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Issue Date: 02/21/04

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4,450 Priests Accused of Abuse

A CNN report stated that according to a draft of a nationwide survey of Catholic
bishops in nearly all of the 195 Catholic dioceses in the U.S. on the extent
and causes of sexual abuse by members of the Roman Catholic clergy has found
that 4,450 priests have been accused of sexually abusing minors since 1950.
That is a higher number than has previously been estimated by any news outlet
or by most experts but way lower than some extreme estimates. CNN reported
that there were 11,000 accusations of sexual abuse by priests, 6,700 were
substantiated after investigations, 1,000 were unsubstantiated after
investigations and that the remaining 3,300 were not investigated because
the accused priests had died.

Understand that this report is only on admitted cases and is only based on
information supplied by Catholic bishops (a case of the wolf guarding the
hen house). The Vatican 2002 statistical report indicated the number of diocesan
and religious priests to be 44,487.

The Times did a survey and it determined that 1.8 percent of all priests
ordained from 1950 to 2001 had been accused of abuse. But the research also
suggested only the tip of an evil iceberg was being seen.  In dioceses
that have divulged complete lists of abusive priests under court orders or
voluntarily the percentages are much higher. For example, In Baltimore, an
estimated 6.2 percent of priests ordained in the past half-century have been
implicated in the abuse of minors.  Similarly, in Manchester, N.H.,
the percentage is 7.7, and in Boston, it is 5.3.  The Times data include
only cases in which priests were identified by name.  In the first 12
months after the scandal exploded throughout the church 432 accused priests
resigned, retired, or been removed from ministry. 

What percentage of a chance of your child being molested is worth the risk
to you? Have your friends and family members calculated the risks? If you
know a Catholic person with a child in altar service, or in Catholic school
where priests are present warn them in gentleness and love but yet with urgency.
If they can't get them alone - they can't hurt them. Again, what percentage
of a chance of your child being abused is worth the risk?

Revelation 18:4-5 And I heard another voice from heaven,
saying, 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.

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United Christianity For A United Europe

Cardinal Walter Kasper, the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting
Christian Unity, visited the Russian capital and delivered a message at Moscow's
Catholic Cathedral of Mary Immaculate. Cardinal Kasper said that the Holy
Spirit had "inspired repentance and shame" for the schism between the East
and the West Churches. He said that the Holy Spirit "started the ecumenical
movement. [... which] tends to the re-establishment of a unity that is neither
absorption nor fusion, but unity in the mutual respect of a plurality of
rites and cultures."

The cardinal stressed commanalities such as praying the same repititious
"Our Father" prayer. Kasper said, "The re-establishment of unity today is
urgent also for the unity of Europe. ... Europe is not only an economic unity
of well-being, it is a cultural unity. ... The unity of Europe cannot be
built only with the economy. Europe needs a soul, a Christian soul, which
was implanted in your country by Saints Cyril and Methodius. So, the unity
of Europe also makes urgent the unity of the Church."

Cardinal Kasper joined with Metropolitan Kirill, president of the Department
for External Ecclesiastical Relations of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Mosco
in a high level ecumenical dialogue to discuss further unity between the
two Churches.

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The Day Darwin Evolved

Atheists, agnostics and humanists want February 12, the birthday of Charles
Darwin, to evolve into an international holiday. Several organizations in
the Americas, Europe and Asia see February 12th as "Darwin Day" which they
hope to achieve by 2009- 150 years after the birth of British biologist Charles
Darwin. In 1859 Darwin penned "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection" Subtitled "or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle
for Life." Events marking Darwin's birthday this year are scheduled in the
United States, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, South
Africa, Zambia,India and Nepal.

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Historical Happenings

February 15

0399 - Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death

1145 - Lucius II [Gherardo Caccianemici], Italian Pope (1144-45), dies. Bernardo
elected Pope Eugene III

1637 - Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor

1745 - Colley Cibbers "Papal Tyranny" premieres in London

1775 - Angelo Braschi chosen as Pope Pius VI

1995 - Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion

February 16

0600 - Pope Gregory the Great decrees "God bless You" as the religiously
correct response to a sneeze. Sneezing was a possible sign of the plague
and the response was seen as a protection or as last rites. Millions still
bow to this papal decree today.

1559 - Pope Paul IV [John Peter Carafa] calls for deposition of sovereigns
supporting heresy. This was the pope who in 1557 had began the infamous "Index
of Forbidden Books". He once wrote, "If my own father
were a heretic I would personally gather the wood to burn him."

February 17

0364 - Flavius Jovianus Christian emperor of Rome (363-64), dies at about
32. He was "suffocated by coal gas in his bed-chamber,
though possibly assassinated ."

1568 - Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay annual tribute to Sultan for peace.

1600 - Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at stake at
age 52 after 8 years in prison. Bruno had challenged what remain basic Catholic
church principles, such as the Trinity. When he was condemned as an impenitent
heretic, Bruno spoke to his judges the famous words: "You
tremble more in passing this sentence than I do in receiving it."
According to a Catholic chronicle of the time, Bruno refused to pray
to a crucifix and died swearing so. The inquisitor at his prosecution was
Jesuit theologian St. Robert Bellarmine. "He said he
neither had to nor wanted to repent, and didn't know what to repent, nor
what he had to repent,'' a transcript of the trial noted. It is often
maintained that Bruno was executed because of his Copernicanism and his belief
in the infinity of inhabited worlds. In fact, we do not know the exact grounds
on which he was declared a heretic because his file is conveniently missing
from the records.

1688 - James Renwick hanged in Scotland for being a Presbyterian

1741 - English revivalist George Whitefield advised in a
letter: 'Be content with no degree of sanctification.
Be always crying out, "Lord, let me know more of myself and of thee."'

February 18

0999 - Gregory V, [Bruno] 1st German Pope, dies; 1129 - Jerusalem taken by
Emperor Frederik II

1546 - Dr. Martin Luther, biblical scholar/religious reformer,dies at 62

1564 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian sculptor/painter (David), dies at
88

1678 John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" was first published, in England.
Bunyan was frequently imprisoned for preaching without a license. During
these sequestered times, between 1660-72, Bunyan collected the ideas enabling
him to pen this masterpiece of Christian literature.

1856 - American (Know-Nothing) Party abolishes secrecy

1972 - Calif Supreme Court abolishes death penalty

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Carnival / Lent

During Carnival half of Brazil puts everything on hold to party the night
away. The other half holds some that don't like it, some that hate it, and
some that just don't care. Carnival, the word means literally 'Farewell to
the Flesh". And with all the drunken revelry, wild dancing and partying,
this term brings to mind the scriptures in ... Isa
22:13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating
flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
And in ... 1Co 15:32 If after the manner of
men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the
dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die. ... It
can be easily rendered 'the removal of meat' referring to a season or festival
of merrymaking before the Catholic-observed 'Lent.'

AP ran a story about Brazilian group Grande Rio that agreed Thursday "to
tone down its sexually explicit displays for the city's famed Carnival parade
after prosecutors threatened to ban the floats." Grande Rio's carnival theme
is: "Let's Wear the Little Shirt, My Love,'' [slang for using a condom].
The group agreed out of court to "modify the explicit decorations on its
floats, including a giant Adam and Eve copulating and sexual positions from
the Kama Sutra." The group's president Helio de Oliveira said the changes
would be minor, "... we are going to cover some things with leaves and vines
and roots.'' Rio de Janeiro's two-day-long carnival parade is the highlight
of the country's five day pre-Lenten bash which lasts until Ash Wednesday.

Lent is the time directly following Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) a time of gross
debauchery when people 'get in all their sinning' in preparation of fasting
for Lent. It is clearly a pagan practice to observe Lent. Below is a commentary
and a few quotes to show why.

Lent leads into Easter and this is how that came about: Queen Ishtar's son,
Tammuz, was killed by a wild boar. Queen Ishtar told the people that Tammuz
was now ascended to his father, Baal (also known as Nimrod), and that the
two of them would be with the worshippers in the sacred candle or lamp flame
as Father, Son and Spirit. Ishtar, who was now worshipped as the "Mother
of God and Queen of Heaven", continued to build her mystery religion. The
queen told the worshippers that when Tammuz was killed by the wild pig, some
of his blood fell on the stump of an evergreen tree, and the stump grew into
a full new tree overnight. This made the evergreen tree sacred by the blood
of Tammuz. She also proclaimed a forty day period of time of sorrow each
year prior to the anniversary of the death of Tammuz. During this time, no
meat was to be eaten. Worshippers were to meditate upon the sacred mysteries
of Baal and Tammuz, and to make the sign of the "T" in front of their hearts
as they worshipped. They also ate sacred cakes with the marking of a "T"
or cross on the top.

"The word Lent is of Anglo-Saxon origin, meaning spring." (Marguerite Ickis,
The Book of Religious Holidays and Celebrations, New York: Dodd, Mead &
Company, 1966, p.114)

"The celebration of Lent has no basis in Scripture, but rather developed
from the pagan celebration of Semiramis's mourning for 40 days over the death
of Tammuz (cf. Ezek 8:14) before his alleged resurrection---another of Satan's
mythical counterfeits." (John MacArthur, Jr., The MacArthur New Testament
Commentary: 1 Corinthians, Chicago: Moody, 1984)

"'It ought to be known,' said Cassianus, the monk of Marseilles, writing
in the fifth century, and contrasting the primitive Church with the Church
in his day, 'that the observance of forty days had no existence, so long
as the perfection of that primitive Church remained inviolate.' Whence, then,
came this observance? The forty days abstinence of Lent was directly borrowed
from the worshippers of the Babylonian goddess." [The Two Babylons (Or The
Papal Worship), Alexander Hislop, 1916, Neptune, NJ, Loizeaux Brothers, Inc.,
p.104]

So according to Catholics, Lent is derived from the 40 days Jesus spent fasting
in the wilderness, but it is admitted that the observance of Lent was unknown
to the disciples and it did not find its way into the church until several
centuries after the time of Christ. It should be noted that the 40 days of
fasting in the wilderness preceded the earthly ministry of Jesus, which lasted
some three and a half years, and was not connected in any way to His crucifixion
or the Passover.

Note that Lent is a moveable observance, connected to and preceding the festival
of Easter. Easter is celebrated on a day specified only by the Roman Catholic
Church, and not the Bible, and is fixed based on the sun and the Spring or
Vernal equinox. ~ Schiefler's BibleLight

The reasons for celebrating our [Catholic]major feasts when we do are many
and varied. In general, however, it is true that many of them have at least
an indirect connection with the pre-Christian [pagan] feasts celebrated about
the same time of year — feasts centering around the harvest, the rebirth
of the sun at the winter solstice (now Dec. 21, but Dec. 25 in the old Julian
calendar), the renewal of nature in spring, and so on.~Source: The New Question
Box - Catholic Life for the Nineties, copyright 1988 by John J. Dietzen,
M.A., S.T.L., ISBN 0-940518-01-5 (paperback), published by Guildhall Publishers,
Peoria Illinois, 61651., page 554.

Imbolc, February 2- Has its origins in a calving festival celebrated throughout
northern Europe. In many cultures of the northern hemisphere, February was
a purifactory month, so the rituals of Imbolc also incorporate purifactory
elements (most notably bonfires). In the xian calendar this festival was
converted to the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin (Mary), marking
the end of the traditional 40 day period of ritual impurity following the
birth of a child for Jewish women. It was on this day that the candles for
the following year were purified (along with the Virgin!) in the western
church - thus the name Candlemas. It is probable that the backward extension
of Lent as a penitential (therefore purifactory) period had something to
do with a survival of the pre-xian Imbolc. ~ Pagan Holidays
www.sympatico.ca/morgaine/holiday.html (a witchcraft site)

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Un-Nuke

Mohamed ElBaradei, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy
Agency [the U.N. nuclear dept] demanded that the world's nuclear powers do
more to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. ElBaradei called on the United
States and the other declared nuclear powers [Britain, France, Russia, and
China] to relinquish their nuclear weapons as part of a global effort to
make it impossible for nuclear weapons to fall into the hands of terrorists
- a concern he shares with U.S. President George W. Bush.

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More Historic Happenings

February 19

0197 - Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon.

0356 - Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen (non-Christian) temples.

0607 - Boniface III begins his reign as Catholic Pope when appointed by Emporer
Phocas.

0842 - The Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ended, when a Council in
Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of images (icons) in the
churches. (This debate over icons is often considered the last event which
led to the Great Schism between the Eastern and Western Churches.)

1401 - William Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London.

1539 - 'Jews' of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czech), expelled

1545 - Pierre Brully, [Peter Brulius], calvinist minister, burned to death.

1568 - Miles Coverdale translator (1st complete English Bible), dies at 80.
(He was an Augustinian friar who left the Order, repudiated Catholicism,
was 1st Protestant Bishop of Exeter. Coverdale's Bible used Tyndale's earlier
translation along with Latin (Vulgate) and (Luther)German versions, included
Apocrypha at the end of the OT (like Luther) as was done in later English
versions, 1537 edition received royal license, but banned in 1546. Coverdale
was also editor of the Great Bible of 1539. )

1797 - 1/3 of papal domain ceded to France under Napoleon.

1920 - Netherlands joins League of Nations

February 20

1431 - Martinus V [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies.

1656 - James Ussher, Irish bible scholar/anglican archbishop, dies at 76.
(He established his biblical chronology, which is the most widely accepted
by mainstream Christendom, with the creation fixed at 4004 BC.)

1790 - Joseph II Emperor of Holy Roman empire, dies at 48.( In 1780, Joseph
pushed on a major reform of church and state in accordance with the rational
principles of the 18th-century Enlightenment. He granted religious toleration
to Protestants, ended discriminatory laws against Jews, and drastically
reorganized the predominant Roman Catholic church. Joseph ceased most forms
of censorship, freed the serfs, separated the executive from the judiciary
branches of government, and promulgated a new law code.)

1809 - Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state

1878 - Italian cardinal Gioacchino Pecci, 67, promulgated a new law code.

1809 - Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state.

February 21

1431 - English begin "trial" against Joan of Arc, French saint and national
heroine, called the Maid of Orléans. Today she is romanticized in
many stories but she began as a young farm girl who heard the voices of whom
she thought was St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret. If she did
hear these voices they were indeed the voices of demons for the scriptures
tell us that the dead are 'asleep' awaiting their 'change'. When she was
about 16, the voices exhorted her to fight in the wars of the time. When
she was caught in 1431, the English turned her over to the ecclesiastical
court at Rouen, where she was tried for heresy and witchcraft by French clerics
who supported the English. Probably her most serious crime was the claim
of direct inspiration from God; in the eyes of the court this refusal to
accept the church hierarchy constituted heresy- of which she did recant at
the end of the trial. She was condemned to life imprisonment, but shortly
afterward she retracted her abjuration. She was then turned over to the secular
court as a relapsed heretic and was burned at the stake (May 30, 1431) in
Rouen. The proceedings of the original trial were annulled in 1456. Joan
was canonized by the Catholic church in 1920.

1513 - Julius II [Giuliano dellea Rovere], Roman Catholic Pope (1503-13),
dies at 69. (Probably succumbed to the syphillis that racked his body. Reputedly
a 'man of appetites' (wine, sex, food, war) and a 'hot temper'(carried a
stick which he would hit people with). It is believed he also had a
'relationship' with artist Michaelangelo - whom Julius made to paint the
Sistine chapel. Julius II also issued a papal bull in 1510 establishing a
'house of ill repute' if you can imagine that one.

1595 - Robert Southwell, English Jesuit, a master of disguises, in 1592 he
was apprehended and arrested. He was imprisoned during an intense time of
Catholic/Protestant persecution to each other and after being tortured he
was tried for treason. Upon admitting his jesuit priesthood, he was hanged
and quartered.

1885 - Washington Monument dedicated in Wash DC. The monument is an upright
obelisk which is in reality a pagan fertility symbol.

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The Jesuits

Some notes & quotes on the Society of Jesus better known as The Jesuits.

"Notorious in the past, expelled from every country in Europe and banned
from residence in England until 1902, the Jesuits have often been described
as the 'secret army of the Papacy.' The preface to Edmund Paris' book The
Secret History of the Jesuits includes a warning to the church which has
been sounded many times in relation to the threat posed by the
Counter-Reformation: 'The order of the Society of Jesus was founded by Ignatious
Loyola to secretly accomplish two major goals for the Roman Catholic Institution.
The first was to obtain universal political power; the second, to establish
the universal church. The Reformation had seriously damaged the Roman system.
The way forward, apart from the Inquisition, was by infiltration and penetration
into every section of life, with the aim of enforcing the canons and doctrines
and temporal power of the Pope. To that end Jesuits went to work, secretly
infiltrating all Protestant groups, colleges, etc. Today the Jesuits have
almost completed that mission." ~ Michael de Semlyen, All Roads Lead to Rome
(England: Dorchester House Publications, 1993 p. 12

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Truth from Merriam Webster's Dictionary

•Je•su•it [NL Jesuita, fr. LL Jesus]
(1559)

1 : a member of the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus founded by St. Ignatius
Loyola in 1534 and devoted to missionary and educational work

2 : one given to intrigue or equivocation (<--let's look up this word
as well~ Ken H. )

•equiv•o•cate  (1590)verb intransitive

1 : to use equivocal language esp. with intent to deceive

2 : to avoid committing oneself in what one says- synonym see LIE-
equiv•o•ca•tion

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A Quote on Jesuit Equivocation : [Sanchez Op. Mor., pars 2,lib. iii., cap
6] "A man may swear that he hath not done a thing though he really have,
by understanding within himself that he did it not on such and such a day,
or before he was born; or by reflecting on some other circumstance of the
like nature; and yet the words he shall make use of shall not have a sense
of implying any such thing; and this is a thing of great convenience on many
occasions, and is always justifiable when it is necessary or advantageous
in anything that concerns a man's health, honour, or estate."

"[The]Charismatic movement is the glue to bind the churches, with Jesuits
infiltrating all churches." ~The Church is Charismatic, World Council of
Churches

"The Jesuit way is to [use] diplomacy, ideology, and propaganda to infiltrate
the church".~ History of the Reformation by D'Anbignes

"The plans for the New World Order, and One World religion brought about
through the Jesuits...and others"~ En Route to Global Occupation by Gary
H. Kah

"If anyone's gonna kill you, it's those guys, right? We're Catholics, right?
We're scared of the Jesuits. Every good Catholic is." ~ Actor/Director Mel
Gibson after screening his movie The Passion for 350 Jesuits. Source: The
New Yorker

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Giving Ads

Frank Olive's Church of God Home School Association has announced the creation
of a "want ads" section on their web site in reverse. Called "Giving Ads,"
this new section allows people to offer useful give-a-way items to those
who are in need. accompanied by a "Needed Ads" section. If you have
an item that would be beneficial to an elderly or financially disadvantaged
person in the Church such as a window a/c, heater, walker, handicap lift,
wheelchair or anything that you would freely offer to a needy brother
or sister in God's Church please consider posting the item as soon as possible.
To place an ad one need only contact the webservant at
webservant@coghomeschool.org
with a description of the item or items you wish to offer and a means to
contact you. You may choose to have those that wish to enquire about the
item contact you directly via email or have any enquiries forwarded
via the Church of God Home School web site. On The Net:
http://www.coghomeschool.org/welcome.htm

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Heralding the Gospel

Our beloved friend and longtime Church of God minister Harold Cormany has
launched his internet site Herald Ministries: An Illinois Church of God Ministry.
Harold's site will be heralding the gospel in text and, eventually, audio.
A new featured article usually graces the site to catch the attention of
the visitor. Currently featured is the webpage titled "Should Christians
Observe Easter" at
http://www.heraldministries.com/easter.html.
The site is newly established so it doesn't contain alot of articles just
yet but I encourage you to visit often to see new articles as they pop up.
Visit Harold at Herald Ministries On The Net:
http://www.heraldministries.com

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