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1 | Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood | Jude 1:4 | Jeshuafreak | 52582 | ||
Pedophilia isn't the beginning of anything. It's the end of a long, long pornographic conduct trail. You don't start there. You end there. That's how it goes. You know, you take what's there, at first. And then the deviation demands more and more aberrant behavior, and it moves down younger and younger and younger. In fact, one of the people in law enforcement said to me pedophilia is the caboose on a long train. So it's easy to see why this happens in this terrible, terrible system. And yet, they can't change it. Can't change it, because there is an inerrancy and an infallibility in the church. And one of the elements of that is that if you're a priest, you're a priest. And it can't be reverted or rescinded. And that as long as you don't get married, all you have to do is confess to another priest. And that perpetuates the power of the system. That's why you can see the cardinals all go over to Italy and come back. And what happened? Nothing. Absolutely nothing happened, because nothing can happen. The Pope, what did he say? Nothing. There's nothing to say. One of the things that we, you know, just kind of a -- I've got more than I can give to you. But one of things has to be talked about. It's not just the immorality of the monasteries and the convents, which is legendary. It's legendary everywhere. I was reading an article that talked about how many kids in the small towns in Italy and so forth are the children of the priests, whom they call "uncle;" they're calling him "father" wouldn't reveal anything. Forced celibacy is conducive to sexual perversion. You know, John Calvin dealt with it. He said this in The Institutes: "In one instance they are too rigorous and inflexible, that is, in not permitting priests to marry. With what impurity fornication rages among them." John Calvin. He went on to say: "Emboldened by their polluted celibacy, they have become hardened to every crime. This prohibition has not only deprived the church of upright and able pastors, but has formed a horrible gulf of enormities and precipitated many souls into the abyss of despair." Henry the VIII of England in 1535 appointed commissioners to inspect all monasteries and nunneries. "And so terrible were the cruelties and corruptions uncovered," writes Boettner, "...so terrible were the cruelties and corruptions uncovered that a cry went up from the nation that all such houses without exception to be destroyed." |
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2 | Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood | Jude 1:4 | Jeshuafreak | 52583 | ||
Henry the VIII was no paragon of virtue. He destroyed these places. "And the fall of the monasteries," quote, "...was attributed to the monstrous lives of the monks, the friars and nuns." Henry Banford Parks has written a history of Mexico. And in that history he writes, quote: "Clerical concubinage is the rule rather than the exception, and friars openly roamed the streets of cities with women on their arms. Many of the priests were ignorant and tyrannical, whose chief interest in their parishioners was the exaction of marriage, baptism and funeral fees, and who were apt to abuse the confessional." I mean it's a terrible thing. There's a lot of interesting things about the nuns. I used to always wonder: Why would anybody do that, right? Why would anybody do that? And in my reading, I have discovered that the confessional is the recruiting booth for the convents. When a woman goes into a convent, she renounces family. She's basically told that she has to hate her parents and her family. It's a hard disconnect for a woman, harder than a man. She has to slaughter all maternal instincts, which are God-given. She has to put to death the idea of being cared for by a man, which is God-given, to enter this stoic environment. She is given a wedding ring because she's marrying whom? Jesus. She has to wear this bizarre, medieval garb consisting of a long, black dress, symbol of grief. That's what it is, the symbol of death. And then some grotesque headpiece, which is no good in the summer or the winter or the wind. It's so -- but, you know, they recruit them in the confessional. They take advantage of particularly the women who are coming off of a shattered relationship, and they're deeply wounded. And they get to know them because in a parish church, the same people keep coming back. And they look for a sensitive soul who comes often to confession, comes often to mass, who's gone through some difficulty. And at that point, it's really a matter of preying on that person in a time of weakness, a time of pain and suffering, to make this bizarre commitment. Emmet MacLaughlin writes: "The nun is one of the most remarkable products of the Roman Catholic church. She's an absolute slave, one whose willingness to offer her life should fill communist leaders with jealousy; one from whom the hierarchy conceals her slavery by the wedding ring on her finger; one who believes that in shining the Bishop's shoes, waiting on his table or scrubbing the floor, she is gathering treasure in heaven. She is the one who makes possible the church's hundreds of hospitals, the one who teaches in parochial schools and orphanages and so forth. She is also a woman with all the desires, instincts, loyalties and hatreds of which a woman is capable. Subservient to her man, through her indoctrination of her wedding to Christ, often catty and gossipy towards sister nuns and hospital nurses, maternal in her hoverings over priests and children, matriarchal in her petty policies for the control of her hospital and convent," goes on and on. "Self-annihilating all normal desires." And the position of the cloistered nuns, there's a -- there's really a strange group. Do you know there are nuns who take a vow of silence and spend their entire life, never speak? Never say a word. And they think that somehow they're going to get salvation from that. Boettner says: "In the set-up of the Roman Catholic church, it is the confessional box that feeds the nunneries. The groundwork is done on the Catholic girl in the parochial school, where the nun is made an object of holy glamour, a replica of the virgin Mary. The institution of the confessional makes it easy for the priest to find the girls they want, and naturally try to select the choice ones. "Ordinarily, confessions begin at the age of seven. Through this means, the priest comes to know the very heart and soul of those who confess, which to them would be desirable in the service of the church, and which can be persuaded and which can not. It's easy for a trained priest to seize a passing fancy and blow it into a full-scale vocation. "Once a victim has been chosen, pressure is applied directly and indirectly until the battle is won. Appeals are made to the girl's Christian sense of duty. The girl's natural reluctance to enter in such a life is pictured as the evil influence of the world and the devil." |
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3 | Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood | Jude 1:4 | Jeshuafreak | 52584 | ||
And then he writes: "Usually, the most important -- or the most opportune time for persuading a girl to enter a convent comes just after she's been disappointed in love. Blighted romance often afford the priest his most value opportunity." Helen Conroy has written this. "A jilted girl in the first rush of shame and agony at the shattering of her romance is an easy victim of any priest. Knowing that such intense grief cannot last long, the girl is urged to go into a convent at once. Poor girl sees in it a chance to get away from an embarrassing situation. "This, coupled with the fact that she is assured she can leave anytime she wishes, has led thousands to rush headlong into the convent. They give up everything they possess, of course, at that particular time, which becomes immediately the church's possession." And it's quite an interesting thing. They have 60-day period -- I think this is still true -- they have a 60-day period in which to dispense of everything. And it's in the euphoria of that 60 days, when they're processing into the convent, that they're so caught up with the convent that they're basically urged to give it all there. And then Conroy writes: "The girl's mind is poisoned against the mother who bore her, and the father and sisters and brother who make up her family. Of all the crimes committed in the name of religion" -- this is from a book, by the way, Forgotten Women in Convents: "... in the name of religion, this forcing of hatred of parents is the blackest. It is dehumanizing. This doctrine of hatred of parents by nuns and sisters fully explains why a girl is not allowed to dispose of her property until 60 days before she is to take the veil" -- that's what it is -- "...and the vows. The church fully expects by that time the girl will have learned that her convent is her real home." And so it goes. Well, I could say more but the time is gone. Just one thing. Estimates -- I don't know how they vary -- but it has been estimated there are a hundred thousand women in cloisters. Have you ever heard of the Carmelite sisters? Some of you have. The Carmelite sisters neither teach, nor nurse, nor care for the old, the orphans or the infants. They take a vow of complete silence. At 5:30, they rise from their pallets, wooden boards across sawhorses. They've taken a vow of poverty. At 8:30, they eat a slice of bread, drink one cup of black coffee. The table is set with plain wooden utensils and a covered water pitcher. In the middle of the table is the mask of death, a skull, to symbolize thoughts of death that we are mortal beings soon to pass into the unknown. Their main meal of the day is fish and vegetables. Their evening meal is soup and bread. Their day ends at 11:00 P.M., when they silently return to their cells. |
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4 | Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood | Jude 1:4 | Jeshuafreak | 52585 | ||
That's their life. I mean that -- I'm surprised Amnesty International doesn't raid those places. How are these pitiful souls to be reached? You know, what is all this to say? Look, how do you get to somebody in a convent? You don't. How's that for a ploy for Satan? Lock them up in a false religion so that absolutely nobody can get near them. And then take a vow of silence. Boy, there's a damnation sentence, right? They can't even ask a question or have a conversation. This is wicked stuff. How do you reach these people? How do you reach priests? You know, we think somehow that, you know, you've all these evangelicals who think we ought to just embrace arms with this system. Is that bizarre? What we need to do is rescue these people. And the only way they'll ever be rescued is through the gospel. But I think we have to say what has to be said. New York Times says -- this is April 19th article by Lori Goodstein -- that now the count is at about a thousand priests that are being charged with abuse. And the number of women abused to one degree or another by priests is going to far exceed men. What do we do with these poor, poor people who are trapped in these terrible, sinful things? Well, there's only one thing, and that's to somehow, if you know somebody, you've got to give them the gospel. One other little note I wrote down. A homosexual offender, according to the latest data -- this is from WorldNet, April 29th -- what, two days ago, three days ago: "The average male homosexual offender will abuse 150 boys. The average heterosexual violator, 20 girls." And the pedophilia is a basic part of the homosexual movement. So, you know, this is a scandal of massive, massive proportions. But more than just a scandal, this is a horrible, horrible Satanic system that has captured the souls of these people. There's no way we can strike any kind of alliance with this. Richard John Neuhaus, do you know that name? Wasn't he the author of that document, that ECT document, Phil, that Colson and all those guys signed? Richard John Neuhaus said he is not in favor of banning gay men from the priesthood. Quote: "I think we would probably discover we would be retroactively excluding a good many canonized saints over 2,000 years." End quote. Richard John Neuhaus says that: If we banned gays from the priesthood, we'd be banning canonized saints over the last 2,000 years. Is that a long-term problem? He doesn't have to say that. If I was him, I wouldn't have said that. Why would he say that? Because it really doesn't matter in the system. |
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5 | Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood | Jude 1:4 | Jeshuafreak | 52586 | ||
You know, I just keep going back: "If the Son shall make you free, you shall be free" -- what? "...indeed." These dear people need to be delivered and liberated. You say: Well, how do we do that? Well, if you meet one, you need to treat them with compassion, but you need to recognize that they're probably in some pretty profound turmoil. And you could talk about freedom and deliverance in Christ. You know, let's just pray that God will start giving us opportunities to witness to priests and nuns. Wouldn't that be great? So while the whole system is crumbling, these lives can be picked up and no -- no homosexual, 1st Corinthians 6: No sodomite is going to enter the kingdom of God, right? But then Paul followed up by saying: "But such were some of you." But you have been what? Washed. Wouldn't it be great? Let's just pray that God will give us opportunity to see some of these terrible imprisoned people in a Satanic system washed and sanctified. You shouldn't even be a pastor if you're not the husband of one wife, right? Shouldn't be a pastor if you haven't ruled your own household. Well, shouldn't be a pastor if you don't have faithful children not accused of dissipation or insubordination. These people shouldn't be pastors. Furthermore, they're not Christians. Listen to this: "If you say you have fellowship with him, but you walk in darkness, you lie and do not the truth." They say they have this elevated fellowship with God. That's a lie. And you want to know? I think in many cases, they know it. They know that there's no victory over their terrible plight. Now there are probably some exceptions to that; men, women who do good, feel good about it. There might even be some people who've actually confessed Jesus Christ as Lord and been redeemed, and they're still stuck somewhere in that system. God could do that. That must be another kind of torture. We don't need any priests. Revelation 1: You are a kingdom of priests. We only need one high priest, and it's not the Pope. We have one mediator, the man Christ Jesus. The veil is torn. We go right into the Holy of Holies. You are a priest and I am a priest unto God. Father, we thank you tonight for a wonderful time together, and just kind of sorting through some of these things, our hearts are indeed gripped and grieved. How terrible is this system and how, you know, in the evangelical world, Lord, how can people look at this, and think somehow that this is all fine, and they're just, you know, another denomination; and leave these poor, darkened, benighted, beleaguered, tragically bound, fettered, eternal souls in that system? Lord, God, in the midst of all of this, draw some of these people to your Son. May they awaken to the true gospel, and may they not be so buried deep under the perversions and the lies of the Roman system that they can't rise from the dead. Would you be gracious in that way? And if you can use us along the way to accomplish it, we would be pleased. For your eternal glory, Lord, we ask these things in Christ's name. Amen. Transcribed by Bonnie Frankfurt of Grace Community Church and added to Bible Bulletin Board's "MacArthur's Collection" by: Tony Capoccia Bible Bulletin Board Box 119 Columbus, New Jersey, USA, 08022 Our websites: www.biblebb.com and www.gospelgems.com Email: tony@biblebb.com Online since 1986 |
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6 | Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood | Jude 1:4 | Jeshuafreak | 52587 | ||
Brian - There, I made it easier for you and everyone else to read. Be enlightened and find the one true God and savior of all of us, Jesus Christ. Behold He is at the door of your heart knocking. |
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