The crimes of the Roman Catholic Church.

By Mbanga Irvine

THE UNTOLD TRUTH.

The crimes of the Roman Catholic Church.

It is undeniable that the Roman Catholic Church does more charitable works than other known church, and has taken lead in political reconciliation but this is at the backdrop of the so many crimes the church has committed against other christians past ages. The following are the known cases of murder and abuse recorded in their books and secular ones; remember these crimes were not committed by individual members but by the church system as a whole.

1. Jan Hus;

A preacher from Bohemia, Czech Republic, 1369-1415 was accused of heresy and burned at the stake for his preaching by the Catholic Church.

2. William Tyndale;

1494-1536 the man who translated

most part of the modern Bible to English, the author of King Jämës Version, did all that at the opposition of the Catholic Church, burned at the stake for translating the Bible for the common man.

3. Girolamo Savonarola;

1452-98, a preacher and fervent faster who solely converted the whole city of Florence by his preaching, accused by the Catholic Church of heresy, hanged and burned at the stake by Pope Alexander V.

4. Martin Luther;

1483-1546, a former catholic monk and father of the Protestant reformation which is cause for the formation of most modern churches, opposed, castigated and fought against by the Catholic Church for translating the Bible to the common man's language German and holding belief in salvation by faith and the Bible being the sole instructor of faith till his death.

5. Thomas Cranmer;1489-1557, an English reformer and Bishop of Canterbury, accused of being a heretic by the Catholic Church and executed.

6. John Wycliffe;

1320-85, a reformer and Bible translator, translated the entire New Testament in English. He was accused as a heretic by the Catholic Church at the council of Constance and all his writings burned and his corpse exhumed and his ashes thrown into River Swift.

7. Hugh Latimer;

1487-1555, a pioneer of Anglicanism, burned at the stake by Queen Mary under the instruction of the Catholic Church.

8. The Huguenots;

16-17th century French reformers, mostly calvinists that were severely persecuted by the Catholic Church, more than 80% of them murdered by the Catholic Church on the eve of St Bartholomew's day massacre.

It seems Jesus's word was proved right when he said "a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are doing a service to God, they will do such things because they have not known the father of me" -John 16:2-3.

Secondly, while these revelations will shock many modern Christians, it is no shock to fervent bible readers as all these crimes where foretold in the prophetic book of Daniel, "As I watched this horn/power was waging war war against the saints and defeating them" -Daniel 7:21.

"Those who are wise will instruct many but for a little time they will fall by the sword, or be burned or be captured or plundered" -Daniel 11:33.

Why this information today? Well here are the reasons;

-In Revelation chapter 17 is given a writing about a woman who rides on the beast with the number 666 who was drunk with the blood of the saints- Revelation 17:6, the Lord calls her Babylon the great the mother of prostitutes. In Revelation 18:24 again the Lord says in her was found the blood of prophets and of the saints"

Could it be the Catholic Church power?

Two identifying factors;

-Revelation 17:4 The woman was adorned in scarlet, purple and glittering in gold.

-Coincidentally, the official colors of the Catholic Church are scarlet/red, purple and gold.

-Revelation 17:18 The woman you saw is that great city that rules over the Kings of the earth.

-Coincidentally, as AD 90, the city of Rome was the headquarters of the world and it is the current location of headquarters of the Catholic Church - The Vatican.

There is a statement In the Bible that the Dragon gave the beast its power , seat and great authority-Revelation 13:2,4. Did anyone give the church any seat, power and authority? A compact history of the popes page 21, The Emperor Constantine gave his own palace at the Lateran to Pope Meltiades as his official resident. The palace that in AD 90 was declared by Jesus as being the city which was ruled over the Kings of the earth in which the blood of the saints is found which ruled over the kings of the earth-Rev 17:18.

All the references in the Bible coincide with historical information about the Roman Catholic Church systems, and The Lord has a message for those belonging to this system and its sub churches....

"Fallen is Babylon, come out her my people so that you don't share in any of her sins-Revelation 14:8, 18:2,4-5."

It's now left up to every Christian to find out if his/her church is a child system of the Catholic Church by structure or doctrinal beliefs.