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Mind Control and Enforcement Of The Roman Catholic Church

A Change Of Outward Appearance Doesn’t Change The Inward Heart

MIND CONTROL AND THREATS

The Roman Catholic Church is very tolerant today with dissenting voices from within her midst in the United States where the Laws of Separation Of Church and State protect the rights of the dissenter. It hasn’t always been so, but even though certain governments have greatly curtailed the outward practice of the RCC’s internal canons towards her dissenters, don’t be fooled for a minute concerning the RCC’s attitude toward anyone disagreeing with her doctrines and morals.

On December 8, 1854, Pope Pius IX declared the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. The Pope said that if any person dares to "think otherwise than as has been defined by us" they thereby shipwreck their faith, are cut off from the Church, and stand condemned because of it.”

The Pope also declared that if any person says, or writes, or in any other way outwardly expresses "the errors he thinks in his heart," then they thereby "subject themselves to the penalties established by law".

(see "Ineffabilis Deus" ("Apostolic Constitution on the Immaculate Conception"). Encyclical of Pope Pius IX issued December 8, 1854. Near the end of this papal bull there is a section entitled "The Definition". The statements that I described are in the last paragraph of that section. Following are links to two web sites which quote the entire papal bull.)
http://www.newadvent.org/docs/pi09id.htm
http://www.geocities.com/papalencyclicals/Pius09/p9ineff.htm

November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII issued a papal bull defining the dogma of the Assumption of Mary. He ended by saying, "It is forbidden to any man to change this, our declaration, pronouncement, and definition or, by rash attempt, to oppose and counter it." The Pope further declared that any person who attempts to do so thereby incurs the wrath of God and the wrath of the Apostles Peter and Paul.

(See "Munificentissimus Deus" ("Defining the Dogma of the Assumption"), paragraph 47
http://www.geocities.com/papalencyclicals/Pius12/P12MUNIF.HTM

The difference in the language of the bull of 1854 and the bull of 1950 reveals the diminished authority of the Catholic Church to carry out her threats. As Democracy spread to South America, and other RCC dominated countries the political power of the Roman Catholic Church was greatly impacted. By 1950, the kind of language which was used in the 1854 bull presented an ugly face to people where democracy had been established. Expedience required that the RCC had to lessen it's aggression . Today the RCC is a kinder and gentler church, but never doubt that built into her so-called “infallible” teachings is the power to exercise worldwide dominion should the opportunity present itself. The founding fathers of our beloved country understood this well when they established our constitution.

Every Roman Catholic is absolutely required to accept all the official teachings of the RCC as handed down from the Magisterium as authorative.

According to the 1913 edition of the "Catholic Encyclopedia," a person's religious belief is "outside the realm of free private judgment". This is consistent with the spirit behind anathematizing people.

According to Canon law whenever the Pope or the college of bishops makes a declaration concerning faith or morals, Catholics are required to give "a religious submission of the intellect and will" to it. Furthermore, they must "take care to avoid those things which do not agree with it".

Vatican Canon Law

BOOK III. THE TEACHING FUNCTION OF THE CHURCH LIBER III. DE ECCLESIAE MUNERE DOCENDI

Can. 752 Although not an assent of faith, a religious submission of the intellect and will must be given to a doctrine which the Supreme Pontiff or the college of bishops declares concerning faith or morals when they exercise the authentic magisterium, even if they do not intend to proclaim it by definitive act; therefore, the Christian faithful are to take care to avoid those things which do not agree with it.

New Catechism

88 The Church's Magisterium exercises the authority it holds from Christ to the fullest extent when it defines dogmas, that is, when it proposes, in a form obliging the Christian people to an irrevocable adherence of faith, truths contained in divine Revelation or also when it proposes, in a definitive way, truths having a necessary connection with these.

93 "By this appreciation of the faith, aroused and sustained by the Spirit of truth, the People of God, guided by the sacred teaching authority (Magisterium),. . . receives. . . the faith, once for all delivered to the saints. . . The People unfailingly adheres to this faith, penetrates it more deeply with right judgment, and applies it more fully in daily life."

100 The task of interpreting the Word of God authentically has been entrusted solely to the Magisterium of the Church, that is, to the Pope and to the bishops in communion with him.

154 Believing is possible only by grace and the interior helps of the Holy Spirit. But it is no less true that believing is an authentically human act. Trusting in God and cleaving to the truths he has revealed is contrary neither to human freedom nor to human reason. Even in human relations it is not contrary to our dignity to believe what other persons tell us about themselves and their intentions, or to trust their promises (for example, when a man and a woman marry) to share a communion of life with one another. If this is so, still less is it contrary to our dignity to "yield by faith the full submission of... intellect and will to God who reveals", and to share in an interior communion with him. (My words - This would include tradition as well)

RCC Justification

156 What moves us to believe is not the fact that revealed truths appear as true and intelligible in the light of our natural reason: we believe "because of the authority of God himself who reveals them, who can neither deceive nor be deceived".²⁸ So "that the submission of our faith might nevertheless be in accordance with reason, God willed that external proofs of his Revelation should be joined to the internal helps of the Holy Spirit."²⁹ Thus the miracles of Christ and the saints, prophecies, the Church's growth and holiness, and her fruitfulness and stability "are the most certain signs of divine Revelation, adapted to the intelligence of all"; they are "motives of credibility" (motiva credibilitatis), which show that the assent of faith is "by no means a blind impulse of the mind".³⁰

The RCC and The Enforcement Of Her Teachings

OK, it is a give that the RCC demands that its adherents agree with official church teaching. But the kicker is how she has authorized herself to deal with dissenters. There is no doubt that the bible teaches that heretics and immoral people can and should be removed from the church if they don’t repent. (I Cor. 5:1-5; Titus 3:10) But the RCC goes much further as her history attests. Her enforcement power is declared to be internal and external.

PART I. DELICTS AND PENALTIES IN GENERAL

TITLE I

THE PUNISHMENT OF DELICTS IN GENERAL (Cann. 1311 - 1312)

Can. 1311 The Church has the innate and proper right to coerce offending members of the Christian faithful with penal sanctions.

Can. 1312 §1. The following are penal sanctions in the Church:

1/ medicinal penalties, or censures, which are listed in ⇒ cann. 1331-1333;
2/ expiatory penalties mentioned in ⇒ can. 1336.
3/.The law can establish other expiatory penalties which deprive a member of the Christian faithful of some spiritual or temporal good and which are consistent with the supernatural purpose of the Church.

Penal remedies and penances are also used; the former especially to prevent delicts, the latter to substitute for or to increase a penalty.

Spiritual goods are things which are necessary to get to Heaven. The Catholic Church believes that it can deprive people of them through excommunication and anathemas. Temporal goods are things which relate to life in this world. The Catholic Church has never renounced its past practice of killing people that it considers to be heretics. It has long history of banishments, burnings, and out right taking of lands and homes. The Office of the Inquisition still exists. It is part of the Vatican Curia. In 1965, its name was changed to "The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith". It was headed by Cardinal Ratzinger who is now the present Pope.

In articles to come I will the give clear accounts of the history of the RCC and what the above attitudes of her arrogance produced throughout human history. The true church was persecuted for almost 3oo years. When the RCC unequally yoked herself with the Roman State under Emperor Constantine, that which was persecuted soon became the persecutor. Sad is her history of violence, murder, fraud, subterfuge, and every kind of unbiblical evil. She lusted for power and has been guilty of the most heinous crimes to maintain it. Let us learn from the past and not buy into her self-made authority by the Magisterium.

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