and every individual soul which exists today or will exist until the end of the world, for the Immaculata, and through her for the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.”
    Father Edward Hanahoe, a superb theologian writing in the 1950s, pointed out a principal evil of the new ecumenism. He explained it has the effect of “perpetuating the state of separation, serving rather to keep people out of Church than to bring them into it.”
    A more perfect portrayal of post-Conciliar ecumenism could hardly be penned.
    Those who promote the Council’s new ecumenism never remind the non-Catholic of the duty to convert to the Catholic Church for salvation. The true principle of conversion of non-Catholics is now replaced with a new principle of “convergence with non-Catholics”. Thus, as Father Hanahoe warned, today’s ecumenism serves to perpetuate the state of separation of those outside the Church, rather than bring them into it. The ecumenism espoused by Catholics since the Council is actually a counterfeit model of unity adopted from the World Council Churches that implicitly denies the thrice defined infallible doctrine: “Outside the Church there is no salvation”.
    Catholics the world over were thus scandalized to learn of the proposal to turn a section of the Papal Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls into an ecumenical chapel.
    The Zenit report of December 21, 2007 read: “An ecumenical chapel at St. Paul Outside the Walls is one of the first initiatives of the upcoming Pauline Year. Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, archpriest of the papal basilica, announced plans for the chapel in an interview with L’Osservatore Romano”, the Vatican’s official newspaper.
    The chapel, said Cardinal Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, will offer the “possibility for non-Catholic Christian communities to come and pray at the basilica and to celebrate liturgy.”
    According to Zenit, the Cardinal presented Benedict XVI with a program of the Pauline Year to be celebrated June 28, 2008 to June 29, 2009.
     A month later, on January 21 2008, a Vatican Press conference was held in which Cardinal Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, archpriest of the basilica, confirmed that the major basilica Roman Basilica will open an “Ecumenical Chapel” in conjunction with the Pauline Year.
    In an article on the press conference entitled “Strong Ecumenical Element of Pauline Year”, Vatican Information Service reported, “Finally, the cardinal turned his attention the ecumenical programme, ecumenism being an important aspect of the Pauline Year. He announced that the chapel currently used as the baptistery, located between the basilica and the cloister of St. Paul’s Outside the Walls, will become the ‘Ecumenical Chapel, maintaining its characteristic baptismal font but designated as a place in which to offer our Christian brethren a special place for prayer, either within their own groups, ... or together with Catholics, without the celebration of the Sacraments’.”
     VIS continuted, “This chapel will also be used to house the remains of St. Timothy of Antioch and of other unknown forth century martyrs...”
    The saddest aspect of this story is the fact that the Cardinal appears to follow the ecumenical program for the basilica and for the Pauline year sanctioned by Pope Benedict XVI himself. It is also in line with the ecumenical theme given at Pope Benedict’s two consistories of Cardinals.

A Hermeneutic of Ecumenical Continuity

    Pope Benedict XVI’s first Motu Proprio issued on May 31, 2005 was entitled “The Ancient and Venerable Basilica”. It clarified the canonical structure of the Major Basilica, St. Paul Outside the Walls.
    Catholic World News reported, “In the Motu Proprio, Pope Benedict calls attention to the historical importance of St. Paul-Outside-the-Walls, and especially the traditional connection to ecumenism. He encourages the continuation of that ecumenical unity in conjunction with the work of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity”.
    Pope Benedict’s own words in the Motu Proprio on this point are as follows:

“In recent times, the Holy See has taken particular care to promote special ecumenical events in the Basilica or in the Abbey environment. It will therefore be the task of the Monks, under the supervision of the Archpriest, to organize, coordinate and develop such programed, also with the help of Benedictine confreres from other Abbeys and in accordance with the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.”

    When Pope Benedict speaks of the ecumenical events connected with of St. Paul Outside the Walls, he is perfectly correct.
    • It was at St. Paul Outside the Walls in 1959 that Pope John XXIIII first announced his plan to convene the Second Vatican Council.
    • It was at St. Paul Outside the walls where Pope Paul VI addressed the Protestant Observers at Vatican II assembled for a special “Liturgy of the Word” on December 4, 1965, marking the close of the Council. Here Paul VI told them, “Your departure compels us once again to thank you for your presence at our Ecumenical Council. We have appreciated it greatly, and we have felt its influence ...”[10]
    • St. Paul Outside the Walls was the place where in January 1986, Pope John Paul II publicly invited all the world religious leaders to participate in his pan-religious prayer for peace at Assisi, which was enacted in October, 1986.[11]
    • It was at St. Paul Outside the Walls where in January 2000, Pope John Paul opened the Holy Door of the basilica, marking the beginning of the Jubilee year. This was billed as “The Most Important Ecumenical Meeting since Vatican II”, comprising 200 delegations of ‘Christian Churches’ participating in the opening of the Holy Door, in addition to the World Council of Churches, which embraces 337 sects from over 100 countries.[12] Pope John Paul II opened the Holy Door flanked by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury.[13] This was scandalous, as the opening of the Holy Door at a Holy Year by the Pope symbolizes the Pope’s power to open the gates of Heaven for mankind’s reception of sanctifying grace. When John Paul invited a schismatic and a Protestant leader to join with him in this act of opening the Holy Door, he was teaching symbolically that non-Catholic religions are also channels of grace from Heaven.
    • Each year, St. Paul Outside the Walls is the site of the concluding liturgy for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, a once-Catholic initiative that has become ecumenical since the Vatican II, and now held in conjunction with the World Council of Churches.
    • On January 21, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI invited the faithful to come celebrate ecumenical Vespers at this major basilica on January 25, 2007. He said, “I shall preside over Vespers celebrations in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls starting at 5:30 p.m.”[14] The ecumenical Vespers is the closing celebration of the Week of Christian Unity at which the Pope presides. Asia News reported Pope Benedict’s “ecumenical commitment to Christian unity,” in which “Benedict XVI stressed that such a commitment is not limited to the experts but is for everyone.” The Pope said, “Ecumenism is a deep dialogical experience; it is listening and talking to one another, knowing each better. It is a task that everyone can accomplish, especially in terms of spiritual ecumenism based on prayer and sharing that are now possible between Christians.”[15] (This year, as was the case last year, the Week of Christian Unity is jointly prepared by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Commission on Faith and Order from the World Council of Churches.[16] More on this in a future issue).
    Thus the establishment of the ecumenical chapel at St. Paul Outside the Walls conforms with the recent ecumenical history of the basilica, and follows Pope Benedict XVI’s request in his Motu Proprio “to promote special ecumenical events in the Basilica or in the Abbey environment.”

The Pauline Year

    Pope Benedict XVI likewise encourages ecumenical events for the upcoming Pauline Year.
    On June 28, 2007, the Pope officially announced the special jubilee year of the Apostle Paul from June 28, 2008 to June 29, 2009, for the occasion of the 2000th anniversary of his birth, “which historians place between 7 and 10". The Vatican Information Service [VIS] subtitled its report on the event, “The Pauline Year will be Characterized by Ecumenism”.
    VIS reported, “The Pope went on to explain that this ‘Pauline Year’ will be celebrated particularly in Rome and that basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls will host ‘a series of liturgical, cultural and ecumenical events,’ as well as ‘pastoral and social initiatives’.”
    It should be noted that Pope Benedict XVI’s call for ecumenical events for the Pauline Year was issued a mere nine days before the release of his July 7 Motu Proprio on the Latin Mass.
    VIS continued, “The Holy Father highlighted the fact that the Pauline Year will be characterized by its ‘ecumenical dimension’ because “the Apostle of the Gentiles, particularly dedicated to bringing the Good News to all people, concerned himself with the unity and harmony of all Christians.”[17]
    Thus the proposal for the ecumenical chapel by Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, archpriest of the papal basilica, should come as no surprise, especially since in both consistories of Pope Benedict XVI, the newly-created Cardinals were encouraged to keep ecumenism central to their mission.

Benedict’s Consistories

    Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, archpriest of St. Paul Outside the Walls, was created a Cardinal at the first Consistory of Pope Benedict XVI, March 25, 2006. Also created Cardinals at this time were Boston’s Sean O’Malley; San Francisco’s William Levada, and Stanislaus Dziwisz, former secretary of Pope John Paul II and Archbishop of Krakow.[18]
    The Pope sent a clear ecumenical message at this consistory. Benedict said to his new Cardinals, “I count on you to make the path to full Christian unity quicker and more secure”; as ANSA reported, “picking out one area in which he [the Pope] would like to see progress.”[19]
    In the recent consistory of November 24, 2007, Benedict bestowed another 23 Cardinal’s hats,[20] two of which were given to the most Charismatic-friendly prelates in Rome: Archbishops Paul Cordes and Stanislaus Rylko (At a Charismatic gathering I attended in Steubenville, 2005, Charismatic Ralph Martin said he and his wife went into Archbishop Rylko’s office in Rome. Rylko saw them and shouted with glee, “Charismatic Renewal Forever!”)[21]
    Ecumenism was a major theme at the November 2007 Consistory, even more so than at the 2006 Consistory. Vatican Information Service reported that at this second Consistory, “Benedict XVI introduced the theme for the day’s discussion: Ecumenical Dialogue in the Light of Prayer and of the Lord’s Command: Ut Unum Sint.”[22]
    In the context of this Consistory, Cardinal Walter Kasper gave a speech to the Cardinals that was immediately published in the Vatican’s L’Osservatore Romano under the title: “Ecumenism as a ‘Holy Obligation’.”
    In the presence of the Pope, Cardinal Kasper
    • noted that Pope John Paul II declared that the ecumenical effort in the Church is an “irreversible path”;
    • reiterated that Pope Benedict XVI from the first day of his Pontificate, made ecumenism a principal element of his regime;
    • gave unqualified praise to the 1993 Balamand Agreement that declares the Catholic Church and schismatic Orthodox as “Sister churches” that should not try to convert one another. (The document calls such the principle of conversion an “outdated ecclesiology”);
    • rejoiced that various Protestant groups and Catholic communities of religious life and the new spiritual movements have recently formed a “spiritual network”;
    • reiterated that “spiritual ecumenism” (Catholics and non-Catholic publicly praying together) is the “very soul of the ecumenical movement.”[23]
    • Mentioned that for the Catholic, unity consists in the “presupposition for a Eucharistic Communion”. This is extremely vague, since the New Code of Canon Law allows non-Catholics to receive Communion in various circumstances. Nowhere is the doctrine of Pope Pius XI reiterated that there is only one way to unity: the return of dissidents to the one true Church of Christ.
    In fact, Cardinal Kasper is on record as disparaging the traditional Catholic teaching on Christian Unity. He said in 2001, “... today we no longer understand ecumenism in the sense of a return, by which the others would 'be converted' and return to being 'Catholics'. This was expressly abandoned at Vatican II.”[24]
    Traditional Catholics are rightly outraged at this statement. Yet it must be asked, how does Kasper’s denial of traditional doctrine differ substantially from Pope Benedict XVI’s words at the ecumenical meeting in Cologne, 2005. Here, the Pope said,

“... this unity does not mean what could be called ecumenism of the return: that is, to deny and to reject one’s own faith history. Absolutely not! It does not mean uniformity in all expressions of theology and spirituality, in liturgical forms and in discipline. Unity in multiplicity, and multiplicity in unity.... To this end, dialogue has its own contribution to make”.[25]

    (This was the same speech in which Pope Benedict said of the recently slain Protestant Brother Roger from Taize, “He is now visiting us and speaking to us from on high.”)[26]
    As Cardinal Kasper continued his remarks at the 2007 Vatican Consistory of Cardinals, he voiced unqualified praise for the 1993 Directory for the Application of the Principles and Norms of Ecumenism, a radical document that promotes countless interdenominational activities always condemned by the Church as sins against Faith. Some of these include the permission for Protestants to conduct the readings (except the Gospel) in a Catholic Church [#133]; and the encouragement of “common spiritual exercises” and “retreats” between Catholics and Protestants [#114][27]
    One of the Directory’s proposals germane to the present discussion recommends the construction of a single church to be owned and used by both Catholics and non-Catholics [#138]; and further recommends that in these joint churches, the Blessed Sacrament be placed in a separate chapel or room so as not to offend non-believers. [#139]
    How can we not see in this a kind of model for the ecumenical chapel announced for St. Paul Outside the Walls? Remember, this Directory was given positive mention by Cardinal Kasper in the presence of the Pope in the latest consistory of Cardinals only two months ago.
    Following up on this ecumenical joint-church recommendation in the 1993 Directory, Cardinal Walter Kasper’s 2007 Handbook for Spiritual Ecumenism makes a similar proposal:

“Pay due attention, in national and international sanctuaries dedicated to the Virgin Mary, to the presence and pastoral needs of those visitors who belong to other Churches and Ecclesial communities by making available appropriate prayers or meditations, along with the use of appropriate liturgical signs and symbols.”[28]

    Hence the notion for an ecumenical chapel is not necessarily an original idea from Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, archpriest of the papal basilica. Similar proposals appear in the 1993 Vatican Ecumenical Directory praised at the latest Consistory of Cardinals in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI, and in Cardinal Kasper’s 2007 Handbook for Spiritual Ecumenism.
    To sum up: Pope Benedict XVI encouraged ecumenism as part of the mission of St. Paul Outside the Walls, and encouraged ecumenism as a central aspect of the Pauline Year. Pope Benedict also made ecumenism a theme in both of his consistories of Cardinals, the last one featuring an ecumenical theme chosen by Benedict, and a speech by Cardinal Kasper promoting the pan-Christian ecumenism that has been the bane of the post-Conciliar church for the last forty years.
    This ecumenism was given a further boost by Pope Benedict XVI on January 18, 2008 when he praised Lutheran/Catholic prayer. Vatican Information Service reported his words: “The joint prayer of Lutherans and Catholics from Finland is a humble but faithful sharing in the prayer of Jesus ...”[29]
    Catholics need to mount an uncompromising resistance to these ecumenical initiatives, since today’s ecumenism, as Pope Pius XI warned, leads to a “false Christianity, quite alien to the one Church of Christ.”[30]
    Catholics also need to resist the proposed ecumenical chapel because of the trickle-down effect it will have throughout the world. Once a major Roman church — a papal basilica — establishes an ecumenical chapel within its walls, other Cardinals and bishops may establish similar ecumenical housing in their own diocesan cathedrals. It is a scandal that can multiply in cities around the world. How will a Catholic complain to his bishop about such an abuse when Pope Benedict XVI permits it in a major Roman basilica?
    Catholics were rightly critical of Fatima Shrine Rector Guerra who lends out the Fatima Shrine once a year for a group of Anglicans to hold their retreats, liturgies included.[31] But how can Guerra be held fully accountable when an ecumenical Pontiff permits a permanent pan-Christian structure at one of the most venerable sites in Rome? How many copy-cat ecumenical ventures will occur throughout the world when this scandalous chapel is allowed to flourish in the very heart of Christendom? How will we oppose Cardinal Egan, for example, if he turns over a section of New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral for non-Catholic worship? What do we say to modern bishops and Shrine Rectors when they respond to our protests against modern ecumenism with the honest claim that they follow the Pope’s lead?

A Realistic Assessment

    The purpose of this exercise is not to throw stones at anyone. Nor is it meant to advance a sedevacantist position — a position I do not hold. Rather, the purpose of this exercise is an attempt to gain a realistic assessment of the push-me-pull-you direction of the present pontificate — a baffling spectacle that appears to move in two opposite directions at once. It reminds one of what Pius X warned about the Modernists: “Hence in their books you find some things which might well be expressed by a Catholic, but in the next page you find other things which might have been dictated by a rationalist.”[32]
    Nothing said in this presentation is meant to downplay any attempt by Benedict XVI to return to legitimate Catholic tradition: such as the freeing of the Tridentine Mass; his recent celebration of Mass ad orientem, his efforts to restore Sacred music in Catholic worship. All of these gains should not be undervalued and should be regarded with gratitude.
    At the same time, however, Pope Benedict’s forward march of conciliar ecumenism is cause for concern. Have traditional Catholics fought all these years to settle for a kind of ecumenical High-Anglicanism? A new Hegelian synthesis of picture-perfect liturgies and revolutionary theology?
    While we appreciate any legitimate return to Tradition under the present pontificate, let us not cease to resist the advances in ecumenism that come from the same quarters: an ecumenism that St. Maximilian Kolbe warned is the “enemy of the Immaculata”; an ecumenism “which every Knight must not only fight against, but also neutralize through diametrically opposed action and ultimately destroy.”

Notes:

1. Rycerz Niopokalenz, 4 (1922), p. 78. Cited from The Immaculata Our Ideal, Father Karl Stehlin [Warsaw: Te Deum, 2005], p.37.
2. Entry of Diary dated April 23, 1933. Cited from The Immaculata Our Ideal, p. 37.
3. One Fold: Essays and Documents to Commemorate the Golden Jubilee of the Chair of Unity Octive, 1908-1958 edited by Edward F. Hanahoe, S.A., S.T.D., and Titus F. Cranny, S.A., S.T.D., M.A. [Graymoor: Chair of Unity Apostolate, 1959], p. 121.
4. For a fuller treatment of this, see “Vatican II vs. the Unity Willed by Christ”, J. Vennari, Catholic Family News, Aug. 2005. Reprint 2023 available for $2.00 postpaid from CFN. On the web at www.cfnews.org/V2-unity.htm
5. This is explained more completely in the DVD: “Vatican II: The Best Council the Protestants Ever Had”. J. Vennari (Available for $12.95 postpaid from Oltyn Library Services, 2316 Delaware Ave, PMB 325, Buffalo NY 14216. Also available on the web at www.cfnews.org/V2-BestCouncil.htm
6. “The Most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews, heretics, and schismatics can ever be partakers of eternal life, but that they are to go into the eternal fire 'which was prepared for the devil and his angels,' (Mt. 25:41) unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the unity of this Ecclesiastical Body, that only those remaining within this unity can profit from the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and that they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, almsdeeds, and other works of Christian piety and duties of a Christian soldier. No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be saved unless they abide within the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.” Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Feb. 4, 1442.
7. See “Papal Basilica to Open Ecumenical Chapel”, Zenit, December 21, 2007; and “Strong Ecumenical Element of Pauline Year”, Vatican Information Service, January 21, 2008. On the web at: http://212.77.1.245/news_services/press/vis/dinamiche/a10_en.htm
8. “Papal Document Clarifies Role of Roman Basilica”, Catholic World News, May 31, 2005.
9. Motu Proprio, “The Ancient and Venerable Basilica”, May 31, 2005. (#9) Vatican webpage: www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/motu_proprio/documents/hf_ben-xvi_motu-proprio_20050531_antica-venerabile-basilica_en.html
10. The Way to Unity After the Council, Augustine Cardinal Bea, [New York: Hereder, 1967], p. 10-11.
11. “John Paul Invites All People to Join in Prayer for Peace”, Associated Press, Jan. 25, 1986.
12. “Most Important Ecumenical Meeting Since Vatican Council II: Opening Holy Doors of St. Paul Outside the Walls”, Zenit, January 14, 2000.
13. “Papal Document Clarifies Role of Roman Basilica”, Catholic World News, May 31, 2005.
14. “Ecumenism, Prayer are Everybody’s Responsibility, Says Pope”, Asia News, Jan. 21, 2007. This was the same speech in which he called on children to throw away toy guns.
15. Ibid.
16. See Vatican Webpage: “Resources for the Week of Christian Unity”, Jan. 2008: http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/weeks-prayer-doc/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_20070710_week-prayer-2008_en.html
17. “The Holy Father Proclaims a Year Dedicated to St. Paul”, Vatican Information Service, June 28, 2007.
18. “New Cardinals”, The Dallas Morning News, Feb. 24, 2006.
19. “Pope Hands Out 15 Cardinal’s Hats”, ANSA, March 24, 2006.
20. “Church Embraces New Cardinals”, Zenit, Nov. 27, 2007.
21. This was from Martin’s talk: “Transformation in Christ: Wisdom of the Saints". Likewise, Archbishop Paul Cordes is equally favorable towards Charismatics and modern ecumenism, as is evident from his book Call to Holiness: Reflections on the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN,1997.
22. DICI (Dec. 19, 2007), taken from Vatican Information Service: Nov. 23-25, 2007.
23. “Ecumenism as a ‘Holy Obligation’”, Intervention by Cardinal Kasper to the College of Cardinals. L’Osservatore Romano. December 5, 2007, pp. 6-7.
24. Adisti, Feb. 26, 2001. English translation quoted from “Where Have They Hidden the Body?” by Christopher Ferrara, The Remnant, June 30, 2001 [emphasis added].
25. Apostolic Journey to Cologne, On the Occasion of the XX World Youth Day.
Ecumenical Meeting, Address of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, Cologne - Archbishop’s House: Friday, 19 August 2005. On Vatican webpage at: www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2005/august/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20050819_ecumenical-meeting_en.html [emphasis added].
26. Ibid., See also “Brother Roger Died a Protestant”, J. Vennari, Catholic Family News, Oct., 2006. [Reprint 2154available for $2.00 postpaid from CFN]. Also on the web at: /www.cfnews.org/BroRoger.htm
27. For a fuller treatment of the 1993 Directory, see “The Ecumenical Church of the Third Millennium”, J. Vennari, Catholic Family News, January, 1998. (Reprint 256 available for $2.00 postpaid from CFN).
28. A Handbook of Spiritual Ecumenism, Cardinal Walter Kasper, [Hyde Park: New City Press, 2007], pp. 34.35.
29. “Prayer is the ‘Royal Door’ of Ecumenism”, Vatican Information Service, Jan. 18, 2008. According to this report, Benedict on this date also said, ”We must be grateful for the fruits of the Nordic Lutheran-Catholic theological dialogue in Finland and Sweden concerning central matters of the Christian faith, including the question of justification in the life of the Church”.
30. Mortalium Animos, Pope Pius XI, 1928.
31. See “A Colossal Monument to Diabolic Disorientation”, J. Vennari, Catholic Family News, November, 2007. [(Reprint 2286 available from CFN for $2.00 postpaid]. Also on the web at: www.cfnews.org/dia-monument.htm
32. Pascendi, #18.

From the February 2008  issue of
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Dan (Hebrew: דן), formerly named Laish, is a town mentioned by the Bible, in which it is portrayed as the northernmost town of the Kingdom of Israel, and formerly as the main town of the Tribe of Dan. The town has been securely identified with the archaeological site known as Tel el-Qadi, which consequently has become known to Israelis as Tel Dan.

To the west of Dan are the southern mountains of the Lebanon range, while to the east and north were the Hermon mountains. Melting snow from the Hermon mountains provides the majority of the water of the Jordan River, and passes through Dan making the immediate area highly fertile. The lush vegetation that results makes the area around Dan seem somewhat out of place in the otherwise arid region around it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laish

Mount Hermon was called Senir by the Amorites and Sirion by the Sidonians (Deuteronomy 3:9; Psalms 29:6; 1 Chronicles 5:23; Song of Solomon 4:8; Ezekiel 27:5). The mountain served as the northern boundary of the Promised Land (Deuteronomy 3: and also was the northern limit of the conquest (Joshua 11:17; 12:1; 13:5).

In the Book of Enoch (1 Enoch 6) in the Deuterocanon, Mount Hermon is the place where the Grigori ("Watcher") class of fallen angels descended to Earth. They swore upon the mountain that they would take wives among the daughters of men and return
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermon#Biblical_History

Hippolytus of Rome held that the Antichrist would come from the tribe of Dan and would rebuild the Jewish temple in order to reign from it. He identified the Antichrist with the Beast out of the Earth from the book of Revelation.

By the beast, then, coming up out of the earth, he means the kingdom of Antichrist; and by the two horns he means him and the false prophet after him. And in speaking of “the horns being like a lamb,” he means that he will make himself like the Son of God, and set himself forward as king. And the terms, “he spake like a dragon,” mean that he is a deceiver, and not truthful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichrist
See also http://www.catholic.com/library/the_antichrist.asp

Comment-interesting that many saints and mystics, coupled with Hippolytus state the Man of Sin, also called Antichrist wil lcome from Dan, Dan being situated around Mt. Hermon! According to the Book of Revelation (7:4- , the tribe of Dan is the only original tribe of Israel which is not included in the list of tribes which are sealed.(1)

Also, Genesis 49 17 Let Dan be a snake in the way, a serpent in the path, that biteth the horse's heels that his rider may fall backward.Rider? maybe the White Horse?

1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe_of_Dan#Fate

2.http://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=1&ch=49&l=17&f=s#x

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From http://christianlibertyparty.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=871&Itemid=9

Written by Steve Lefemine - LefemineforLife.net

Wednesday, 14 May 2008

Prime Minister of Israel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Prime_Minister_of_Israel The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and is the most powerful political officer in Israel (the President of Israel being a titular figurehead). He or she wields executive power in the country, and has an official residence in Israel's capital, Jerusalem. A total of thirteen different people have served as Prime Minister of Israel. [including "acting" PM's] Four of those people have served on two non-consecutive occasions. Of these 13 people, documentation and/or references found thus far indicate at least eight ( of these people are (were) Masons: David Ben-Gurion - Freemason Moshe Sharett Levi Eshkol Yigal Allon Golda Meir - Co-Mason Yitzhak Rabin - Freemason Shimon Peres* - Freemason and Jesuit (Roman Catholic) trained Menachem Begin Yitzhak Shamir Benjamin Netanyahu - Freemason Ehud Barak - Freemason Ariel Sharon - Freemason Ehud Olmert** - Freemason Read more... For additional reports by Steve Lefemine on Freemasonry, please see: Illuminati (Freemasons) in control of Israel Mason Shriner Congressman ("CAFTA") Joe Wilson (R-SC) to be honored May 10 at Washington D.C. World Masonic Conference   Comment-wink, nod-we know about those Black popes and Jesuits!! From http://christianlibertyparty.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=874&Itemid=9 Christian Anarchy - Every Believer a Priest       Written by Al Cronkrite - Ether Zone    Monday, 19 May 2008 In the year 1229 A.D. at the Council of Toulouse the Catholic Church banned the laity from Biblical access. Their reasoning was “The depth of the divine Scriptures is such that not only the illiterate and uninitiated have difficulty understanding them, but also the educated and the gifted”. One could find some truth in that statement by studying the evolution of the Protestant Church from the time of the Sixteenth Century Protestant Reformation to the present. Martin Luther translated the Bible from Latin to German and Wycliffe and Tyndale produced an English version. Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press allowed the reproduction of affordable copies in large volume and the laity gained access to the Holy Writ. Wide distribution of Scripture aided the Reformation but as the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers set in and every literate Christian became a theologian, individual interpretations overcame the central Calvinistic orthodoxy and the Protestant Church morphed into hundreds of denominations with thousands of individual opinions, considerable heresy, no immutable doctrine, and no cohesion. I received an email this week from a Christian who believes the Old Testament Jewifies Christianity (click on What’s New) and should have been removed from the Canon long ago. He writes, “The Protestant Bible, unfortunately, still contains an Old Testament with its Old Covenant and a New Testament established by the New Covenant. This is unfortunate because the two Bibles being together as one, gave an element of validity to Old Testament doctrines which are counter to and at cross purposes with the New Covenant scripture.” Read more... Last Updated ( Monday, 19 May 2008 )   Comment-some truths, but note the continuing fairy tale of "The Catholics kept the Bible out of the hands of believers". From http://christianlibertyparty.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=834&Itemid=9 A Biblical Perspective on the Pope's Visit to America       Written by Angela Wittman    Saturday, 19 April 2008 Dear Friends, I would be amiss if I did not share some Biblical teaching with you about the Roman Catholic religion and the Pope during his visit to America. Please click on these links for more information: A Special Edition of Heart Of The Matter: The Pope's Visit to America: * Pastor Timothy Williams - Loving the Souls of Roman Catholics while Contending against Popery * Kevin Deegan - From Washington, DC: Gospel Witness outside Pope's Appearances * Pastor David Carson - Historical and Ongoing Struggle between Rome and Civil and Religious Liberties Kissing the Slippered Toe of the Pope: Will George W. Bush do in real life what he acted out as a Skull and Bones initiate ? By Steve Lefemine And for those who advocate religious unity at the expense of truth, please listen to these audio sermons by Pastor Brian Schwertley: * Keeping Unity of the Spirit * Sola Scriptura, Part 3: Roman Catholic and Jewish Rejection Last Updated ( Saturday, 19 April 2008   Comment-who eactly qualifies for a valid perspective? Whittman is a rather nice, but deluded woman that priro to early 1990's did not know she was one of the few lucky predestined ones and ws largely depressed. She insists too that Tampa was not about religion of non-Protestants. Please go to The American veiw and look up her posts, they are largely self-promoting and self-righteous, hidden under false modesty and false humility.And who still talks like a 16th century protestor?Popery?? From http://christianlibertyparty.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=525&Itemid=9 God's 9-11 Message to America - Repent ! Written by Steve Lefemine - Columbia Christians for Life    Monday, 10 September 2007 "Repent, America Repent, America Messiah is the Standard Repent, and turn to Him. Repent of our child-murder Repent of our sodomy Repent of our false religion and idolatry Repent of all our national sins, and turn to Yeshua Messiah (Jesus Christ)." The Bible says, "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord." Acts 3:19 Now six years after September 11, 2001, God's 9-11 Message to America, a nation that MURDERS 3,000-plus of its own children DAILY (same number of innocent Americans killed on 9-11 by evil men on that one day, about 3,000); a nation that tolerates and embraces SODOMY; a nation of FORNICATION; a nation of lying, greedy, worldly, corrupt leaders in civil government (Republican and Democrat); a nation of many FALSE RELIGIONS, including Islam, Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Hinduism, Secular Humanism, Wicca /Witchcraft, Buddhism, Mormonism, Jehovah's Witness, Seventh Day Adventist - all embraced by the political establishment, even allowing Muslim, Jewish, Romanist, Hindu, and Seventh Day Adventist prayers to open up Sessions of one or both chambers of the United States Congress, worshipping false gods in violation of the First Commandment (Exodus 20:2,3); and a nation with a weak, worldly, feminized Christian Church; is the SAME message: R-E-P-E-N-T !!! Time is running out for America. The Lord sent Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians against Judah and Jerusalem in 605 BC, then again eight years later, in 597 BC, and the final attack and destruction and burning of Jersualem and the Jewish Temple, total national devastation, occurred 11 years after that, in 586 BC. (2 Kings, chapters 24, 25). Was September 11, 2001 America's "first wave" attack (i.e., analogous to Judah's 605 BC attack)? How many more "waves" of national attack before America as we know it today, is destroyed as an act of Divine Judgment ? Whether sooner or later, it is inevitable, if we, especially the true Church of Yeshua Messiah, do not repent of our many sins and idolatries; sins of commission, and sins of omission !!! (2 Chronicles 7:14, Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 25:40, 45) George Mason (co-Father of the Bill of Rights with Patrick Henry), a delegate from Virginia, a slave-state, said in the 1787 Constitutional Convention, "Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven upon a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins, by national calamities." And so it is today. Abortion is a national sin. 9-11 was a national calamity. Greater divine judgment is coming upon America, unless we repent of this great sin of murdering our own children in the wombs of their mothers. Christian men especially, and especially leaders (pastors, elders, deacons) - why not lead by example in bringing a Christian witness of 'Prayer' and 'Presence' to the gates-of-hell at America's domestic terror child-murder-by-abortion centers ? Go to the gates, men ! They will not prevail against Messiah's church ! “… I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18 Repent America ! (Psalm 9:17, Proverb 14:34, Psalm 33:12) Repent Church ! (2 Chronicles 7:14) Prepared by Columbia Christians for Life, Columbia, SC / http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ / http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/ / 9/9/07 Source: http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2007/09/gods-9-11-message-to-america-repent_10.html Last Updated ( Monday, 10 September 2007 ) God's 9-11 Message to America - Repent !       Comment-there you have it, from former CPers that voted for dissafiliation in Tampa(but no, it is not about religions). These epopel intermingle at TAV forum with former Catholic Peroutka. Same people on both, often sharing articles, etc.Look at names aor organizations.

The Masoretic Text of the Old Testament

By V. S. Herrell

The Masoretic Text, other than the Dead Sea Scrolls, is the only existing representation of the Old Testament in Hebrew. The oldest fragments date from the 9th century AD, but the oldest complete texts come from the 10th and 11th centuries AD. However, the Hebrew text that it contains is clearly not the original Hebrew, nor even the Hebrew that was in use in the 1st century AD. The Hebrew of the 1st century AD was closely akin to the Greek Septuagint that we have today; this is clear because, although the Hebrew was little used, when it was used in ancient writing it was clearly in agreement with the Greek Septuagint rather than the Masoretic Text. For example, although Philo and Josephus both used the Greek Septuagint, it is believed by most scholars that they frequently had access to a Hebrew Bible and even consulted it on a few occasions. It is through evidence like this that we see that the then current Hebrew disagreed with the Hebrew Masoretic Text of today. In the 1st century, the Christians and all other Greek speaking Israelites, including 1,000,000 of them who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, used the Greek Septuagint. Jesus and His Apostles wrote in Greek and quoted the Greek Septuagint. Of this there can be no doubt. This is a fact that can be confirmed in any encyclopedia or scholarly book on the subject. As we have already pointed out, we know this because the quotations of the Greek New Testament are exactly aligned with the Greek Septuagint, but in sharp opposition to the Hebrew Masoretic Text. There is, however, no reason to believe that they were in disagreement with the Hebrew that was current in the 1st century AD.

What we do know is that toward the end of the 1st century AD and into the 2nd century, the Talmudic, Edomite Jews were actively attacking the Greek Septuagint because it was used by the Christians. They felt that they could discredit the Christians merely for the reason that they used Greek, and at the same time, they began twisting the Hebrew Scriptures to try and disprove that Jesus was the true Messiah. This controversy roared on until at least the 4th and 5th centuries AD. We have already noted how the early Catholics attacked the Vulgate translation of Jerome because it was the first to be based upon Hebrew, and they continued for a very long time to use the Old Latin because it was based upon the Greek Septuagint. One of the most famous examples of how the Jews attacked the Greek Septuagint regarded the word virgin. The particular verse in question is Isaiah 7:14, which reads in the Greek Septuagint:

"Therefore, the Master Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will conceive in the womb, and will bring forth a Son, and you will call His Name Emmanuel."

In the Greek, the word for virgin is parthenos, and it literally means a virgin. In the Masoretic Text, however, the word is almah which means a young girl. The usual Hebrew word for virgin, and the word in every case translated virgin in the Revised Version, is bethuwlah. This verse is quoted from Isaiah in the Christian Scriptures in Matthew 1:23. The Jews attacked the Septuagint from the beginning because they claimed that it had been corrupted by the Christians and that the Christians changed the word in the Septuagint to read virgin instead of young woman so that it would support the reading in Matthew. Of course, the Edomite Jews did not believe that Jesus was the true Messiah; this was why they were attacking the Septuagint. The Jews are the ones who changed the Hebrew, replacing the word virgin with young woman. The early motive of the Edomite Jews was to destroy Christianity, not just the Septuagint. But the Christians did not give in, so the Jews changed their strategy. They instead decided to corrupt the Old Testament and gain control of the Christians by giving them a corrupted Old Testament. By the 3rd century they began collecting every Hebrew manuscript they could, and this was easy to do because the Christians used the Greek Septuagint and cared little for the Hebrew. They then began revising the Hebrew documents to support their Jewish contentions. By the time of Jerome, they began taking the soft approach and gave Jerome their new Hebrew for him to use in his translation. But, as we said before, the Christians at first rejected the Vulgate. So the Jews continued working on their text. From the 1st century to the middle of the 5th century, they called themselves Talmudists; from the 5th century to the completion of their text in the 10th-11th centuries, they called themselves Masoretes.

At the end of this time, all other Hebrew manuscripts except for the Masoretic Text disappeared. The fact is that they were destroyed by the same people who had gathered them up - the Talmudic, Masoretic Jews. Then the Jews began presenting themselves as the diligent preservers of the Hebrew Bible and began deceiving Christians. They no longer blatantly attacked the Septuagint but rather touted themselves as being faithful servants of God. To this end, when the Masoretic Text was finished, they counted every letter and word and contrived mechanisms to insure that the manuscripts would be faithfully transmitted, but they did not bother to account for the editing and corruption that they themselves had been doing for the previous 600-700 years. The early English translations of the Bible were based upon the Latin Vulgate, but the Jews intended to deceive the Christians into translating their Bibles from the Hebrew Masoretic Text. So their new strategy was to win over the stupid Christians, but the old motives were always there. At this time, they had to do an about-face on the issue of virgin. They had learned that the Christians would not accept the Hebrew as long as such blatant blasphemies were contained in it. This deception on the part of the mongrel, Talmudic Jews can be seen in an early Spanish translation of the Masoretic Text. Geddes MacGregor, in his book, The Bible in the Making (pg. 279) writes:

Translations of the Hebrew Bible into various languages, began to appear about that time. In 1422 Rabbi Moses Arragel translated the Scriptures from the Hebrew into Spanish, for the Christian Church and with the assistance of Franciscan scholars, and it is upon that version that the Ferrara Bible, printed in 1553, was based. This famous Spanish Bible was intended to serve the needs of both Jews and Christians. Certain deviations were made in the copies intended for Christian readers. For example, where the copies intended for Jews read 'young woman,' the copies set aside for Christian use put 'virgin.'

Through this means of deception, the atheistic Jews pulled off the grand deception when they convinced the translators of the KJV to use the Masoretic Text instead of the Latin or Greek. Today, the so-called "Christian" world believes in the lie of the Hebrew Bible, even though all Christians for the first four centuries of Christianity universally used the Greek Septuagint or a translation of it, including the Master Jesus the Anointed and His Ambassadors.

When this so-called controversy is examined from a purely textual point-of-view, then we find that the undisputed facts are the following, and I say 'undisputed' because these facts are admitted even by the most staunch supporters of the Masoretic Text.

In regards to the Masoretic Text, the manuscripts date from around AD1000. The manuscripts are admittedly altered from their original form, for vowel symbols have been added and the text has been revised in light of Talmudic tradition. The Masoretic Text is based upon the Hebrew which was rejected by the early Christians, who were the true Israel of God.

In regards to the Septuagint, the oldest manuscripts date to around AD325-350 (though fragments are much older). It was never purposely changed or edited, but the oldest texts of the Septuagint represent the oldest surviving descendants of an ancient translation made of the Hebrew in the 3rd century BC which was considered divinely inspired by most Judeans at that time. It was universally accepted by the early Christians for the first 400 years of Christianity and was used and quoted from by Jesus and His Apostles, who quoted from it under divine inspiration.

Again, the above facts are admitted even by the supporters of the Masoretic Text. What logic, then, is used to justify the use and preferment of the Masoretic Text? Those who use it believe that the Talmudic, Edomite Jews who murdered Jesus Christ are the chosen people of God and therefore the chosen preservers of God's Word. However, we are told the following by Jesus in John 8 regarding these same Edomite Jews who wrote the Talmud and created the Masoretic Text:

"You neither know Me nor My Father. If you had known Me, then you would have known My Father also. ...Where I go, you are not able to come ... You are from below; I am from above. You are from this world, I am not from this world. ... If you were children of Abraham, you would do the works of Abraham. ... You do the works of your father. ... If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I went forth and have come from God. For I have not come from Myself, but that one sent Me. Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to hear My Word.. You are of your father the Diabolical One, and the lusts of your father you wish to do. That one was a murderer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own, because he is a liar, and the father of it" (AST).

Notice that Jesus said that these Edomite Talmudists were not capable of hearing His Word, they were not capable of doing anything but the works of their father, who was a liar from the beginning. Now this means that in no way were these Talmudic Jews, who later called themselves Masoretes, capable of being divinely inspired "preservers" of God's Word. Because of the Words of Jesus, we must assume this to be a blatant lie.

But even beyond these points, from a purely objective, scientific point-of-view, when we apply the science of Textual Criticism to this controversy, we must again decide in favor of the Greek Septuagint. We remember that the fundamental rule of Textual Criticism is usually that the older the text, the better, and the complete Septuagint version of the Old Testament outdates the complete Masoretic Text version by 650-700 years.

The second rule that we must implement is that not all manuscripts are of the same value. Again, this value issue is clear for these two witnesses: the Septuagint is representative of a 3rd century BC Hebrew text; the Masoretic is representative of a 7th-9th century AD revision of the Hebrew.

Thus, there can be no doubt as to which text is to be preferred. The Septuagint is superior in every way to the Judaized Masoretic Text (V. S. Herrell, The History of the Bible, p. 51-57).

Adam Clark's Commentary

Adam Clarke, an 18th Century Anglican Scholar, makes it clear that the work of the Masoretes is, in reality, a commentary which has been integrated into the body of Scripture. However, Clarke points out that the Hebrew of the Masoretic Text (Masoretic Hebrew) is quite different from the Hebrew of the Patriarchs, (Ancient Hebrew) in which Old Covenant Scripture was originally written.

In the General Preface of his commentary on the Scripture, published in 1810, Clarke writes:

"The Masorets were the most extensive Jewish commentators which that nation could ever boast. The system of punctuation, probably invented by them, is a continual gloss on the Law and the Prophets; their vowel points, and prosaic and metrical accents, &c., give every word to which they are affixed a peculiar kind of meaning, which in their simple state, multitudes of them can by no means bear. The vowel points alone add whole conjugations to the language. This system is one of the most artificial, particular, and extensive comments ever written on the Word of God; for there is not one word in the Bible that is not the subject of a particular gloss through its influence. This school is supposed to have commenced about 450 years before our Lord, and to have extended down to AD1030. Some think it did not commence before the 5th century A.D."

Even without adding to, deleting from, or changing a single letter of the Ancient Hebrew manuscripts of Scripture, pointing gave the Masorete power to dramatically change the meaning of almost any given passage of Scripture, for the prerogative of selecting vowels, is, to a large extent, the prerogative of selecting words! As a crude example, consider how the meaning of an English sentence might be changed by substitution of the word "poor" for the word "pure" – a substitution which may be effected by a simple change of vowels.

Clarke appears to be one of the few commentators who have seen fully the significance of the Masoretic Text – namely, that it is a new "version" of the Scripture, written in a new language. Obviously, Hebrew Scholars have been aware of this fact. They should have called attention to the difference between Ancient Hebrew and the language of the Masoretes, and should have differentiated the two, by use of names such as Ancient Hebrew and Masoretic Hebrew. However, the majority of Hebrew scholars are "Jewish", and thus cannot be expected to be objective and candid regarding such a matter.

Louis Cappel, Hebrew Scholar:

One of the first scholars to investigate the matter was Louis Cappel, a French Huguenot divine and scholar who lived from 1585 to 1658. Consider the following excerpt from the article, "CAPPEL, LOUIS," found in the 1948 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

"As a Hebrew scholar, he concluded that the vowel points and accents were not an original part of Hebrew, but were inserted by the Masorete Jews of Tiberias, not earlier then the 5th Century AD, and that the primitive Hebrew characters are Aramaic and were substituted for the more ancient at the time of the captivity. . . The various readings in the Old Testament Text and the differences between the ancient versions and the Masoretic Text convinced him that the integrity of the Hebrew text as held by Protestants, was untenable. This amounted to an attack upon the verbal inspiration of Scripture. Bitter, however, as was the opposition, it was not long before his results were accepted by scholars."

Further study: On this Rock I Stand; The 'Lost' Books of the Old Testament and The Book of Esther. Changing LINKS   masorete.htm

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The Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, appeared six times to three shepherd children ("the Three Seers") near the town of Fatima, Portugal between May 13 and October 13, 1917. Appearing to the children, the Blessed Virgin told them that She had been sent by God with a message for every man, woman and child living in our century. Coming at a time when civilization was torn asunder by war and bloody violence, She promised that Heaven would grant peace to all the world if Her requests for prayer, reparation and consecration were heard and obeyed.

"If My requests are granted ... there will be peace"

      Our Lady of Fatima explained to the children that war is a punishment for sin and warned that God would further castigate the world for its disobedience to His Will by means of war, hunger and the persecution of the Church, the Holy Father and the Catholic Faithful. God's Mother prophesied that Russia would be God's chosen "instrument of chastisement," spreading the "errors" of atheism and materialism across the earth, fomenting wars, annihilating nations and persecuting the Faithful everywhere.

"If My requests are not granted, Russia will spread its errors throughout the world, raising up wars and persecutions against the Church. The good will be martryed, the Holy Father will suffer much and variou