By Victor M Fontane
For us, inhabitants of this planet and citizens of this country is important to study our history, investigate, analyze, ponder on the light of logic and justice and research all the events that created our systems, our present life and wellbeing to take the decisions, act and project our future as a society.
Unfortunately, in modern times people in general are not interested in learning, in use their judgement to decide their path and are just involved in leisure, in acquire material things, having a good time and rest only on what others tells them. Doing so only perpetuate the status quo and make the same mistakes done in the past.
Here is an excerpt of the book “50 Years in the Church of Rome” written by Charles Chiniquy in the 18 hundreds where he describe the difficulties in his path through the Christian Church that shows you how we are making the same mistakes over and over.
When Father Chiniquy faced the Church establishment trying to get it back to the Christ principles was discredited and accused by the Church trying to excommunicate and condemn him to death and guess who actually defended him and free him from that abominable accusations, The Lawyer Abraham Lincoln.
“The eloquent Spanish orator, Castelar, speaking of his own Church of Rome, said in 1869: “There is not a single progressive principle that has not been cursed by the Catholic Church. This is true of England and Germany, as well as all catholic countries. The Church cursed the French Revolution, the Belgian Constitution, and the Italian Independence. Not a constitution has been born, not a step of progress made, not a solitary reform effected, which has not been terrific anathemas of the Church.”
But why ask the testimony of the Protestants or Liberals to warn the American People against that conspiracy, when we have the public testimony all bishops and priests to prove it? With the most daring impudence, the Church of Rome, through her leading men, is boasting of her stern determination to destroy all the rights and privileges which have cost so much blood to this American people. Let the Americans, who have eyes to see and intelligence to understand, read the following unimpeachable documents, and judge for themselves of what will become of this country, if Rome is allowed to grow strong enough to execute her threats.
“The church is of necessity intolerant. Heresy, she endures when and where she must, but she hates it, and directs all her energies to Destry it..”
“If Catholics ever gain a sufficient numerical majority in this country, religious freedom is at an end. So our enemies say, so we believe”.
“No man has a right to choose his religion. Catholicism is the most intolerant of creeds. It is intolerance itself. We might as rationally maintain that two and two does not make four as the theory of Religious Liberty. Its impiety is only equaled by its absurdity”.
“The church is instituted, as every Catholic who understand his religion believes, to guard and defend the right of God against any and every enemy, at all times, in all places. She, therefore, does not, and cannot accept, or in any degree favor, liberty in Protestant sense of liberty.”
“The Catholic Church is the medium and channel through which the will of God is expressed. While the State has rights, she has them only in virtue and by permission of the Superior Authority, and that authority can be expressed only through the Church.”
“Protestantism has not, and never can have, any right where Catholicity has triumphed. Therefore, we lose the breath we expend in declaiming against bigotry and intolerance and in favor of Religious Liberty, or the right of any man to be of any religion as best pleases him.”
“Religious Liberty is merely endured until the opposite can be carried into effect without peril to the Catholic Church.”
Rt. Rev. O’Connor, Bishop of Pittsburgh - 1869.
“The Catholic Church numbers one-third the American population; and if its membership shall increase for the next thirty years as it has the thirty years past, in 1900 Rome will have a majority, and be bound to take this country and keep it. There is, to be a state religion in this country, and that state religion is to be Roman Catholic.
“1st. The Roman Catholic is to wield his vote for the purpose of securing Catholic ascendancy in this country”.
“2nd. All legislation must be governed by the will of God, unerringly indicated by the Pope”.
“3rd. Education must be controlled by Catholic authorities, and under eduction the opinions of the individual and utterances of the press are included, and many opinions are to be forbidden by the secular arm, under the authority of the Church, even to war and bloodshed”.
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