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A HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN SELF-DENIAL
The bizarre
Catholic practice of honouring saints has aided that religion to have such
tremendous clout over the world because it offers divine beings to its audience
which they can identify with. The lack
of saints in Protestantism has led to that faith not being as successful as
Catholicism.
Everything about saint-worship
smacks of ignorance and superstition.
The whole way saints are produced smacks of tremendous dishonesty and
the pious fraud involved is astounding in its daring and testifies to the
irrationality that reigns over the world.
The Church has lied about evil people and made saints of them. In some branches of Catholicism, Pontius
Pilate who Christians believe slew their nebulous Jesus is honoured as a saint
along with his wife, Claudia Procula!
The gospels say that Jesus Christ said that nobody could be his disciple
unless she or he lifted him his cross to follow him. The cross may be the burden you should
bear. But we have no need to assume that
the cross is figurative. Jesus could
have been asking for his disciples to keep working for him though it would lead
to crucifixion. He did tell his
disciples to flee to another town if persecuted in any town. The two statements can be made to agree if it
eventually happens that there is no escape.
Then Jesus wants it to be cross for them. For the rest of us, it has to be something as
terribly painful as the cross but not necessarily a literal cross.
In the second century, St
Ignatius of
Origen,
born around 185 AD, cut off his organ of reproduction as a sign of devotion to
Jesus. He thought that it was a sin to
have it when it drew him into sin.
Christians argued that since nobody can be forced to sin he should not
have done this. It was going too far.
The rule of St Benedict, who
was the fifth century founder of Western monasticism called for monks who
disobeyed the rule a lot to be battered with rods.
Wearing their hooded robes
with red crosses on them the Flagellant Brethren walked in procession all over
the place during the Middle Ages. Their
peak was during the Black Death when they did severe penance to persuade God to
stop this terrible plague. They whipped
themselves until the blood ran. In
Today, the Penitentes sometimes even undergo
crucifixion as penance for sins around Good Friday. They are certainly into inflicting pain and
misery on themselves. They are active in
the
Also today, the Roman cult,
Opus Dei, orders its members to whip themselves to become holy.
St Maria Maddalena De’ Pazzi
who was born in 1566 in
St Veronica Guilani
was caught raiding the larder too though she claimed to be fasting by virtue of
a miracle. But this did not stop the
Church making a saint of her. The excuse
given was that it was a demon in her form that was seen gorging down food in
the kitchen (ibid page 37). What point would there be in God doing a miracle
when he is going to let a demon do that for then you end up guessing that the miracle
was true which spoils the whole point of doing the miracle. She was a stigmatist
too which indicates how miraculous her wounds were. Bizarrely, she prayed that the wounds would
become invisible to prevent the bishop and other examining them for it was so
painful (page 139, The Bleeding Mind).
What use would an invisible miracle be to other people and God isn’t
going to do a miracle just for her. When
she wanted to keep the wounds why should she have minded the bishop hurting her
for they couldn’t have been any sorer anyway.
She hinted that she was faking her wounds.
Blessed Elizabeth of Reute who died in 1420 was another stigmatist
who claimed to have lived for years without any food though food had been found
under her bed (page 37, From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls). Again, it was assumed the Devil put it
there. Saints who can live for years
without food, in many cases living on the consecrated wafer at Mass alone for
years, are shown to be less convincing when there are several cases of people
like Barbara Kremers from Germany who were eventually
caught though everybody was sure they were for real for they had been watched
continuously to see if they were eating on the sly and had done nothing
suspicious.
Another indication of fraud is
the fact that tiredness, constipation and sickness due to the fasting was very
frequent (page 220, From Fasting
Saints to Anorexic Girls). You
would not expect that with a real miracle.
Yet another is the fact that many
anorexics have died believing they had the miracle of living without food
performed by the Holy Spirit on their bodies so the fruits of faith in this
miracle, the miracle of inedia, are diabolical to say
the least. When the Church says that
only human credence can be attached to such miracles for it is not certain they
are from God it is clear that it is a sin for inediacs
to refuse food and take the risk.
David Blaine was enclosed for 44
days in a glass case above London in 2003 and was under constant camera
surveillance to verify that he had not eaten in that entire period. He did not show any physical change such as
getting thinner until much later on in the stunt. He did so well that it was impossible to
believe he was not eating but he wasn’t as urine tests verified. He himself says there was nothing psychic or
supernatural about his stunt. When a
magician could do that why couldn’t a Catholic saint be using discipline and
trickery as well?
When long and physical wonders
like inedia and stigmata are so dubious though they
should be more easily verifiable than visionaries and that ilk it bodes far
worse for the latter. We should be
treble suspicious where they are concerned.
Nobody reporting these wonders should be canonised.
The list of Catholic saints who underwent savage and chilling penances
and were canonised is as disturbing as it is long. For most of the last millennium the pope's
only made saints out of those who hurt themselves the most. Before a person can be canonised miracles
have to happen through her or his intercession.
God does the miracles to show that the person has his favour and should
be emulated by the people. The miracles
mean that God approves of the gospel of pain and blood and unhappiness. If you think religion should make people
happier then you have to attack the doctrine that miracles show you what God
wants you to believe.
The gruesome miracle of the
stigmata is a person having some or all of the marks that Jesus had after his
passion. St Francis of
Some saints “miraculously”
re-enacted the crucifixion of Jesus with all its horrors.
St Martin de Porres
from
The roots of Christian
masochism are to be found in the Bible.
The Bible offers blind faith
that brings much suffering so it indirectly takes up the cause of masochism.
It says that God comes first at all times
and that God is to be valued supremely meaning that it is better to suffer an
entire lifetime than to live one second without him which is extreme
masochistic doctrine.
James 1:2, “Consider it wholly joyful, my
brethren, whenever you are enveloped in or encounter trials of any sort or fall
into various temptations”.
Philippians
Jesus said that those who are
persecuted for the sake of righteousness are blessed unlike those who are not
(Matthew
So, we are to rejoice in our sufferings and be
glad we have them. But in that case they
are rendered useless. You might as well
be out on the town drinking champagne and downing caviar as lying in bed ill
when you like being ill. Moreover, the
suffering is the state of feeling that you existence is useless so “rejoice in
your suffering” is a contradictory command.
You can be happy and be in pain showing that is pain not suffering. Nobody can tell you to suffer for a purpose
for if suffering is the illusion of worthlessness how can it truly make you a
virtuous person at least when it is happening?
To say that others should be permitted by God to suffer so that you will
help them is to attack the fact that the human person and human life is of
absolute value. It’s the most valuable
thing there is. If the person is
absolutely valuable that means the person should never have to experience a
valueless existence. To believe in God
is to approve of the evil of suffering being permitted by him and to say it has
a purpose is extremely evil because you are most sure that person is valuable
for you are more sure the person exists than you are that God does.
All this proves that religious
masochism and the preference for pain are unhealthy. It is having pain for nothing other than to
enjoy it. The saints were sexual
perverts. Their penances were a gruesome
and morbid form of masturbation.
The saints had no right to
condemn the harming of other people when the regarded harming themselves and
encouraging others to do the same as virtue.
Their casting ashes over themselves and rolling in nettles and all the
rest were not acts of humility but of pride when they liked to frown upon cruel
people. They should have told the
victims that if they did not approve of being abused that were their own
concern.
It is pride to hurt and torment
yourself even helping others for a belief, your belief that you made.
The Catholic Church
checks out people proposed for canonisation and if they are proved worthy and
miracles are done after their death through their intercession it will beatify
them – give them the title blessed - and
then maybe canonise them when they get the title Saint. Reasons for Hope,
chapter 3, explains that the Church does all this to be as sure as possible
before making a person a saint.
St Alphonsus
believed that it was heresy to say that anybody canonised by the Church could
be canonised in error (page 23, The Great Means of Salvation and of
Perfection). Many top theologians
argued that it was next door to heresy to doubt the validity of any
canonisation. This is nonsense because
if the Church can be split by having two or more plausible claimants to the
papacy why couldn’t it get canonisations wrong for they are not that
important? Also as for the miracles St
Vincent Ferrer who was the most famous miracle worker
of all time and allegedly the most powerful miracle worker ever was in fact a
member of the excommunicated rival Roman Catholic Church led by anti-pope
Clement VII in opposition to the faction that Rome recognises as the true Roman
Catholic Church. The man the Church
believes was the true pope, Urban VI excommunicated his rivals
supporters as schismatics, excluded from the true
Church, and the Catholic Church still has the nerve to say that miracles only
happen in the true Church and show us who the true saints are! Vincent’s miracles were intended to draw
people into the false Church.
Some Catholics may disagree but to
disagree is to deny that the true Church alone matters. Roman Catholicism claims that the true Church
matters above all things for it is the pillar of the truth and protected by God
from error and is the only Church that can be trusted for it is the only
authorised way provided by God for getting one into heaven.
The Roman Catholic Church believes that we
should pray to the saints in Heaven.
They say that this is just asking a saint to pray to God for you so you
are really praying to God. That is a lie
for what do they want the saint for then?
Do you ask the doctor’s mother for a prescription? The idea is that the saint has a better
chance of influencing God than you have.
God will only do something if it is for the best but here we are told he
can do it not because it is best but because a saint asked him. This is blasphemy. The saints are really demons and stronger
than God if they can talk him into doing wrong.
If you think you are not good enough to approach God and have to go to a
saint then your prayer must be good enough when the saint listens to it so God
should listen to it. The Virgin Mary is
reputedly the greatest of the saints and the most powerful. When morality is what is best how can it be
moral to pray to a lesser saint?
When you honour the Roman Catholic Mary it
is not her you intend to honour but a power that is over God - a demon would
accept this adoration for they want you to think of them as better than God.
This tells us that the practice of waiting
until a candidate for sainthood does miracles which are verifiable before
canonising is foolishness because these miracles could only proceed from the
Devil or overactive papal imagination. When Mary is the best saint there is no
point in canonising any others.
The Church allows praying to people to
test them if they are saints but what if they are in Hell?
The Bible calls all Christians
saints. The Catholic practice of
canonisation seems ridiculous. The saint
has to do miracles before the Church will canonise. But the recipients pray principally to Christ
and invoke canonised saints and so one wonders how they can be so sure the
miracle commands the person be canonised.
The saints liked to hide their virtue and would have despised the idea
of doing miracles to get canonised. When
they hid it how can one be sure they had virtue? If a miracle verified a false saint the
miracle would be regarded as satanic so the process of saint making is riddled
with inconsistency and is all just superstition and bad logic at the end of the
day. It is weird how the Church relies
on memories about saints and their motives – a notoriously unreliable method of
being sure they were outstandingly holy and then canonises them if somebody reports
a miracle after praying to them as if that was the only possible saint they
prayed to? What about the persons who
prayed for them in the name of other might-be saints or canonised saints? The Church believes what it wants!
No matter how good a person is, they have almost no chance of being canonised unless they do a miracle after they are dead. So why bother investigating a person’s life then? Why not just worry about the miracle instead? It is bizarre how many in the Church say that the pope cannot err when he makes a saint and they agree that the miracle can be disputed with good reason. The Church says it cannot add to the gospel so the miracles are not essential for belief.
The requirement for miracles is
basically saying that we know a person is a saint from the evidence of their
life but we still need miracles performed seemingly as a result of their
intercession. It sounds awful and uncharitable if evidence for a person's
goodness can be considered to be insufficient and then to require a miracle
before one is satisfied! And especially coming from a Church that claims
it is a duty to think the best of people and which has gospels where Jesus said
the Jews were guilty of a great unforgivable sin for not being satisfied and
content with the evidence of his good works and were still suspicious that he
was in league with Satan.
Miracles are supposed to confirm the true religion revealed by God. The Church claims that to confirm a true Catholic as a saint by the power of miracle is to indirectly confirm Catholicism as the true faith. The prime confirmation is given to the person who experiences a miracle or whose prayer results in one. If somebody who sees prayer as prayer to men and women more than to God and a miracle happens when they pray to somebody who is not yet canonised but for whom a movement for canonisation is in vogue then it follows that this is confirming that person's belief that saints are better than God. Though saint worship does imply that saints are better than God the Church officially cannot accept such a position. So the miracle is confirming a belief that is against Catholicism's official teaching. The Church never checks things like that out. It prefers to encourage the hasty and superficial assumption made by Catholics that the miracle is confirming true correct Catholicism. The Church only uses miracles to trick people into accepting the Catholic faith and to make them fear the fires of Hell which is reserved for those who disobey the faith and who refuse to join it.
St Maximilian Kolbe, a priest who offered
his life to save a married man from death under the Nazis and who was then
executed, was canonised without doing any miracles. The Church said that his life was miracle
enough.
A person who failed to do any miracles
when they were alive should not be canonised for after death there is no way to
be sure it was a miracle or whose intercession or even what was responsible.
Many of the canonised saints were rabid
anti-Semites and had visions that the Church never accepted as real and even
rejected. Many engaged in savage self-abuse
like St Mary Maddalena De Pazzi
and St Margaret Mary Alacoque who reported visions
about the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The
Church says that their sanctity is provable regardless of their error. But the more sensible a saint is the more
likely they really are sainted. Their
sanctity cannot be proved when their crimes are interpreted as errors. Saints are an argument for the holiness of
the Catholic Church. But if deluded
people who mean to be sincere Catholics but who are really heretics can be saints
this is impossible so there should be Protestant saints.
The canonised saints were
mostly renowned when they were alive for the strength of their prayers and how
they could get God to do miracles for people.
These miracles imply that the saint heretically believes that he or she
is so righteous that God blesses through her or him. This is heresy for the Bible forbids such
pride. This makes the miracles demonic.
The Church ignores the fact that most of the canonised saints moaned day and night about how evil and sinfully vile they were. The Church puts this down to them seeing even the slightest sin as serious though not as mortal sin. But if you have attained a tremendous level of sanctity it follows that your sins are worse than they would be if an ordinary person committed them for you are desecrating that sanctity and have less excuse for sin. The rebellion is very serious and it is hard to see how it could not be mortal sin. It comes down to intention. If you see your “tiny” sins as huge and very serious then they are serious sins. It is a mortal sin to inflict depression on yourself therefore when you know that you will react very strongly if you commit a sin then the sin is mortal because of that. The saints should not have been canonised at all.
Today saints who have not been donor card carriers are canonised. Their organs go to waste when they could save up to seven lives. Obviously though the Church has the nerve to protest against contraception in the name of respecting human life, it doesn't care about it except when sex is involved.
Canonising saints has more to
do with promoting their fanatical obedience to the Vatican than anything
else. They are used as political items. They are good propaganda and so are set up to
function as Catholic exemplars with their subservience to the Vatican. The Church forces the title on the saints
whether they want it or not without concern for what they want for it is
herself alone that she cares about.
The excellent book by John Cornwell, Breaking Faith, needs to be read by
everybody interested in the subject of ridiculous and false canonisations. Its fourteenth chapter, The Science and
Politics of Saints, tells us a lot. It
tackles the alleged holiness of some of those saints and because the Church
requires miracles attributable to the intercession of the person before the
person can become a saint these are put under scrutiny as well.
The first “saint” in for a slating is Saint Simon Stylites
who sat on top of a pillar sixty feet tall for twenty long years. This lunatic is presented as an example of
Christian behaviour despite the fact that he had no clothes on the entire
time!
The book mentions the miracle
when a young man fell from a high building and should have been killed or very
seriously injured but just had grazes as the miracle accepted by the Church for
the canonisation of Juan Diego the fictitious seer of the blessed virgin of Guadulupe. The pope
canonised the seer on account of this miracle for the lad’s mother had invoked
Juan the moment the lad had fallen out.
Had there been a real miracle there would have been no grazes. Are we to believe that God can’t do miracles
properly? The event is inexplicable but
everything inexplicable doesn’t have to be a miracle or supernatural. The mother was probably lying that she said
she invoked Juan. When things like that
happen you will automatically invoke God, Jesus or Mary and not some obscure
person who isn’t a saint. You will
invoke the highest authority that comes to mind in that moment of terror. And wouldn’t it be dangerous to invoke
somebody who might not be a saint in such a circumstance? Better to invoke somebody who is a saint and
who certainly can do a miracle. If this
is a miracle then God doesn’t mind people being reckless!
The book says the doctors only
certify to the
The book informs us that the
Cornwell found that if you want
to check out the reasoning and research that led the Church to declare certain
healings to be miracles both the doctors and the Church hide behind
confidentiality and putting the records out of reach. Canonisation and beatification processes are
secret (page 234). He went to see Monsignor
Michele di Ruberto who
takes care of the medical scrutiny of reported miraculous healings who promised
to let him see before and after x ray pictures of a child that supposedly grew
legs and feet over a few weeks but the priest made excuses for not producing it
though he was asked for it several times.
He had no intention of keeping his promise. He didn’t even offer an alternative. Small wonder when the miracle wasn’t exactly
instant. It might indicate some unknown
power of healing but it doesn’t amount to a miracle! A perfect God does miracles perfectly.
Incredibly, Father Cyprian
Michael Tansi, was beatified by the pope, after and
on account of the disappearance of a huge cancerous tumour afflicting a young
woman who touched Tansi’s coffin and who believed the
tumour then disappeared, despite the facts.
The doctors investigating this did say the tumour going away was
inexplicable but they didn’t say the cancer had entirely gone. What they declared was that it was almost a
total reduction in growth. Two and a
half years later a small growth was found to be what was left of the big
tumour. Also the documentation proved
that the lady never had cancer, it was a benign tumour.
The long space between the alleged cure and the specialist examining her
makes the miracle suspicious.
Father Maximilan
Kolbe who was made a saint by John Paul II was believed to be an antisemitist before the Second World War. The Church ignored the fact that St Edith
Stein who was canonised because she was a martyr for the faith at Nazi hands
didn’t die for the faith at all but for her Jewish origin.
Pope John Paul II beatified
Jacinta and Francisco the little visionaries of
The Pope in Winter, says that John Paul II canonised St Josemaria Escriva on the basis of a report that was tailored to make this man who was harsh, vain, ill-tempered, and even a critic of popes, look like the perfect papal puppy (page 107). This saint founded the sinister Opus Dei.
John Paul himself will be a saint someday but we read of his corruption on page 37 of THE POWER AND THE GLORY, Inside the Dark Heart of John Paul II's Vatican, David Yallop, Constable, London, 2007.
St John Mary Vianney the patron saint of parish priests is one of Catholicism’s best-known saints. He ascribed the miracles that are now attributed to him to St Philomena (page 77, Church and Infallibility). He should be taken at his word for he would know best. The trouble is that it became so clear that this child-martyr saint never existed that the Church recently dropped her from the list of saints though Leo XII made her a saint and Pius XI created a Mass in her honour (another warning that the Church approval for a cult be it based on a saint or an apparition is not necessarily well-founded). It is not so keen however to see his miracles as satanic fakes or at least as evidence that miracles cannot prove any religious thesis which would be the logical conclusion. It uses them as proof that Vianney was a saint.
St Monica, the mother of St Augustine told him on her deathbed, "This body of mine, lay it just anywhere. Let not the care of it in any way disturb you. I request one thing only of you, that you would remember me at the altar of God no matter where you be" (page 254, THE FAITH OF OUR FATHERS, James Cardinal Gibbons, Forty Ninth Edition, John Murphy and Co Publishers, Baltimore, London, New York, 1897 (TAN Books keep this book in print). Clearly she was saying faith comes before doing right on earth such as burying the dead!
The pope’s schedule to canonise
Isabella of Spain in 1992 had to be halted.
Had it not been for Jewish and Muslim protests, this evil woman would
have been made a saint though she drove Jews and Muslims out of Spain and
established the Spanish Inquisition.
There was no stopping of the 1987
canonisation of Fr Junipero Serra
who was a member of the Spanish Inquisition.
He started the Catholic missions in California. He deployed baptism as a means of enslaving
the Indians who were treated like dirt (page 155, All Roads Lead to Rome?).
St Augustine of Hippo advocated converting
heretics and Donatists by coercion. He denied that God would be so evil as to
predestine people to eternal damnation and yet he inconsistently claimed that
God predestines some not all to everlasting life which
amounts to saying the same thing. This
dollop of hypocrisy and hatred and blasphemy was at the root of his theology
and his spiritual life which shows that if he is a saint Karl Marx has more
right to be one. Augustine believed that
the doctrine he believed as a Manichaean that evil was a real thing which
proved there had to be a bad God and a good one was wrong for evil was just the
absence of good and not a power. The man
was saying then that God was not doing wrong by making poisonous snakes for
evil is just a falling short of good! He
was a major promoter of the lie that you love the sin and hate the sin as if to
say that an act is hateful is not the same thing as to say the person that
freely creates the act is not though it clearly is. All the saints, miracles and apparitions of
the Catholic support this lie for it is a bedrock of the Church and to support
the Church is to support it.
St Alphonsus
De Ligouri, a bishop who founded the Redemptorists, was notorious for wresting the Bible out of
context to fool his naïve flock. For
example, he said once that King David stated in Psalm 20:10 that the bodies of
the damned will be like furnaces of fire (page 91, Sermons of St Alphonsus Liguori) though
there is no evidence that the Psalm had Hell in mind at all. Countless examples could be given. He also interpreted Ecclesiastes 7:19 as
saying the vengeance on the wicked will be worms and fire as referring to Hell
(page 90) which is out of context for never does the Old Testament mention the
everlasting burning Hell of the Christians.
The man who twists the word of God would twist anything.
St Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897) was a Carmelite nun who was canonised
in 1925. She is nicknamed The Little
Flower. Her book, Story of a Soul, is
the reason for the fame she has and she has been proclaimed patroness of
missionaries even though she never worked as a missionary. She boasted contradicting the Bible which
says that everybody sins that she never committed even a venial sin since she
was three. She was no saint. Yet her autobiography speaks of her terrible
depressions and fits of crying and her temptation to commit suicide due to her
conviction that she would never get into Heaven. Her spirituality did this to her and we are
led to believe that this was not sinful!
Of course if sin is possible it would have to be. Her example to the world is worrying. Life comes first and it is better to be a
sinner in the world than a suicidal nun than to take the risk of a mental or
spiritual breakdown that may result in suicide.
Her appeal lies in her detailing how she struggled against
temptation. She had very human
temptations which she claimed to have resisted.
She boasted that friendship based on affection though she had a very
affectionate nature was something she avoided for she was bad at attracting
friends and that affection of this kind for others was a poison. She said that feelings for others are always
bad for they block or reduce one’s intimate union with God (Autobiography of
a Saint, Translated by Ronald Knox, 1:13).
She wrote, “Okay then, okay,
long for death. But death will make
nonsense of your hopes. It will bring
you the darkest night of all, mere non-existence”. Though this madam said she believed in life
after death and in divine providence, the doctrine that God always looks after
you even when it seems he has left you, she clearly did not. Death according to Christianity is the
gateway to a better life and does not make nonsense of your hopes. Your hopes should be according to
Christianity to serve God as if he were the only living being in existence and
others for his sake and not their own and to live with him as a servant
forever. Since only the perfect get into
Heaven, according to Roman Catholicism, then death cannot be said to make
nonsense of your hopes but to be the fulfilment of your hopes. And death does not take you into night but to
the light of God. The Church says Teresa
meant that you cease to exist on earth when you die and in this sense death is
the darkest night of all which does not deny the view that the soul goes to
Heaven and goes to the brightest day of all.
The girl is talking about what death does to your hopes so the Church is
pretending the context does not exist.
Death is the night of your hopes and it cannot be that if your soul goes
to Heaven for then your hopes still exist for you still exist and they are
fulfilled in Heaven.
She was only canonised as an example for people to follow of how obedience to Rome’s interpretation of the gospel should be maintained no matter what and that normality should be despised. She was another pawn in papal power games.
Saint Nicholas Carruti of Tolentine (1245-1305) was an Augustinian priest. The big devotion of his life was to pray for the souls in Purgatory. His fasts were so long that he ended up getting visions of the dead. His friends said these visions were caused by these long fasts. The Church through Pope Leo XIII canonised this man in 1884 despite knowing that somebody who starves themselves until they hallucinate is not a good role model for believers. It gives the message that such behaviour is sanctioned by God.
On one occasion, Nicholas heard the voice of a dead friar calling upon him to celebrate Mass for seven days for him and other souls in Purgatory so that they would be released. Upon the completion of the seven days, the friar spoke to Nicholas and thanked him for getting himself and a large number of souls out of Purgatory with his observance of the request. Nicholas was saying Mass anyway every day so the request makes little sense. Nicholas made all his prayers for the souls. Nicholas did not have the right to decide that his experience was real. Many people have revelations that contradict the revelations of others. The friar might have went to Hell or to Heaven. If he went to Heaven and Nicholas thought he was in Purgatory then Nicholas was demeaning and slandering him. And Nicholas saying that the friar and a large company of others got release because of his paltry seven Masses is just Nicholas boasting that his prayers were better than the prayers and Masses of other priests. It seems monstrous to suggest that if prayer is acceptable, that praying for the souls all the time is a great thing. Why assume there is a Purgatory where people suffer when most people don't believe in it and it has no credibility? Why not pray for the suffering you see every day on the streets and in the world instead? Put reality first.
St Joseph Calasanz who was made the patron saint of all the Catholic schools in the world by Pope Pius XII and praised by John Paul II covered up child-abuse in the teaching order of priests he founded. The saint was canonised by Pope Clement XIII in 1767.
The book, Fallen Order, by Karen Liebriech, was written when the author researched archives including those of the Inquisition and discovered how this monster fostered institutionalised child-abuse in his schools by protecting the offenders.
He protected two of his top priests who maintained a paedophile ring in the schools for two decades. One of them, a Father Alacchi was known as a sadist. The Inquisition and the Roman Curia and the pope found out and decided to do nothing about it. They refused to do anything to support or protect the victims.
Calasanz received a host of reports of child sexual abuse by his priests and he took every step to prevent the matter becoming public knowledge. He had plans executed to pacify the parents of the children and get the paedophile priests moved elsewhere.
Fr Alacchi was promoted by the saint to a Visitor General role after learning that he was abusing children. Inevitably more allegations came in after this so the saint sent him on pilgrimage until it quietened down. Later the priest was invited back to his job and further allegations were made. The saint’s response to this was to give him another reward for his evil. Alacchi became Consulter General and Procurator. The saint put down the allegations as lies and shielded Alacchi.
Fatehr Stefano Cherubini was such a notorious paedophile that his wealthy family protected him by employing lawyers who engaged in intimidating those who made complaints and who stole a dossier from the saint’s desk that proved the crimes and destroyed it. He didn’t get punished by the saint. Instead he became second in charge of the order under the saint. Promotion was used to intimidate anybody making allegations.
Cherubini became head of the order when Calasanz was dismissed due to machinations by the Jesuit Order which made him appear heretical. The pope had Cherubini inspected and the report cleared him.
Cherubini
was dismissed from his post as head of the order.
He had been caught in the act abusing a pupil and a letter from a priest written in 1646 which admitted ten year knowledge of the child abusing activities of the monster. It said that the administrative incompetence was a cover-up.
The miracles surrounding the saint include tales of the body and relics casing healings and after death his body had a smell of fresh roses.
Needless to say
The excellent The Gospel According to Woman shows how Christianity especially Catholicism has hated women. How could the male saints of such a faith be real saints? How could the women saints be real saints when they suffered in promotion of Catholicism and its diabolical sexist god. How could their miracles be considered divine?
It exposes the hatred and uncharitableness that Saints Jerome and Augustine heaped on sexuality and sexual love.
St Pelagia starved herself and became unrecognisable through penance and solitude (page 131).
St Margaret refused to let her new husband have sex with her and acted as a man (page 132).
St Margaret Mary had sadistic erotic visions of Jesus, one of which she had her mouth close to the wound in Jesus’ sacred heart. She tormented her fellow nuns with her bizarre behaviour (page 153-154). She did herself serious harm with her penances (page 187). She wrote that she enjoyed extreme suffering (page 189). Despite the ways she degraded herself it is clear that she was not motivated by humility but by exhibitionism and pride (page 196). Anyone that boasts of their humility is really the most dangerous and neurotic prideful person possible. Jesus’ praise of her in her visions of the sacred heart show that one must be mentally ill and masochistic and sadistic to please him. This is the apparition Catholics invoke in the devotion of the sacred heart that she promoted and this is what is supported by the miracles they report as a result!
St Mary Maddelena de Pazzi urged others to beat her up and her prioress obliged in Church and she made the other nuns walk all over her (page 219). She fell into and encouraged herself in dangerous and strange ecstasies.
St Rose of
St Margaret of Cortona fasted her body like an
anorexic. She took a delight when her
family died. She wouldn’t look after her
son but sent him away because she wanted to pray rather than care for him (page
159-161). Jesus told her in an apparition
that because she lost her virginity through sexual sin she must try to get it
back by fasting severely (page 160). She reported that Jesus told her that she
was to be one of the three main lights of the Franciscan order with St Francis
of
St Rose, St Mary Maddelena de Pazzi, St Margaret of Cortona, St Margaret Mary are numbered among the saints whose bodies God preserved miraculously to show that their lives were the perfect example of service!
These saints who presented such a bad hypocritical example to the world and encouraged the idea in the Church that extreme suffering and wrecking your health was a wonderful thing were to blame for many deaths and proved to be saints not of God but of anorexia nervosa.
Making saints is
a business that is rife with fraud. It
makes money for the Church and makes good politics in Church politics. Many of the saints were bad news. Rather than being icons of human greatness
they are icons of how easily the Church can pull on peoples’ heart strings and
exploit them.
BOOKS CONSULTED
ALL ROADS LEAD TO
ROME, Michael de Semlyen, Dorchester House
Publications, Bucks, 1993
BREAKING FAITH,
John Cornwell, Penguin Books,
BORN
FUNDAMENTALIST, BORN-AGAIN CATHOLIC, David B Currie, Ignatius Press,
CHRISTIAN ORDER Vol 39 Number 1 Simon Clency Mariapa, Editorial Office,
COUNTERFEIT
MIRACLES Benjamin B Warfield, Banner of Truth Trust, Edinburgh, 1995
FROM FASTING
SAINTS TO ANOREXIC GIRLS, Walter Vandereycken and Ron
van Deth, Athlone Press,
London, 1996
MAKING SAINTS,
Kenneth K Woodward, Chatto & Windus,
London, 1991
OBJECTIONS TO
ROMAN CATHOLICISM, Ed by Michael de la Bedoyere,
Constable, London, 1964
POPE FICTION,
Patrick Madrid, Basilica Press, San Diego, California, 1999
PURGATORY, Rev W
E Kenny BD, Church of Ireland Printing, Co Dublin, 1939
SERMONS OF ST ALPHONSUS LIGUORI, Tan Books,
Illinois, 1982
THE BANNER OF THE
TRUTH IN
THE GOSPEL
ACCORDING TO WOMAN, Karen Armstrong, Pan Books,
THE GREAT MEANS
OF SALVATION AND PERFECTION, St Alphonsus De Ligouri, Redemptorist Fathers,
THE LEGENDS OF
THE SAINTS, by Hippolyde Delehaye,
Four Courts Press, Dublin, 1998
THE MISSIONARY
POSITION, Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, Christopher Hitchens,
Verso, London, 1995
THE POPE IN
WINTER, John Cornwell, Viking,
THE POWER AND THE GLORY, Inside the Dark Heart of John Paul II's Vatican, David Yallop, Constable, London, 2007
THE PRIMITIVE FAITH
AND ROMAN CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENTS, Rev John A F Gregg, BD, APCK,
THE VIRGIN, Geoffrey Ashe, Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd. London, 1976
VICARS OF CHRIST,
Peter de Rosa, Corgi, London, 1995
THE WWW
The following two
sites show just what a liar Mother Teresa was and her callous heart is laid
bare. They show the deceit of Pope John
Paul II who was eager to make a saint of her.
OPEN LETTER TO
MOTHER TERESA, Aroup Chaterjee
http://website.lineone.net/~bajuu/chatlet.htm
MOTHER TERESA THE
FINAL VERDICT Aroup Chaterjee
http://www.meteorbooks.com/index.html
This fascinating book reveals shockers such as that the pope has beatified Archbishop Stepinac of Zagreb who stood idly by as Jews and Communists were hounded to their deaths and the notorious fascist Cardinal Schuster of Milan. THE POWER AND THE GLORY, Inside the Dark Heart of John Paul II's Vatican, David Yallop, Constable, London, 2007 page 362 shows that there is no record or evidence that Stepinac did anything to stop the priests and religious under his authority who were part of efforts to force people into conversion to the Church or die. The most senior Ustashi war criminals who operated this scheme were protected by the Vatican until 1947 (page 363). The Vatican ratline for war criminals enabled 30,000 plus to escape (page 364). Stepinac is quoted as giving an defence of his evil actions that amounted to saying he should be excused for he was only obeying orders (page 364).
BIBLE VERSION
USED
The Amplified
Bible