The M+G+R Foundation [1] commissioned this document from Lee Penn, a Christian journalist and the author of False Dawn [2] (an expose of the present-day movements for one-world religion and one-world government). miguel de Portugal [3] vouches for this document, which brings into sharp focus one of the central messages that miguel de Portugal must convey to all - believers and non-believers alike:
With this report, we intend to call the world's attention to a long-standing, commonly accepted error in many Catholics' thinking: The idolization of the Pope and the Papacy.
We show here that Popes can sin, sometimes gravely. We also show that serious errors in Catholic teaching and practice - errors committed under Papal authority - can occur, and can persist for centuries.
Our intent is to warn against making idols of the Popes
and of the Hierarchy. The objective of this report is not to make an argument
against the Catholic Faith itself, or to claim that all Popes have been
evil. On
the contrary: this report is an effort to uphold the true
Catholic Faith and the salutary teachings of many Popes.
Lee Penn is a member of the Russian Catholic Church, an Orthodox Church in communion with Rome.
+ in "one God Who is
glorified and adored in the Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy
Spirit: and I worship Him as my King and my God,"
+ in the
teachings of "the Seven Holy Ecumenical Councils,"
+ in the
teachings of Scripture "as understood and interpreted in the community
of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Church of the East,"
+ in the seven
life-giving and holy "Sacramental Mysteries of the Church,"
+ that in the
Divine Liturgy "the faithful partake of the Body and Blood of our Lord
Jesus Christ, unto the remission of sins,"
+ that it is
"proper to reverence and invoke the Saints who reign on high with
Christ,"
+ that the
intercessions of the saints "avail the beneficent God unto our
salvation,"
+ that icons of
Christ, the ever-Virgin Mary, and the saints "are worthy of being
possessed and honored"
+ that prayers
"for the salvation of those who have departed this life are favorably
received, through the mercy of God,"
+ that Christ is
"the Foundation, Head and Great High Priest and Chief Shepherd of the
Holy Orthodox Catholic Church,"
+ that "Bishops,
Pastors, and Teachers are appointed by Him to administer the Church,"
and
+ that the Church
is "the Bride of Christ." [4]
The Faith stands,
and will do so forever despite satan's efforts to destroy it, using the
evil deeds of men.
The
Document has been broken up in four
sections:
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