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The VatiLeaks team has discovered the ‘Ark of the Covenant’.

Fri, 21 Aug 2015 21:09:00 +0000

COULD THIS BE TRUE?

Just what was the ‘Ark of the Covenant’?

The discovery of the biblical ‘Ark of the Covenant’ remains the aspiration of every modern-day Indiana Jones and every swashbuckler, but this celebrated treasure has so far eluded detection by everyone who has set out in its search. There are 179 references to the ‘Ark of the Covenant’ in the Bible, and when analyzed, the ‘Ark’ itself was an enclosure built to protect an exceptional object of some sort that was housed within the confines of the Ark.

It is little-known, but not one biblical narrative describes what was actually accommodated within the confines of the Ark, and the reason for that is simple: the authors of the Bible had never seen it.

The Bible’s ‘native myths’

The biblical accounts were compiled millennia after the time of its existence, and they were allegorical attempts to describe the existence of something elusive and complex that originally created a lasting memory passed down through the ages by oral tradition. Their contradictions about its size, its capabilities, and what happened to it, supports ever-growing evidence that the Old Testament was not composed of hard facts or literal versions of ancient events, with this belief supported in one of the oldest extant records from Alexandria, Egypt;

‘It [the Old Testament] is a collection of ancestral customs, native myths, and ancestral philosophy’.
(‘The Letter of Aristeas’, c. 280 BCE)

We can dismiss the theories presented by later theologians of what was in the biblical Ark, because they didn’t know.

What did Mohammed’s oral revelations reveal?

There is another, later religious description of an object of an unusual nature that was revered, and it was possibly the same as that of the biblical ‘Ark of the Covenant’. It is found in the Koran, the sacred book of Mohammedans, and there are a dozen or so references to an enigmatic and indefinable object that had a particular name, but it wasn’t called the ‘Ark of the Covenant’.

Could these two religious writings be referring to the same object of antiquity? It is certainly possible. We must remember that the Bible and the Koran are ecclesiastical writings, not historic records, and they advance a particular type of theological interpretation that was never originally meant to be taken literally.

What Alexander the Great said about the ‘Ark of the Covenant’

There are more treasures to be discovered in faded old scrolls and miscellaneous records of antiquity than there are in field trips to archaeological sites or excavating around the ruins of old stone structures. When we study the ancient historic accounts of various nations, the existence of a captivating ‘intelligent object’ is frequently mentioned, and it was sighted variously in Ethiopia, Arabia, Babylonia, Tibet, Egypt, India, and Palestine. This object had supernatural powers, and Alexander the Great (c. 330 BCE), in amazement, described it as a ’Kosmic Kraft’.

What the records of history say

So remarkable was the impression that this ‘Thing’ had upon the people during its centuries-long journey through various countries, a spate of written recollections were compiled, and they came from early, knowledgeable sources. Those who witnessed first-hand the sight of this awesome object sparked a story retold down through the generations, for the large contingent of people travelling with ‘it’ presented it as ‘the presence of God on Earth’. At one stage in time, Babylonian monarchs built an exotic structure specifically to house it, only to have an opposing force invade their country, ‘capture’ the object, and remove it to another country. At another stage in its existence, it spent 28 years in the ‘City of Scrolls’, but where that actually was in history has not been clearly defined (maybe Byblos).

An enduring mystery nears an end

The following is a summary of some historical records that divulges an ancient pre-occupation with this enthralling ‘object of antiquity’:

An Ethiopian document that had its origin around 850 BCE, said this:
‘And it catcheth the eye by force, and it astonisheth the mind and stupefieth it with wonder; it was made by the mind of God and not by the artificer, man, but he himself created it for the habitation of his glory’.
An archaic Babylonian stone inscription describes a ‘living object’ that was ‘admired excessively, a heavenly phenomenon, full of mystery’.
A 9th CE book by renowned Muslim author, Ibn al-Kalbi (‘Kitab-al-Asnam’) describes centuries of ancient pre-Islamic beliefs about idols, and he records this intriguing passage about something exceptional:
‘It is old. Its origin is unknown, yet some said that it was a cosmic substance, and an object of mystical contemplation. It was not fully understood. It once had many servants, and they honoured it above all other idols. Still, it was more than an idol, for it was an object of excessive devotion … some were fearful of it’.
An old scroll that was part of a hoard uncovered in 1896 in a Cairo Genizah by Solomon Schechter (d. 1915) describes ‘a curious contrivance …kept covered with silk cloth … and moved about only at night … it had sacred discourses upon its surface’ (‘The Targumin of the Synagogues’, attributed to Dositheus).
The Tibetan ‘Kantyua’ records a section on ‘Creation’ stories, and mentions ‘an object … that came to Earth as part of the evidence of the Eternal Name’.
The records of the Caliphs provide dramatic eye-witness accounts of its nature. In 1320 CE, Abu Abu al-Fida and Sultan al-Nasa Muhammud were reverently shown a ‘most exquisite object … that bewitched their eyes’ … it was forever guarded’.
Likenesses of its characteristics were abstrusely preserved in the amulets of the early Kabbalists, in a miniature Koran of the Haussa people of northern Nigeria, and within the initiated design of ritual head-gear of a particular African tribe.

So what was it?

There is an answer.

It exists today, and the VatiLeaks team are in epistolary exchange with its Trustees.

We are sincere in our efforts to bring forth suppressed and/or new knowledge about the biblical past. If all goes well, we hope to soon be in a position to freely reveal detailed information about the deployment of this 17,000 year-old otherworldly object, and in doing so, present our followers with something that they won’t find on any other website.

In summary: The VatiLeaks team has discovered the ‘Ark of the Covenant’.

Nostradamus’s close encounter with the Inquisition

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 02:07:00 +0000

It is perhaps worth noting that in 1538, the famous 16th Century French seer, Michel de Nostradame (Nostradamus), then aged 35, was accused of heresy because of a casual comment he made to a group of workmen.

As he walked past a foundry where staff were building a mould to cast bronze statues of the Virgin Mary, Nostradamus nonchalantly commented that they were ‘making devils for the devil’, which was taken as a blatant affront to the Catholic Church.

The workmen reported Nostradamus to the Vatican’s Inquisitors, and he was ordered to be immediately arrested and taken in chains to Toulouse to stand trial. However, Nostradamus, having no desire to be burnt at the stake, fled to Venice and later sailed from southern Italy across the Mediterranean to Alexandria in Egypt where he lived for six years, safe from the flames of the murderous churchmen.

The attempts to kill Pope John Paul II

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:00:00 +0000

It is little known that the shooting of Pope John Paul II in St Peter’s Square on May 13, 1981 by Turkish gunman, Mehmet Ali Ağca was the second of four known attempts to murder the Slavic pope. The first occurred in his Polish homeland, and the Vatican purposely withheld details of that event from the media to conceal the truth about the Pope’s actions during the war years. John Paul II’s first pilgrimage to Poland as pontiff was in June 1979, just a few months after his elevation to the papacy in October of the previous year, and it exhilarated the Catholic nation, and brought hope and a sense of unity to a society that had been depressed for decades. The Pope spent three days around the area of Jasna Gora at Czestochowa and celebrated mass at the shrine of the Black Madonna. The location of the shrine was the most hallowed ground in Poland, and a newspaper report from Czestochowa at that time claimed that every ‘papal gesture, every deft historical reference, had political connotations in this setting’, because the Black Madonna was the most popular Catholic icon in Poland, with many Polish Catholics making pilgrimages to the site every year.

The bomb in the cloister

Unbeknown to the Pope and his entourage, a bomb had earlier been planted in the cloister of the sanctuary near the image of the Black Madonna, just metres from where the Pope celebrated mass. An attempt to explode the bomb from a nearby car failed after a detonator malfunctioned and prevented an explosive reaction. Some opined that the Soviet Union, for political reasons, was behind the assassination attempt, as Soviet President, Leonid Brezhnev (d. 1982) had openly expressed disapproval of the Pope’s visit to Poland. The Polish government was also implicated because it too opposed the papal visit to Poland, initially refusing the pope permission, but begrudgingly allowed him entry after postponing his journey by one month. During that same trip, the Pope toured the Auschwitz death camps, and some believed that the attempt to kill him in the cloister was in some way associated with his earlier association with the gas chambers at Birkenau where he was employed to sell and supply Zyklon-B gas to the Nazis for use in the killing chambers (‘Behold a Pale Horse’, William Cooper, Light Technology Publishing, 1991, p. 89).

Later in 1979, a regional prosecutor investigated the attempted bombing of the Pope, but no detailed information was ever publicly released. It was never specified who was involved, or how many people were investigated, but it was believed at the time that a group of eight people conspired to assassinate the pope.

(An extract from, ‘Pope John Paul II’s Dark Secrets’, a pre-publication manuscript, from a chapter entitled; ‘The sniper on St. Peter’s dome’)

Confucius in the Gospels

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:00:00 +0000

In recent times, a group of scholars called the ‘Jesus Seminar’, a team of around 150 New Testament specialists, created uproar in religious circles with their controversial interpretation of the Gospels. Members of this group teach at leading universities in North America and represent many of the major Christian denominations and traditions. After six years of research, the Seminar concluded that at least 82% of the words ascribed to Jesus Christ in the Gospels were not spoken by him. They contend that the Gospels, like all writings in the New Testament, are human products and should not be accorded divine status. To substantiate their findings, this well-known Gospel verse which has been taught by the priesthood for centuries as being original words of wisdom spoken by Jesus Christ, can be established not to be so;

‘Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you’.

This advice was recorded some 500 years previous to the time attributed to the Gospel Christ, it being one of the sayings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius, and is found in the records of his quotes entitled ‘The Analects of Confucius’, p. 76).

Papal absurdity

Tue, 07 May 2013 14:00:00 +0000

The death of Pope Leo X in 1513 caused great confusion, and Catholic apologists say that a ‘really religious pope’ followed him, that being the standard clerical propaganda to exalt the popes. From what information we have, ‘his election was bedeviled by international politics; things were made worse by the intrigues of the Medici family who had so steadily been advanced in the highest places of the Church by the late pope … another Medici pope could not be tolerated’¹. The Conclave gathered at a time when half of Germany was in Protestant revolt, and its nature is summarized by Catholic Professor F. H. Kraus in the Cambridge Modern History as, ‘a spectacle of the most disgraceful party struggles ever seen in the papacy’.

The Pope’s frank confession

The conflicts of greed reached a deadlock, and the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V (1500-58) intervened and appointed, in absentice, a new pope. He was Adrian of Utrecht, his viceroy in Spain, a Dutchman who could not speak the Italian language. He later entered Rome as Pope Adrian VI (1522-1523), promising reform in the Church, saying: ‘We, prelates and clergy, have gone astray from the right path, and for a long time there is none that have done good, no, no one’².

The burning effigy of Pope Leo X

His election was extremely unpopular in Rome, and the cardinals plundered the Vatican before the new pope arrived. Since it was standard procedure for Romans to drag statues of popes through the mud after their death, Pope Adrian VI witnessed the frenzied delight of the mob disparaging a statue of Pope Leo X. He also saw them burning an effigy of Leo X that they hung from the scaffolding around the construction site of the new St. Peter’s.

The ignored Papal Bull

He immediately issued a bull declaring the practice illegal, and, after looting his wine-cellar, the Roman citizens laughed him out of existence. From what information we have about him, it seems that he was ridiculed into hiding by the people, and lasted a little over a year as Pope. He died ‘with disappointment’ on 14th September, 1523, and the Roman populace gave vent to their hatred for the foreigner in a pasquinade ‘in a language that had not been heard since the days of Bernard of Clairvaux’ (d. 1153)³. His epitaph said; ‘Here lies Adrian VI, who thought nothing in his life more unfortunate than that he became pope’. The later Church frankly conceded that Pope Adrian VI, ‘was hated by all and loved by none’ (ibid), adding that, ‘however regarded, the Pontificate of the last non-Italian pope was only an episode’ (ibid), meaning that it was just another absurdity in the history of Christianity that the Holy See tries to conceal from the public.

¹ ‘The Popes, A Concise Biographical History’, Burns and Oates, Publishers to the Holy See, London, 1964, p. 330
² ‘Secrets of the Christian Fathers’, Bishop J. W. Sergerus, 1685; also, Dr. Pastor, IX, 134
³ ‘The Papacy’, George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd, London, 1964, pp. 137-9

Tomb of St. Peter a shocking invention

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:00:00 +0000

Around 442, Pope Leo the Great (440-461) devised an extraordinary money-making scheme that was destined to have profound repercussions upon the development of Christianity for centuries to come. The record of this enterprising connivance is found in both the extant writings of Pope Leo and Salvianus (d. 456), a distinguished historian of Marseilles who wrote an open letter to the Church of Rome that now forms part of a book called, ‘On God’s Government’.¹ Salvianus’s writings are numerous, and his frank reference to the ‘turpitude of morals’ of the priesthood against their followers continues to embarrass the Vatican to this day.

How to make a clergyman squirm

Salvianus made the now-famous comment that ‘two priests could not meet in Rome without bursting into laugher’, a reference to the gullibility of the people who believed what the developing priesthood was expounding about the Gospel story of Jesus Christ. Salvianus revealed that Pope Leo the Great ‘conceived a shocking invention’ when he ordered the construction of a stone enclosure in a cemetery that, more than 1000 years later (1506), became the site for the commencement of the building of the largest and most splendid structure in Christendom, St. Peter’s Basilica. The comments of Salvianus are supported in one of Pope’s Leo’s 173 own letters that still exist today, and this is what he said:

‘To this primitive worthy [St. Peter] we owe a debt of gratitude … let us feign that his holy carcass was transported from a monastery near Cologne lest the devil come to seize his soul … it would please the Almighty if his body was seen to rest in this city, the body that suffered such exquisite torments. Who then, after these centuries, is able to attest any different to the fact of an old skeleton, for it is a matter of faith that it is really that of St. Peter laid to rest in the Holy City, and that faith will nourish the confidence of the rabble’.

(‘On God’s Government’, Vol., iii, 9, Vol., 53 of the Migne Collection; expanded upon in ‘Campbell’s Lecture on Ecclesiastical History’, and Isaac Taylor’s ‘Ancient Christianity’)

Workmen covered the crude structure with timber planks and ‘town-criers in bright attire’ were dispatched to spread the news among the populous that the burial place of the Turn-key of Heaven, St. Peter, had been found in the Eternal City. In reality, the bones were those of a common thief and they became honoured as St. Peter himself. Pope Leo celebrated the ‘discovery’ by naming the ‘tomb’, ‘Memoria’ ² and he renamed Rome, the ‘Pardon of Peter’ by which it was known for centuries (ibid, p. 225).

Blatant priesthood embezzlement

With Pope Leo’s ploy of creating a tomb for St. Peter in Rome, a cult developed that demanded that believer’s of the Christian story journey to Rome and offer prayers to Peter at his fabricated resting place. Beginning with the English and the Scots, pilgrims from deeply naïve countries were cajoled to travel to Rome, and the ‘tomb discovery’ scheme provided the Church with a tremendous source of revenue. The subjects of the popes were the most degraded and debased people in Europe, ignorant, superstitious and semi-civilized, ‘squalid beggars pilfering their beseeched offerings’ ³, and in this aspect, for centuries the papacy had an open field.

The creation of a second tomb

Thus, the tradition of pilgrimages to Rome was established ⁴, and in addition to encouraging the belief that Pope St. Peter’s tomb was there, bishops cultivated the myth with undiminished eagerness. This they did, not as upholders of a devout legend, but as skillful promoters of a growing cult that had concrete and far-reaching objectives. Its magnification brought it immense authority, and, with it, wealth. The populous submitted for centuries to the tyrannical usurpations of the haughty and abandoned prelates of Rome and so successful was the fraud of St. Peter’s tomb that the Holy Mother Church then created an ‘adjoining tomb for the great apostle’, St. Paul (‘The Bertinian Annals’, c. 1020).

‘Bring money, bring money’

That is how pilgrimages to Rome were initiated, later supported mainly and curiously by Anglo-Saxons. Popes of the time actively promoted pilgrimages to the ‘tomb’, and from the very beginning, they showed a special predilection for the richest and most powerful personages of the times; that is, individuals who could give them valuable presents, land and power. To quote a typical example, Pope Leo the Great wrote in one of his 173 extant letters how, after ‘Peter had spoken’ to him from the tomb, Emperor Valentinian III (c. 419-455) and his family regularly performed devotions at the tomb, ‘such practices yielding a useful respect for the apostle’s successors’ to whom they offered costly presents and the tenure of land’ (‘Leo’s Tome’; a doctrinal letter).

‘Speaking’ to St. Peter

The Church hierarchy, far from discouraging the dishonest practice, gave its approval. Witness, for example, the later words of St. Gregory of Tours (538-594), who, in his ‘De Gloria Martyrum’, provided a detailed description of the ceremony he devised in order for the faithful to ‘speak’ with the Prince of Apostles. The pilgrim was told to kneel down upon the tomb and open a wooden trap door. Then, he inserted his head down into the hole, after which, still remaining in that posture, revealed in a loud voice the object of his visit to the saint. Offerings of money were then thrown into the tomb, followed by veneration and obeisance that were offered to St. Peter’s successor, the pope of the day. The religious and even political results of this practice upon ignorant nations like the Anglo-Saxons and the Franks who imitated them, can easily be imagined.

The ‘bones of St. Peter’ dumped in the Tiber

Then, in the Ninth Century and during the pontificate of Pope Sergius II (d. 847), the Saracens sacked Rome. They stormed and pillaged the ports of Ostia and Portus, sailed up the Tiber, and then invaded Rome. Soldiers smashed open the ‘tomb’ and threw ‘the bones of St. Peter’⁵ into the Tiber. Later, another and larger tomb was built, and for the first time, enclosed by walls and roofed over. Human remains were dug up from nearby graves, and presented to the rabble as those of both ‘Pope St. Peter’ and St. Paul. Sometime later, a timber wall was built beside the tomb on which was drawn a graffiti-like sketch of St. Peter in charcoal and ochre outlines. The ignorant ‘bowed themselves down and revered the apostle as God on earth’ (‘Annalibus Loiseliannus’) at whose fanciful representation one can only wonder.

¹ ‘On God’s Government’, Vol., iii, 9, Vol., 53 of the Migne Collection
² ‘Secrets of the Christian Fathers’, Bishop J. W. Sergerus, 1685, reprint 1897, p. 169
³ ‘Chronica’, Victor of Tunnunum (c. 589), cited by Dr. Mills, Prolegom to R.V., p. 93
⁴ ‘Pilgrimage to Rome’, Rev. Seymour, 1832
⁵ ‘The Annals of Beneventum’, written by monks of Italy; c. 1200-1400, held in the ‘Monumenta Germaniae’ (v)

Will the Vatican please explain!

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:51:00 +0000

The Holy See claims that Hormisdas (d. 523) became pope in 514, and with that admission we see a major anomaly in the Vatican’s presentation of the development of the papacy. It is found in Hormisdas’s name, which is Persian for Ahura Mazda, the Zoroastrian god and father of Mithras. The Vatican made this comment; ‘His name presents an interesting problem’, adding; ’St. Hormisdas owes his canonization to an unofficial tradition’¹. Simply put, Hormisdas and his ‘considerable numbers of recalcitrant bishops’², were devotees of Ahura Mazda supporting Mithraic doctrine that had nothing to do with Catholicism.

Hormisdas was one of many Mithraic fathers whose titles the Vatican usurped and falsely presented as Catholic popes in an attempt to provide a record of the boasted ‘uninterrupted apostolic succession’ back to St. Peter. ‘The chief of the (Mithraic) fathers, a sort of pope, who always lived at Rome, was called Pater Patrum’³. The Vatican admitted that the ‘elections’ of some of its Popes ‘are a mystery’, and ‘many interlopers procured their own elevation to the chair of St. Peter’⁴. Thus we find that there are centuries of Catholic history with no ‘real’ popes, and the Vatican’s claim of ‘apostolic succession’ that purports to trace an unbroken line of bishops back to Mark and so to Peter, slides into the realm of fantasy.

¹ ‘The Popes, A Concise Biographical History’, Burns and Oates, Publishers to the Holy See, London, 1964, p. 81
² ibid
³ ‘Catholic Encyclopaedia’, Farley Ed., Vol. 10, pp, 402-404
⁴‘Catholic Encyclopaedia’, Vol. ii, p. 227, Ed. Cardinal Cardozia, published under the Imprimatur of ‘De Romano Pontiff’ (Pecci), 1897. Pecci was Pope Leo XIII (Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci; 1810-1903)

Pope to review Vatican bureaucracy, scandal-ridden bank

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:36:00 +0000

Source: Reuters

By Philip Pullella

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) - Pope Francis, who has said he wants the Catholic Church to be a model of austerity and honesty, could restructure or even close the Vatican’s scandal-ridden bank as part of a broad review of its troubled bureaucracy, Vatican sources say. Francis, who inherited a Church mired in scandals over priests’ sexual abuse of children and the leak of confidential documents alleging corruption and infighting in the Vatican’s central administration, is mulling his options as he sets the tone for a reformed and humbler Holy See. One of the tests of his papacy will be what he does about the bank which has regularly damaged the Vatican's image over three decades and faces growing calls for reform.

Changes expected in dysfunctional Vatican administration

Last year a European anti-money laundering body found that the bank - formally called the Institute for Works of Religion and known by the Italian acronym IOR - had failed to meet some of its standards on fighting financial crimes. "Certainly if the pope wants to, he can close the IOR," said a senior Vatican official, a prelate who had years of experience of directly dealing with the bank. The future of the IOR was one of main issues Francis would have to confront now that the whirlwind of his surprise election was slowing, he said. Any significant reforms of the IOR would not come for some time and would probably be made after changes at the Secretariat of State, the central Church department which was at the centre of a "Vatileaks" scandal that rocked the Holy See last year.

Pope could set up committee to advise on changes in finance structure

These changes would include the replacement of its head, Cardinal Tarciscio Bertone, who is number two in the Vatican hierarchy and has widely been blamed for failing to prevent the many mishaps and infighting in Church government during the eight-year pontificate of Pope Benedict. "It will take time (to change the bank)," said another Vatican official who is not a prelate. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity. The second official believed it was more likely that the bank, which manages money for the Vatican, international Catholic religious institutions and orders of priests and nuns, would undergo "serious restructuring" rather than being closed. "But I would not exclude anything, including closing it down the line. Francis is doing surprising things every day," he said. Both officials said the new pope might, as a first step, set up a committee to advise him on possible changes to the Vatican's financial structure. The first sign of change would be a new secretary of state. "It's not a question of if but when Bertone leaves," the senior prelate said. "It remains to be seen who the pope chooses as new secretary of state."

Crisis in the Curia

The basic failings of the Curia, as the Vatican’s central administration is known, were aired, sometimes passionately, at closed-door meetings of cardinals before they retired into the conclave that elected Francis on March 13. "The Curia did not come out smelling like a rose from those meetings," the senior prelate said, adding that many cardinals had demanded explanations of the scandals and information on how the bank is run and whether it should exist at all. "The IOR is not an essential part of the ministry of the Holy Father as a successor of St. Peter," Cardinal John Onaiyekan of Nigeria told an Italian television station before the election of Francis. "The IOR is not fundamental, it is not sacramental, it is not part of (Church) dogma."

The ‘Vatileaks’ scandal

Anger at the Italian prelates who mostly run the Curia was one of the reasons that the cardinals chose the first non-European pope for 1,300 years at the conclave and quashed the chances of one of the frontrunners, Milan Archbishop Angelo Scola.
The next secretary of state, the senior source said, would have to instil a new style of "collaboration and service" among offices of the Curia, whose image was badly stained by the "Vatileaks" scandal.

Benedict’s top secret dossier

Before he resigned, Benedict left a secret report for Francis on the scandal, in which sensitive documents alleging corruption and conflict over the bank’s administration were stolen from the pope’s desk and leaked by his butler. The butler, Paolo Gabriele, was arrested and sentenced by a Vatican court to 18 months in prison last year but Benedict pardoned him and he was freed just before Christmas.

Vatican’s bank manager sacked

Bertone has been directly linked to the IOR’s recent troubles. He was the chief promoter of Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, an Italian who headed the bank until last May when its board unceremoniously ousted him. Gotti Tedeschi said at the time he was fired because he wanted the bank to be more transparent but board members said it was because he had neglected basic management responsibilities and alienated staff. In 2010, when Gotti Tedeschi was still at the helm of the bank, Rome magistrates investigating money laundering froze 23 million euros ($33 million) the IOR held in an Italian bank. The Vatican said the bank was merely transferring funds between its own accounts in Italy and Germany. The money was released in June 2011 but the investigation is continuing.

In February, the Vatican named a German lawyer, Ernst von Freyberg as new IOR president. But the appointment, made two weeks before Pope Benedict resigned, was clouded by Freyberg’s past business links to a military shipbuilder. At the time of appointment, the Vatican said Freyberg would contribute to the IOR's modernisation and transparency in its attempts to meet international standards.

Bad image

"The Vatican Bank or IOR, is not unique. They are not the worst (bank), but certainly there are very serious problems that need to be addressed," said E.J. Fagan, advocacy coordinator at Global Financial Integrity, an organisation that seeks to curtail illicit money transfers. "Pope Francis has very clearly stated that he wants to fight poverty. Money laundering of illicit financial flows is a major driver of global poverty and the Vatican should set a clear example," he told Reuters. The Vatican has been trying to shed its image as a suspect financial centre since 1982 when Roberto Calvi, an Italian known as "God's Banker" because of his links to the Holy See, was found hanged under London's Blackfriars Bridge.

Moneyval, a monitoring committee of the 47-nation Council of Europe, said last July that the Vatican had failed to meet all its standards on fighting illicit cash flows, tax evasion and other financial crimes. A report by Moneyval gave the Vatican an overall pass grade but failing grades on 7 of 16 "key and core" aspects of its financial dealings. It found major failings in the running of the bank, while acknowledging that the IOR was making changes to meet transparency requirements. Five months before the Moneyval report, JP Morgan Chase closed the IOR’s account with the Milan branch of the U.S. banking giant because of concerns about insufficient transparency.

Francis has said he wants the Church to be austere, simple

Italian media have reported that the bank, which currently answers to a commission of cardinals and enjoys great autonomy, could be placed under the control of another Vatican department, increasing the oversight called for in the Moneyval report. Famiglia Cristiana, Italy’s leading Catholic weekly, called for the IOR funds to be administered by an independent "ethical bank" external to the Vatican.
"Total transparency would assure the faithful, who are continuing to offer generously, that the money they give to the Church, after the part used to guarantee the good running of the Church itself, would be destined primarily for the world's poor," the highly influential magazine said.

John Allen, author of several books on the Vatican and correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter, said there was talk among cardinals at the pre-conclave meetings "that the Vatican does not need its own bank, and getting rid of it would eliminate a perennial source of speculation and conspiracy theories". Much of the estimated $7 billion managed by the bank, which was set up in 1942, belongs not to the Vatican but to religious orders and dioceses, who use it to transfer funds around the world. Another option for the bank’s future would be to scale it down so it manages only funds needed to keep the Vatican running, drastically reducing the number of outside accounts and making it less vulnerable to possible abuse. "We could just say to the Jesuits, the Dominicans, the Franciscans: ‘Sirs, you will have to take your business elsewhere’," the senior prelate said. However, part of bank’s profits have helped the Holy See balance its budget in the past, making up for deficits running into tens of millions of dollars. This means that if the bank were to be phased out or closed, other sources of income would have to be found to fill the gap, the senior prelate said.

The Holy See would probably be careful, however, before relinquishing too much financial autonomy to outsiders so as to maintain its flexibility in emergency situations. For example, before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the bank was able to move money to countries in the former Soviet bloc to keep Catholic Churches alive there in the face of communist repression. (Additional reporting by Lisa Jucca in Milan; editing by Barry Moody and David Stamp)

The Jesuit Pope and the secret of Jefferson’s Bible

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:39:00 +0000

Pope Francis, formerly Cardinal Bergoglio, brings a welcome change of style to the Vatican, and Catholics the world over are eagerly waiting to see if he introduces the much-needed reforms to the scandal-ridden Church of Rome. He is a member of the Society of Jesus, the official name of the Jesuits, one of the largest and most influential orders of the Catholic Church. The Jesuits have a centuries-old record of tangling with the Vatican on various issues, to the point that the order was sometimes called ‘the Vatican’s shock troops’ or ‘God’s Marines’. In this regard, it is little-known that Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), the third President of the United States (1801-1809), was also a Jesuit, and he took the unprecedented step of reforming the Christian Gospels by creating his own version from information preserved in a secret 15th Century document that was held in the very archives of the Jesuits! That work today is popularly called the Jefferson Bible, an 84-page assemblage of edited passages from the Gospels of the New Testament, and one has to wonder whether the new Pope Francis in the Vatican knows what motivated Jefferson to create his version of the Gospels. In a letter to Joseph Priestly in 1803, Jefferson stated that he conceived the idea of restructuring the story of Jesus Christ after a conversation with Dr. Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) who handed him the confidential old Jesuit document that provided the essence of Jefferson’s undertaking.

Cutting up the Bible

From the information contained within it, Jefferson purchased two identical Bibles and opened them to the first four books of the New Testament. He then took a knife or a razor blade, and drawing upon the old Jesuit document, proceeded to cut out specifically selected Gospel narratives that the Church itself confesses are ‘not regarded as genuine’¹. He deleted what he called the ‘worthless’ sections of the story of Christ which included the miracles, such as ‘walking on water’ and ‘multiplying the loaves and fishes’. He dispensed with the virgin birth and any passages that suggested Christ was divine. He removed narratives that he called ‘absurd’, saying in a letter to John Adams that those passages were ‘as distinguishable as diamonds in a dunghill’. Some of them were the fable of raising Lazarus from the dead, the ‘resurrection’ of Christ, and other forgeries, such as the ‘messianic prophecies’ and the concept of ‘trinity’. In other words, Jefferson removed all fictions from the Gospels, and that left him with a condensed version of the very essence of the Gospels, that being the carry-over of earlier beliefs and sayings of Krishna, Buddha, Confucius, the principles of Mithra (the Myths-of-Ra), the floating rules and moral apothegms of ancient times, along with the basic substance of Essene philosophy and ideology, all of which were subsequently attached to a non-historic Gospel personage called Jesus Christ who became the spokesman for the earlier thoughts.

Charlatanism in the Gospels

When Jefferson finished his Bible, he wrote to his friend William Short, saying that he had edited the Gospels in order to separate the ‘inspiring from the ludicrous’;

‘I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the nice munificence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same origin’.

He called the Gospel writers, ‘ignorant, unlettered men’ who produced ‘superstitions, fanaticisms, and fabrications’, and added that he was of the opinion that the Christian priesthood used religion as a ‘mere contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves’ and that ‘in every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty’.

Revealing that Christianity is a universal forgery

The Jesuit secret about the true nature of the earliest Gospels allowed Jefferson to show in his Bible how, from beginning to end, the story of Jesus Christ is a work of imaginative fiction that possesses no factual merit, and is used by Vatican hierarchs as the very essence of their projections. By removing the fake supernatural elements from the Gospels, Jefferson’s Bible in effect took away the blood and substance of the Christian religion and revealed that Christianity subsists on fictitious narratives sustained today by false claims and a deceptive presentation of the facts.

If Pope Francis is serious about reform in the Church of Rome, he could make a dramatic showing by immediately endorsing Thomas Jefferson’s Bible as the new and official Bible for the entire Christian religion, and thus set the Catholic Church in a new and honest direction.

¹ ‘Catholic Encyclopedia’, Vol., iii, p. 274, published under the Imprimatur of Archbishop Farley
² ‘Catholic Encyclopedia’, Farley Ed., Vol., iii, p. 274

Cross of Christ ‘invented’

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:10:00 +0000

Members of the Christian clergy consider the ‘Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church’ indispensable on all academic aspects of Christian theology. Its contributors include professors of ecclesiastical and Church history, consultants to the Pontifical Biblical Commission, and leading Christian academics the world over. The first edition was published in 1974 under the editorship of Dr. Frank L. Cross (‘Oxford University Press’) and after the sell-out of the initial printing Dr. Cross proudly exclaimed that ‘a copy was in every parsonage in the country’. This orthodox and wide-ranging dictionary carries over 6,000 cross-referenced A-Z entries, yet in a remarkable disclosure, it fails to record an alphabetical entry under ‘C’ for ‘cross’, the object upon which the Church today maintains that Jesus Christ suffered and is ‘the epitome of the Gospel’ (‘Catholic Encyclopedia’, Farley Ed., Vol. iv, p. 524).

An extraordinary priesthood confession

Some accounts certified to be published by such a supposed august body of Christian experts and presented to the world as official realities are extraordinary, one being an Entry on page 710 called, ‘THE INVENTION OF THE CROSS’ (‘Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church’, p. 842 in the 1997 Edition; Also, ‘Catholic Encyclopedia’, Farley Ed., Vol. iv, p. 524). The international panel concede that Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine (d. 337), ‘invented the cross’, and then the Church slowly developed her crude untruth as an article of Christian faith right into the 21st Century.

‘Cross’ of Christ created for the ‘uneducated’

After the closing of the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE, Bishop Eusebius Pamphilius (260-339), probably the most corrupt bishop of the Fourth Century, said:

‘It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interests of the church might be promoted’.

(‘Ecclesiastical History’, Bishop Eusebius, Vol. 1, pp. 381-382)

Bishop Eusebius stood on a pulpit in the town square and announced to ‘the groveling rabble’ that Emperor Constantine’s 78 year-old mother, Helena had undertaken ‘a great trip’, and ‘dug up’ the cross upon which Jesus Christ was crucified (‘Vita Constantini’, 3, 41-47). At the same time, she ‘discovered’ other remarkable relics that make pale into triviality the later discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb-treasures. Amongst them were two sealed clay jars, one containing the precious last breath of Jesus Christ, and the other, beams of light from the Star of Bethlehem. Helena’s public showings of her ‘Jesus treasures’ were displayed with great fanfare and coincided with Emperor Constantine’s announcement that the first 50 ‘New Testimonies’ were soon to be written:

‘Great mobs of ignorant rabble, slaves and seamen, the lowest populace, peasants, drunks and hoards of women … lined up to view the fabrications, and the presbyters schemed to this end and devoured the people’s means’.

(‘Catech’, xviii, 7-8; also Schaff, ‘History of the Christian Church’)

To such an extent had the frauds of false relics of the Christian priests been thus early systematized and raised to the dignity of a regular doctrine that Bishop Eusebius, in one of the most learned and elaborate works that antiquity has left us, the ‘Thirty-second Chapter of the Twelfth Book of his Evangelical Preparation’, bore for its title this proposition: ‘How it may be Lawful and Fitting to use Falsehood as a Medicine, and for the Benefit of those who Want to be Deceived’.

The counterfeit of Christianity

It seems that Bishop Eusebius’ ‘cross’ of Christ failed to endure, for the Vatican informs us that ‘there is no proof of the use of a cross until much later’ than the 6th Century (‘Catholic Encyclopedia’, Farley Ed. Vol., iv, pp. 517-537; ‘New Catholic Encyclopedia’, iv, 475). Church archives record that its general use was ratified at the Sixth Ecumenical Council in 680 (Sixth Ecumenical Council; Canon 82), where it was decreed that ‘the figure of a man fastened to a cross be now adopted’. Around a century later, Pope Hadrian 1 (772-95) officially ratified that a man on a cross ‘would be worshipped’ (Origin of Religious Belief, Draper, p. 252) and the Council of Nicaea in 787 decreed that ‘image - worship of a man on a cross now be adopted’ (ibid).

The unreality of the Christian cross

However, the concept of a ‘cross’ didn’t catch on fully for another 500 years, and it was ‘not until around the 13th Century AD’ (‘New Catholic Encyclopedia’, Farley Ed., Vol. iv, p. 485) that the custom of portraying a distressed man on a cross, sometimes in a state of advanced putrefaction, began to develop. Pictorial presentations showing the highest state of suffering possible then started to emerge and gave the finishing touches to the Vatican’s fabrication of a Christian ‘cross’ that took around 1000 years to fully come into being.

‘This terrifying description … inspired many an artist of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries … and passed to the uneducated as history’.

(‘Ecclesiastical History’, Johann L. Mosheim, D.D., Christian historian, London, 1825 Ed., Vol. 6, MS. 248)

The unreality of the Christian ‘cross’ was again confirmed during the period of the Reformation (14th - 17th) when a Royal Commission was appointed to enquire into the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England. Numbering among its members were ten bishops, and the Commission subsequently recommended that the use of a ‘cross’ was ‘tending to superstition and should be laid aside’ (‘The Catholic Dictionary’, Addis and Arnold, ‘Baptism’, 1917). This recommendation had the authority of all members, and it further asserted that the sign of the cross should not be used in Christian baptism in British churches (‘The British Church’, Major J. Samuels, V. D., R G A).

Catholic authors invented encyclopedic entries

The ‘cross’ was made official to Catholicism in 1754 when Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758) decreed that the icon was to be displayed on every church and at every altar (‘Catholic Church Conspiracies’, Lady Eugene Heron, London, 1949). In referring to Benedict’s Decree, the Vatican added this extraordinary comment:

‘Moderns experience difficulty in understanding religious belief … Benedict’s [Benedict XIV, d. 1758] policy from this time forward eliminated any aversion to the concept [of the invention of the cross], for often an obscure expression of the circumstances of our Lord’s death is more clearly explained by Catholic authors who are to be treated with especial regard, giving them the benefit of the doubt wherever possible. Thus proofs of the rational as well of the dogmatic order unite in justifying and defending the gradual development of the cross in Christian history’.

(‘Catholic Encyclopedia’, Pecci Ed., Vol. ii, p. 366)

The unreality of the Christian cross is thereby revealed in the Vatican’s own official records, and today believers in Christ proudly wear a ‘cross’ around their neck as a sign of their faith, not knowing that it was invented by the very Church that they support.

Pope Francis and the ‘madman’

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:11:00 +0000

The Vatican’s new Pope Francis told journalists that moments after his election to the chair of St. Peter last week he was inspired to take the name of St. Francis of Assisi because of that saint’s work for peace and the poor. However, St. Francis, originally Giovanni Bernadone (1181-1226), wasn’t as saintly as the Vatican make out, and his true nature was suppressed by the Bollandists who wrote the Vatican’s fictitious ‘Acta Sanctorum’, a massive collection of books containing the lives and acts of every saint in the Holy Roman Calendar that later become the foundation of all investigation in hagiography and legend.

The true story

The Bollandists supposed that St. Francis’s mother was so religious she bore him in a stable so that his birth would resemble the Gospel story of Jesus Christ, but they made no mention that he was ‘a madman through and through, a danger to the public safety’¹. St. Francis grew up ‘a debauched youth’² and having robbed his father, was disinherited, but seemed not troubled by it. Around 1205, he joined the Catholic army in the Crusade established to annihilate the gentle Cathars, but was later dismissed because of his mental condition. A spendthrift, his dress was that of a beggar, his looks were haggard and his eyes were ‘glazed in a frightening stare’.³ Pope Innocent III (d. 1216) described him as ‘the most strange visitor, and was very much calmed when he left my office’.⁴ Professor P. J. Lennox of the Catholic University of America related that St. Francis, ’while his eyes burnt with a strange fire, he wandered about his native town of Assisi, followed by a crowd of children who hooted and jeered at the madmen which they knew him to be’.⁵

St. Francis was never ordained a priest, and while fasting, starved himself to death around the age of 45.

Extolling the saints

For centuries, the Vatican used a weird form of deceit to fool people into believing that its saints were special people, and this example from the ‘Acta Sanctorum’ shows the literary method used to extol St. Francis of Assisi;

‘When he preached a sermon in the wilderness, birds assembled from the four cardinal points of the world. They warbled and applauded every sentence; they sang a holy mass in chorus; finally they dispersed to carry the glad tidings all over the universe. A grasshopper that generally kept company with the saint remained perched on the head of the ‘blessed one’ for a whole week’.

(‘Acta Sanctorum’, St. Francis of Assisi)

Such is the nonsense of the Christian religion, and there are more grotesque ‘miracles’ attributed to this saint. Attacked by a ferocious wolf in Gubbio, St. Francis, who had no other weapon but the sign of the cross he made upon himself, began arguing with his rabid assailant. ‘Having imparted to the beast the benefit to be derived from the holy religion, St. Francis never ceased talking until the wolf became as meek as a lamb, and shed tears of repentance over his past sins. Finally, he stretched his paws in the hands of the saint, followed him like a dog through all the towns in which he preached, and became half a Christian’ (‘Life of St. Francis’, Demonologia).

Untrue saint-legends and the death of common sense

The Bollandists spent around 300 years creating thousand of invented ‘saint’ stories that Major Joseph Wheless, Associate Editor of the American Bar Association Journal (1930) called ‘a collection of sinister lies of priest-craft and unimpeachable evidence of the fraudulent pretensions of the Church of Christ’. The Vatican agreed, saying:

‘Needless to say that they [the legends of the ‘saints’ in ‘Acta Sanctorum’] do not embody any real historical information and their chief utility is to afford an example of the pious popular credulity of the times’.

(‘Catholic Encyclopedia’, Farley Ed., Vol., i, p. 131)

In other words, the ‘Acta Sanctorum’ is another Vatican forgery that was presented to the world as fact, and the Bollandists were still industriously creating more forgeries in the 1930s. Today, access to the ‘Acta Sanctorum’ is not easily obtained, and one suspects that the Vatican is withholding the volumes because of the embarrassment their invented nature would cause if released into the hands of the media or judicious modern-day authors. The new pope wanted to honor St. Francis of Assisi by adopting his name, saying that the saint was an admirer of nature and a servant to the poor and destitute. However, like everything else in Christianity, the story of St. Francis of Assisi’s piousness is another Vatican fabrication that even the new Pope was deceived into believing.

¹ ‘De Antiqua Ecclesiae Disciplina’, Bishop Lewis Du Pin, Catholic historian
² Ibid
³ ‘Life of St. Francis’, Demonologia
⁴ ‘The True Story of the Popes’, Robert H. Benson, London, 1922
⁵ ‘History of St. Francis’, Prof. P. J. Lennox, Catholic University of America, 1911

False papal statements issued by Vatican Press Office

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:49:00 +0000

On October 16th, 1978, Cardinal Karol Jozef Wojtyla (1920-2005) was elected to the papacy of the Holy See and assumed the appellation of Pope John Paul II. Immediately after his elevation, the Vatican’s propaganda machine moved into action, and issued its first false statement, resulting in this comment:

‘While John Paul II was addressing the nature of the future relationship between Rome and Warsaw, the Vatican Press Office, aided by other Curial elements, was busily engaged rewriting Wojtyla’s past; their lies duped experienced Vatican reporters, along with the naïve’.

(‘The Power and the Glory’, David Yallop, Constable and Robinson Ltd, London, p. 27)

The Vatican handed out untrue accounts to dozens of international journalists and reporters and they subsequently appeared in media reports the world over and were accepted as true. One who was fooled was Father Andrew M. Greeley, an American priest/columnist living in Rome at the time who wrote a syndicated column for over 100 global outlets. He compiled his editorial from the false Vatican Press Release that presented blatant lies about Wojtyla’s activities during the war years. It said, in part:

‘As a young man during the Second World War, Wojtyla was active in an underground movement which assisted Jews. He helped them find shelter, to acquire false identification papers, and to escape from the country. He was blacklisted by the Nazis for helping Jews, and one of the reasons for his remaining hidden was to avoid arrest by the Nazis’.

‘After the war he defended the Jews who remained in Cracow from Communist anti-Semitism. He helped to organize the permanent care of the Cracow Jewish cemetery after that cemetery had been desecrated by secret police-inspired thugs. The Cardinal called upon the students of the University of Cracow to clean and restore the defiled tombstones. In 1964 on the Feast of Corpus Christi, he condemned the Communist government for anti-Semitism. In 1971 he spoke at the Cracow synagogue during a Friday night Sabbath service …’

Of this comment, Mr. David Yallop, the renowned author who exposed the Vatican’s cover-up of the murder of Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani, d. 1978) in his best-selling book, ‘In God’s Name’, succinctly added, ‘There is not one single word of truth in the above account’ (‘The Power and the Glory’, David Yallop, Constable and Robinson Ltd, London, p. 28). Polish author Tad Szulc, who had unlimited help from the Vatican during his research into the life of Karol Wojtyla, added a similar comment in his biography, ‘Pope John Paul II’; ‘We often encountered evasiveness surrounding the Pope’s childhood experience with the Jews in Wadowice’ (‘Pope John Paul II, The Biography’, Tad Szulc, Scribner, New York, USA, 1995). That is because there weren’t any experiences, and the Pope himself admitted that; ‘To the Polish Jew Marek Halter, who asked him decades later whether he had helped to save any Jews, John Paul II answered; ‘I cannot lay claim to what I did not do’ (‘His Holiness’, Carl Berstein and Marco Politi, Bantam Edition, 1997, p. 75).

The Vatican’s image makers

It was this initial manipulation of an image that did not correspond to reality that the public was presented with, and it is evident that the Holy See purposely misrepresented the truth to endow Pope John Paul II with a false sense of virtuosity. This deception concerned many observers, including David Yallop, who said:

‘That so many false claims should have been made regarding the Pope’s historic relationship and involvement with the Jewish people is highly disturbing. Equally troubling is the fact that neither Pope John Paul II nor any member of the Vatican, including his spin doctor, Dr. Joaquin Navarro Valls, ever tried to correct a false record that paints him in an undeserved light’.

(‘The Power and the Glory’, David Yallop, Constable and Robinson Ltd, London, p. 250)

The creation of a false history to conceal the new Pope’s past served to defraud the populous of historical truth, which in legal terms is theft by deception, and this type of untruthful conduct is observable through the entire history of Catholicism. When the pages of the final assessment of John Paul II’s long and tedious pontificate are laid open for all to read, they will reveal that he deceived the world about his past, and reveled in the success of his dishonesty.

(An extract from, ‘Pope John Paul II’s Dark Secrets’, a pre-publication manuscript; from a chapter entitled; ‘Karol Wojtyla’s missing birth certificate’)

Vatileaks predicts a French Pope

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:30:00 +0000

In the notoriously tricky business of trying to name the next Pope, the team at Vatileaks suggests that he will be the first French pontiff in 635 years (since Gregory XI; 1378). We shall conclude that he will be either Cardinal Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran, or Cardinal Philippe Xavier Barbarin, and we extend the opinion that the new Pope will be accompanied by a Secretary of State who is either Italian or Argentinean.

Conclaves sodden with corruption

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:37:00 +0000

The history of the peculiar papal elections, now called conclaves, is sodden with corruption, and is one of the most amazing volumes in historical religious literature yet to be fully revealed. Church records reveal centuries of scandalous bargaining between cardinals eligible to vote for the next pontiff, sometimes even before the dying pope had finally expired. Money flew from the hand of one cardinal to that of another, promises were made, gold was offered and votes were brought with a brazenness which would seem incredible if it were not true. For centuries the conclaves were bargaining places where the papacy was bought or sold to the highest bidder. Cardinals, and therefore possible popes, thus became the predictable financial pawns in the sacrilegious game in which simony, corruption and blatant inducements were principal factors (‘Historia Ecclesiastica’; also, MS. 151. 1181). In addition to cardinals buying and selling their votes, agents of princes, kings and emperors penetrated openly into the conclaves with offers of large sums of money or real estate to induce cardinals to vote for the candidate preferred by the royal bribers, with the result that very often popes were elected according to the value of the enticements offered to the voters.

The bombshell set to rock the Vatican

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:36:00 +0000

VATICAN CITY - Locked in a safe in the now empty and sealed papal apartment is a top-secret internal Vatican dossier that has been described with fevered conjecture by the Italian press as a ‘ticking time bomb’ for the Catholic Church. Written by three elderly cardinals, including a prominent member of Opus Dei, the dossier was personally commissioned by Pope Benedict XVI to delve into the most damaging security breach in the Vatican in living memory: the leaking of confidential personal papers by his long-term valet, Paolo Gabriele, a scandal that came to be called ‘Vatileaks’. Gabriele was subsequently arrested for stealing a collection of the Pope’s documents that bristled with claims of financial corruption and criminal activity involving Vatican hierarchs and major Italian companies.

Vatican admits secretly bugging its own clergy

After a covert bugging operation ordered by the Vatican magistracy, the investigating cardinals uncovered far more than they bargained for, and that information was recorded in the dossier that allegedly influenced Pope Benedict XVI to resign. Italy’s ‘La Repubblica’, a large circulation general-interest newspaper, reported that on December 17, 2012, the investigators handed the pontiff two red-leather bound volumes, almost 300 pages long, containing ‘an exact map of the mischief and the bad fish’ inside the Holy See. So alarming were the findings that ‘Panorama’, an Italian news magazine, claimed that Vatican authorities have continued conducting extensive secret surveillance programmes, tapping the phone calls and intercepting emails of cardinals and bishops in the Curia, the governing body of the Catholic Church.

What is in the dreaded dossier?

The top secret files have become the most talked about documents in Rome, and speculation over their potentially explosive contents heightened after Pope Benedict XVI denied his cardinals access to the dossier; ‘The acts of this investigation,’ said a Vatican spokesman, ‘remain solely at the disposition of the new pope’. An article published in ‘La Repubblica’ on February 21, 2013 alleged that the report claimed that the Vatican has been influenced by multiple internal lobbies, including an ‘underground gay network’ operating in the highest levels of the Vatican Curia. Amidst whispers of sodomy and bribery, there are growing claims that some members of the Roman Catholic hierarchy are secretly involved in formal satanic worship, and that cultic acts of satanic pedophilia are being practiced by members of the Holy See.

A sense of crisis pervades in the Vatican

These extraordinary claims were supported earlier in the ‘Times’ newspaper of London which, on March 11th, 2010 published an article written by Richard Owen that related to Father Gabriele Amorth (b. 1925), an Italian Roman Catholic priest and an official exorcist of the Diocese of Rome. Father Amorth declared that satanic manipulations have triggered Vatican power struggles and resulted in ‘cardinals who do not believe in Jesus, and bishops who are linked to the Demon’. ‘When one speaks of ‘the smoke of Satan’ in the holy rooms, it is all true … including these latest stories of violence and pedophilia’ in the highest levels of the Church of Rome.

Another buried Vatican secret

In a similar pattern to other Vatican cover-ups, it is probable that the Pope’s secret dossier will never be revealed to the outside world and thus, like so many other matters associated with the Church of Rome, the populous will be denied the evidence of the existence of evil forces freely operating in the Vatican. It appears that the essential message of the information in the hidden dossier is that satanic forces function in the cloisters of the Church of Rome, and the sordid actions of hundreds of ‘pious’ people are part and parcel of the everyday workings of the Holy See.

Lightning strike bad omen for Vatican

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:43:00 +0000

A few hours after Pope Benedict XVI stunned the world by announcing his resignation from the chair of St. Peter, the Vatican was hit by a bolt of lightning. Photos of the event have a striking resemblance to the 16th card of a Tarot pack called, ‘The Tower’ which is also being struck by lightning. Tarot cards have a mystical and occult following used to help predict people’s future, and some believe that their origin dates back to the very ancient ‘Egyptian Book of Thoth’.

A looming crisis for the Holy See?

Each Tarot Card possesses a pictogram and a title that represents a specific notion, and ‘The Tower’ symbolizes upheaval, destruction, chaos, sudden change, and revelation. ‘The Tower’ also represents ambitions built on false premises, and in Tarot Card symbology, the lightning bolt on this card represents a break-down in existing forms in order to make room for new ones. In this case, the falling figure is representative of the Catholic priesthood tumbling down headfirst, because of a sudden exposé of truth, and a flash of new inspiration that breaks down old structures of ignorance and false reasoning.

Scandal-hit Vatican

The sex and power scandals currently haunting the Vatican look set to play a big role in the future of the Church, and if a secret report on Vatican corruption prepared for Pope Benedict XVI is ever released to the public, the symbology of ‘The Tower’ Tarot Card may signal an upcoming and major crisis for the Vatican.

Pope Benedict XVI’s dark legacy

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 23:07:00 +0000

Pope Benedict XVI has decided to step down, and in doing so he has earned himself the title, ‘The short distance Pope’. He is the first pontiff to resign since Pope Gregory XII (d. 1415), who, some 600 years ago, was one of three legal popes equally in charge of Christianity. He was ‘declared unworthy of the pontificate, and accepted a large payment of gold to stand aside’¹, then leaving only two popes in the chair of St. Peter. While it seems that Benedict XVI’s health was one reason for his resignation, rumours are rife in the international media that a secret 300-page ‘Vatileaks dossier’ commissioned by the Pope himself, reveals the existence of a shadowy ‘network of gay senior prelates in the Vatican’ (‘The Guardian’) and the associated information is so ‘explosive’ that it ultimately led to Benedict XVI deciding to call it a day. Whatever the truth, it is undeniable that he was the central living figure in the most horrific and widespread scandal to hit the Vatican since it established its 588-year-long murderous Inquisition in 1232 (1232-1820). As prosecutors are increasingly moving into the Church of Rome and Catholics are moving out in unprecedented numbers, Pope Benedict XVI now has his architects finishing off his new $14 million retirement home in a refurbished three-story convent in the Vatican gardens.

Pope John Paul II’s secret instructions

In November, 1981, as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Pope John Paul II appointed him to the position of prefect of the ‘Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’ (CDF), a notorious Vatican department previously called the ‘Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition’. Later, John Paul II put Ratzinger in charge of concealing thousands of charges of child rape and torture by Catholic priests that were streaming in from victims around the world. With a staff of 45 to assist him, Cardinal Ratzinger oversaw and controlled every single case of clerical sex abuse at the Vatican from 2001 until he became Pope in 2005. In that same year (2005), the ‘London Observer’ reported that Cardinal Ratzinger ordered the Catholic clergy not to pass any damaging information about paedophile priests to the press or law enforcement authorities. In a letter sent by Ratzinger to every bishop in the world, he ordered that all priesthood abuse and child rape allegations were to be investigated only in the Vatican, ‘in the most secretive way … restrained by a perpetual silence … and everyone … is to observe the strictest secret which is commonly regarded as a secret of the Holy Office’ (‘London Observer’). The letter added that the reporting of incidents to outside sources was an offense punishable by excommunication.

Benedict XVI protected priests who abused children

Recently, Jonathon Freedland writing for ‘The Guardian’ newspaper in London said: ‘Whatever warm words he uttered as pope, it is [his] record of action - and inaction - that matters more … despite his age and the reverence of the office he soon vacates, he should answer for his actions. Not only in the next life, but here and now’. Freedland lists the accusations that are leveled against Pope Benedict XVI that included withholding knowledge, and personally covering up thousands of instances of priesthood paedophilia. A very serious accusation ask questions of Pope Benedict XVI’s record when he was the Archbishop of Munich and his reported efforts apparently to protect the secrecy of the Regensburg and Munich files of both himself and his older brother, Georg Ratzinger (1924- ), a senior priest in Bavaria. Allegations of abuse at a boarding school where Monsignor Georg Ratzinger ran the choir for 30 years surfaced in March 2010, and although the Pope’s brother denied knowledge of the extent of what was happening, he admitted that ‘he slapped pupils in the face’ (BBC, March 9th, 2010).

Pope Benedict XVI should be remembered for his sins

No one is more implicated in covering up the Vatican’s institutionalization of priesthood sex crimes than Pope Benedict XVI, the man who was elected to the chair of St. Peter with a reputation of being the Vatican’s ‘Rottweiler’ and a supposed hardened administrator who was to punish dissenters within the Catholic Church. It should also be remembered that he remains the subject of a ‘crimes against humanity’ claim before the International Criminal Court in The Hague, and for him, seclusion in a Vatican mini-palace provides a way to evade responsibility for his central role in protecting priests who raped hundreds of thousands of children around the world.

Could Pope Benedict XVI be put on trial?

(CNN - Video) – Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation brings calls for his prosecution. CNN’s Nic Robertson investigates the claims.

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2013/02/18/robertson-papal-proseuction.cnn

¹Hist. de Concl. de Pise, (History of the Council of Pisa) Lanfant liv. ii., pp. 199, 200

The last Pope and the secret prophecies of Nostradamus

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:57:00 +0000

‘The Prophecy of the Popes’ is an intriguing old book made up of a sequential collection of events purporting to describe the life of 112 popes from the Twelfth Century’s Celestine II (1143-44) to ‘Peter the Roman’, the new, incoming 2013 Pope whose pontificate, according to the prophecies, will be the last. This fascinating list of brief prophecies about the Vatican’s pontiffs was published in a book called, ‘Lignum Vitae’ written in Latin by Arnold de Wyon in 1595. Wyon was a Benedictine historian, and he attributed the origin of the prophecies to St. Malachy O’Morgair (1095-1148), a 12th Century bishop of Armagh in Northern Ireland. These short cryptic phrases consist of a single line written in an ingenious form of word play that gives a clue to the characteristics of each consecutive pope over an 800-year period. Wyon claims to have found ‘The Prophecy of the Popes’ in 1590 in the Church’s archives, but there is some doubt about its true origin.

‘These things are finished’ (St. Malachy)

It was discovered some two decades after the death of Michel de Nostredame (Nostradamus, d. 1566), a charismatic 16th Century Provencal physician turned seer, and it has a remarkable resemblance to the style and format of his writings. Many experts believe that he was its creator, and he credited it retrospectively to St. Malachy to prevent himself from being accused of predicting the end of the papacy that would have put the Vatican’s murderous Inquisitors on his tail. Those predictions regarding the popes have been variously interpreted, and many opinions exist. Pope John Paul II, a supporter of the prophecies, was the 110th Pope in the line, and Pope Benedict XVI is the 111th Pope. The incoming Pope will be number 112, and Saint Malachy’s conclusion about his imminent papacy was this: ‘In the extreme persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will sit Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep in many tribulations, and when these things are finished, the city of seven hills [Rome] will be destroyed, and the terrible judge will judge his people. The End’. Thus, according to the prophecies, the next Pope is the last Pope.

Vatican loses fight to keep sex files secret

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:14:00 +0000

After six years of American court appeals by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to keep 30,000 pages of internal, sealed files of priesthood sex crimes out of public scrutiny, the State Supreme Court recently ordered their release, and the documents became public for the first time. They make for startling reading, soul-jarring and shocking, an incontrovertible record of brutal and heartless rapes committed by 122 Roman Catholic priests who presented themselves to the world as the earthly agents of God. These files are a remarkable archive of criminal behaviour condoned by the Holy See, and are disturbing to read. Ray Boucher, the lead attorney for plaintiffs, said that what is revealed in the files is ‘chilling’, and ‘the irony in all of this’, he added, ‘is that in their vain attempts to protect the image of the church, they’ve tarnished it beyond repair’. Upon reading the unsealed documents, an anonymous Vatican official said that the Los Angeles Catholic priesthood ‘left a wake of devastation that is hard to comprehend’.

The sacked Cardinal

As a direct result of the release of the documents, and in a move unprecedented in the American Catholic Church, Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez announced that he had relieved his predecessor, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, of all public duties over his serious mishandling of clergy sex abuse of children over the previous decades. Archbishop Gomez also announced that Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Curry, who worked with Cardinal Mahony to conceal child sex abusers from police, had resigned his post as a regional bishop in Santa Barbara, California. In a letter addressed to ‘My brothers and sisters in Christ’, Archbishop Gomez wrote; ‘I find these files to be brutal and painful reading. The behavior described in these files is terribly sad and evil’. Such is the nature of the Catholic priesthood the world over.

Victory for the victims

Abuse victims had insisted that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles release the records as part of a settlement in 2007, which provided $660 million to 508 victims. The Vatican’s response to intense media coverage about decades of paedophilic crimes in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles was simply to say that the accusations were nothing more than ‘petty gossip of the moment’ (Cardinal Angelo Sodano, April 2010, at Easter Mass in St. Peter’s Square), but the records of the Catholic Church now released reveal something entirely different. The published files contain key information that Catholic hierarchs used delaying tactics for six years in the Courts to prevent the public release of the documents since the global settlement was announced. Now the world can read the truth about specific men in Catholic leadership with the titles of Pope, Cardinal, Bishop, and Monsignor and how they always put the avoidance of child sex abuse scandals in the Church above the safety of children.

What are they hiding?

However, it seems that the files the archdiocese released with much fanfare are incomplete and many are unaccounted for, according to the lawyers of the abuse victims. Even the number of pages that exist in the files is in contention. At the hearing before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Emilie H. Elias in January, 2013, Mr. Hennigan, the archdiocese’s lawyer, said there were 30,000 pages, yet only 12,000 have been released, and they have missing sections, such as the names of high-ranking churchmen, and the supervisors of religious orders. In addition, many documents have had the names of particular church supervisors redacted, or blacked-out by the archdiocese’s editors, in apparent violation of the judge’s order. Terrence McKiernan, co-director of BishopAccountability.org, a victims’ advocacy group that collects and publishes documents on sexual abuse by Catholic clergy members, said; ‘They seem to be trying to protect the names of supervisors not only in Los Angeles, but in other dioceses as well’. Lawyers for the abuse victims said they were compiling a list of documents that they believe are still missing or are erroneously edited, and may file a motion in court to compel the church to release them. ‘We know we have not gotten a complete disclosure’, said Jeff Anderson, who is among the lawyers representing the victims. ‘They have removed things that should not have been removed, some of which we have seen before, so we know that they exist. It’s more deception, deceit and secrecy’.

The released files can be accessed at the following web address: http://clergyfiles.la-archdiocese.org/listing.html.
For more information, visit: http://www.zalkin.com/Sexual_Abuse_Blog/2013/January/Court_Fulfills_Promise_of_2007_Settlement_LA_Arc.aspx

Position vacant: New Pope Wanted

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:30:00 +0000

Pope Benedict XVI announced this week that he will resign from the papacy on February 28, 2013, and speculation is rife about who will succeed him. His decision sets the stage for a conclave to elect a new pope before the end of March, 2013, and this Vatileaks posting offers some advice and background information to the candidates contesting the position of the new leader of the Catholic Church. It should be remembered that the successful applicant must be able to take charge of a religion that is sinking in moral bankruptcy, and he must also be able to ignore Amnesty International’s accusations that the Church of Rome has constantly violated human rights. Here are some other requirements for the position of Pope:

1. The successful applicant must be ready to maintain the ancient tradition of protecting the Vatican’s international paedophile ring of thousands of Catholic priests who rape innocent little children, and follow the examples of both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI in allowing career paedophiles to continue operating unabated in the Catholic priesthood.

2. The new Pope’s first job is the impossible task of trying to attempt to recover the profound loss of faith in all Catholic countries around the world.

3. Candidates should apply for the papal position only after they have securely suppressed the sins of their past with false documentation, and thus be in a position to pretend to be unsullied. As happened with John Paul II, immediately after the elevation of the new Pope, the Vatican’s propaganda machine moved into action, and issued false statements about his past.

4. The new Pope must continue to conceal the fact that the Vatican created a false history for itself, and the Gospels are not collections of biographical facts about Jesus Christ, but un-historic priesthood fabrications. He must also maintain the Vatican’s bitter hostility towards its past being exposed, and not enter into a discussion about the erudite Dr. Joseph McCabe’s famous quote: ‘The Vatican is in the business of concealing its history’ (A History of the Popes, Dr. Joseph McCabe, Rector of Buckingham College (d. 1955); C. A. Watts and Co, London).

5. The successful applicant will need to address the recent political rejections of the Catholic Church in the USA, the Philippines, German, Ireland, the Netherlands, Australia and other countries; the priests’ revolts in Austria, Ireland, the USA and elsewhere, and the international bank regulators constant pressure on the Vatican Bank to cease its money-laundering activities.

6. The new Pope must decline all live TV interviews in case he is asked to produce evidence for the existence of Jesus Christ.

7. Hidden behind secret and complex offshore company structures, the new Pope must subtly expand the Vatican’s massive worldwide wealth of real estate, gold bullion, banks, art treasures, office blocks in London, sports stadiums, casinos, businesses, publishing houses, blocks of flats in Paris and Switzerland, stocks and bonds, that currently totals more financial value than any other single institution in the world.

8. To be a successful Pope, stage-acting experience is an advantage.

9. The applicant must be able to present the Bible as the ‘unadulterated word of God’ without bursting into laughter.

10. A life-time supply of lacy frocks and frilly overlays is part of the employment package, as is the standard pagan ‘fish-head’ papal tiara of Babylonian lore.

11. Like many popes, the applicant must say that his illegitimate daughters or sons are ‘nieces’ or ‘nephews’, and falsely pretend to be pure.

12. As the ‘infallible’ head of the Catholic Church, the new Pope must be prepared to face current and expanding charges of ‘Crimes against Humanity’ directed at the Holy See at The Hague, originally instigated against Pope Benedict XVI that pass on to the new Pope.

13. The successful applicant’s remuneration package includes unlimited amounts of cash, gold and jewels, and a palace in Vatican City resplendent with chefs, servants, housemaids and Swiss Guards for personal protection against his many enemies. A richly-appointed summer palace, the Castel Gandolfo near the Mediterranean Sea is included in the package and comes complete with a swimming pool and a personal staff of around 50 people.

14. He must be prepared for other countries to follow Ireland’s example in shutting down their Embassies in Rome and severing their ties with the Vatican.

15. The new Pope will have a jet airliner available to provide free, unlimited first-class international travel for him and his hangers-on.

16. The successful applicant will receive the key to the executive toilet in the ‘Raphael bathroom’ in Vatican City’s papal palace, and will be excused for vomiting on the Cortina Marble tiles if intoxicated.

17. The position offers exquisite gourmet meals and fine vintage wines free for the remainder of the successful applicant’s life.

18. The victorious candidate faces a growing sense of disillusionment with the Catholic Church as millions leave, and others look at the Holy See with deep skepticism after learning about centuries of falsifications and pre-meditated forgeries in the Christian Gospels.

19. The new appointee to the chair of St. Peter must, on all occasions, pretend to be interested in the concerns of Christian believers, and not spend his days shooting birds in the Vatican gardens as did one of his predecessors.

Applicants are invited to apply in Vatican City in the first instance in March 2013 at the conclave in the Sistine Chapel, and be ready to indulge in offering bribes to the cardinals that is a traditional part of the process of becoming pope.

The Vatican’s ‘Book of the Popes’ fictitious

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:06:00 +0000

In 1587, Pope Sixtus V (1521-1590) established an official Vatican publishing division and retrospectively created a literary past for the Christian religion by producing of a series of unashamedly fictitious books. As a result, a series of illusory works were written to defend and support untrue allegations about Christianity’s past:

‘Several of these fake books are frequently cited and applied to the defence of Christianity by the Church as true and genuine pieces’.

(‘A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People’, Lippincott and Co. 1877; also, Diderot’s ‘Encyclopèdie’, 1759; also, ‘The Propaganda Press of Rome’, Sir James W. L. Claxton, Whitehaven Books, Belgrave Square, London, 1942)

During the 16th and 17th Centuries, the Vatican flooded the world with false books about its alleged ‘popes’, the most blatant example being the famous or infamous, but ‘official’, ‘Book of the Popes’ (‘Liber Pontificalis’). Like the ‘Liberian Catalogue’, this tome is notorious for its fictitious accounts of early and mythical ‘successors’ of an un-historic ‘Pope St. Peter’. This papal fabrication provides a collection of glowing diatribes describing pontificates of docile and devout popes, most of who never existed, and has about it the spurious air of ingenuousness that so often amuses the non-Christian reader.

Invented ‘popes’

The ‘Book of the Popes’ makes martyrs of thirteen ‘popes’ of the Third and Fourth Centuries who never existed, for it is known that their names were created in later times and retrospectively inserted into Catholic chronicles to create an illusion of an unbroken succession of popes back to the First Century. Here we see another example of the Vatican forging its own credentials, supported by the fact that all popes down to the year 530, with the benefit of hindsight, were honored as ‘saints’. This pretence gave the ‘pseudo popes’ an elevated Christian status, a kudos, and it concealed their fake nature. The evidence is confessed to by the Church itself:

‘The Vatican has now confessed that the ‘saintly’ distinctions are ‘without foundation’’.

(‘The Popes, A Concise Biographical History’, Burns and Oates, Publishers to the Holy See, London, 1964, p. 32)

The Holy See knows that they were retrospectively applied to invented people by later Catholic authors fabricating a false history for Christianity. Starting from 530 onward, the authors then did away with the prefix ‘St’, and it became rare, and eventually disappeared. This additional admission of the deceitfulness of the ‘Book of the Popes’ is found in the ‘Catholic Encyclopedia’:

‘In most of its manuscript copies there is found at the beginning a spurious correspondence between Pope Damasus and St. Jerome. These letters were considered genuine in the Middle Ages. Duchesne [papal historian, d. 1922] has proved exhaustively and convincingly that the first series of biographies, from St. Peter to Felix III (IV, d. 530) were compiled at the latest under Felix’s successor, Boniface II (530-532). The compilers of the ‘Liber Pontificalis’ [‘Book of the Popes’] utilized also some historical writings, a number of apocryphal fragments [e.g. the ‘Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions’], the ‘Constitutum Sylvestri’, the spurious Acts of the alleged ‘Synod of the 275 Bishops under Sylvester’, etc., and the fifth century ‘Roman Acts of Martyrs’. Finally, the compilers distributed arbitrarily along their list of popes a number of papal decrees taken from unauthentic sources, they likewise attributed to earlier popes liturgical and disciplinary regulations of the sixth century. The authors were Roman ecclesiastics, and some were attached to the Roman Court … in the ‘Liber Pontificalis’ it is recorded that popes issued decrees that were lost, or mislaid, or perhaps never existed at all. Later popes seized the opportunity to supply a false pontifical letter suitable for the occasion, attributing it to the pope whose name was mentioned in the ‘Liber Pontificalis’.

(‘Catholic Encyclopedia’, Farley Eds., Vol., v, pp. 773-780; ix, pp. 224-225, passim; also, ‘Annales Ecclesiastici’, Folio xi, Antwerp, 1597, Baronius; (‘De Antiqua Ecclesiae Disciplina’, Bishop Lewis Du Pin (Folio, Paris, 1686)

The falsity of the ‘Book of the Popes’ is thereby shown, and the intentional presentation of a fictitious papal lineage is revealed. The summations of popes are decorated with the official halo of sanctity but a hagiographic scholar and a member of the Bollandists, Father Hippolyte Delehaye (1859-1941), a leading Catholic investigator of this kind of Vatican literature, frankly admitted:

‘There is no evidence whatever that the papal genealogies [in the ‘Book of the Popes’] are based upon earlier sources’.

(‘The Legends of the Saints’, Father H. Delehaye, Fordham University Press, 1962)

The Vatican again admitted that its papal biographies in the ‘Book of the Popes’ are not a candid digest of men of considerable erudition, but are untruthful fabrications:

‘Historical criticism has for a long time dealt with this ancient text in an exhaustive way … especially in recent decades … and established it historically untenable’.

(‘Catholic Encyclopedia’, Farley Eds., Vol., v, pp. 773-780; ix, pp. 224-225)

Thus, the Holy See confessed that its ‘Book of the Popes’ is a phony record, compiled in the typically fraudulent manner of all Christian literature. However, Catholic authors regularly quote the Vatican-produced falsehood as factual, and continue to deceive people about the true nature of popes and the real purpose of their office.

Fine-tuning the records

In 1947, and to the amazement of Catholics worldwide, Pope Pius XII announced that he had deleted six ‘popes’ from the Vatican’s ‘official’ list because ‘a mistake had been made for they never existed’ (New York Times; also Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 19th, 1947). He also authorized the falsification of the dating of 74 popes, and removed the ‘sainthood’ of four others. In reality, the Vatican amended its fabricated list of popes, and fine-tuned for itself a false papal inventory back to the First Century. These ‘popes’ were vested with an aureole of sanctity so, in the eyes of believers, the miraculous ‘holiness’ of the ‘early popes’ is safe, overlooking Vatican confessions that it knows nothing about them except what is written in the ‘official panegyric’ that the Holy See invented for itself.

The ‘Book of the Popes’ is a bizarre Catholic publication that is so deceptive, sophistical, doctrinal and prejudiced that in the interests of revealing historical facts, it is not worthy of reference in any serious work, yet Christian dictionaries, particularly the ‘Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church’ constantly expand upon its fictions and references the forged book as if its entries were historically true, but covers itself by attaching the word ‘unreliable’ in brackets after citations (e.g., Entry on page 1540 under ‘Stephen I’; 1997 Ed.,). Here we see another example of false information making its way into Christian encyclopedias and dictionaries and used today with great profit to fool people into believing something about Christianity’s past that is untrue.

‘Drunk as a pope’ (origin of the saying)

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:30:00 +0000

Amongst the dozens of dissolute popes, it is generally conceded that Jacques Fourier (1285-1342) gave rise to the popular saying, ‘drunk as a pope’. At his coronation in the Dominican priory at Avignon on January 8th, 1335, he took the name, Benedict XII, and then promptly fell down drunk. Bishop Mollet (d. c. 1640), a learned Catholic historian of the popes, added this comment: ‘There is no dispute about his character, as his gluttony, vulgarity, and violent temper, were notorious. He drank strong wine so continuously that he often lapsed into unconsciousness and was unable to get to the papal bedroom’.

Pope Benedict XII’s contemporaries called him; ‘A Nero, for he demanded death to the laity; he was viper to the clergy, a liar, and a drunkard’. All Europe demanded his abdication, yet the greedy and vindictive Frenchman clung to his papal rags for eight years. His murderous ways narrowly restricted any virtues that the Vatican falsely claims that he possessed. While Catholic historians admit that Benedict XII drank heavily, they fail to mention that Jesus Christ was also ‘a drunkard’ (Matt. 11:19; Luke 7:34).

The Encyclopedia the Vatican suppressed

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 21:41:00 +0000

The Vatican has a history of opposition to Encyclopedias published outside its control, and that was revealed when it moved quickly to suppress a major volume compiled by learned French Encyclopedist, Denis Diderot (1713-83).¹ The Vatican was appalled, for his Encyclopèdie, published in 1759, stood in violent opposition to its claims, supported with powerful references from leaked records from the Secret Vatican Archives that revealed the Gospel personage of Jesus Christ had no relation with reality. An outraged Pope Clement XIII (1758-69) exclaimed that ‘with forty pages against Christianity it is among the boldest book ever known, worse even than Rousseau’s Emile and Febronius‘s vilifications’. Thereupon, Clement XIII ordered:

The said book is impious, scandalous, bold, and full of blasphemies and calumnies against the Christian religion. These volumes are so much more dangerous and reprehensible as they are written in French and in the most seductive style. The author of this book, who has the boldness to sign his name to it, should be arrested as soon as possible. It is important that justice should make an example, with all severity, both of the author and those who have shared in printing or distributing such a book.²

Accordingly, later in 1759, the Vatican ordered all volumes to be burned, prohibited their sale, and decreed arrest for Diderot should he ever enter Rome.³ His Encyclopèdie was listed on the Vatican’s infamous Index of Prohibited Books, and a ban of excommunication was pronounced on anybody who should read it. Later, in 1764, Diderot learnt with great disappointment that his publisher, Andre Le Breton, had, under instructions ‘from a team of priests’, eliminated ‘compromising evidence’ from the corrected proof sheets of ten folio volumes of a scheduled reprint his Encyclopèdie.⁴ However, many of his earlier versions exist today, and are held by rare book collectors and libraries.

¹ ‘Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church’, Cross, 1997, p. 545

² ‘Catholic Encyclopedia’, Vol. iii, p. 343, Ed. Cardinal Cardozia, published under the Imprimatur of ‘De Romano Pontiff’ (Pecci), 1897. Pecci was Pope Leo XIII (Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci; 1810-1903)

³ ‘The Censoring of Diderot’s Encyclopedia and the Re-established Text’ (NY.1947), D. H. Gordon and N. L. Torrey; also, ‘Oxford Concise Dictionary of the Christian Church’, E. A. Livingstone, 2000, p. 191; also, ‘The Vatican Censors’, Professor Peter Elmsley (1773-1825), Principal of St. Alban’s Hall, Oxford

⁴ ‘The Censoring of Diderot’s Encyclopedia and the Re-established Text’ (NY.1947), D. H. Gordon and N. L. Torrey

How much longer can the Vatican avoid priest sex abuse charges?

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:41:00 +0000

(These are the views of Jerry Slevin, a Catholic and Harvard schooled Wall Street lawyer, retired)

The Vatican priest child abuse ‘cover-up denial’ that was so evident at the recent Roman Synod of Bishops, may be manageable for another year or two, but likely not much longer, even with a new Pope. International reality checks, in the form of factual and not mythical revelations, are rapidly exposing the Vatican’s latest mystical smokescreens to be the poor public relations ploys they are. So many innocent Catholic children have been raped by too many predatory priests protected by complicit Cardinals and Bishops. There are limits to trusting Catholics’ inculcated gullibility, and even an ex-FOX News pro working for the Pope can spin only so much. Facts stubbornly speak for themselves. Papal ‘Tweets’ and ‘Apps’ are no substitute for papal candor.

On an academic level, a promising young UK/Italian lay ecclesiologist has effectively exposed the mainly mythological foundation of the Vatican’s claim for absolute papal primacy. The recent book, ‘Democracy and the Christian Church’, concisely shows the scriptural, theological, philosophical and historical weaknesses of the papal claim and is accessible in part by clicking on: http://amzn.com/0567449521

Cardinal Malony’s protection racket exposed

Catholics are increasingly learning that hierarchical conduct too often deviates significantly from papal propaganda. Initial Los Angeles secret abuse file revelations have exposed Cardinal Mahony’s reckless protection of known predatory priests. Criminal allegations of drug dealing against, and related cross-dressing and porn shop operation reports about, a former Bridgeport state chaplain of the Knights of Malta and top subordinate to Cardinal Egan and to Archbishop Lori, head of the Pope’s anti-Obama ‘religious liberty crusade’, are almost incredibly unsavory.

The Pope and the choir boys

Moreover, reported efforts apparently to protect the secrecy of Munich and Regensburg files of the Pope and his brother, relating to alleged failures in the 1970’s to curtail a Munich predatory priest and to protect abused Regensburg choir boys, by sacking a too thorough German academic investigator, further erodes the steadily disappearing papal credibility. Ruthless attempts to silence a popular Irish priest who spoke about women and married priests, and apparently also to try to curtail an Irish priests’ ‘union’, are backfiring as the brave priest stands fast. Continued diatribes against gay marriage by a reported drunk driver San Francisco Archbishop appear cynical and desperate at best. Seemingly unending criminal trial disclosures about Cardinal Rigali’s Philadelphia pedophile priest paradise continues to disgust many Catholics. Millions of U.S. Catholics have had enough and want to see these hypocritical and unaccountable actions curbed promptly.

‘Will the Next Pope Become the Vatican’s Last Pope?’

Some Cardinals and Bishops will likely soon begin to be pressed directly by international and individual nations’ prosecutorial investigations. Even an end to Popes being dictated to by corrupt Vatican Cardinal cliques may be on the near horizon, as explained in ‘Will the Next Pope Become the Vatican’s Last Pope?’, accessible by clicking on: http://wp.me/P2YEZ3-cT

Looming U.S. Federal investigation into the Catholic Church

The days of relying mainly on Vatican canon law investigations and ‘prosecutions’, now to be overseen by one of disgraced Cardinal Law’s former canon lawyers, are over. The major Australian governmental investigation and the almost inevitable upcoming U.S. Federal investigation will only add to the pressure on the Vatican, as explained further in ‘Why President Obama Must Read the Latest ‘LA Confidential’’, accessible by clicking on: http://wp.me/P2YEZ3-f3 .

A documentary not to missed!

Finally, beginning soon on Monday, February 4, HBO will begin airing internationally the award winning documentary, ‘Mea Maxima Culpa’. It is the sad story about 200+ deaf boys who were allegedly sexually abused by a single priest in Milwaukee over several decades. Both local law enforcement and the Catholic hierarchy reportedly failed to act timely and adequately on deaf boys’ abuse claims, which even futilely reached the Pope’s CDF department in Rome. A Federal judge recently reversed an earlier shameful attempt by then Archbishop Dolan, now New York’s Cardinal and a reported papal contender, to transfer $55 million of the Milwaukee diocese’s funds to a cemetery trust beyond the legal reach of abuse survivors’ claims, apparently including some of the deaf survivors.

The Vatican and its subservient Cardinals and Bishops may try to run some more, as Cardinal Law so arrogantly did; but they are rapidly running out of places to hide.

A frank Vatican confession

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:19:00 +0000

In regard to the veracity of the Christian Gospels, Catholic Encyclopedias previous to the revised 1907 editions said:

‘God neither inspired the sacred writers nor guarded them from all error; the Gospels in particular are not books worthy of historical belief, as their authors have consciously, though piously, falsified facts to justify their faith’.¹

The Vatican also admitted that the Gospel writers wrote what they liked; ‘It was the public character of all divines to mold and bend the sacred oracles until they complied with their own fancy, spreading them … like a curtain, closing together or drawing them back as they pleased’.² In other words, the Vatican effectively created a written devise called Gospels to instill and maintain a belief and used it to preach as true and accurate what it knows is false and fraudulent.

For knowledge of Jesus Christ one is completely dependent on the New Testament, yet the trustees of those writings formerly admit that they ‘contain fictions, of which many who know are ashamed’³. The fundamental nature of the New Testament is devoid of every element of genuineness and archival records confirm it as a work of falsehood knowingly deceptively presented to the laity. The Christian priesthood bases the total of their assertions on narratives that their forefathers personally acknowledged were premeditated forgeries originally created to impress the rabble population of the time in which they were written.

¹Catholic Encyclopedia, iii, p. 420, Ed. Cardinal Cardozia, published under the Imprimatur of ‘De Romano Pontiff’ (Pecci), 1897. Pecci was Pope Leo XIII (Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci; 1810-1903)
²Catholic Encyclopedia, iv, 498
³Encyclopedia Britannica, Ninth Edition, Vol. 10, ‘Gospels’

The boy pope

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:43:00 +0000

There is scarcely anything which strikes the mind of the researcher of Catholic history with greater surprise than the way the Vatican today celebrates the march of tyrants and usurpers through seas of blood to maintain the papal throne. The joyful applause with which the Vatican salutes the fortunes of centuries of popes causes most Catholics to go through life without hearing a word of reproach for any pope or member of the clergy, and this example is just one of dozens that can be cited.

Bribes for the papal miter

After the death of Pope John XIX in 1032, the papacy remained under the control of the Tusculani family until they had what they considered a ‘suitable son’ to succeed him, and with revolting cynicism, they put forward a boy aged 12-years for the papal throne. He was Grottaferrata Theofilatto (Theophylact, in some records), and in October 1032 his family won the murderous scramble for the wealth of the papacy. The chroniclers of the day state that the clergy and nobles were heavily bribed to elect the boy, and then assisted at the solemn farce of his consecration. He became Pope Benedict IX (1032-1044; 1047-1048), and with insolence, the Vatican described him as;

‘One of our more youthful popes who was unanimously elected by a special commission to the cheers of the delighted cardinals, who were all legitimately appointed and formal cognizance was taken. The cardinal- camerlengo made the announcement of a pope-elect about eight o’clock on the morning of the first day, and then the cardinals advanced and paid him his first obedience or homage (adoratio). After the conclave, certain honorary distinctions and pecuniary emoluments were awarded to the conclavists’.

(‘Catholic Encyclopedia’, Pecci Ed. Vol., iii, p. 255)

Upon reaching his 14th year, the chronicler-monk, Raoul Glaber, in his ‘History’, wrote that Pope Benedict IX had already surpassed in wantonness and profligacy of all who had preceded him. With his older brothers, the boy pope established a reign of terror, and by age twenty he had a record of vice and murder which amazed all Christendom, causing one think that at the age of twelve he could have hardly have been a little angel. His vicious life can only find parallel in that of the most debauched of the Roman emperors, Commodus and Caligula, being two that come to mind. The testimony to the Pope’s depravity showed his disinterest in religious matters, and his disrespect for an ascetic life was well known. Catholic historian, Bishop Benno of Placentia, is bolder than usual in his comments about the Church, and blatantly accused Pope Benedict IX of ‘many vile adulteries and murders’.

Papal tyranny

A pope some four decades or so later, Victor III (1086-1087), in his ‘Dialogues’ (Book iii), added to the list of Benedict IX’s horrors, saying;

‘He committed rapes, murders, and other unspeakable acts … he often had to leave Rome in a hurry … his life as pope was so vile, so foul, so execrable … they [his acts] were so horrible that I shudder to tell them’.

(‘The Lives of the Popes’, Vol. V (1910), p. 241. The chief contemporary authorities are Pope Victor III, in his ‘Dialogues’, Bk. III (Migne, Vol. XLIX, col. 1003); the monk Raoul Glaber, in his ‘History’, IV, I (Migne, Vol. CXLII); and Bishop Benno of Placentia, in his ‘Liber ad Amicum’ (Migne, Vol. CL., col. 817).

No writer of that or any later century differs from these in regard to Benedict’s IX’s morals. Reading these charges, we understand that the ‘Holy boy Father’ indulged unrestrainedly in natural and unnatural vice and extortion, and murdered anybody who opposed him. While trying to suppress his true age, the Holy See said this about him:

‘He was the worst pope since John XII … he was young, wholly secular in his outlook, immoral, cruel, and indifferent to spiritual things. The testimony to his depravity is … overwhelming’.

(‘The Popes, A Concise Biographical History’, Burns and Oates, Publishers to the Holy See, London, 1964, p. 175, passim)

He officially opened the doors of the Vatican to homosexuals and turned ‘the palace of the popes’ into an organized and profitable male brothel (‘Lives of the Popes’, Mann). His violent and licentious conduct provoked the Roman people into vehement action, and more than once they expelled him from the city. However, by means of the emperors or other powerful friends, he was as often restored. In January 1044, the Romans, shocked at his debaucheries, elected John of Sabine to surpass him under the name of Pope Sylvester III (1044-5). But Sylvester was quickly driven out of Rome by Benedict IX’s brothers and fled for his life into the Sabine hills. Then, the rebellious Bishop of Sabina bribed and detached Sylvester’s supporters, and he was duly consecrated Pope Sergius V. The Romans rallied against him, and drove him out of the city.

Benedict IX sells the papacy

The next phase in this stage of Catholic history, which no one disputes, is remarkable:

‘Finding himself at length an object of public abhorrence on account of his flagitious crimes, he [Benedict IX] sold the popedom to his successor Gregory VI [1045-1047], and took himself to a private life, rioting without control in all manner of un-cleanliness’.

(‘Galian’s History of the Church’)

Gregory VI (John Gratianus Graziano) was Benedict IX’s godfather, and he paid the massive sum of 2000 pounds weight of gold to purchase the papacy. What Benedict IX would do with the gold, they knew well. We have a letter in which St. Peter Damiani (1007-72), boisterously congratulates Gregory VI on this gross act of simony; and this at a time when every religious writer bemoaned the fact that simony was the greatest curse of the Church of Rome. However, the circumstances of Gregory VI’s ‘election’ had become widely known, and had been found repugnant to the general populous. They rose up against him, and the new pope found it necessary to reinstate order in Rome and elsewhere, and in doing so exhausted his remaining wealth in the hire of soldiers and the purchase of weapons.

An unprecedented situation

Then suddenly, in 1047, ex-pope Benedict IX reappeared and announced he was reclaiming the papacy. He had spent his gold in riotous living in a country castle, withdrew his resignation, and entrenched himself as Pope in the church of St. Maria Maggiore. During this time, and to end the intrigues of three rival popes, Holy Roman Emperor, Henry III (1017-56) had promoted Clement II (1046-1047) to the papacy, but he soon died from suspected poisoning. Benedict IX, who was widely believed to have ordered the poisoning, then took back the papacy with tactless arrogance and resumed his ‘sacred office’ for eight months.

In 1048, and at the age of 28-years, Pope Benedict IX was found dead in a pool of blood with his throat cut. Undertakers refused to build him a coffin, and he was surreptitiously dumped in the forest in old bed-sheets under the cover of darkness.

(This is an extract from a pre-publication manuscript called, ‘The Criminal History of the Catholic Church’ by Tony Bushby)

Evidence that Pope John Paul II was a fraud

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:45:00 +0000

When Karol Wojtyla assumed the papacy as Pope John Paul II in 1978, Vatican City was abuzz with rumors about his past. Now, Vatileaks researchers are asking the public for more information about those rumors to finalize a controversial new book about the future Saint’s life. This explosive critique looks at the life of John Paul II from a different perspective and provides radical new information about suppressed aspects of his life that was sourced, in part, from Vatican insiders.

A deluge of new facts

One of Pope John Paul II’s more famous biographies covered his years from 1938 and 1946 in just 72 words, and that is the time-frame in which we are particularly interested. This period of Karol Wojtyla’s life is not found in any records, and we are seeking additional information on his missing war years, along with other aspects of his life that have not yet been fully extricated;

1. Wojtyla achieved the rank of Officer in the Polish Army, but the full extent of his military career is not clear. We would like to know more about this period of his life, and also the depth of his involvement with UNIA, a Polish underground resistance movement.

2. Why did Cardinal Adam Sapieha remove Wojtyla’s employment records from the Solvay Chemical Plant?

3. We welcome any information about Baron Starowieyski’s family of Poland

4. Tour guides to the Birkenau gas chambers at Auschwitz tell tourists that Wojtyla once worked there. What was his job?

5. We would like to know why Wojtyla travelled under a false name

6. Our researchers would appreciate any information from the files of the Polish Secret Police on Wojtyla, opened in 1946 and a few months before he was ordained a priest.

7. We would like to know why Wojtyla’s theology doctorate was ‘withheld’ (confirmed in writing by Father Thomas Carde, the Rector of the Angelicum) amidst Vatican claims that ‘he excelled and was awarded the Doctorate of Divinity with the highest honours’ (Official Website of the Holy See).

8. We would welcome the date, or a copy of a ‘Public Notice’ about Karol Wojtyla’s past, published in a Polish newspaper as a warning to the public shortly after he became Auxiliary Bishop of Krakow in 1958.

9. We would like more information about the efforts of an internal Vatican sect’s attempts to overthrow Pope John Paul II during 1981-3

10. Additional information is required about Pope John Paul II’s involvement in the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, and the massacre of Swiss Guards in Vatican City in 1998.

The illusion of Pope John Paul II presented to the world today is one of deliberate deception, created from premeditated Vatican statements that bear no relation to historic fact, and designed to hide chilling realities about this pontiff. Significant perhaps, is the extent of what the Holy See purposely left out of the public record of his life, and that includes an urgent Jesuit memo sent to a member of the Holy See relating to the Pope’s sexual activities. It said this; ‘It must be made impossible for such a dangerous scandal ever to be made public’ (Ref. here). What that ‘scandal’ was is revealed in this new book by Tony Bushby called ‘Pope John Paul II’s Dark Secrets’ and it exposes the steadfast determination of the Holy See to present a false impression of papal piety.

What is the Vatican’s sinister secret?

This book reveals how the world was deceived by an edifice of lies issued by Pope John Paul II and supported by the Vatican hierarchy. We need your help to finalize the information in this book, so please write in if you have anything that can assist our cause. If you can help, please do not fear retaliation, because your name and details will be withheld, and therefore you are guaranteed absolute confidentiality in the treatment of your material.

Great rewards await the spirited

A monetary reward is offered for un-published photos or documentation that provides incontrovertible evidence of un-disclosed matters associated with the life of Karol Wojtyla in the areas of interest to the Vatileaks research team.

Let’s open negotiations!!!!

Contact in the first instance by email to; whistle_blowers@live.com

If you wish to remain anonymous, you can send your information in utmost confidence to PO Box 417, Cooroy, Queensland, Australia, 4563

Alternatively, you can contact us by using the web form on the right or email; truth@vatileaks.com

Judge orders confidential Vatican files to be released

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:14:00 +0000

Earlier this week (January 7th, 2013), USA Superior Court Judge Emilie H. Elias ordered the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, California to release 30,000 pages of classified Catholic files that name some high-ranking Church officials. The documents relate to Vatican priests accused of molesting children, and were used to help more than 550 plaintiffs settle with the archdiocese in 2007 for a record-breaking $US660 million. At that time, the files associated with the cases were ordered to be released to the public, but the Vatican argued for a process to firstly edit some personnel files before their release. Attorneys for the archdiocese wanted the names of Church hierarchs recorded in the documents to be blacked out, as was permitted by a 2010 order by Judge Dickran Tevrizian, who said he feared that releasing the names may be used to ‘embarrass or ridicule the Church’. In December 2012, the ‘Associated Press’ and the ‘Los Angeles Times’ intervened in the case and argued in court papers that the heavy redactions of the sort proposed by the Church would prevent the public from learning which top Vatican officials knew about the plague of pedophile priests, and their involvement in the cover-up of the scandal. Attorneys for the media’s challenge contended that the Vatican’s secrecy concerns were motivated by ‘a desire to avoid further embarrassment’ for the Church, rather than the privacy worries of the people named in the documents, as was claimed by the Church.

Rumors that Pope John Paul II is named in the files

Victims’ association, ‘Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests’ (SNAP) has welcomed Judge Elias’s decision, stating: ‘We’re thrilled and grateful that a California judge is refusing to protect corrupt Catholic officials by keeping long-secret and long-promised church abuse records hidden any longer’. It is believed that the names revealed in the documents range from priests at local churches, various bishops and cardinals, Pope John Paul II, and then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI today) who, since 2001 oversaw clerical sex abuse cases for the Vatican. As is now being revealed by the international media, the priesthood culture that operated under Pope John Paul II covered up the most grievous crimes and sins of child sex abuse, and many perpetrators were shielded by John Paul II himself, one example being the late Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado, a Mexican pedophile priest who founded the Legionaries of Christ.

Something people should know about Pope John Paul II

Little does the public know that secret cash settlements to victims started shortly after John Paul II assumed the papal chair, and skyrocketed during his long pontificate. Nor do they know that dozens of known abuser priests took refuge in ministries in Third World countries with the blessing of both Pope John Paul II and his successor, Pope Benedict XVI. Under the papacy of John Paul II, the Catholic Church was revealed to be, and still is, a cesspool of pedophiles and pederasts priests. In October, 1992, and with the knowledge of John Paul II, the Fall River diocese secretly settled claims with 68 victims of notorious Catholic pedophile priest, Father James Porter (1935-2005), a convicted child sex molester and rapist, without disclosing the financial amounts involved. Another 31 lawsuits were settled later, again without disclosure of the sums of money involved, but a Vatican insider with connections to the IOR (Vatican Bank) told a Vatileaks representative that the secret settlements exceeded $US350 million.

Calling popes to accountability

Pope John Paul II went to his grave refusing to meet with victims of Church sex crimes and never voiced any apologies or regrets regarding his priesthood’s sexual abuse of minors or the Church of Rome’s premeditated cover-ups of hundreds of thousands of offenses. His stubborn refusals to demand the resignation of cardinals and bishops who aided, abetted, and suppressed the crimes are testimony to his callous indifference towards victims. Little did he realize that after his death, both he and Pope Benedict XVI would be revealed as the two major architects of the cover-up of the massive extent of priesthood sex scandals in the Catholic Church all over the world.

The Hague and a central secret

The institutionalized nature of Catholicism’s rampant criminal activity reveals the true nature of not only Pope John Paul II, but also the full Vatican bureaucracy that supports and encourages people with pedophilic persuasions into its priesthood and then systematically and knowingly conceals their felonies when the true motives of many priests are publicly exposed. The imminent release of this enormous collection of incriminating files may reveal a central Vatican secret about Pope John Paul II and assist the case currently in the International Criminal Court in The Hague to try Pope Benedict XVI and three cardinals for ‘crimes against humanity’. The release of the names in the confidential documents that the Vatican has aggressively tried to suppress for the last five years might help uncover the extent of a corrupt Vatican bureaucracy that has left the faith of many Catholic communities in tatters.

Bank card payments suspended in Vatican

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:55:00 +0000

AFP - The Bank of Italy has suspended all bank card payments in the Vatican including for tickets to its famous museum until further notice because of a failure to fully implement anti money laundering legislation, Italian media reported on Thursday.
The payments have been suspended since January 1 after the Bank of Italy ordered Deutsche Bank Italia, which handles bank card payments on Vatican territory, to deactivate its terminals because of a lack of authorisation for the transactions.
The Vatican museum, which was visited by five million tourists last year who paid a total of 91.3 million euros ($120 million), will now be asking for payments in cash, La Repubblica Daily reported.
The reports quoted Italian central bank sources saying the Vatican does not respect international anti-money laundering norms and an Italian-registered bank such as Deutsche Bank Italia can therefore not operate on its territory.
The suspension also includes payments at the Vatican pharmacy, the post office and a few ships that operate in the world's tiniest state.
Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said contacts were underway with other operators and the suspension of bank card payments should be ‘short-lived’, Corriere della Sera reported.

A glaring omission in World’s oldest Bible

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:51:00 +0000

It is a fact of Christian history that the earliest Gospels did not record a resurrection of Jesus Christ, and that claim is supported in the oldest known complete Bible available to mankind today. Called the Codex Sinaiticus, or Sinai Bible, it was named after Mt. Sinai, the location of St. Catherine’s Monastery where it was discovered in 1859 by Dr. Constantine Von Tischendorf (1815-1874). The discovery of the Sinai Bible provided biblical scholars with irrefutable evidence of wilful falsifications in all modern-day Gospels, and a comparison identified a staggering 14,800 later editorial alterations in modern Bibles.

Vast dating discrepancies

With the Sinai Bible, Christian history is traced back as far as it can conceivably go, but it was still written, at best, more than 350 years after the time the Vatican says Jesus Christ walked the sands of Palestine. The ‘Catholic Encyclopedia’ agrees to this extraordinary late composition of the world’s oldest Bible:

’The earliest of the extant manuscripts [relating to Christianity], it is true, do not date back beyond the middle of the fourth century AD’.

(‘Catholic Encyclopedia’, 1909, ‘Gospels’)

Hand-written on animal skins in a dead Greek language, the Sinai Bible was purchased by the British Museum from the Soviet Government in 1933 and is now displayed in the British Library in London. Sometime after its purchase, English-language translations were published (Manuscript No. 43725 in the British Library) and extraordinary new information about the earliest story of Jesus Christ became available to the world. The great comparative value of the Sinai Bible as the world’s oldest available Bible is today universally accepted, and its discovery provided great embarrassment for the Church’s modern-day presentation of Jesus Christ, for it revealed that newer Gospels are the depositories of large amounts of fabricated narratives and intentional perversions of the truth.

Beyond belief

The Vatican concedes that Mark was the first Gospel written (‘Catholic Encyclopedia’, Farley Ed., Vol. vi, p. 657), and that it later became the prototype of the gospels of Matthew and Luke. In the Sinai Bible’s version of the Gospel of Mark, we see dramatic variations from its modern-day counterpart with an extraordinary omission that later became the central doctrine of the Christian faith … the resurrection appearances of the Gospel Jesus Christ and his subsequent ascension into heaven.

False Gospel passages written by priests

The Sinai Bible’s version of the Gospel of Mark starts its story of Jesus Christ when he was ‘at about the age of thirty’. No reference is made to Mary, a virgin birth, Joseph of Arimathea, a Star of Bethlehem, or the 51 now-called Old Testament ‘messianic prophecies’. Words describing Christ as ‘the son of God’ do not appear in the opening narrative of the Gospel of Mark (Mark 1:1) as they do in today’s Bibles, and the modern-day family tree tracing a ‘messianic bloodline’ back to King David is non-existent in the Sinai Bible.

No ‘resurrection’, no Christianity

The Sinai Bible’s version of the Gospel of Mark ends its story with Mary Magdalene arriving at the tomb and finding it empty. Yet, in modern-day versions of the Gospel of Mark, resurrection narratives now appear (16: 9-20), and the Vatican universally acknowledges that they are forgeries;

‘The conclusion of Mark is admittedly not genuine … almost the entire section is a later compilation’.

(‘Catholic Encyclopedia’, Vol., iii, p. 274, published under the Imprimatur of Archbishop Farley; also, ‘Encyclopedia Biblica’, ii, 1880; 1767, n. 3; 1781, and n. 1, on ‘The Evidence of its Spuriousness’)

The Vatican claims that ‘the resurrection is the fundamental argument for our Christian belief’ (‘Catholic Encyclopedia’, Farley Ed., Vol., xii, p. 792), adding that a resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ is the ‘sine qua non’ of Christianity, ‘without which, nothing’ (‘Catholic Encyclopedia’, Farley Ed., Vol., xii, p. 792). St. Paul agreed, saying; ‘If Christ has not been raised, your faith is in vain’ (1 Cor. 15:17). Yet no appearance of a resurrected Jesus Christ is recorded in the oldest Gospel in the oldest Bible in the world. Nor are there resurrection narratives in any other old Bibles, for a comparison shows they are non-existent in the Alexandrian Bible, the Vatican Bible, the Bezae Bible and an ancient Latin manuscript of Mark code-named ‘K’ by analysts. Some manuscripts of the 15th and 16th centuries have the fictitious verses written in asterisks, a mark used by ancient scribes to indicate spurious passages in a literary document. Resurrection narratives are also absent in the oldest Armenian version of the New Testament, and a number of Sixth Century manuscripts of the Ethiopic version. That is because the resurrection narratives in today’s Gospels of Mark are later priesthood forgeries.

Another Vatican forgery exposed

Adding to the Church’s on-going fraud of its presentation of the story of Jesus Christ, we learn how the Vatican accepted the fictitious resurrection narratives in the Gospel of Mark into its dogma and made it the basis of Christianity. Let the ‘Catholic Encyclopedia‘ bear the clerical witness:

‘When we turn to the internal evidence, the number, and still more the character, of the peculiarities is certainly striking [citing many instances from the Greek text]. But, even when this is said, the cumulative force of the evidence against the Mark origin of the passage is considerable. The combination of so many peculiar features, not only of vocabulary, but of matter and construction, leaves room for doubt as to Mark’s authorship of the verses. Whatever the fact be, it is not at all certain that Mark wrote the disputed verses. It may be that they are from the pen of some other inspired writer [!], and were appended to the Gospel in later times. Catholics are not bound to hold that the verses were written by St. Mark. But they are canonical scripture, for the Council of Trent [Session IV], in defining that all later parts of the New Testament are to be received as sacred and canonical, had especially in view the disputed parts of the Gospels, of which this conclusion of Mark is one. Hence, whoever wrote the verses, we say that they are inspired, and must be received as such by every Catholic’.

(‘Catholic Encyclopedia’, Farley Ed. Vol. ix, pp. 677, 678, 679)

Thus another Vatican forgery is exposed and confessed, and it was forced onto Catholics as genuine. Here we see incontrovertible documentary evidence that the earliest Christian Gospels fail to narrate a resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ, and it must be said that the pertinacity with which the work of suppression, misrepresentation and concealment of real Christian history was conducted makes the guilt of the successors of the founding presbyters as great as that of those who established the system.