(By) Wim Wiggers
Introduction
Before you lies a new book. It is on Europe, better on the European Union and the Papacy. Europe started as a concept in Greek mythology. Europa, a beautiful princess on the back of a pure white bull - Zeus, who had transformed himself into that bull. This is very significant. In the book of Revelation the last book in the Bible, we see again a woman riding a beast (chapt. 17). This is not just an accident. Greece is symbolized in the Bible as a goat, but their national emblem was also a goat. (See Daniel 8 entire chapter). The same in Daniel 7. We see a lion with wings symbolizing the kingdom of Babylon. There the Ishtar gate was also full with images of lions with wings.
But leaving mythology we concentrate a moment on the papacy. We will
never understand the papacy unless we see the Catholic Church as it is
seen by the Catholic hierarchy. From the Catholic Encyclopedia we have a
thorough explanation that the papacy considers itself being a nation. That
is a very important concept. Being a nation, she has powers. The power of
execution, the power of legislation and the power of judgment. But it is a
nation unlike any other nation. Her laws are church laws. Canon law. The
beginning of canon law were the canons of the big church councils.
Already Constantine the Great gave the bishop a place in the court, to be a
judge, to handle internal church matters.
But the real canon law started with the Justinian Code, where the pope was
considered the head of all bishops and the final judge concerning heresy.
Originally these canons of the councils were in the Civil Code but by and
by there formed itself a whole separate book of law, called canon law.
These laws had to do with thinking, with heresy.
But having laws you need a court. The court of the Catholic Church was
called the Inquisition. And the final court of appeal was “the Holy Office”.
“The duty of the inquisitor, moreover, was distinguished from that of the
ordinary judge by the fact that the task assigned to him was the impossible
one of ascertaining the secret thoughts and opinions of the prisoner.
External acts were to him only of value as indications of believe, to be
accepted or rejected as he might deem them conclusive or illusory ... acts
were beyond his jurisdiction ...”.
In order to find out the inner thoughts and opinions, the judge of the court
had two tools: torture and mental bombardment.
Now the point. How big was that Roman nation State? Sherman says: “As
long as the papal supremacy was recognized, the canon law possessed
unlimited power and formed the basis of the ecclesiastical law of every
country”. Professor Erler from the University of Frankfurt says it his way:
“The meaning of Corpus Juris Canonici is not exhausted by that
representing itself as an internal, autonomous church law. The emphasis
was to be in competition with the secular law of its time. With the papal
code the world received a second Corpus Juris, which at the same time
claimed it was reforming the old Imperial Roman Corpus Juris Civilis for
the time present”. Thus Canon law was first from the Church yet by far
not alone the law for the Church: but world dominion was its demand,
equivalent to the demand of the Church for world dominance.
(Kirchenrecht).
So just as in a nation, you are born under the jurisdiction of the nation. You
cross the border into Germany and in that moment you are under German
jurisdiction. So with the Catholic nation–State. You are born into it and
you cannot escape. The claim is the world; but if you are baptized as a
Christian then, according to Catholic doctrine, you are a subject of that
Church.
So, the Corpus Juris Canonici is the law book not only for the Church it is
law for all the world.
This canon law is based in Catholic theology. According to Catholic
doctrine society is an ongoing process of the incarnation:
“One person, Christ, having two natures, human and divine. The two
natures, not mixed, not separated, not changed, not divided. So society is,
Church and State not mixed, not divided, not separated, not changed”. Das
Erwachen der katholischen Kirche im Anfang des XIX Jahrhunderts. Dr. J.
Pascher, pg. 36.
Through Catholic Canon law the Catholic Church wants on the basis of
Catholic theology to rule the world. This is considered as the rule of Christ.
This is not separate from the State, not mixed with the State, not divided
from the State, and the Church will not become civil. It remains a church.
Wholly. But at the same time she is a nation – State in her own estimation.
In the Middle Ages this was a reality. It had its beginning with the
Justinian Code and ended in the Republic of Rome in 1798.
The next thing to review is the role of the papacy back into her original
position as a nation State with her laws and courts. In fact, it began within
the decade of 1920, in the Catholic Student Movement. One of the books
studied was “Europe and the Faith” by H. Belloc.
Belloc was convinced that Europe was: the Faith is Europe. Europe was
Europe because of the Catholic Church. He wrote: “... the truth that
Europe and the Catholic Church were and are one thing”.
According to Catholic reasoning, if this is really true, than Europe must be
reshaped, re-evangelized, it has to be re-born. Then the Second World War
passed and a new era began. Some of the people of the Catholic Student
Movement started a unification.
The pope in retrospect talking about the future of Europe says “persons
who after the example and manner of many so called “Fathers of Europe”
can be builders of tomorrow’s European society, establishing it on a firm
spiritual foundation. ( Apostolic Exhortation on Europe).
But we ask who are the “Fathers of Europe”? One thing is evident: Robert
Schuman, Jean Monnet, Konrad Adenauer and Alcide De Gasperi. And the
Church is considering to beatify them. It seems that Robert Schuman is
now in the process of beatification.
These “Fathers” of Europe gave according to the pope a good example to
those who should bring Europe onto a firm spiritual foundation.
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The pope is convinced that he has to offer Europe the most precious gift,
“Faith in Jesus Christ”. He is very determined to unite Church and State.
The pope wants us to see everything by a Catholic candle. If you want to
know the real point you should consider: “The Church’s concern for
Europe is born of her very nature and mission. Down the centuries the
Church has been closely linked to our continent ...” It could be called back
to the future.
In order to understand where we are it would be well to consider Germany
in the years just before the Second World War. Pacelli, the later Pope Pius
XII, was as nuntius busy to get canon law into a concordat with Hitler.
Pacelly succeeded. First of all, it was a treaty “between tow
authoritarians”, as Cornwell remarked. The price was the complete
surrender of all Catholic societies. No Catholic soccer club, no youth club,
no political party. It created a complete political vacuum.
We may think that canon law has no priority. We could be wrong. In
Catholic circles the doctrine of the Church is the main doctrine. The
Church is visible in canon law. But only two authoritarians will agree.
Liberal democracy will not do it.
And here is the danger. Europe is authoritarian. Treaties and regulations
are made behind closed doors. There is no open government. Light is only
when we live in a political glasshouse. The light comes form outside, from
the press, from the parliament, but here is no critical press. There is no
powerful parliament. We are delivered to secrecy.
Let us take one example: The European Arrest Warrant. The German
Parliament was against it. It was considered very bad law. That is what
Siegfried Kauder said in the Bundestag, the German Parliament.
He called the Arrest Warrant TOHUWABOHU, that means “without form,
and void”. See Genesis 1:1-2, in Hebrew and English.
In the Netherlands, the “Standing Committee” which counsels the
government was very critical. The German “Verfassungsgericht” - the
Constitutional Court, had very critical notes. In Italy a judge wrote a paper.
His name is Carlo Alberto Agnoli. The title is “The European Arrest
Warrant. The shortest way to Tyranny”.
Read the book on line @ http://www.temcat.com/06-HiddenHistory/EU-Papacy.pdf
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