"The Feb.20, 1994 Denver Post reported that 'an estimated 15,000 people...have been expelled, sometimes at the point of a gun, from their homes and lands because of the religion they practice[?]....The 'expulsados' are evangelicals and other protestants...who were thrown out of their communities by local authorities who are Catholics. One missionary who visited Chiapas State, was told of dozens of brutal attacks on non- Catholics. One woman's house was torched and she was shot in the face with a shotgun when she tried to rescue her children. She escaped through a corn field to another Christian's house who took her three hours on foot to a hospital. Her children were found later either dead in the fire or mutilated by machete blows. When she recovered, she was forced to join a slum camp with thousands of other Christians whose homes had also been confiscated by their Roman Catholic attackers" (Battle Cry, July/August, 1994, 2-4).
DID YOU KNOW that in The Western Watchmen, Dec.24, 1908 the Catholics are quoted as saying:
"Protestantism- we would draw it and quarter it.[?] We would impale it and hang it up for the crows to eat. We would tear it with pincers and fire it with hot irons. We would fill it with molten lead and sink it in a thousand fathoms of hell fire."
DID YOU KNOW
"In every system...except that of the Bible, the doctrine of a purgatory after death, and prayers for the dead, has always been found to occupy a place.[?] Go wherever we may, in ancient or modern times, we shall find that Paganism leaves hope after death for sinners...For this purpose a middle state has been feigned...." (The Two Babylons, Hislop, 167).
DID YOU KNOW
"In Greece, says Suides [Vo.II, 879, B] 'the greatest and most expensive sacrifice was the mysterious sacrifice called the Telete',[?] a sacrifice which according to Plato, [Vol. II, 364,365] 'was offered for the living and the dead, and was supposed to free them from all the evils to which the wicked are liable when they have left this world" (The Two Babylons, Hislop, 168).
DID YOU KNOW
"...bishops take an oath not to serve the Church and religion but 'to maintain, defend, increase and advance the rights, honours, privileges and authority of their Lord the Pope[?]' " (Vicars of Christ, De Rosa, 143).
DID YOU KNOW
"...the whole doctrine of purgatory is a system of pure bare-faced Pagan imposture, dishonouring to God, deluding men who live in sin with the hope of atoning for it after death, and cheating them at once out of their property and their salvation"[?] (The Two Babylons, Hislop, 169).
DID YOU KNOW that when Jesuit Father Terence Sweeney took a poll of 312 American Catholic bishops on questions pertaining to celibacy and the ordination of women [only 145 had the courage to reply] he found 35 were for marriage and 11 wished to see female priests? What was Cardinal Ratzinger and the Jesuit General's response?
"...burn your researches or leave the Order. Sweeny, twenty-four years a Jesuit, felt his only option was to leave. How could he burn the truth? What value was obedience without reason or truth to back it up? That sort of obedience, he claimed, 'is not consonant with human dignity' " (Vicars of Christ, De Rosa, 144).
DID YOU KNOW that Catholic apologist Gerry Matatics indicated that one should attend the Tridentine Mass, not the vernacular Mass?
" '...I have many friends,' he said, 'who have not studied this issue carefully and have not come to these conclusions' - a refence to Catholics who are part of 'the Conciliar Church.' He added, 'I believe that people of good will and intellectual honesty will come to the same conclusion...that the New Mass is a seriously defective rite...All kinds of bizarre abuses and confusion and chaos and heresies' have arisen since the introduction of the vernacular liturgy. 'In part these are produced by this monstrosity of the New Mass.' "
DID YOU KNOW
"...Gregory XVI, in MIRARI VOS of August 1832, described liberty of conscience as a mad opinion. Religious liberty was said to flow from 'the most feted fount of indifferentism'. He condemned freedoms of worship, the press, assembly and education as a filthy sewer full of heretical vomit' " (Vicars of Christ, De Rosa, 146).