Pope Francis Heresies
MARCH 14, 2013
Grand Master Gustavo Raffi of the Grand Orient Masonic Lodge of Italy praises election of Pope Francis writing 'with Pope Francis, nothing will be as it was before.' (GRANDEORIENTE.IT)
MAY 22, 2013
Pope Francis Says Atheists Who Do Good Are Redeemed. 'We all have the duty to do good. For Atheists: Just do good and we'll find a meeting point' (REUTERS)
JUNE 2, 2013
Pope Francis speaking about Jesus multiplying the bread and fish says 'Here's the miracle, that it is more a sharing than a multiplying' (CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY)
JULY 29, 2013
When asked about gay priests, Pope Francis replies 'Who am I to judge?' (NEW YORK TIMES)
SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
Pope says church is obsessed with gays, abortion, and birth control – 'It is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time….We have to find a new balance' (THE NEW YORK TIMES)
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
Pope Francis said 'A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‘Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?’ We must always consider the person.' (AMERICA MAGAZINE)
NOVEMBER 24, 2013
Pope Francis on Muslims – 'We must never forget that they profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, who will judge humanity on the last day.' (VATICAN.VA)
JULY 13, 2015
At least 14 people were bitten by snakes and had to be attended by medics during a Mass conducted by Pope Francis in the Paraguayan city of Asuncion (ALJAZEERA)
JANUARY, 2014
Pope sends iPhone message to "The Godfather of the Prosperity Gospel" televangelist Kenneth Copeland via Tony Palmer (VIDEO)
MARCH 10, 2014
As relayed by Cardinal Dolan, Pope Francis says The Catholic Church should not dismiss gay marriage, but should study it (THE TELEGRAPH)
MAY 15, 2014
Pope Francis said 'Jesus Christ did not fall from heaven like a hero that comes to save us. No, Jesus Christ has a history!' (VATICAN)
MAY 21, 2014
Pope Francis Goes Public With Support Of RFID Chip Implantation
In a controversial move by the Catholic church, Pope Francis has come out in vocal support of RFID Chip technologies and the extraordinary potential they hold for mankind. The outrage stems from a belief held by many Evangelicals, Fundamentalists and Catholics, that RFID implants are the Mark Of The Beast, spoken about in their Holy Book’s chapter regarding the end of the world.
During the Pontiff’s weekly general address, he spoke to the crowd about his view on the RFID technology, and assured his many followers that no spiritual harm can come from receiving an RFID implant.
“We have examined the scriptures thoroughly, and I can conclusively say that there’s nothing to indicate that RFID Chips are Satanic in anyway. If anything, these devices are a blessing from God himself, bestowed upon humanity to solve many of the world’s ills.”
JUNE 05, 2014
Pope meets with Televangelist Joel Osteen at the Vatican (NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER)
JUNE 08, 2014
First ever Muslim, Jewish prayers at Vatican (NY POST)
JUNE 13, 2014
Interview with Spanish-language magazine "La Vanguardia"
On 'Fundamentalism':... A fundamentalist group, although it may not kill anyone, although it may not strike anyone, is violent. The mental structure of fundamentalists is violence in the name of God'
JUNE 24, 2014
Pope meets with Televangelist Kenneth Copeland and other Evangelicals at the Vatican (NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER)
JUNE 25, 2014
“There is no do it yourself in the church, no freelancers. How many times did we hear Pope Benedict describe the church as a “we church”? Sometimes you may hear someone say, “I believe in God, in Jesus, but the church….. I don’t care.” How many times have we heard this? This is wrong. There are those who believe you can have a personal direct and immediate relationship with Jesus Christ outside the communion and mediation of the church. These temptations are dangerous and harmful. They are, in the words of the great Pope Paul VI, “absurd and dichotomies.” It’s true that journeying together is challenging, and sometimes it can be tiring: it may that some brother or sister (in the church) makes us face a problem, or scandalizes us. But the Lord has entrusted his message of salvation to humans, all of us, as witnesses; and in our brothers and sisters, with their gifts and limits, who come to us and make themselves known. This means belonging to the church. Remember being a Christian means belonging to the church. First name: Christian. Last name: Church member.”
OCTOBER 9, 2014
Pope Francis says 'But God does not exist: Do not be shocked! So God does not exist! There is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they are persons, they are not some vague idea in the clouds … This God spray does not exist! The three persons exist!' (VATICAN RADIO)
OCTOBER 27, 2014
Pope Says Evolution, Big Bang Are Real, saying 'God is not a divine being or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life…Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.' (USA TODAY)
OCTOBER 28, 2014
‘When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so,’ he said.
‘He created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfilment. ‘Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.’ (Pontifical Academy of Sciences)
NOVEMBER 29, 2014
Pope Francis prays in Istanbul's Blue Mosque – Francis took off his shoes as he entered the huge mosque, before bowing his head in prayer for several minutes, facing Mecca and standing next to Istanbul's Grand Mufti Rahmi Yaranwith Muslim (REUTERS)
MARCH 15, 2015
Pope Francis, when asked 'What happens to that lost soul? Will it be punished?' replied 'there is no punishment, but the annihilation of that soul. All the others will participate in the beatitude of living in the presence of the Father. The souls that are annihilated will not take part in that banquet; with the death of the body their journey is finished.' (LA REPUBBLICA)
MARCH 22, 2015
Pope Francis Credited With Performing 'Miracle' As St. Gennaro's Blood Liquifies in Naples (HUFFINGTON POST)
MAY 29, 2015
Pope Francis said 'There is also a question, whose explanation one does not learn in a catechesis. It is a question I frequently ask myself and many of you, many people ask: “Why do children suffer?”. And there are no answers. This too is a mystery. I just look to God and ask:“But why?”. And looking at the Cross: “Why is your Son there? Why?”. It is the mystery of the Cross. I often think of Our Lady, when they handed down to her the dead body of her Son, covered with wounds, spat on, bloodied and soiled. And what did Our Lady do? “Did she carry him away?”. No, she embraced him, she caressed him. Our Lady, too, did not understand. Because she, in that moment, remembered what the Angel had said to her: “He will be King, he will be great, he will be a prophet…”; and inside, surely, with that wounded body lying in her arms, that body that suffered so before dying, inside surely she wanted to say to the Angel: “Liar! I was deceived.” She, too, had no answers.' (VATICAN.VA)
SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
In a homily at Saint Patrick's Cathedral Pope Francis says 'if at times our efforts and works seem to fail and produce no fruit, we need to remember that we are followers of Jesus… and his life, humanly speaking, ended in failure, the failure of the cross' (NEW YORK TIMES)
NOVEMBER 27, 2015
Pope Francis said to youth in Kenya 'When you don’t understand something, when desperation hits you then look at the cross. That is the great failure of God, that is the destruction of God, and it’s a challenge to our faith. And this is hope, because history did not end in that failure. Rather it’s in the resurrection of Christ that renewed all of us. I am going to tell you something personal. It’s 12 (o’clock) are you hungry? (Laughter and cheers). I am going to tell you something private. In my pocket I always carry two thing: a rosary to pray something which seems odd, this is here is the history of God’s failure, it’s the way of the cross, a small way of the cross, as Jesus suffered and when they condemned him right up to where he was buried with these two things I do the best I can.' (CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY)
NOVEMBER 30, 2015
In in-flight interview from Africa to Rome Pope Francis says:
'Yesterday, I went to the Evangelicals, who work hard. And then they came to Mass in the evening. Today I went to the mosque. I prayed in the mosque. Even the Imam got into the popemobile to take a ride around the small stadium. These are small gestures, is that which they want. Because, there is a small group. I think that is Christian, or they say they are Christian, which is is very violent. I don’t really understand this. But, it’s not ISIS, it’s another thing. It’s Christian.'
(after being asked about the dangers of fundamentalism and the Paris attack by ISIS)'One of the greatest values is the fraternity among us. We are all children of God. We have the same father.
DECEMBER 27, 2015
Pope Francis said 'How comforting it is for us to reflect on Mary and Joseph teaching Jesus how to pray!…We know what Jesus did on that occasion. Instead of returning home with his family, he stayed in Jerusalem, in the Temple, causing great distress to Mary and Joseph who were unable to find him. For this little “escapade”, Jesus probably had to beg forgiveness of his parents. The Gospel doesn’t say this, but I believe that we can presume it. Mary’s question, moreover, contains a certain reproach, revealing the concern and anguish which she and Joseph felt.' (NEWS.VA)
JANUARY 7, 2016
In first prayer video, Pope stresses interfaith unity – An initiative of the Jesuit-run global prayer network Apostleship of Prayer, the video was filmed in collaboration with the Vatican Television Center and marks the first time the Pope’s monthly prayer intentions have been featured on video. Pope Francis says 'Many think differently, feel differently, seeking God or meeting God in different ways. In this crowd, in this range of religions, there is only one certainty that we have for all: we are all children of God'. (Note: The video includes a Lama, a Rabbi, and an Islamic leader and shows imagery of a statue of Buddha, Muslim prayer beads, a Minora, and a Baby Jesus doll). (CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY)
JANUARY 27, 2016
Pope Francis Said to Bless Human-Animal Chimeras – A Spanish scientist (Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a prominent stem-cell biologist) told Scientific American that Pope Francis personally blessed his cutting edge research to mix human cells into animal bodies. Belmonte told Scientific American "Spain is a very Catholic country, so we had to go through the Pope. He very nicely said yes…Yes. The current Pope. So the Vatican is behind this research and has no problem based on the idea is to help humankind. And in theory all that we will be doing is killing pigs.” The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Vatican’s scientific body, did not respond to an e-mail seeking to confirm Pope Francis’s position (MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW/SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN)
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
Pope Francis spoke about John the Baptist saying 'But he also suffered in prison – let us say the word – the interior torture of doubt: ‘But maybe I made a mistake? This Messiah is not how I imagined the Messiah would be.’ And he invited his disciples to ask Jesus: ‘But tell us, tell us the truth: are you He who is to come?’ because that doubt made him suffer. ‘Was I mistaken in proclaiming someone who isn’t [who I thought]?’ The suffering, the interior solitude of this man. ‘I, on the other hand, must diminish, but diminish thus: in soul, in body, in everything' (VATICAN RADIO)
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Pope Francis Praises Italy's Leading Abortion Rights Proponent – Pope Francis shocked church traditionalists and pro-life advocates after he recently praised a leading abortion rights advocate and even dubbed her as one of Italy's 'forgotten greats.' The pontiff made the statement during an interview last Feb. 8 with Corriere Della Serra, where he compared former Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino to great historical figures such as Konrad Adenauer and Robert Schuman. Pope Francis acknowledged that his statements were "controversial" but dismissed them, saying, 'True, but never mind. We have to look at people, at what they do.' (CHRISTIAN TODAY)
MAY 30, 2016
In a homily Pope Francis said 'Jesus was Himself tempted to lose the memory of His own mission, to not give way to prophecy and to prefer security instead of Hope. To this people Jesus, because he knew temptation in Himself, reproaches' (VATICAN RADIO)
JUNE 1, 2016
Pope Meets With Jains To Promote Healing and Caring for Earth and Humanity – Jainism is an ancient Indian religion that promotes compassion and non-violence. Pope Francis spoke to the group about the responsibility all have to care for creation and mother Earth and thanked them for how they view the world. He said 'We all love mother Earth, because she is the one who has given us life and safeguards us; I would also call her sister Earth, who accompanies us during the journey of our existence. Our duty is to take care of her just as we would take care of a mother or of a sister, with responsibility, with tenderness and with peace.' (ROME REPORTS)
DECEMBER 15, 2016
Answering a question put to him by a nurse in paediatrics, who asked why children suffer, Pope Francis said: 'I have no answer to this question. Nor has Jesus given an answer to these words. There is no answer to this question, all we can do is look at the crucifix and let it give us the answer. Is God unjust? He was unjust with his son, he sent him to the cross, if we follow this logic then we have to say this.' (LA STAMPA)
APRIL 4, 2017
In a homily Pope Francis said 'Jesus ‘made himself the serpent,’ Jesus ‘made himself sin,’ and he took upon himself all the filth of humanity, all the filth of sin. And he ‘made himself sin’, he made himself to rise up so that all the people might look at him, the people wounded by sin, us. This is the mystery of the cross and Paul says it: ‘He made himself sin’ and he took the appearance of the father of sin, the cunning serpent….But what is the cross for us? Yes, it is the sign of Christians, it is the symbol of Christians, and we make the sign of the cross, but we do not always do it well, sometimes we do it so-so…because we do not have this faith in the cross. The cross for some people is a badge of belonging: ‘Yes, I carry the cross to show that I am a Christian.’ And it's fine but not just as a badge, as if it were a team, the badge of a team; but rather as the memory of the man who made himself sin, who made himself the devil, the serpent, for us; he debased himself up to the point of totally annihilating himself.' (L'OSSERVATORE ROMANO)
MARCH 29, 2018
Does Hell Exist? Pope Francis Says No In New Interview That Could Change Catholic Church Forever – In an article titled “It Is an Honor to Be Called a Revolutionary," La Repubblica founder Eugenio Scalfari asked, "What about the bad souls?" Seemingly going against centuries of core Christian belief, Pope Francis said the souls of sinners simply vanished after death and were not subject to an eternity of punishment. 'They are not punished, those who repent obtain the forgiveness of God and enter the rank of souls who contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot therefore be forgiven disappear. There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls.' Pope Francis said. Shortly after the article was published, the Vatican issued this statement: "What is reported by the author in today’s article is the result of his reconstruction, in which the literal words pronounced by the Pope are not quoted. No quotation of the aforementioned article must therefore be considered as a faithful transcription of the words of the Holy Father. " (NEWSWEEK)
MAY 19, 2018
Juan Carlos Cruz who met with Pope Francis as one of the victims of the abuses in Chile reported that Pope Francis said to him 'Juan Carlos, that you are gay does not matter. God made you like that and he loves you like that and I do not care. The Pope wants you like that, you have to be happy with who you are.' (EL PAIS/CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY/CNN)
AUGUST 15, 2018
Changes to Lord’s Prayer To Be Made Official in Italy – Changes to the Lord’s Prayer proposed by Pope Francis will take effect in Italy this November. The new Italian text of the prayer will no longer read, “lead us not into temptation,” but “do not abandon us into temptation,”. (BREITBART)
SEPTEMBER 22, 2018
Francis was given a book about the Pope John Paul II by Polish photographer Grzegorz Galazka. Receiving the large book with a beaming John Paul on the cover, Francis quipped: '(Pope John Paul II) was a saint, I am the devil.' (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
JANUARY 2, 2019
Pope in Audience: It's Better To Be Atheist Than Go To Mass Hating The World – Pope Francis said 'How many times do we see the scandal of those people who go to church and stay there all day or go every day and then live hating others or talking badly about people? This is a scandal – it is better not to go to church: better to live as an atheist.' (ROME REPORTS / LA REPUBBLICA / VIDEO)
JANUARY 15, 2019
The Pope: God Is Father And Also Mother And Always Loves, Even Criminals (LA STAMPA)
JANUARY 28, 2019
Asked about sexual education in schools, Pope Francis said 'I believe that in schools we must give sex education. Sex is a gift from God, it is not a monster, it is a gift from God to love. That some people use it to earn money or exploit is another problem. But we need to give an objective sexual education, that is without ideological colonization….The ideal is to start from home, with the parents. It is not always possible because there are so many different situations in families, and because they do not know how to do it. And so the school makes up for this, because otherwise it will remain a void that will then be filled by any ideology.' (CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY)
MARCH 31, 2019
Pope Warns Catholics Of Converting Others – In Morocco the pope insisted to an audience of around 400 that trying to convert people to one's own belief 'always leads to an impasse'. 'Please, no proselytism!' he said. (AFP)
APRIL 3, 2019
Pope Francis said 'With the Muslims we are descendants of the same Father, Abraham: why does God permit so many religions? God willed to permit this: the theologians of Scholasticism referred to God’s permissive voluntas. He willed to permit this reality: there are so many religions; some are born of the culture, but always looking to Heaven, looking at God. However, what God wills is fraternity among us in a special way – here is the reason for this trip – with our brothers, children of Abraham like us, the Muslims. We must not be scared by the difference: God has permitted this.' (ZENIT)
APRIL 18, 2019
In an episode of the BBC2 series Pilgrimage: The Road To Rome, gay British comedian Stephen Amos is among stars shown having audiences with Pope Francis. Stephen told the Pope: “So me coming on this pilgrimage, being non-religious, I was looking for answers and faith. But as a gay man, I don’t feel accepted.” Francis replied carefully: 'Giving more importance to the adjective [gay] rather than the noun [man], this is not good. We are all human beings and have dignity. It does not matter who you are, or how you live your life – you do not lose your dignity. There are people that prefer to select or discard people because of the adjective. These people don’t have a human heart. For those of you who are believers, pray for me. For those of you who do not believe, could you wish me a good journey, so I do not let anyone down.'
Stephen left in tears and said: “He gave me faith in humanity. He knows his response to my question… will have ramifications around the world. He’s saying those who hold extreme religious views of anti-homosexuality or anti-abortion don’t have a human heart and that is huge.” (MIRROR/VIDEO)
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
Pope Francis Just Named A Pro-LGBT+ Bishop As Cardinal – LGBT+ advocates are celebrating after the Pope elevated a leading pro-gay bishop to the College of Cardinals. (PINK NEWS)
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
Speaking to the Vatican communications team Pope Francis said 'Why say authentically Christian? It is Christian! The mere fact of the noun ‘Christian’, ‘I am Christ’ is strong: it is an adjective noun, yes, but it is a noun…One of the things you must not do is advertising, mere advertising. You must not behave like human business that try to attract more people. To use a technical word: you must not proselytise. It is not Christian to proselytise.' (THE GUARDIAN)
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Pope Francis attended an indigenous ritual, a tree-planting ceremony in the Vatican gardens. Participants danced around a mandala, spread soil from "symbolic places," and bowed to two female fertility figures. They sang and held hands while dancing in a circle around the images, in a dance resembling a traditional offering to Mother Earth. No explanation was provided by the event organizers as to why the dance was performed for the Feast of St. Francis or what it symbolized. People carried bowls of dirt from different places around the world, each symbolizing a different issue from ecological devastation to migration. The dirt was placed around a tree from Assisi, which was planted as a “symbol of integral ecology.” After what appeared to be the offering of prayers by participants, who prostrated themselves on the grass around a blanket upon which fruit, candles, and several carved items were set, an indigenous woman approached the pope and presented him with a black ring, which appeared identical to the one she was wearing. The ring appeared to be a tucum ring — a black ring worn in Brazil and Latin America as a sign of dedication to certain social causes, and often associated with liberation theology. Cardinal Peter Turkson spoke about Francis’ environmental encyclical Laudato Si saying "God’s Word transformed ‘chaos’ at the dawn of creation into a ‘cosmos,’ an ordered world system, capable of supporting human life, and suitable to be home for man. And the lesson here is simple: ‘Chaos’ with the Word of God becomes ‘Cosmos.’" (VIDEO/CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY/LIFESITENEWS)
OCTOBER 9, 2019
Eugenio Scalfari, who has met with and interviewed Pope Francis on multiple occassions said of Pope Francis "Those who, as it has happened many times with me, have had the luck of meeting him (Francis) and speaking to him with the greatest cultural intimacy, know that Pope Francis conceives Christ as Jesus of Nazareth, man, not God incarnate. Once incarnate, Jesus ceases to be a God and becomes a man until his death on the cross. Scalfari mentioned examples in Scriptures in which Christ prayed, among them his agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, to support his thesis that Jesus Christ was not divine. He wrote that when he raised those points to Pope Francis, the pope told him: ‘They are the definite proof that Jesus of Nazareth, once he became a man, even if he was a man of exceptional virtue, was not a God.’”
The Vatican Press Office issued a statement which reads: "As has been affirmed on other occasions, the words that Dr. Eugenio Scalfari attributes between quotes to the Holy Father during his colloquies held with him cannot be considered as a faithful account of what was effectively said, but represent rather a personal and liberal [loose] interpretation of that which he heard, as appears entirely evident from what was written today concerning the divinity of Jesus Christ." (LA REPUBBLICA/CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY/VATICAN)
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Pope Denied Bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ – In the Nov. 5 edition of La Repubblica and in the introduction to his new book, Eugenio Scalfari, a long-time friend of Pope Francis and frequent papal interviewer, states that Pope Francis said, 'He [Jesus] was a man until he was placed in the tomb by the women who recomposed his body. That night, in the tomb, the man [Jesus] disappeared and came forth from the grotto in the semblance of a spirit that met the women and the Apostles while still preserving the shadow of the person, and then he definitely disappeared.' (CNS NEWS)
MARCH 1, 2020
Pope Francis said 'Jesus answers the devil with the Word of God, not with his word.' (ZENIT)
Grand Master Gustavo Raffi of the Grand Orient Masonic Lodge of Italy praises election of Pope Francis writing 'with Pope Francis, nothing will be as it was before.' (GRANDEORIENTE.IT)
MAY 22, 2013
Pope Francis Says Atheists Who Do Good Are Redeemed. 'We all have the duty to do good. For Atheists: Just do good and we'll find a meeting point' (REUTERS)
JUNE 2, 2013
Pope Francis speaking about Jesus multiplying the bread and fish says 'Here's the miracle, that it is more a sharing than a multiplying' (CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY)
JULY 29, 2013
When asked about gay priests, Pope Francis replies 'Who am I to judge?' (NEW YORK TIMES)
SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
Pope says church is obsessed with gays, abortion, and birth control – 'It is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time….We have to find a new balance' (THE NEW YORK TIMES)
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
Pope Francis said 'A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‘Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?’ We must always consider the person.' (AMERICA MAGAZINE)
NOVEMBER 24, 2013
Pope Francis on Muslims – 'We must never forget that they profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, who will judge humanity on the last day.' (VATICAN.VA)
JULY 13, 2015
At least 14 people were bitten by snakes and had to be attended by medics during a Mass conducted by Pope Francis in the Paraguayan city of Asuncion (ALJAZEERA)
JANUARY, 2014
Pope sends iPhone message to "The Godfather of the Prosperity Gospel" televangelist Kenneth Copeland via Tony Palmer (VIDEO)
MARCH 10, 2014
As relayed by Cardinal Dolan, Pope Francis says The Catholic Church should not dismiss gay marriage, but should study it (THE TELEGRAPH)
MAY 15, 2014
Pope Francis said 'Jesus Christ did not fall from heaven like a hero that comes to save us. No, Jesus Christ has a history!' (VATICAN)
MAY 21, 2014
Pope Francis Goes Public With Support Of RFID Chip Implantation
In a controversial move by the Catholic church, Pope Francis has come out in vocal support of RFID Chip technologies and the extraordinary potential they hold for mankind. The outrage stems from a belief held by many Evangelicals, Fundamentalists and Catholics, that RFID implants are the Mark Of The Beast, spoken about in their Holy Book’s chapter regarding the end of the world.
During the Pontiff’s weekly general address, he spoke to the crowd about his view on the RFID technology, and assured his many followers that no spiritual harm can come from receiving an RFID implant.
“We have examined the scriptures thoroughly, and I can conclusively say that there’s nothing to indicate that RFID Chips are Satanic in anyway. If anything, these devices are a blessing from God himself, bestowed upon humanity to solve many of the world’s ills.”
JUNE 05, 2014
Pope meets with Televangelist Joel Osteen at the Vatican (NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER)
JUNE 08, 2014
First ever Muslim, Jewish prayers at Vatican (NY POST)
JUNE 13, 2014
Interview with Spanish-language magazine "La Vanguardia"
On 'Fundamentalism':... A fundamentalist group, although it may not kill anyone, although it may not strike anyone, is violent. The mental structure of fundamentalists is violence in the name of God'
JUNE 24, 2014
Pope meets with Televangelist Kenneth Copeland and other Evangelicals at the Vatican (NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER)
JUNE 25, 2014
“There is no do it yourself in the church, no freelancers. How many times did we hear Pope Benedict describe the church as a “we church”? Sometimes you may hear someone say, “I believe in God, in Jesus, but the church….. I don’t care.” How many times have we heard this? This is wrong. There are those who believe you can have a personal direct and immediate relationship with Jesus Christ outside the communion and mediation of the church. These temptations are dangerous and harmful. They are, in the words of the great Pope Paul VI, “absurd and dichotomies.” It’s true that journeying together is challenging, and sometimes it can be tiring: it may that some brother or sister (in the church) makes us face a problem, or scandalizes us. But the Lord has entrusted his message of salvation to humans, all of us, as witnesses; and in our brothers and sisters, with their gifts and limits, who come to us and make themselves known. This means belonging to the church. Remember being a Christian means belonging to the church. First name: Christian. Last name: Church member.”
OCTOBER 9, 2014
Pope Francis says 'But God does not exist: Do not be shocked! So God does not exist! There is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they are persons, they are not some vague idea in the clouds … This God spray does not exist! The three persons exist!' (VATICAN RADIO)
OCTOBER 27, 2014
Pope Says Evolution, Big Bang Are Real, saying 'God is not a divine being or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life…Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.' (USA TODAY)
OCTOBER 28, 2014
‘When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so,’ he said.
‘He created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfilment. ‘Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.’ (Pontifical Academy of Sciences)
NOVEMBER 29, 2014
Pope Francis prays in Istanbul's Blue Mosque – Francis took off his shoes as he entered the huge mosque, before bowing his head in prayer for several minutes, facing Mecca and standing next to Istanbul's Grand Mufti Rahmi Yaranwith Muslim (REUTERS)
MARCH 15, 2015
Pope Francis, when asked 'What happens to that lost soul? Will it be punished?' replied 'there is no punishment, but the annihilation of that soul. All the others will participate in the beatitude of living in the presence of the Father. The souls that are annihilated will not take part in that banquet; with the death of the body their journey is finished.' (LA REPUBBLICA)
MARCH 22, 2015
Pope Francis Credited With Performing 'Miracle' As St. Gennaro's Blood Liquifies in Naples (HUFFINGTON POST)
MAY 29, 2015
Pope Francis said 'There is also a question, whose explanation one does not learn in a catechesis. It is a question I frequently ask myself and many of you, many people ask: “Why do children suffer?”. And there are no answers. This too is a mystery. I just look to God and ask:“But why?”. And looking at the Cross: “Why is your Son there? Why?”. It is the mystery of the Cross. I often think of Our Lady, when they handed down to her the dead body of her Son, covered with wounds, spat on, bloodied and soiled. And what did Our Lady do? “Did she carry him away?”. No, she embraced him, she caressed him. Our Lady, too, did not understand. Because she, in that moment, remembered what the Angel had said to her: “He will be King, he will be great, he will be a prophet…”; and inside, surely, with that wounded body lying in her arms, that body that suffered so before dying, inside surely she wanted to say to the Angel: “Liar! I was deceived.” She, too, had no answers.' (VATICAN.VA)
SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
In a homily at Saint Patrick's Cathedral Pope Francis says 'if at times our efforts and works seem to fail and produce no fruit, we need to remember that we are followers of Jesus… and his life, humanly speaking, ended in failure, the failure of the cross' (NEW YORK TIMES)
NOVEMBER 27, 2015
Pope Francis said to youth in Kenya 'When you don’t understand something, when desperation hits you then look at the cross. That is the great failure of God, that is the destruction of God, and it’s a challenge to our faith. And this is hope, because history did not end in that failure. Rather it’s in the resurrection of Christ that renewed all of us. I am going to tell you something personal. It’s 12 (o’clock) are you hungry? (Laughter and cheers). I am going to tell you something private. In my pocket I always carry two thing: a rosary to pray something which seems odd, this is here is the history of God’s failure, it’s the way of the cross, a small way of the cross, as Jesus suffered and when they condemned him right up to where he was buried with these two things I do the best I can.' (CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY)
NOVEMBER 30, 2015
In in-flight interview from Africa to Rome Pope Francis says:
'Yesterday, I went to the Evangelicals, who work hard. And then they came to Mass in the evening. Today I went to the mosque. I prayed in the mosque. Even the Imam got into the popemobile to take a ride around the small stadium. These are small gestures, is that which they want. Because, there is a small group. I think that is Christian, or they say they are Christian, which is is very violent. I don’t really understand this. But, it’s not ISIS, it’s another thing. It’s Christian.'
(after being asked about the dangers of fundamentalism and the Paris attack by ISIS)'One of the greatest values is the fraternity among us. We are all children of God. We have the same father.
DECEMBER 27, 2015
Pope Francis said 'How comforting it is for us to reflect on Mary and Joseph teaching Jesus how to pray!…We know what Jesus did on that occasion. Instead of returning home with his family, he stayed in Jerusalem, in the Temple, causing great distress to Mary and Joseph who were unable to find him. For this little “escapade”, Jesus probably had to beg forgiveness of his parents. The Gospel doesn’t say this, but I believe that we can presume it. Mary’s question, moreover, contains a certain reproach, revealing the concern and anguish which she and Joseph felt.' (NEWS.VA)
JANUARY 7, 2016
In first prayer video, Pope stresses interfaith unity – An initiative of the Jesuit-run global prayer network Apostleship of Prayer, the video was filmed in collaboration with the Vatican Television Center and marks the first time the Pope’s monthly prayer intentions have been featured on video. Pope Francis says 'Many think differently, feel differently, seeking God or meeting God in different ways. In this crowd, in this range of religions, there is only one certainty that we have for all: we are all children of God'. (Note: The video includes a Lama, a Rabbi, and an Islamic leader and shows imagery of a statue of Buddha, Muslim prayer beads, a Minora, and a Baby Jesus doll). (CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY)
JANUARY 27, 2016
Pope Francis Said to Bless Human-Animal Chimeras – A Spanish scientist (Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a prominent stem-cell biologist) told Scientific American that Pope Francis personally blessed his cutting edge research to mix human cells into animal bodies. Belmonte told Scientific American "Spain is a very Catholic country, so we had to go through the Pope. He very nicely said yes…Yes. The current Pope. So the Vatican is behind this research and has no problem based on the idea is to help humankind. And in theory all that we will be doing is killing pigs.” The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Vatican’s scientific body, did not respond to an e-mail seeking to confirm Pope Francis’s position (MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW/SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN)
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
Pope Francis spoke about John the Baptist saying 'But he also suffered in prison – let us say the word – the interior torture of doubt: ‘But maybe I made a mistake? This Messiah is not how I imagined the Messiah would be.’ And he invited his disciples to ask Jesus: ‘But tell us, tell us the truth: are you He who is to come?’ because that doubt made him suffer. ‘Was I mistaken in proclaiming someone who isn’t [who I thought]?’ The suffering, the interior solitude of this man. ‘I, on the other hand, must diminish, but diminish thus: in soul, in body, in everything' (VATICAN RADIO)
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Pope Francis Praises Italy's Leading Abortion Rights Proponent – Pope Francis shocked church traditionalists and pro-life advocates after he recently praised a leading abortion rights advocate and even dubbed her as one of Italy's 'forgotten greats.' The pontiff made the statement during an interview last Feb. 8 with Corriere Della Serra, where he compared former Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino to great historical figures such as Konrad Adenauer and Robert Schuman. Pope Francis acknowledged that his statements were "controversial" but dismissed them, saying, 'True, but never mind. We have to look at people, at what they do.' (CHRISTIAN TODAY)
MAY 30, 2016
In a homily Pope Francis said 'Jesus was Himself tempted to lose the memory of His own mission, to not give way to prophecy and to prefer security instead of Hope. To this people Jesus, because he knew temptation in Himself, reproaches' (VATICAN RADIO)
JUNE 1, 2016
Pope Meets With Jains To Promote Healing and Caring for Earth and Humanity – Jainism is an ancient Indian religion that promotes compassion and non-violence. Pope Francis spoke to the group about the responsibility all have to care for creation and mother Earth and thanked them for how they view the world. He said 'We all love mother Earth, because she is the one who has given us life and safeguards us; I would also call her sister Earth, who accompanies us during the journey of our existence. Our duty is to take care of her just as we would take care of a mother or of a sister, with responsibility, with tenderness and with peace.' (ROME REPORTS)
DECEMBER 15, 2016
Answering a question put to him by a nurse in paediatrics, who asked why children suffer, Pope Francis said: 'I have no answer to this question. Nor has Jesus given an answer to these words. There is no answer to this question, all we can do is look at the crucifix and let it give us the answer. Is God unjust? He was unjust with his son, he sent him to the cross, if we follow this logic then we have to say this.' (LA STAMPA)
APRIL 4, 2017
In a homily Pope Francis said 'Jesus ‘made himself the serpent,’ Jesus ‘made himself sin,’ and he took upon himself all the filth of humanity, all the filth of sin. And he ‘made himself sin’, he made himself to rise up so that all the people might look at him, the people wounded by sin, us. This is the mystery of the cross and Paul says it: ‘He made himself sin’ and he took the appearance of the father of sin, the cunning serpent….But what is the cross for us? Yes, it is the sign of Christians, it is the symbol of Christians, and we make the sign of the cross, but we do not always do it well, sometimes we do it so-so…because we do not have this faith in the cross. The cross for some people is a badge of belonging: ‘Yes, I carry the cross to show that I am a Christian.’ And it's fine but not just as a badge, as if it were a team, the badge of a team; but rather as the memory of the man who made himself sin, who made himself the devil, the serpent, for us; he debased himself up to the point of totally annihilating himself.' (L'OSSERVATORE ROMANO)
MARCH 29, 2018
Does Hell Exist? Pope Francis Says No In New Interview That Could Change Catholic Church Forever – In an article titled “It Is an Honor to Be Called a Revolutionary," La Repubblica founder Eugenio Scalfari asked, "What about the bad souls?" Seemingly going against centuries of core Christian belief, Pope Francis said the souls of sinners simply vanished after death and were not subject to an eternity of punishment. 'They are not punished, those who repent obtain the forgiveness of God and enter the rank of souls who contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot therefore be forgiven disappear. There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls.' Pope Francis said. Shortly after the article was published, the Vatican issued this statement: "What is reported by the author in today’s article is the result of his reconstruction, in which the literal words pronounced by the Pope are not quoted. No quotation of the aforementioned article must therefore be considered as a faithful transcription of the words of the Holy Father. " (NEWSWEEK)
MAY 19, 2018
Juan Carlos Cruz who met with Pope Francis as one of the victims of the abuses in Chile reported that Pope Francis said to him 'Juan Carlos, that you are gay does not matter. God made you like that and he loves you like that and I do not care. The Pope wants you like that, you have to be happy with who you are.' (EL PAIS/CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY/CNN)
AUGUST 15, 2018
Changes to Lord’s Prayer To Be Made Official in Italy – Changes to the Lord’s Prayer proposed by Pope Francis will take effect in Italy this November. The new Italian text of the prayer will no longer read, “lead us not into temptation,” but “do not abandon us into temptation,”. (BREITBART)
SEPTEMBER 22, 2018
Francis was given a book about the Pope John Paul II by Polish photographer Grzegorz Galazka. Receiving the large book with a beaming John Paul on the cover, Francis quipped: '(Pope John Paul II) was a saint, I am the devil.' (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
JANUARY 2, 2019
Pope in Audience: It's Better To Be Atheist Than Go To Mass Hating The World – Pope Francis said 'How many times do we see the scandal of those people who go to church and stay there all day or go every day and then live hating others or talking badly about people? This is a scandal – it is better not to go to church: better to live as an atheist.' (ROME REPORTS / LA REPUBBLICA / VIDEO)
JANUARY 15, 2019
The Pope: God Is Father And Also Mother And Always Loves, Even Criminals (LA STAMPA)
JANUARY 28, 2019
Asked about sexual education in schools, Pope Francis said 'I believe that in schools we must give sex education. Sex is a gift from God, it is not a monster, it is a gift from God to love. That some people use it to earn money or exploit is another problem. But we need to give an objective sexual education, that is without ideological colonization….The ideal is to start from home, with the parents. It is not always possible because there are so many different situations in families, and because they do not know how to do it. And so the school makes up for this, because otherwise it will remain a void that will then be filled by any ideology.' (CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY)
MARCH 31, 2019
Pope Warns Catholics Of Converting Others – In Morocco the pope insisted to an audience of around 400 that trying to convert people to one's own belief 'always leads to an impasse'. 'Please, no proselytism!' he said. (AFP)
APRIL 3, 2019
Pope Francis said 'With the Muslims we are descendants of the same Father, Abraham: why does God permit so many religions? God willed to permit this: the theologians of Scholasticism referred to God’s permissive voluntas. He willed to permit this reality: there are so many religions; some are born of the culture, but always looking to Heaven, looking at God. However, what God wills is fraternity among us in a special way – here is the reason for this trip – with our brothers, children of Abraham like us, the Muslims. We must not be scared by the difference: God has permitted this.' (ZENIT)
APRIL 18, 2019
In an episode of the BBC2 series Pilgrimage: The Road To Rome, gay British comedian Stephen Amos is among stars shown having audiences with Pope Francis. Stephen told the Pope: “So me coming on this pilgrimage, being non-religious, I was looking for answers and faith. But as a gay man, I don’t feel accepted.” Francis replied carefully: 'Giving more importance to the adjective [gay] rather than the noun [man], this is not good. We are all human beings and have dignity. It does not matter who you are, or how you live your life – you do not lose your dignity. There are people that prefer to select or discard people because of the adjective. These people don’t have a human heart. For those of you who are believers, pray for me. For those of you who do not believe, could you wish me a good journey, so I do not let anyone down.'
Stephen left in tears and said: “He gave me faith in humanity. He knows his response to my question… will have ramifications around the world. He’s saying those who hold extreme religious views of anti-homosexuality or anti-abortion don’t have a human heart and that is huge.” (MIRROR/VIDEO)
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
Pope Francis Just Named A Pro-LGBT+ Bishop As Cardinal – LGBT+ advocates are celebrating after the Pope elevated a leading pro-gay bishop to the College of Cardinals. (PINK NEWS)
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
Speaking to the Vatican communications team Pope Francis said 'Why say authentically Christian? It is Christian! The mere fact of the noun ‘Christian’, ‘I am Christ’ is strong: it is an adjective noun, yes, but it is a noun…One of the things you must not do is advertising, mere advertising. You must not behave like human business that try to attract more people. To use a technical word: you must not proselytise. It is not Christian to proselytise.' (THE GUARDIAN)
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Pope Francis attended an indigenous ritual, a tree-planting ceremony in the Vatican gardens. Participants danced around a mandala, spread soil from "symbolic places," and bowed to two female fertility figures. They sang and held hands while dancing in a circle around the images, in a dance resembling a traditional offering to Mother Earth. No explanation was provided by the event organizers as to why the dance was performed for the Feast of St. Francis or what it symbolized. People carried bowls of dirt from different places around the world, each symbolizing a different issue from ecological devastation to migration. The dirt was placed around a tree from Assisi, which was planted as a “symbol of integral ecology.” After what appeared to be the offering of prayers by participants, who prostrated themselves on the grass around a blanket upon which fruit, candles, and several carved items were set, an indigenous woman approached the pope and presented him with a black ring, which appeared identical to the one she was wearing. The ring appeared to be a tucum ring — a black ring worn in Brazil and Latin America as a sign of dedication to certain social causes, and often associated with liberation theology. Cardinal Peter Turkson spoke about Francis’ environmental encyclical Laudato Si saying "God’s Word transformed ‘chaos’ at the dawn of creation into a ‘cosmos,’ an ordered world system, capable of supporting human life, and suitable to be home for man. And the lesson here is simple: ‘Chaos’ with the Word of God becomes ‘Cosmos.’" (VIDEO/CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY/LIFESITENEWS)
OCTOBER 9, 2019
Eugenio Scalfari, who has met with and interviewed Pope Francis on multiple occassions said of Pope Francis "Those who, as it has happened many times with me, have had the luck of meeting him (Francis) and speaking to him with the greatest cultural intimacy, know that Pope Francis conceives Christ as Jesus of Nazareth, man, not God incarnate. Once incarnate, Jesus ceases to be a God and becomes a man until his death on the cross. Scalfari mentioned examples in Scriptures in which Christ prayed, among them his agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, to support his thesis that Jesus Christ was not divine. He wrote that when he raised those points to Pope Francis, the pope told him: ‘They are the definite proof that Jesus of Nazareth, once he became a man, even if he was a man of exceptional virtue, was not a God.’”
The Vatican Press Office issued a statement which reads: "As has been affirmed on other occasions, the words that Dr. Eugenio Scalfari attributes between quotes to the Holy Father during his colloquies held with him cannot be considered as a faithful account of what was effectively said, but represent rather a personal and liberal [loose] interpretation of that which he heard, as appears entirely evident from what was written today concerning the divinity of Jesus Christ." (LA REPUBBLICA/CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY/VATICAN)
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Pope Denied Bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ – In the Nov. 5 edition of La Repubblica and in the introduction to his new book, Eugenio Scalfari, a long-time friend of Pope Francis and frequent papal interviewer, states that Pope Francis said, 'He [Jesus] was a man until he was placed in the tomb by the women who recomposed his body. That night, in the tomb, the man [Jesus] disappeared and came forth from the grotto in the semblance of a spirit that met the women and the Apostles while still preserving the shadow of the person, and then he definitely disappeared.' (CNS NEWS)
MARCH 1, 2020
Pope Francis said 'Jesus answers the devil with the Word of God, not with his word.' (ZENIT)
At the site: http://christianitybeliefs.org/end-times-deceptions we find a huge list of historic leaders and Pastors that believed that the Antichrist spirit was in each consecutive Pope to ever take the throne in the Vatican in Rome.
The following are some strong testimonies from some respected historical figures:
Wycliffe said of the Pope:
“When the western church was divided for about 40 years between two rival popes, one in Rome and the other in Avigon, France, each pope called the other pope antichrist – and John Wycliffe is reputed to have regarded them as both being right: “two halves of Antichrist, making up the perfect Man of Sin between them.”
“We suppose that Antichrist, the head of all these evil men, is the pope of Rome.” (Ibid, p. 90)
40 years after his death the Roman Catholic Church dug up his bones and had them burned and the ashes were thrown into the river.
John Calvin (1509-1564) was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. Trained at the University of Paris for the priesthood, he later he studied at Bourges where he became converted, and joined the reformation cause against the Roman Catholic heresy.
John Calvin declared,“I deny him to be the vicar of Christ, who, in furiously persecuting the gospel, demonstrates by his conduct that he is Antichrist–I deny him to be the successor of Peter..I deny him to be the head of the church.” “Some persons think us too severe and censorious when we call the Roman pontiff Antichrist. But those who are of this opinion do not consider that they bring the same charge of presumption against Paul himself, after whom we speak and whose language we adopt…I shall briefly show that (Pauls words in 2 Thessalonians 2) are not capable of any other interpretation than that which applies them to the Papacy” John Calvin, Tracts, Vol. 1, pp. 219,220. John Calvin, Institutes.
Martin Luther was an Augustinian monk, who the Lord called out of the Papal Church.
The Lord had him compare the Word of God with what the Popes taught, and he determined that the Papal Church was a false church, a harlot. Read The Two Witnesses of Revelation 11.
He declared his findings with the 95 Thesis, which he posted on the doors of the Church of Wittenburg, which sparked the Protestant Reformation.
Martin Luther, father of the Lutheran Church, declared “We here are of the conviction that the papacy is the seat of the true and real Antichrist.” (Source: The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, by LeRoy Froom. Vol. 2., pg. 121.)
“Oh Christ, my Lord, Look down upon us and bring upon us thy day of judgment and destroy the brood of Satan in Rome. There sits the man of whom the Apostle Paul wrote (2 Thess 2) That he will oppose and exalt himself above all that is called God, that man of sin, son of perdition. What else is papal power but sin and corruption? It leads souls to destruction under thine own name O Lord! I hope that day of judgement is soon to dawn. Things can and will not get worse than they are at this time. The Papal See is practicing iniquity to its heights. He suppresses the Law of God and exalts his commandments above the commandments of god.”
“Is not this to sit in the temple of God, to profess himself to be ruler in the whole Church? What is the temple of God? Is it stones and wood? Did not Paul say, The temple of God is holy, which temple ye are? To sit – what is it but to reign, to teach, and to judge? Who from the beginning of the Church has dared to call himself master of the whole Church by the pope alone?“ (Source: “Works” vol. ii., p. 385)
“Likewise in 2 Thessalonians 2, Paul clearly says that the man of sin shall rule in the Church, exalting himself against the worship of God, etc. But it is manifest that the popes do rule in the Church, and under title of the Church in defending idols. Wherefore I affirm that no heresy hath arisen, not indeed shall be, with which these descriptions of Paul can more truly and certainly accord and agree than to this Papal kingdom.”
John Knox (1505-1572) was a great leader of the Reformation in Scotland. He too believed that the papacy was the predicted Antichrist of Daniel. Notice his own words:
“First, then, not only are all the impious traditions and ceremonies of the papists taken away, but also that tyranny which the pope himself has for so many ages exercised over the church, is altogether abolished; and it is provided that all persons shall in the future acknowledge him to be the very antichrist, and son of perdition, of whom Paul speaks. . . . The mass is abolished, as being an accursed abomination and a diabolical profanation of the Lord’s Supper; and it is forbidden to all persons in the whole kingdom of Scotland either to celebrate or hear it.” John Knox, The Zurich Letters, p. 199.
John Knox’s first public sermon was on the 7th book of Daniel proving the pope to be the Antichrist. His sermon was marked by his consideration of the Bible as his sole authority and the doctrine of justification by faith alone, two elements that would remain in his thoughts throughout the rest of his life. John Knox said of the Pope;
“that tyranny which the pope himself has for so many ages exercised over the church.” As with Luther, he finally concluded that the Papacy was “the very antichrist, and son of perdition, of whom Paul speaks.”(Source: The Zurich Letters, pg. 199)
In a public challenge he declared:
“As for your Roman Church, as it is now corrupted… I no more doubt but that it is the synagogue of Satan, and the head therof, called the Pope, to be the man of sin of whom the apostle speaketh.” Knox, The Zurich Letters, p.199
John Wesley (1703-1791), an Anglican cleric and Christian theologian, was largely credited, along with his brother Charles Wesley, as founding the Methodist movement.
John wrote about the Pope;
“He is in an emphatical sense, the Man of Sin, as he increases all manner of sin above measure. And he is, too, properly styled the Son of Perdition, as he has caused the death of numberless multitudes, both of his opposers and followers… He it is…that exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped…claiming the highest power, and highest honour…claiming the prerogatives which belong to God alone.” (Source: Antichrist and His Ten Kingdoms, by John Wesley, pg. 110.)
“The whole succession of popes from Gregory VII. are undoubtedly Antichrist. Yet this hinders not, but that the last pope in this succession will be more eminently the Antichrist, The man of sin, adding to that of his predecessors, a peculiar degree of wickedness from the bottomless pit.” (Explanatory notes upon the New Testament, John Wesley, Vol. II, 1813, p. 431)
Jonathan Edwards was an American preacher and theologian, who is perhaps best known for his role in the Great Awakenings of the mid 1700’s.
Commenting on the Roman Catholic church in his History of Redemption, Jonathan Edwards stated,
“So that antichrist has proved the greatest and most cruel enemy the church of Christ ever had, agreeable to the description given of the church of Rome, [Rev. xvii. 6.] ‘And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.‘” “Thus did the devil, and his great minister antichrist, rage with violence and cruelty against the church of Christ! And thus did the whore of Babylon make herself drunk with the blood of the saints and martyrs of Jesus!” (History of Redemption, Jonathan Edwards, 1793, pp. 452, 460)
Charles Haddon (C.H.) Spurgeon (1834-1892), was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition and known as the “Prince of Preachers”.
After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New Park Street and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London. Called the “Prince of Preachers,” he had more than 1,900 sermons published prior to his death.
“Her idolatries are the scorn of reason and the abhorrence of faith! The iniquities of her practice and the enormities of her doctrine almost surpass belief! Popery is as much the masterpiece of Satan as the Gospel is the masterpiece of God! There can scarcely be imagined anything of devilish craftiness or Satanic wickedness which could be compared with her—she is unparalleled as the queen of iniquity.
Behold upon her forehead the name, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. The Church of Rome and her teachings are a vast mountain of rubbish covering the Truth of God! For weary years good men could not get at the Foundation because of this very much rubbish.”
In a sermon titled “War, War, War”, Spurgeon said;
“I am ashamed that sons of the Reformers should bow themselves before the beast, and give so much as a single farthing to the shrine of the devil’s firstborn son. Take heed to yourselves, ye Protestants, lest ye be partakers of her plagues; touch her not, lest ye be defiled. Give a drachma to her, or a grain of incense to her censors, ye shall be partakers of her adulteries and partakers of her plagues. Every time you pass the house of Popery let a curse light upon her head: Thus saith the Lord:—‘Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.”
“When the western church was divided for about 40 years between two rival popes, one in Rome and the other in Avigon, France, each pope called the other pope antichrist – and John Wycliffe is reputed to have regarded them as both being right: “two halves of Antichrist, making up the perfect Man of Sin between them.”
“We suppose that Antichrist, the head of all these evil men, is the pope of Rome.” (Ibid, p. 90)
40 years after his death the Roman Catholic Church dug up his bones and had them burned and the ashes were thrown into the river.
John Calvin (1509-1564) was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. Trained at the University of Paris for the priesthood, he later he studied at Bourges where he became converted, and joined the reformation cause against the Roman Catholic heresy.
John Calvin declared,“I deny him to be the vicar of Christ, who, in furiously persecuting the gospel, demonstrates by his conduct that he is Antichrist–I deny him to be the successor of Peter..I deny him to be the head of the church.” “Some persons think us too severe and censorious when we call the Roman pontiff Antichrist. But those who are of this opinion do not consider that they bring the same charge of presumption against Paul himself, after whom we speak and whose language we adopt…I shall briefly show that (Pauls words in 2 Thessalonians 2) are not capable of any other interpretation than that which applies them to the Papacy” John Calvin, Tracts, Vol. 1, pp. 219,220. John Calvin, Institutes.
Martin Luther was an Augustinian monk, who the Lord called out of the Papal Church.
The Lord had him compare the Word of God with what the Popes taught, and he determined that the Papal Church was a false church, a harlot. Read The Two Witnesses of Revelation 11.
He declared his findings with the 95 Thesis, which he posted on the doors of the Church of Wittenburg, which sparked the Protestant Reformation.
Martin Luther, father of the Lutheran Church, declared “We here are of the conviction that the papacy is the seat of the true and real Antichrist.” (Source: The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, by LeRoy Froom. Vol. 2., pg. 121.)
“Oh Christ, my Lord, Look down upon us and bring upon us thy day of judgment and destroy the brood of Satan in Rome. There sits the man of whom the Apostle Paul wrote (2 Thess 2) That he will oppose and exalt himself above all that is called God, that man of sin, son of perdition. What else is papal power but sin and corruption? It leads souls to destruction under thine own name O Lord! I hope that day of judgement is soon to dawn. Things can and will not get worse than they are at this time. The Papal See is practicing iniquity to its heights. He suppresses the Law of God and exalts his commandments above the commandments of god.”
“Is not this to sit in the temple of God, to profess himself to be ruler in the whole Church? What is the temple of God? Is it stones and wood? Did not Paul say, The temple of God is holy, which temple ye are? To sit – what is it but to reign, to teach, and to judge? Who from the beginning of the Church has dared to call himself master of the whole Church by the pope alone?“ (Source: “Works” vol. ii., p. 385)
“Likewise in 2 Thessalonians 2, Paul clearly says that the man of sin shall rule in the Church, exalting himself against the worship of God, etc. But it is manifest that the popes do rule in the Church, and under title of the Church in defending idols. Wherefore I affirm that no heresy hath arisen, not indeed shall be, with which these descriptions of Paul can more truly and certainly accord and agree than to this Papal kingdom.”
John Knox (1505-1572) was a great leader of the Reformation in Scotland. He too believed that the papacy was the predicted Antichrist of Daniel. Notice his own words:
“First, then, not only are all the impious traditions and ceremonies of the papists taken away, but also that tyranny which the pope himself has for so many ages exercised over the church, is altogether abolished; and it is provided that all persons shall in the future acknowledge him to be the very antichrist, and son of perdition, of whom Paul speaks. . . . The mass is abolished, as being an accursed abomination and a diabolical profanation of the Lord’s Supper; and it is forbidden to all persons in the whole kingdom of Scotland either to celebrate or hear it.” John Knox, The Zurich Letters, p. 199.
John Knox’s first public sermon was on the 7th book of Daniel proving the pope to be the Antichrist. His sermon was marked by his consideration of the Bible as his sole authority and the doctrine of justification by faith alone, two elements that would remain in his thoughts throughout the rest of his life. John Knox said of the Pope;
“that tyranny which the pope himself has for so many ages exercised over the church.” As with Luther, he finally concluded that the Papacy was “the very antichrist, and son of perdition, of whom Paul speaks.”(Source: The Zurich Letters, pg. 199)
In a public challenge he declared:
“As for your Roman Church, as it is now corrupted… I no more doubt but that it is the synagogue of Satan, and the head therof, called the Pope, to be the man of sin of whom the apostle speaketh.” Knox, The Zurich Letters, p.199
John Wesley (1703-1791), an Anglican cleric and Christian theologian, was largely credited, along with his brother Charles Wesley, as founding the Methodist movement.
John wrote about the Pope;
“He is in an emphatical sense, the Man of Sin, as he increases all manner of sin above measure. And he is, too, properly styled the Son of Perdition, as he has caused the death of numberless multitudes, both of his opposers and followers… He it is…that exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped…claiming the highest power, and highest honour…claiming the prerogatives which belong to God alone.” (Source: Antichrist and His Ten Kingdoms, by John Wesley, pg. 110.)
“The whole succession of popes from Gregory VII. are undoubtedly Antichrist. Yet this hinders not, but that the last pope in this succession will be more eminently the Antichrist, The man of sin, adding to that of his predecessors, a peculiar degree of wickedness from the bottomless pit.” (Explanatory notes upon the New Testament, John Wesley, Vol. II, 1813, p. 431)
Jonathan Edwards was an American preacher and theologian, who is perhaps best known for his role in the Great Awakenings of the mid 1700’s.
Commenting on the Roman Catholic church in his History of Redemption, Jonathan Edwards stated,
“So that antichrist has proved the greatest and most cruel enemy the church of Christ ever had, agreeable to the description given of the church of Rome, [Rev. xvii. 6.] ‘And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.‘” “Thus did the devil, and his great minister antichrist, rage with violence and cruelty against the church of Christ! And thus did the whore of Babylon make herself drunk with the blood of the saints and martyrs of Jesus!” (History of Redemption, Jonathan Edwards, 1793, pp. 452, 460)
Charles Haddon (C.H.) Spurgeon (1834-1892), was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition and known as the “Prince of Preachers”.
After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New Park Street and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London. Called the “Prince of Preachers,” he had more than 1,900 sermons published prior to his death.
“Her idolatries are the scorn of reason and the abhorrence of faith! The iniquities of her practice and the enormities of her doctrine almost surpass belief! Popery is as much the masterpiece of Satan as the Gospel is the masterpiece of God! There can scarcely be imagined anything of devilish craftiness or Satanic wickedness which could be compared with her—she is unparalleled as the queen of iniquity.
Behold upon her forehead the name, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. The Church of Rome and her teachings are a vast mountain of rubbish covering the Truth of God! For weary years good men could not get at the Foundation because of this very much rubbish.”
In a sermon titled “War, War, War”, Spurgeon said;
“I am ashamed that sons of the Reformers should bow themselves before the beast, and give so much as a single farthing to the shrine of the devil’s firstborn son. Take heed to yourselves, ye Protestants, lest ye be partakers of her plagues; touch her not, lest ye be defiled. Give a drachma to her, or a grain of incense to her censors, ye shall be partakers of her adulteries and partakers of her plagues. Every time you pass the house of Popery let a curse light upon her head: Thus saith the Lord:—‘Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.”