Infallible Paedophiles?
Colin Melbourne
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According to the 1994 Roman Catholic Catechism its popes and leadership (Magisterium) are infallible:
"Christ endowed the Church's shepherds with the charism of infallibility in matters of faith and morals. The infallibility of the Magisterium of the Pastors extends to all the elements of doctrine, including moral doctrine, without which the saving truths of the faith cannot be preserved, expounded, or observed." Pg. 235, No. 890 Pg. 495, No. 2051
I don't know about you, but I'm fully aware that I'm not infallible. I make mistakes. I need my Saviour all the time, don't you? The Holy Bible declares that all of us are born sinful, wicked to the core, and only God is Perfect, His Name is The Lord Jesus Christ. He is the sole infallible person to have ever walked on earth.
There is no difference for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God... Sin entered the world through one man (Adam), and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned. Holy Bible Ro. 3:23, 5:12 NIV
But God in His mercy didn't leave us without a way back to Him, He came Himself, the Lord Jesus Christ, and bore our sin, guilt and punishment in our place, so that we can be forgiven, if we will only repent and believe the Good News:
God made him who had no sin (Jesus) to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God... The blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished (will) cleanse our consciences from useless rituals so that we can serve the Living God! 2 Co. 5:21, Heb. 9:14
The only way anyone can become righteous, holy, and acceptable to God is through trusting in and receiving Christ as LORD and Saviour, by being genuinely born again. Each sinner who does this, instantly becomes a child of God, a true Saint, bearing the righteousness of Christ as God's Gift. Not infallible, but saved, holy, and blameless through God's Blood, God's Sacrifice, and God's Grace.
Righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe... Now he has reconciled you (truly born again believers) by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation, if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel. Ro. 3:22, Col. 1:22-23
Those who claim to be infallible have a very tough row to hoe. For one thing they have to reconcile their 'infallibility' with an unerring tendency towards vile idolatry, sexual perversion, mass-murder and rank paedophilia.
The recent publicity given to the exposure of hundreds of Roman Catholic clergy indulging in paedophilia in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, is only a glimpse of the core of wickedness at the heart of Satan's counterfeit of Christianity. Here is an excerpt from an article in the Financial Times that tells of,
A growing international crisis for the Catholic Church, with cases of paedophile priests and allegations of official cover-ups raging from London to Sydney, via Dublin and Hong Kong. No one is predicting an early resolution to a crisis that is sapping the Church's moral and financial resources. In the US, civil suits by victims are estimated to total $1bn, and in the past year more than 300 of the nation's 46,000 priests have resigned or been removed because of sex-abuse claims.
Catholics blame Vatican as crisis deepens. Burns and Griffith. Financial Times, Dec 9 2002
Make no mistake about this, it's written in the 1994 Roman Catholic Catechism; according to this Cult's teachings, not only is every Pope infallible, but so too are the men who make up the rest of the Catholic Leadership. Here it is:
"In order to preserve the Church in the purity of the faith handed on by the apostles, Christ who is Truth willed to confer on her a share in his own infallibility. By a supernatural sense of faith the People of God, under the guidance of the Church's living magisterium, unfailingly adheres to this faith." Pg. 235, No. 889
The Catechism repeats this ludicrously unbiblical claim:
"The Roman Pontiff... enjoys this infallibility in virtue of his office, when, as supreme pastor and teacher of all the faithful - who confirms his brethren in the faith - he proclaims by a definitive act a doctrine pertaining to faith or morals... This infallibility extends as far as the deposit of divine Revelation itself." Pg. 235, No. 891
Here's the Catechism's demonically-inspired designation of other Catholic Leaders (Magisterium) as infallible:
"The pastoral duty of the Magisterium is aimed at seeing to it that the People of God abides in the truth that liberates. To fulfil this service, Christ endowed the Church's shepherds with the charism of infallibility in matters of faith and morals."
"The infallibility of the Magisterium of the Pastors extends to all the elements of doctrine, including moral doctrine, without which the saving truths of the faith cannot be preserved, expounded, or observed." Pg. 235, No. 890, Pg. 495, No. 2051
Notice that infallibility is claimed specifically in matters of doctrine, faith and morals.
Infallible means never making an error, always performing perfectly. But anybody acquainted with the history of the Roman Catholic 'church' knows that its Popes, Cardinals, and Peregrines, on-down are just as fallible and sinful as the rest of unregenerate mankind.
On the matter of enforced celibacy for example; Popes Sergius III (904-11), John X (914-28), John XII (95][t5-63), Benedict V (964), Innocent VIII (1484-92), Urban VIII (1623-44), and Innocent X (1644-55), as well as countless cardinals, bishops, archbishops, monks, and priests throughout history, have repeatedly violated their celibacy vows, indulging in fornication, adultery, and fathering illegitimate children.
This historical fact caused Pius II to declare that Rome was; "The only city run by bastards",•• meaning the sons sired by the 'Holy Fathers' and cardinals. Catholic historians confirm this too, Jesuit Priest P. de Rosa says;
"Popes had mistresses of fifteen years of age, were guilty of incest and sexual perversions of every sort, had innumerable children, were murdered in the very act of adultery (by jealous husbands who found them in bed with their wives)... In the old Catholic phrase, 'Why be holier than the pope?'"
Popes instigated, financed, and revelled in genocidal inquisitions throughout Europe and South America accounting for multiplied millions of deaths, far more than Adolph Hitler could ever be blamed for (another Catholic, with whom the Vatican had a secret agreement). Several popes specifically targetted Jews for extermination. Indeed the name of the Borgias has become a by-word for demonic evil. Lucretia Borgia (you've heard of her) was sired by another so-called "Holy Father".
So it should come as no surprise to us today to discover that Roman Catholic Priests and Leaders have been sexually abusing children in their care, and sodomizing seminarians for centuries. Idolatry and sexual immorality go hand-in-glove. A recent report by NBC showed that more than half (58 percent) of all American Catholic seminarians are homosexuals. The latest figures reveal over 4,000 cases of child sex abuse by American Catholic clergy in the last few decades alone.
Nor should we be shocked to learn that, rather than imprisoning and punishing such perverts, the RC hierarchy simply shuffled the culprits around, and covered up their crimes, as it is doing today. They really have no choice, since it is an article of their faith that such Leaders are infallible, even it seems, when they are paedophiles.
Praise God that the dear deluded Catholics are waking up and coming out of Satan's conterfeit of Christianity, and embracing the true and Living God, The Lord Jesus Christ.
If you know people still entangled in the RC Cult, please love them enough to warn them to repent, and come in to Christ today before it is too late. Here's some wonderful tools to help you to show them how they have been deceived.
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•• Bastard, means a child without a named father.
Updates
The New York Times of 26th. Feb. 2004 reports the shocking level of paedophilia by US Priests:
Two long-awaited studies have found that the Roman Catholic Church suffered an epidemic of child sexual abuse that involved at least 4 percent of priests over 52 years, and peaked with the ordination class of 1970, in which one of every 10 priests was eventually accused of abuse.
The human toll amounted to 10,667 children allegedly victimized by 4,392 priests from 1950 to 2002, but the studies caution that even these numbers represent an undercount. The totals depend on self-reporting by American bishops, the studies note, and many victims have never come forward out of fear, or shame.
Among other things, the John Jay survey found that the 'church' spent more than $572 million on lawyers' fees, settlements and therapy for victims and treatment for the priests. But the report said the figure was prematurely low.
Researchers said in an interview that a more accurate total was about three-quarters of a billion dollars, because the $572 million did not include several recent settlements, like the $85 million paid to victims by the Archdiocese of Boston, and because 14 percent of dioceses and religious orders provided none of the financial information requested by the researchers. [Emphasis added]
March 2004: Australian Anglican paedophile scandal exposed, forcing the resignation of their leader. Note: The Anglican church has been taken over by Catholics since the counter-reformation, idolatry is rampant in Anglican services.
May 2004
Nuns belonging to the Sisters of Mercy order apologize for over two decades of child abuse in Dublin nunneries. Victims reported being beaten with wooden chair legs, and whipped with rosaries.
July 2004: The American Archdiocese of Portland filed for bankruptcy citing the $53 million it has already paid to silence victims of paedophilia abuse, and similar claims pending amounting to a further $100 million. Victims and their relatives are incensed, not only by the actual abuse by their trusted local Roman Catholic clergy, but also by the Vatican's attempts to cover it up.
One victim declared, "Today they have filed for economic bankruptcy, but it is only an attempt to avoid details of the sexual abuse surfacing in the courts. The 'Church' has been morally bankrupt all my life."
The leader of an Austrian Roman Catholic seminary resigned after thousands of paedophile images were discovered on his computers, together with movies of Catholic seminary students indulging in homosexual acts with their teachers.
Sep. 2004: Austrian Catholic seminary shut down following exposure of the homosexual paedophile scandal.
July 2005: US Kentucky Judge orders Catholics to pay out record $120 million to sexual abuse victims. In 2004, a report commissioned by Catholics said more than 4,000 US Roman Catholic priests had faced sexual abuse allegations in the last 50 years in cases involving more than 10,000 children, mostly boys.
BBC reports that since 1950 the Roman Catholic 'Church' has paid out more than $1 billion in hush-money to its paedophile victims.
May 2006: US Catholic priest found guilty in Ohio of murdering a Nun in a satanic ritual. The 71 year old Nun had been strangled, and stabbed 31 times. Her chest wounds formed an inverted cross.
Sep. 2006: Two Florida priests found guilty of embezzling millions of dollars of donations to finance mistresses and lavish lifestyles.
Oct. 2006: BBC exposes Catholic instructions called 'Crimen Sollicitationis', originally drawn up in 1962, that instruct bishops how to cover up cases of priestly paedophilia and child sex abuse. The current Pope Benedict, as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, personally enforced and endorsed it. It tells them to bind investigating priests, and child victims, in an oath of secrecy. Those who break the oath are excommunicated.
May 2007: Los Angeles Catholic Archbishop announced they are selling their main office and 50 buildings to buy-off victims of paedophile abuse by priests. Sixty million dollars was paid last year to settle just 43 cases, and there are another 500 pending. These are likely to cost an estimated one billion dollars to settle. Remember that figure is just for one archdiocese in one country.
Sep. 2007: Victims of Roman Catholic paedophile priests receive 198 million dollars compensation for their sexual abuse... in the San Diego diocese alone.
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