Truth Provided Broadcast 10-10-01

IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH A CHRISTIAN CHURCH? II

Over the past 16 years I have accumulated numerous bits of information from all areas of the media as well as Catholic writings that aided me in my ability to share with friends and family what has become a melting pot for decadence and immorality over the years. I always felt troubled and tense when someone would defend the Catholic church without having all the facts they needed to make a rational choice. I realized it was time for someone that has walked in their shoes to show what Catholicism is really like, not only behind closed doors, but out in the open as well. I prayerfully hope you take what I am about to share with you seriously. Think about it, if what I present is so easy to prove, why would anyone decide to ignore it?

I truly thank the Lord for having the patience with me when I would not listen to all those laborers He sent to me while I was so deep into Catholicism for all those years. I was so convinced beyond all doubt that they were wrong and I was right. I even tried to convince them they were the ones in error. But never did I use Scripture to make my point. I always had a wonderful story of a saint, a priest, or a pope that I thought proved the Catholic church genuine. Still, the Lord didn't give up on me. After years of denial, I opened a Bible to teach some children, and there He was waiting with untiring open arms of forgiveness to show me His truth.

Before continuing, I implore you to please have a Bible open. It is best to trust the Word of God more than anything or anyone else in the universe. His Word is truth in its purest form. In fact, it's the only source of absolute Truth left in this sin filled world.

I recall a wonderful story told to me as a young child in Catholic grade school. I was told that the very first miracle Jesus ever performed was on a river bank when He was a young child. I was told the young child Jesus was waiting along side a river bank for His mother Mary to finish washing the family laundry. It was told to those of us in the Roman Catholic classroom that the child Jesus formed twelve birds out of the earth on the river bank. When Mary His mother finished the laundry, Jesus realized it was time to go home. However, He was sad that He had to leave the little birds He formed in the river bank behind. So He breathed on them and they became live sparrows and flew off into the heavenly blue sky.

Needless to say I was genuinely amazed that Jesus would do such a thing. Later as I was searching the Scriptures to find the truth, I realized that this was nothing but a story told to a child. For it is written in John 2:11 that, "This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him."

As can plainly be seen, Jesus performed His first miracle at the wedding in Cana. I only shared this story to let you see that a little child can and does remember things all the way to adulthood. I know we all remember things that happened in our past, good or bad. This is mostly what makes up our personality. Well the church is a lot like that, there are things that were started long ago, good or bad, that make it what it is today.

For those catholics listening to this broadcast, I want you to be prepared for what your about to hear. Some of the things you may have always believed as authentic Bible teachings, are actually myths told to you for one reason or another. You are not at fault here. You MUST understand this. I recall as a young Catholic a strong devotion and trust of whatever my priest or teachers told me. I was loyal all the way to the bone. I believed absolutely everything they said. This is mainly because they were my only source of information. I trusted them to read the Bible for me so I could ask them anything I wanted about Jesus. I found later that if you are truly seeking the truth, what better source of truth than the Holy Written Word of God Himself.

Many of the excerpts I have researched deal with traditions of men that have become prophetically realized by nearly every man women and child on earth. The Bible teaches that we must "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.". [Colossians 2:8] Since we understand that the Bible is infallible in every aspect, we must also understand that yes, one day we will all experience a confrontation with traditions of men. If we were never to have a problem with this, the Bible would not have commented on it. Fact is the Bible truly is considered an ..."inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:" [2 Timothy 3:16]

Some of these traditions of men have been practiced for so long that when they are Biblically exposed, most people ignore the Biblical facts and cling to the traditions of their forefathers. They can't believe that something from ancient times could be an evil concoction of the devil. They figure the traditions or doctrines must be right because they are so old. I was so guilty of this in my Catholic ministry. I recall many times realizing that the tradition was un-Biblical, but decided to continue out of respect for my church. It wasn't until the Holy Spirit latched unto my soul that I realized the danger of what I was doing. I was choosing to believe in the traditions of men rather than the Holy Word of God. The Scriptures warned me that there will be churches that will teach in this way of error, but I always attributed it to the other guy. This CAN'T be happening to me and my family! Well, I was wrong. By denying the warnings in Scriptures, we are actually saying the traditions are holy and the Bible is wrong. This is a hard fact to realize, but true none the less. If this is the case, then the worship is routed toward the traditions, which in fact are of man, an in so doing we now worship mankind. Pretty scary, no?

I hope to illustrate here not only a blatant acceptance of tradition over Scripture. But some excerpts will illustrate an actual acceptance of immorality over Scriptures as well. It is not a pretty picture, but it must be exposed. There are too many honest and loyal children of God within the Catholic church to ignore. These are those children of God, that once they realize the truth in His Holy Bible they will decide to worship the Lord as His Word requests, and not as the Catholic dogma suggests.

One of the most horrendous and vulgar sins of our time has to be the sin of homosexuality. The Bible is very plain about this lifestyle as being an abomination unto God.

Leviticus 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them

People the world over claim this as obsolete mainly because it is found within the pages of the Old Testament. Even though the Lord God states ever so plainly in Malachi 3:6 "For I am the LORD, I change not;..." Just because it's in the Old Testament doesn't mean its abolished. If that were so, why did Jesus and His Apostles before and after His resurrection and ascension quote so often from the Old Testament? Also if the Old Testament is no longer valid on this subject, then explain these verses...

Romans 1:26,27 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet

1 Corinthians 6:9,10 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Timothy 1:8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; 9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

It is easily seen in the New Testament that the sin of homosexuality is still considered an abomination unto the Lord. Yet the Catholic church has been wrestling with this sin for hundreds of years. And now they are even stating to the world that being a homosexual is no longer considered sin. In an article about gays in San Francisco we see Bishop Levada making the following statements...

Catholic Charities has more than $5 million worth of contracts with the city, but for Levada, more important is Catholic doctrine that says while simply being a homosexual is not a sin... Chgo SunTimes Feb. 16, 1997 Section Religion p. 34 art. S.F., Catholic Charities battle over benefits for gay partners

This statement is in direct conflict with what the Word of God reveals. And one would wonder why the church would take such a stand and make such a statement. Well reading further in the same article it's very easily revealed why Bishop Levada would make such a error filled remark. The article continues on to say...

Gays and Lesbians are a significant voting bloc in San Francisco. Chgo SunTimes Feb. 16, 1997 Section Religion p. 34 art. S.F., Catholic Charities battle over benefits for gay partners

Did you notice the beginning of the article? It states the church has more than $5 million worth of contracts with the city. Do you think if they would have kept the faith according to God's Word they would have jeopardized their meal ticket in this city by being voted down? YES indeed. It's oh so sad when a church that is trusted by billions of faithful people, falls hard, by deciding to put the "almighty" dollar before the Almighty Creator. Think of all the trusting souls within this church that may have been wrestling with homosexuality in their lives, or the lives of their loved ones. They just got the final sign they needed to make the decision whether to explore this burning sensation of sin from within themselves. The other outlook is, their family and friends have just been told it's no longer sin, so why bother preaching to their loved ones about the dangers of this sin filled lifestyle.

Another article on the same subject goes even further in its acceptance of immorality over godliness.

Cardinal Bernardin writes... On homosexuality: he says gays are children of God, that they should be loved and that Catholics ought to defend their rights. ... God's plan for sexuality ... is best fulfilled in a stable union... But to teach that in no way is to belittle a person who may have a homosexual orientation. Chgo SunTimes Oct. 21, 1994 p. 18 art. Bernardin Letter Tackles Hot Topics for Teenagers

I am not saying we should go out and show hatred toward every homosexual we meet. Not at all. But to say they are the children of God lends one to believe this lifestyle is accepted by God. A child of God is one that believes and follows their Heavenly Father in all aspects of life, including sexuality. For the Bible tells us how to be the children of God. Ephesians 5:1 says we must "Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;" If we walk in conflict to His Word, how can we be His children. Reading a few verses further we find the true description of one who would delight in this sinful lifestyle. Ephesians 5:6 states... "Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience."

For Bernardin to say that all Catholics must defend their rights, would mean all Catholics must now acknowledge sin as an alternative lifestyle approved by their church. And this is one very lethal mistake.

I would also like to interject one more lethal mistake being preached from the halls of Rome.

Priest says paedophilia was good for children

Aix-en-Provence, France - A Roman Catholic priest on trial in this southern French town for failing to disclose the sexual abuse of minors has argued that the paedophilic acts that took place in his parish were actually good for the children.  Father Hubert Barral, 67, who heads the parish in the village of Vernegues, faces up to five years in prison if convicted on a charge of failing to assist a person in danger and failing to report a crime.  The trial is taking place amid mounting criticism of the French Roman Catholic Church, which has been accused of not taking charges of paedophilia seriously.  In his testimony, Barral defended the man accused of having sexually abused or raped two minor children, as well as a boy over the age of 18 who had psychological problems, describing the rapes as "moments when the children flowered". The alleged crimes took place between 1986 and 1998. The victims included a British boy who was aged six when his mother abandoned him at the church in 1986 and a 12-year-old runaway. Arrested and charged for the rapes was Marc Ruther, a 49-year-old drifter. Ruther admitted to the charges against him and said he often gave his victims dagga before raping them. Investigators said Barral had also told one of the children that making love was a way of being in touch with God. - Sapa-AFP

Think of it. For whatever reason, a mother abandons her child at her Catholic church hoping he will be well taken care of. Yet we see here the priest she looked upon as a man of God decided to not only look the other way while her child was being raped, he also refused to report the events to the authorities. And to make matters worse, now that it is exposed, he blatantly declares the homosexual rapes were good for the children? And when the children came to this priest to obviously report their molestation, the priest tells them that "making love was a way of being in touch with God?" Does this mean hookers should now become preachers that share their intense ability to be "in touch with God?" Sad to say that's truly the problem here. Most Catholics are totally blind to the decadent evil that is in complete control of their church simply because their church has gotten them to trust them over and above the Lord Jesus Christ. It seems they all do as I did as a young catholic. They let their religious leaders read the Bible for them instead of seeking the Truth of the Lord for themselves.

Now for Saint Patrick's day. Yes, good Ol' St. Patty's day. A day that will go down in infamy as one of the deadliest days on America's highways that regardless is still celebrated every year. A day that was invented and sanctioned by the Catholic church as a day of celebration. Every backyard party, neighborhood bar, lounge, night club, and yes even church basement celebrates this day with a new found wealth of loyal green beer drinking Catholics. Some cities have even become a little lenient with the droves of drunken drivers due to the fact that this drunken madness is encouraged by their local Catholic church as a holy festive occasion. It's not just St. Patricks day either. The church has found a bevy of ways to celebrate there freedom to consume large quantities of alcohol. For example...

B.J. McMahon's (bar) triumphantly crosses the finish line ahead of St. James place (bar), which ran into a bit of trouble, during the Oak Lawn Bed Races on Sunday sponsored by the Knights of Columbus in Oak Lawn. The fundraising event, sponsored by the Knights of Columbus in Oak Lawn, drew participants from local bars, businesses and organizations. Daily Southtown Newspaper Aug. 11, 1994 Front page section Your Town art. Oak Lawn Bed Races a nightmare to riders.

Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic Jesuit organization. Can you imagine being a Catholic who is having a tremendous battle fighting off the enticements of alcohol. You finally give up and admit to yourself that you are totally unable to fight this battle alone. So you seek out guidance from your parish priest, only to be turned away at the door. You find out it's because your parish priest is at the local gin mill getting zonked with the neighborhood drunkards in a bed race through the center of main street, in your hometown!

Last weekend, a church-sanctioned beer party turned ugly. The Rev. Steven Lanza, pastor at the Notre Dame De Chicago Catholic Church, 1335 W. Harrison, was arrested for disorderly conduct after a college beer bash held on church property got out of hand.

Ald. Ted Mazola (1st) told me he had dropped off his babysitter and was returning home about 1 a.m Saturday when he saw "about 300 kids" who had poured out of the beer blast but were still hanging around the neighborhood. "They were blocking the streets, jumping on cars, ...they pounded on my car and swore at me,... and they were using the front lawns and driveways as public urinals. Hey it wasn't only the guys," the alderman said "Women were doing it too." "This isn't the first time the neighborhood has had a problem with the church throwing or allowing parties, it's more like the 21st time." said Mazola, who lives nearby. Chgo SunTimes Sept. 1, 1994 p.11 art. It's Time for Parishes to Go on the Wagon.

Proverbs 22:6 says to "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Is the Catholic church training their children to grow up to be drunkards? It appears that way when you read about stories like this. Is this Christlike behavior? How can a church ever sanction something as obviously evil as drunken coed parties or drunken bed races through the center of town? Is this accepted normal behavior of the Catholic church? Sorry to say, it appears so.

I recall not long ago sitting on the trunk of my car sharing Jesus with a neighbor. All of a sudden the entire neighborhood was shocked to hear extremely loud music coming from all around. It turned out the local Catholic church had begun it's annual carnival that night. So everyone within a 6 to 8 block radius of the church found themselves dealing with blaring music from the church carnival. This wasn't just any music, no, this was heavy metal music howling throughout the area. It's a fact, I was six blocks away when it started. My wife and children had to deal with songs from such demonic heavy metal bands as AC/DC, all the way to ZZ-Top singing blasphemous tunes about heaven and hell. Plus a bevy of other Top 40 types like Madonna, or Sheila Easton singing about their sexual preferences until the stroke of midnight for four straight days! Driving by the carnival made you wonder if your windshield would shatter under the intense pressure from the sound waves. Signs all over the place informed you of the many other blessings to be found on the church parking lot. "Gambling for Luxurious Weekend Getaways, Raffles of every type, Beer and wine tents, Cigarette games, games of chance, and the ever popular death defying carnival rides." Would Jesus approve of this?

Gambling has always been a favorite pastime of the Catholic church as far as I can remember. Why is this accepted when the Word of God tells us that we should use our financial blessings wisely. According to the Catholic church, gambling is a godly pastime. Anything this church does, will be looked upon as being moral and Christlike, they're a church, this is how churches are supposed to be viewed. But when a church tells its flock they should gamble their hard earned money on church held casino nights or bingo games, it's no wonder they wake up flat broke realizing "...he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes." [Haggai 1:6]

Now we look around to see gambling becoming more accepted in our cities. None of us should be surprised when we see all the Mafia controlled riverboat casino's coming into our neighborhoods. Thanks to the Catholic church making it appear to be Christlike recreation for all these years. The officials keeping it out of our towns have decided, "it must not be that bad if the church is doing it." It use to be the only place you could legally gamble your paycheck away without having to go all the way to Las Vegas was your local Catholic church basements. But now the church is seeing a drop in their gambling revenue. The neighborhood mob boss has moved in with numerous opportunities to fleece the people, and now the church is upset. And rightly so, some may say, bingo is big business.

The Daily Southtown Dec. 10 1994 reprts in the Section Religion p. A9 under the article entilted, "Iowa Catholics want to halt riverboat gambling growth"

Roman Catholic officials don't mind a little wagering now and then but the church now says Iowa has taken gambling far enough. -"One of the reasons we didn't speak earlier was that some of the Catholic parishes in the state use bingo for revenue raising." Said Timothy McCarthy for the Catholic Conference Board. "But when you compare it to horse racing and dog racing and riverboats, it's kind of minor league gambling." McCarthy said.

According to the Iowa Revenue Department, the States 1,170 licensed bingo operators grossed $51 million in 1993. "Bingo is a small thing." said Dubuque Archbishop Daniel Kucera, who heads the Iowa Catholic Conference Board.

Of course the church is upset about the people going elsewhere for their gambling pleasures. $51 MILLION is a lot of money for just one year, in one state! This is Iowa by the way, there are states that have far more than 1,170 Catholic churches within their borders. But for the sake of illustration, lets say all the churches in each state of the USA profit only $51 million a year from gambling revenues statewide. That's would mean 2.7 BILLION dollars coming into the church in one year in this one country alone! Yet, Archbishop Kucera says, "Bingo is a small thing" Is he kidding? I wonder what is considered a big thing? 2.7 Billion dollars is no chump change. Yet the church will try to use the argument that bingo is small in comparison with the other forms available today. Does this make it less sinful? Does this make it ok? Can the same argument be used elsewhere? If a man kills three people is he less sinful then one who kills thirty three? Where will it end? What's next?

Well, to give you an idea, in Chicago on August 19 through the 21st in 1994 the Italian Gambling Fest was held on one of the lakefront Piers. They even went so far as to inform the general public that the local Catholic churches will be moving their church services to 1:00 pm that Sunday to accommodate the gambling festivities. They are now allowing the greed of money to dictate to them when they will worship the Lord, if at all. Again I ask, what of the fallen sinner that reaches the end of their rope? What if they decide after years of denial to go to church that Sunday to talk to the priest about their gambling problems and find the doors closed and no one around? God forbid he or she finds out the priest is downtown at the pier getting "loaded" in more than one way. Money is a powerful temptation for some, but for the Catholic church it appears to be a curse.

Again the Daily Southtown reports in the Nov. 29, 1994 p. A9 Section Nation/World art. Priest Guilty

A Catholic priest and an ex-guerrilla from Northern Ireland were convicted Monday of charges related to the $7.4 million robbery of a Brink's armored car depot.

This priest was obviously absent the day they taught of the billions generated in bingo. This kind of behavior within the church has been going on for centuries. Why do you think so many priest's today have fallen into sin? They're being taught errors to be doctrine only because they are old and accepted by their teachers, and their teachers, teachers. Some of these priests have beliefs, that if found out by their congregation would cause them to be ostracized from the church. Some keep their beliefs private, only to be convincingly expressed behind closed doors on a one-on-one basis. Others however, boldly proclaim their corrupt fabrications for all to see.

The following three articles were written by a Roman Catholic priest who happens to have a column in the Chicago area newspaper. Every Sunday at the end of his column he has a small bio on himself for all to read substantiating his Catholic roots. It states, "Andrew M. Greely is a Roman Catholic priest, author and University of Chicago sociologist...etc." He writes...

If this God who loves little children because they are Her little children loved them so much as to become himself a little child at the first Christmas... Daily Southtown Dec 4, 1994 p. A19 Section "Opinion art. In praise of St. Nick" Author Andrew M. Greely

I honestly thought this was a typographic error by the newspaper because the priest called The Almighty, "Her" and then he uses the pronoun, "himself" in the same sentence. I just tucked the article away in my filing cabinet for later, just in case. Well, about six or seven weeks later, he did it again.

"...I am rather suggesting that the only one who knows how personally guilty there were is God and She does not phone in to talk radio programs..." Daily Southtown Jan. 22, 1995 p. A21 art. "A Christian country?"

~And again, almost a month later~

...His presence going before the armies of the Children of Israel. Both the Hebrew name for her and the Greek translation "Spirit" are feminine in gender. Daily Southtown Feb. 19,1995 o. A21 art. "Womanly image of God"

Did you ever see such boldness? Not only does this Catholic priest believe God is a woman, he is now writing articles to try and convince faithful Catholics everywhere that this is true. Did you notice the headline of the last article? "Womanly image of God" Is he trying to persuade Catholics that God the Father is really God the Mother? I know many Catholics and they all agree after reading this article that something is definitely wrong within the church itself when they preach such lies, or ALLOW one of their priests to do so without correction. He did publish THREE articles and I never saw a retraction of same.

It doesn't stop there either, not by a long shot. The hierarchy of the Catholic church has been very busy all along proving where their devotion lies.

Cardinal Bernardin's lecture at Hebrew University: -on anti-Jewish statements in St. John's Gospel (see John 8:44) - that these statements can no longer be taught as authentic doctrine or used as catechesis by contemporary Christianity and can no longer regarded as definitive teaching. Christians no longer may believe that the words that the Jews are the children of the devil are words Jesus actually said or are the revealed word of God. Daily Southtown April 9, 1995 p. A21 art. Bernardin and the Jews

The verse in question = John 8:44

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

No man walking this earth has the authority to change the revealed Word of God. Many have tried and have reaped the rewards of their foolishness with their lives. How can some believe that they can escape the truth of God? The book of Proverbs tells us we should "Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar." [Proverbs 30:6] Only those that don't believe the Word of God would have the guts to try and re-write it, they don't believe the Almighty will prove them for what they are. Jesus put it so eloquently plain when He said, "Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men" [Matthew 15:7-9]

It is indeed a very dangerous deed to put ones faith in the error filled flesh of a very fallible creature known as man. In just a little over a year later and to the surprise of everyone involved, Cardinal Bernardin breathed his last due to what the Vatican called a "cancer riddled body." How did his church respond to his death? On November 14, 1996 every radio and television station in the Chicago area announced that the church will be selling tickets to view his body laying in state. Their greed of the almighty dollar has proven to be so much more substantial than the love of their fellow faithful Catholic and friend. The Lord plainly says all throughout His Scripture... Trust the Word of God. Not the men of this world.