Tuesday, May 14, 2013

TV PREACHERS EXPOSED! Satanism/ Pentecostalism/ New Age/ Tongues/ Demonic





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Published on Nov 25, 2012


(video mirrored) Do you see the logo of the TBN tv braodcast? In it there is a dove flying down - this is a hardcore satanic symbol - it is featured also in Roman Catholicism and on Chuck Misslers church logo - but it is also to be found on the occult luciferian magazine of the 60s/70s "The Voice" - it is also their logo.

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Teilhard de Chardin - Roman Catholic Jesuit Ecumenical New Age One World Religion



Catholic Jesuit Ecumenical Anti-Christ One World Religion Movement

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Uploaded on Jan 25, 2010


The Harlot that rides the Beast aka Roman Catholic Babylonian Jesuit Satanic Church is behind the ecumenical movement to bring all pagan religions under the control of the Roman Catholic Pagan Pope/Black Pope Superior Jesuit General.




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The First Jesuit Pope


Mar 28 2013 | Charlie Adams |



The First Jesuit to be Elected Pope

Jorge Mario Bergoglio is an Argentinan and is the first Jesuit to be elected Pope. He is the 266th bishop of Rome and leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. He became Pope Francis, but the masses know little about the secretive Jesuit Order he has been a part of nearly all his life. Let us probe a little deeper into the Jesuit Order.

THE JESUIT ORDER

"Throughout Christendom, Protestantism was menaced by formidable foes. The first triumphs of the Reformation past, Rome summoned new forces, hoping to accomplish its destruction. At this time, the order of the Jesuits was created, the most cruel, unscrupulous, and powerful of all the champions of popery. Cut off from every earthly tie and human interest, dead to the claims of natural affection, reason and conscience wholly silenced, they knew no rule, no tie, but that of their order, and no duty but to extend its power. The gospel of Christ had enabled its adherents to meet danger and endure suffering, undismayed by cold, hunger, toil, and poverty, to uphold the banner of truth in face of the rack, the dungeon, and the stake. To combat these forces, Jesuitism inspired its followers with a fanaticism that enabled them to endure like dangers, and to oppose to the power of truth all the weapons of deception. There was no crime too great for them to commit, no deception too base for them to practice, no disguise too difficult for them to assume. Vowed to perpetual poverty and humility, it was their studied aim to secure wealth and power, to be devoted to the overthrow of Protestantism, and the re-establishment of the papal supremacy.



When appearing as members of their order, they wore a garb of sanctity, visiting prisons and hospitals, ministering to the sick and the poor, professing to have renounced the world, and bearing the sacred name of Jesus, who went about doing good. But under this blameless exterior the most criminal and deadly purposes were concealed. It was a fundamental principle of the order that the end justifies the means. By this code, lying, theft, perjury, assassination, were not only pardonable but commendable, when they served the interests of the church. Under various disguises the Jesuits worked their way into offices of State, climbing up to be the counselors of kings, and shaping the policy of nations. They became servants, to act as spies upon their masters. They established colleges for the sons of princes and nobles, and schools for the common people; and the children of Protestant parents were drawn into an observance of popish rites. All the outward pomp and display of the Romish worship was brought to bear to confuse the mind, and dazzle and captivate the imagination; and thus the liberty for which the fathers had toiled and bled was betrayed by the sons. The Jesuits rapidly spread themselves over Europe, and wherever they went, there followed a revival of popery." EGW 




[Nancy Pelosi  Jill Biden & Joe Biden with Pope Francis I. President Barack Obama has announced that Vice President Joseph Biden will lead the US delegation to the Mass inaugurating Pope Francis’s Petrine ministry. Other members of the delegation are Gov. Susana Martinez (R-NM), Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and President John DeGioia of Georgetown University.]



VATICAN SEEKING TO CONTROL AMERICA

The bill of rights has always been a hindrance to Vatican world domination and the dreaded planned world wide “Sunday Law”, that in essence gives homage to the Papacy, since Sunday keeping can’t be found anywhere in the Bible.

"Sunday is our ‘Mark of Authority’...the church is above the Bible, and this transference of the Sabbath observance is proof of the fact.” Catholic Record, September 1, 1923.

The Jesuits in recent years have made open avowed war on the United States Constitution: the Bill of Rights. But let’s take a look at this statement:

"Jesuit education would consist in the creation of “multiplying agents.”" -Jesuit General Pedro Arrupe S.J.

The mighty and widely ramified Order of St. Ignatius was powerful enough to procure by its interest fair greater advantages to individuals, than could any other Corporation, Fraternity or even secular power. “St. Ignatius was powerful enough to procure by its interest far greater advantages to individuals, than could any other Corporation, Fraternity or even secular power.” -Jesuit General Jean-Baptist Janssens

Which brings us to Jesuit groomed Barack Obama whose mentor Gregory Galluzo is a Jesuit Priest. Recent U.S Presidents have all been heavily influenced if not controlled by the Vatican. Note: this has been the status quo since the Reagan administration, which audaciously opened diplomatic relations with the Vatican on January 10 1984.



Reagan was sworn into office on Jan 20, 1981 on the WEST WING of the Capitol Building, all previous Presidents took their oath of office on the East side of the building. This was done so that Reagan would face the Washington Monument (obelisk) during his swearing in ceremony as President of the United States. Twenty years earlier Ex-Jesuit Priest Alberto Rivera informed the world that when the Jesuits had completely taken over ALL the American Christian Churches an American President would be sworn into office facing an obelisk as a sign.

As Jesuit General Jean-Baptist Janssens (black Pope) bragged that he can place men of Jesuit education into the position of influence he desires. We can examine the key positions of the men who were responsible for the greatest intelligence black out in history! Ever!!! Let’s have a perusal of this recent scientific poll conducted by Time/CBS:that claims a staggering 84% reject Official version of what happened on 9/11 [In a 2004 U.S. poll]

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/October2006/141006poll.htm

Senate hearing, Senator Mark Dayton remarked that “this country and its citizens were completely undefended” for “109 minutes” on 9/11. Dayton went on to clarify that officials within the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) had covered up the facts about the lack of air defenses by lying to the 9/11 Commission, to Congress and to the American people. And they were not held accountable.

Other intelligence agencies likewise suffered the same intelligence paralysis, the NSA (National Security Agency), CIA the Central Intelligence Agency. But the most unnerving fact is that the directors of these intelligence agencies are all Jesuit educated except Porter Goss whom belongs to another secret society, nevertheless Jesuit controlled by proxy. George Bush (whom many claim to be a secret catholic under the control of the Pope) even gave Jesuit Georgetown trained George Tenet 9/11 CIA director a medal for incompetence or treason. You be the judge.

Let us again re-examine this statement: "Jesuit education would consist in the creation of “multiplying agents.” -Jesuit General Pedro Arrupe S.J.


[George W Bush awarding George Tenet CIA Director (Jesuit Educated Georgetown University) Medal of Freedom after the biggest intelligence failure or treason in the history of America]


LIST OF JESUIT TRAINED CIA DIRECTORS

*George Tenet. CIA Director. [1997-2004] George Tenet was educated at Jesuit Georgetown University.
*Porter Goss. CIA Director. [2004-2005] Porter Goss attended Yale University and is member of Secret Society "Book & Snake" and a member of Psi Upsilon Fraternity.

*General Michael Hayden. CIA Director. [2006-2009] General Michael Hayden was educated at Jesuit Duquesne University. General Michael Hayden was also the Director of the NSA (National Security Agency) [1999-2005] and was involved in the warrantless wiretapping “scandal” of U.S Citizens.

*Leon Panetta. CIA Director. [2009-2011] Leon Panetta was educated at Jesuit Santa Clara University, later becoming Secretary of Defense.

*David Petraeus. CIA Director. [2010-2011] David Petraeus was educated at Jesuit University of Georgetown & Princeton University

*John O Brennan. CIA Director. 2013 – Incumbent. John O Brennan Jesuit Fordham University

*Michael Morell serves as director between transitions or elections of new CIA directors since July 2011 – present. Michael Morell was educated at Jesuit Georgetown University.

*General Michael Hayden. NSA Director (National Security agency). [1999- 2005] General Michael Hayden was Jesuit educated at Duquesne University.

*Keith B. Alexander. NSA Director & staunch Roman Catholic Keith B. Alexander assumed office in 2005 until present.

It’s no surprise the Jesuits groomed Obama for Presidency, with the most flowing oratory skills ever produced by a president, not to mention his color which makes the invasion of Eurasia and targeting Africa not such an “all white man affair”. Eurasia holds 72% of the world population and much of the worlds natural resources. Barrack Obama has appointed many Jesuit agents to many key positions in U.S Government. As a civil rights attorney and professor of constitutional law, one has to be puzzled as he takes to the United States constitution with a chainsaw. But if you know about the power who grooms him and backs him, you will find the motive and the method of Jesuit genius.

*Jon Favreau another educated Jesuit attending the College Holy Cross and is Obama’s speech writer.

*Obama’s senior military and policy advisor Major Scott Gration is another Jesuit instrument educated at Georgetown University.

*Daniel Pfeiffer Jesuit trained Georgetown University is Whitehouse Director of Communications [2009-2013]

*Donald Rumsfeld. United States Defense Secretary [2001-2006]. Jesuit Trained at Georgetown University.

*Robert Gates United States Defense Secretary of Defense [2206-2011] Educated at Jesuit Georgetown University.

*Leon Panetta Secretary of Defense. [2011-2013] Formerly a CIA Director.

*Chuck Hagel United States Secretary of Defense [2012-Incumbent]

“CHUCK HAGEL (R-Neb.), a Distinguished Professor in the Practice of National Governance at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service (SFS) since 2009, has been nominated by President Obama to serve as the 24th United States Secretary of Defense. “Georgetown’s loss would be America’s gain,” said SFS Dean Carol Lancaster. “Students and faculty at the School of Foreign Service have benefited tremendously from Sen. Hagel’s experience and insight. Georgetown continues its long history of hosting exceptional scholars and practitioners.”



[President Barack Obama receiving an honorary degree from Notre Dame Jesuit University]


SIGNING THE NDAA ON NEW YEARS EVE

Let us now investigate the signing of the NDAA on New Years Eve 2011/2012 while every U.S citizens was distracted by celebrations.

The NDAA Indefinite detention without trial: Section 1021. The NDDA effectively revoked the democratic right “habeas corpus” which prevents arbitrary imprisonment of individuals by requiring that the government present evidence to a judge or court to justify taking an individual into custody. The provisions included in the 2012 NDAA allow U.S citizens suspected of terrorism to be indefinitely detained in military custody without charge or trial. The bill goes far beyond to the 9/11 attacks to anyone defined by the president as engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners.

Under the NDAA the President could imprison anyone even domestic opponents deemed enemies of the state voicing conflicting or objective views.

In other words the United States would ultimately be a fascist state using mostly Roman Catholic Jesuit controlled Supreme Court judges and their 2 crony Jewish judge colleagues to interpret the laws to suit the Vatican. Some of the torture techniques are a repetition of the “Catholic Spanish Inquisition torture techniques” that we now see at Guantanamo Bay.

Eventually the prisoner would crack under the pressure and anxiety of not knowing when they will be released or what they were even charged with, some would confess to heresy as a thought crime just to have sentence passed. Water boarding was another instrument of the inquisition. Now the Jesuit controlled CIA use the same torture.

Perhaps the Jesuit controlled CIA have taken a page out of the Spanish Inquisition history book?

The NDAA is an extension of the Patriot Act. Insidiously crafted by Jesuit Georgetown University educated Professor Viet Dihn.


AMENDMENTS UNDER JESUIT FIRE!

AMENDMENT VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

NSA (National Security Agency) Jesuit Trained General Hayden: Critics of the nomination and Hayden's attempts to increase domestic surveillance included Senator Dianne Feinstein who stated on May 11, 2006 that "I happen to believe we are on our way to a major constitutional confrontation on Fourth Amendment guarantees of unreasonable search and seizure." General Michael Hayden aim was to spy on American citizens.

AMENDMENT IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

AMENDMENT II [the right to keep and bear arms]

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Michael Quigley Jesuit trained at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

In May 2011 representative Quigley sponsored an amendment to the “patriot act,” prohibiting the sale of weapons on the FBI terrorist watch-list. But to the amazement of citizens, the FBI released documents on December 27, 2012 listing the Occupy Wall ST protestors were domestic terrorists.

***If you research the past exploits of the Vatican and how it ruled the known world (Europe) you will see that Jesuit/Papal politics are fascist and totalitarianism in its purist form. In recent years the Catholic Church has publicly supported dictators like Franco, Mussolini and Pinochet. Benito Mussolini even gave The Vatican is fascism in it purist form. Pope Pius XII backed Hitler the Waffen-SS was modeled on the Jesuit Order.

***A series of treaties and concordats known as the Lateran Treaty facilitated by Benito Mussolini gave the Vatican its own state and very large sums of money to bankroll these religious mobsters back into business after Napoleon Bonaparte deposed the Pope and took him back to Paris in 1798.

Despite the Vatican’s many financial scandals (some still being investigated) Pope Benedict XVI has the nerve to call for a “New World Economic Order.”

The Vatican has been patient and subtle in its infiltration and takeover of the United States. The next step is the proposed “Sunday Law.” You may ask, what is wrong with a Sunday Law in a Christian country?

Sunday keeping is a child of the Papacy and is nowhere to found in the Bible. Here are some statements from the Papacy: “It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and all other Christians, that the Bible does not support them anywhere in their observance of Sunday. Sunday is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who observe the day observe a commandment of the Catholic Church.” Priest Brady, in an address, reported in the Elizabeth, NJ ‘News’ on March 18, 1903.

"Protestants ... accept Sunday rather than Saturday as the day for public worship after the Catholic Church made the change... But the Protestant mind does not seem to realize that ... in observing Sunday; they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the Church, the pope." Our Sunday Visitor, February 5th, 1950.

March 2008-- One of the most alarming incidents involving the NSA (National Security Agency) was picking up attendees of a “Sunday Law Conference” held at a hotel. The meeting was so secret that most people met at different hotels as NSA agents collected them from a decoy Hotel then escorted the patrons to the correct venue. The planning of any “Sunday Law” directly violates the bill of rights.

AMENDMENT I

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

Rome changed God’s Holy day in 321 A.D. All the early churches in Galatia, Corinth and Thessalonica etc kept the Sabbath (Saturday). Rome changed God’s Holy day in 321 A.D. from the Sabbath to the venerable day of the Sun (Sunday) or Sun worship day.

Exodus 20:8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Exodus 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. The above scripture was before the Jews came into existence through Abraham. The disciples taught all gentiles to observe the Sabbath.

Matthew 12:8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day. The Sabbath is not introduced as a new institution but as having been founded at creation. It is to be remembered and observed as the memorial of the Creator’s work. Pointing to God as the Maker of the heavens and the earth, it distinguishes the true God from all false gods. All who keep the seventh day signify by this act that they are worshipers of Jehovah. Thus the Sabbath is the sign of man’s allegiance to God as long as there are any upon the earth to serve Him. The fourth commandment is the only one of all the ten in which are found both the name and the title of the Lawgiver. It is the only one that shows by whose authority the law is given. Thus it contains the seal of God, affixed to His law as evidence of its authenticity and binding force.

God has given men six days wherein to labor, and He requires that their own work be done in the six working days. Acts of necessity and mercy are permitted on the Sabbath, the sick and suffering are at all times to be cared for; but unnecessary labor is to be strictly avoided. “Turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and ... honor Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure.” Isaiah 58:13. Nor does the prohibition end here. “Nor speaking thine own words,” says the prophet. Those who discuss business matters or lay plans on the Sabbath are regarded by God as though engaged in the actual transaction of business. To keep the Sabbath holy, we should not even allow our minds to dwell upon things of a worldly character. And the commandment includes all within our gates. The inmates of the house are to lay aside their worldly business during the sacred hours. All should unite to honor God by willing service upon His holy day.



[Current Superior Jesuit General Aldolfo Nicolas next to former Superior Jesuit General Peter Hans Kolvenbach]

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The Godfather Jesuit Pope Francis I - America Under Siege






Published on Apr 26, 2013


http://religiousmatrix.com/ The Vatican and the many secrets that the media never brings to light are revealed in the latter part of the video. Vatican Inc is probably the most powerful and influential organization on the planet despite the scandals that surface from time to time. The Jesuit Order is a fascinating complex system of deception yet Jesuit Universities are regarded as centers of brilliance. The Jesuits are the masters steering World Government. With links to the Mafia and other secret societies the Vatican is truly a super-force.

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Heterophobia Is the New Black


11:00AM EDT 5/9/2013 RAYNARD JACKSON



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Last week, I had to make one of the most difficult announcements of my life: I told my family that I like women—er, love women. Not knowing how my mother would react, I was relieved when she looked at me and said, “Boy, I knew that all along.”

My brothers and sisters all said that my coming out of the shadows and announcing that I am heterosexual would not change how they felt about me and that they would stand with me when all the media requests began to come in for me to be interviewed.

I knew I was heterosexual and liked women ever since I was a small child, but I have always been afraid to come out publicly because I was taught that some things are to be kept private and discussed on a need-to-know basis.

Now that I have come out of the closet, I hope I can get special laws passed that will allow me to walk up to women in the workplace, as well as total strangers, and let them know that I am heterosexual.

Now that I no longer have to keep my sexual preference to myself, I feel so relieved of the burden I have been carrying throughout my life.

Now that I have come out of the shadows and can be who I really am, I hope that I can become a member of the homosexual church choir that my friend belongs to, despite the stipulation that open heterosexuals are not allowed to join. If I keep my heterosexuality hidden and no one finds out, I could possibly join the choir.

But why should I have to hide who I am? That is not fair, and it’s discriminatory. My homosexual friends want to force the Boys Scouts of America to change its policy of not admitting homosexuals, atheists or agnostics into the Scouts; but not one of my homosexual friends are willing to join with me to fight my being excluded from their choir simply because I have publicly come out as heterosexual. Anyone who doesn’t accept me for being heterosexual must be heterophobic, a bigot and hateful.

As a businessman, I am involved with several chambers of commerce. So now that I am out of the closet, I wanted to join and have my business certified by the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) so I can become more marketable to corporate America.

According to their website, “The NGLCC certifies lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender-owned businesses as Business Enterprises (LGBTBEs) and works to provide opportunities for LGBTBEs to build relationships and gain exposure within corporate procurement processes. Certification through the NGLCC Supplier Diversity Initiative (SDI) offers the opportunity for LGBT-owned businesses to make connections with America’s top corporations and each other.

“By becoming certified, LGBTBEs enhance their business visibility with corporations seeking to do business with LGBT suppliers. Corporate partners can search for certified LGBTBEs through our exclusive LGBT supplier database as well as meet face-to-face with potential suppliers at NGLCC SDI matchmaking and networking events, which are held across the country throughout the year.”

I was told that I had to be homosexual in order to join. Again, per their website, the criteria for membership is: “Is your business at least 51 percent owned, operated, managed and controlled by an LGBT person, or persons who are either U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents, exercise independence from any non-LGBT business enterprise, have its principal place of business (headquarters) in the United States, have been formed as a legal entity in the United States?”

What I find interesting is they wouldn’t tell me on the phone, nor is it indicated on their website, how they prove that you are homosexual, bisexual or transgendered.

So, let me make sure I understand: They want the Boy Scouts of America to be forced to accept homosexual kids and adults, but yet, because I have come out as openly heterosexual, I can’t be certified by them as an LGBT business.

This is discrimination to the highest heavens. I am considering a lawsuit against them because I think the federal courts should force them to accept me and my lifestyle choices (despite them being a private organization). I have a right to join their organization. America should stand with me in my pursuit of chamber equality.

My God, this is the 21st century and yet a heterosexual still can’t join a homosexual group. I am hoping that I, too, like Jason Collins (the homosexual NBA player), will get a call from President Obama. I, too, hope that I can get saturated news coverage for a whole two days. I, too, hope Kobe Bryant, Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama give me a shout-out on Twitter.

I am brave and courageous for admitting that I like women, and I think that all Americans who believe in equality should join with me for my civil rights. Where is the NAACP, the National Urban League, and the Congressional Black Caucus?

Do I not deserve dignity as much as homosexuals? I have lived my life in the shadows for far too long. Can you imagine living your whole life privately as a heterosexual? Just think of the trauma I have faced walking down the street and people not knowing if I am heterosexual or homosexual? No one should have to live their life like that. We are Americans, and we are better than that.

So, I am asking Congress to launch an investigation to find out why no one is paying any attention to my coming out of the closet, why no media outlets are covering my declaration of my heterosexuality, and why homosexual groups refuse to allow me to join their organizations. How can we be the leader of the free world yet not give rights to heterosexuals? Our Founding Fathers must be rolling over in their graves.

Raynard Jackson is president and CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based public relations/government affairs firm. He can be reached through his website,raynardjackson.com. You can also follow him on Twitter @raynard1223.


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Pawns in the Game



A Satanic conspiracy to control the world

First printed in 1954, "Pawns in the Game" is the best single work available on the evil conspiracy that has been responsible for the devastating wars and continuing conflicts of the past century, and which is now close to its ultimate goal of total world domination through a dictatorial One World Government.

Pawns in the Game is written by William Guy Carr (1895-1959), a noted author who had a distinguished career as a Canadian naval officer, including outstanding service during World War II. The book begins as follows:



William Guy Carr


"Here is a TRUE story of international intrigue, romance, corruption, graft, and political assassinations, the like of which has never been written before. It is the story of how different groups or atheistic-materialistic men have played in an international chess tournament to decide which group would win ultimate control of the wealth, natural resources, and man-power of the entire world. It is explained how the game has reached the final stage. The lnternational Communists, and the International Capitalists, (both of whom have totalitarian ambitions) have temporarily joined hands to defeat Christian-democracy.

"The cover design shows that all moves made by the International Conspirators are directed by Satan and while the situation is decidedly serious it is definitely not hopeless. The solution is to end the game the International Conspirators have been playing right now before one or another totalitarian-minded group impose their ideas on the rest of mankind. The story is sensational and shocking, but it is educational because it is the TRUTH. The author offers practical solutions to problems so many people consider insoluble."

Here are excerpts from the introduction of this book. We may publish excerpts from other chapters in the future.


by William Guy Carr



A Luciferian conspiracy

If what I reveal surprises and shocks the reader, please don’t develop an inferiority complex because I am frank to admit that although I have worked since 1911 trying to find out why the human race can’t live in peace and enjoy the bounties and blessing God provides for our use and benefit in such abundance, it was 1950 before I penetrated the secret that the wars and revolutions which scourge our lives, and the chaotic conditions that prevail, are nothing more or less than the effects of the continuing Luciferian conspiracy.

It started in that part of the universe we call heaven when Lucifer challenged the right of God to exercise supreme authority. The Holy Scriptures tell us how the Luciferian conspiracy was transferred to this world in the Garden of Eden. Until I realized that our struggle is not with flesh and blood, but with the spiritual forces of darkness who control all those in high places on this earth (Eph. 6:12) the pieces of evidence gathered all over this world just didn’t fit together and make sense. (I am not ashamed to admit that the "Bible" provided the "Key" which enabled me to obtain an answer to the question quoted above.)

Very few people seem able to appreciate that Lucifer is the brightest and most intelligent of the heavenly host and, because he is a pure spirit, he is indestructible. The scriptures tell us his power is such that he caused one-third of the most intelligent of the heavenly host to defect from God, and join him, because he claimed God’s Plan for the rule of the universe is weak and impractical because it is based on the premise that lesser beings can be taught to know, love, and wish to serve him voluntarily out of respect for his own infinite perfections. The Luciferian ideology states might is right. It claims beings of proven superior intelligence have the right to rule those less gifted because the masses don’t know what is best for them. The Luciferian ideology is what we call totalitarianism today.

The Old Testament is simply the history of how Satan became prince of the world, and caused our first parents to defect from God. It relates how the synagogue of Satan was established on this earth, it tells how it has worked since to prevent God’s Plan for the rule of the universe being established on this earth. Christ came to earth when the conspiracy reached the stage that, to use his own words, Satan controlled all those in high places. Christ exposed the synagogue of Satan (Rev. 2:9; 3:9); he denounced those who belonged to it as sons of the devil (Lucifer), whom he castigated as the father of lies (John 8:44) and the prince of deceit (2 Cor. 11:14)… Christ gave us the solution to our problem when he told us we must go forth and teach the truth, regarding this conspiracy (John 8. 31:59), to all people of all nations. He promised that if we did this, knowledge of the truth would set us free (Matt. 28:19). The Luciferian Conspiracy has developed until it is in its semi-final stage (Matt. 24: 15:34), simply because we have failed to put the mandate Christ gave us into effect.




Adam Weishaupt


Weishaupt and the Illuminati

n 1784 an "Act of God" placed the Bavarian government in possession of evidence which proved the existence of the continuing Luciferian Conspiracy. Adam Weishaupt, a jesuit-trained professor of canon law, defected from Christianity, and embraced the Luciferian ideology while teaching in Ingoldstadt University. In 1770 the money lenders (who had recently organized the House of Rothschild), retained him to revise and modernize the age-old ‘protocols’ designed to give the Synagogue of Satan ultimate world domination so they can impose the Luciferian ideology upon what remains of the Human Race, after the final social cataclysm, by use of satanic despotism. Weishaupt completed his task May 1st, 1776.

The plan required the destruction of ALL existing governments and religions. This objective was to be reached by dividing the masses into opposing camps in ever increasing numbers on political, racial, social, economic and other issues. The opposing sides were then to be armed and an ‘incident’ provided which would cause them to fight and weaken themselves as they destroyed national governments and religious institutions.

In 1776 Weishaupt organized the Illuminati to put the plot into execution. The word Illuminati is derived from Lucifer, and means ‘holders of the light’. Using the lie that his objective was to bring about a one world government to enable men with proven mental ability to govern the world he recruited about two thousand followers. These included the most intelligent men in the field of arts and letters, education, the sciences, finance and industry. He then established the Lodges of the Grand Orient to be their secret headquarters.

Because Britain and France were the two greatest powers at the end of the 18th Century, Weishaupt ordered the Illuminati to foment the Colonial Wars to weaken the British Empire and organize the Great Revolution to weaken the French Empire. The latter he scheduled should start in 1789.

The conspiracy is discovered

A German author named Zwack put Weishaupt’s revised version of the age-old conspiracy into book form and named it "Einige Original-Scripten." In 1784 a copy of this document was sent to the Illuminists Weishaupt had delegated to foment the French revolution. The courier was struck dead by lightning as he rode through Ratisbon on his way from Frankfurt to Paris. The police found the subversive documents on his body and turned them over to the proper government authorities.

After careful study of the plot the Bavarian Government ordered the police to raid Weishaupt’s newly organized lodges of the Grand Orient and the homes of some of his most influential associates. Additional evidence thus obtained convinced the authorities the documents were a genuine copy of a conspiracy by which the synagogue of Satan, who controlled the Illuminati at the top, planned to use wars and revolutions to bring about the establishment of one kind or another of a One World Government, the powers of which they intended to usurp as soon as it was established.

In 1785, the Bavarian Government outlawed the Illuminati and closed the lodges of the Grand Orient. In 1786, they published the details of the conspiracy. The English title is "The Original Writtings of the Order and Sect of The Illuminati". Copies of the conspiracy were sent to the heads of church and state. The power of the Illuminati was so great that this warning was ignored, as were the warnings Christ had given the world.

The Illuminati went underground. Weishaupt instructed his Illuminists to infiltrate into the lodges of Blue Masonry and form a secret society within secret societies.

Only masons who proved themselves Internationalists, and those whose conduct proved they had defected from God, are initiated into the Illuminati. Thus the conspirators used the cloak of philanthropy to hide their revolutionary and subversive activities. In order to infiltrate into masonic lodges in Britain Illuminists invited John Robison over to Europe. He was a high degree mason in the Scottish Rite : Professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh University; and Secretary of The Royal Society of Edinburgh. John Robison did not fall for the lie that the objective of the one worlders was to form a benevolent dictatorship. He kept his reactions to himself however, and was entrusted with a copy of Weishaupt’s Revised Conspiracy for study and safe keeping.

Because the heads of church and state in France were advised to ignore the warnings given them the revolution broke out in 1789. In order to alert other governments to their danger, in 1798 John Robison published a book, entitled "Proof of a Conspiracy to Destroy All Governments and Religions". But his warnings have been ignored, as were the others.

The creation of Communism

In 1829, the Illuminati held a meeting in New York which was addressed by a British Illuminist named Wright. Those in attendance were informed that the Illuminati intended to unite the Nihilist and Atheist groups with all other subversive organizations into an international organization to be known as Communism. This destructive force was to be used to enable the Illuminati to foment future wars and revolutions. Clinton Roosevelt (a direct ancestor of F.D.R.) Horace Greeley, and Chas. Dana were appointed a committee to raise funds for this new venture. The fund they raised financed Karl Marx and Engels when they wrote "Das Capital" and "The Communist Manifesto" in Soho, England.

In 1830, Weishaupt died. He carried the deception that the Illuminati was dead to his own death-bed where, to convince his spiritual advisers, he pretended to repent and rejoin the Church.

According to Weishaupt’s revised version of the Age-Old conspiracy the Illuminati were to organize, finance, direct and control ALL international organizations and groups by working their agentur into executive positions at the top. Thus it was that while Karl Marx was writing the Communist Manifesto under direction of one group of Illuminists, Professor Karl Ritter of Frankfurt University was writing the antithesis under direction of another group, so that those who direct the conspiracy at the top could use the differences in these two ideologies to start dividing larger and larger numbers of the human race into opposing camps so they could be armed and then made to fight and destroy each other, together with their political and religious institutions.

The work Ritter started was continued by the German so-called philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) who founded Nietzscheism. Nietzscheism was developed into Fascism and later into Naziism and used to enable the agentur of the Illuminati to foment World Wars One and Two.




In 1834 the Italian revolutionary leader Giussepi Mazzini (see picture) was selected by the Illuminati to be director of their revolutionary programme throughout the world. He held this post until he died in 1872.

In 1840, General Albert Pike was brought under the influence of Mazzini because he became a disgruntled officer when U.S. President Jefferson Davis disbanded his auxiliary Indian troops on the grounds they had committed atrocities under the cloak of legitimate warfare. Pike accepted the idea of a one world government and ultimately became head of the Luciferian Priesthood. Between 1859, and 1871, he worked out the details of a military blue-print, for three world wars, and three major revolutions which he considered would further the conspiracy to its final stage during the twentieth century.


The plan for three world wars

Most of his work was done in the 13 room mansion, he built in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1840. When the Illuminati, and the lodges of the Grand Orient, became suspect, because of Mazzini’s revolutionary activities in Europe, Pike organized the New and Reformed Palladian Rite. He established three supreme councils; one in Charleston, S.C., another in Rome, Italy and another in Berlin, Germany. He had Mazzini establish twenty three subordinate councils in strategic locations throughout the world. These have been the secret headquarters of the world revolutionary movement ever since. Long before Marconi invented wireless (radio), the scientists who were of the Illuminati had made it possible for Pike and the Heads of his councils to communicate secretly. It was the discovery of this secret that enabled intelligence officers to understand how apparently unrelated ‘incidents’ took place simultaneously throughout the world which aggravated a situation and developed into a war or revolution.





Albert Pike


Pike’s plan was as simple as it has proved effective. He required that Communism, Naziism, Political Zionism, and other International movements be organized and used to foment the three global wars and three major revolutions. The first world war was to be fought so as to enable the Illuminati to overthrow the powers of the Tzars in Russia and turn that country into the stronghold of Atheistic-Communism. The differences stirred up by agentur of the Illuminati between the British and German Empires were to be used to foment this war. After the war ended, Communism was to be built up and used to destroy other governments and weaken religions.

World War Two was to be fomented by using the differences between Fascists and Political Zionists. This war was to be fought so that Naziism would be destroyed and the power of Political Zionism increased so that the sovereign state of Israel could be established in Palestine. During world war two International Communism was to be built up until it equalled in strength that of united Christendom. At this point it was to be contained and kept in check until required for the final social cataclysm. Can any informed person deny Roosevelt and Churchill did not put this policy into effect ?

World War Three is to be fomented by using the differences the agentur of the Illuminati stir up between Political Zionists and the leaders of the Moslem world. The war is to be directed in such a manner that Islam (the Arab World including Mohammedanism) and Political Zionism (including the State of Israel) will destroy themselves while at the same time the remaining nations, once more divided against each other on this issue, will be forced to fight themselves into a state of complete exhaustion physically, mentally, spiritually and economically. Can any unbiased and reasoning person deny that the intrigue now going on in the Near, Middle, and Far East isn’t designed to accomplish this devilish purpose?

On August 15, 1871, Pike told Mazzini that after World War Three is ended, those who aspire to undisputed world domination will provoke the greatest social cataclysm the world has ever known. We quote his own written words (taken from the letter catalogued in the British Museum Library, London, England):

"We shall unleash the Nihilists and Atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will be from that moment without compass (direction), anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer brought finally out in the public view, a manifestation which will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time."

When Mazzini died in 1872, Pike made another Italian revolutionary leader, named Adriano Lemmi, his successor. Lemmi was later succeeded by Lenin and Trotsky. The revolutionary activities of all these men were financed by British, French, German, and American international bankers. The reader must remember that the International Bankers of today, like the Money-Changers of Christ’s day, are only tools or agents of the Illuminati.


Bankers finance wars and revolutions

While the general public has been lead to believe that Communism is a movement of the workers (soviets) to destroy Capitalism, Pawns In The Game proves that both British and American Intelligence Officers obtained authentic documentary evidence which proved that internationalist capitalists operating through their international banking houses had financed both sides in every war and revolution fought since 1776.

There is plenty of documentary evidence to prove that Pike, like Weishaupt, was head of the Luciferian Priesthood in his day. In addition to the letter he wrote Mazzini in 1871, another he wrote to the heads of his Palladian Councils July 14th, 1889 fell into hands other than intended. It was written to explain the Luciferian dogma, concerning worship of Satan and worship of Lucifer. In it, he said in part :

"That which we say to the crowd is ‘we worship God’. But it is the God that one worships without superstition. The religion should be, by all us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine... Yes! Lucifer is God. And unfortunately Adonay (the name given by Luciferians to the God we worship) is God also... for the absolute can only exist as two gods. Thus, the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy: and the true, and pure philosophical religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay: but Lucifer, God of Light, and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay the God of Darkness and Evil."

Propaganda put out by those who direct the Luciferian conspiracy has caused the general public to believe all who oppose Christianity are atheists. This is a deliberate lie circulated to hide the secret plans of the High Priests of the Luciferian Creed who direct the Synagogue of Satan so that the human race still find it impossible to establish on this earth God’s plan for the rule of the universe, as he explained it to our first parents in the Garden of Eden, told in Genesis. The High Priests of the Luciferian Creed work from the darkness. They remain behind the scenes. They keep their identify and true purpose secret, even from the vast majority of those they deceive into doing their will and furthering their secret plans and ambitions.

In 1925 his Eminence Cardinal Caro y Rodriguez, Archbishop of Santiago, Chile, published a book "The Mystery of Freemasonry Unveiled", to expose how the Illuminati, the Satanists, and the Luciferians had imposed a secret society upon a secret society. He produces a great deal of documentary evidence to prove that not even 32nd and 33rd degree Masons know what goes on in the Lodges of the Grand Orient and Pike’s New and Reformed Palladian Rite and the affiliated Lodges of Adoption in which female members of the conspiracy are initiated. On page 108 he quotes the authority Margiotta to prove that before Pike selected Lemmi to succeed Mazzini as Director of the World Revolutionary Movement Lemmi was a rabid and confirmed Satanist. But after he had been selected he was initiated into the Luciferian ideology.


Satan’s goal: the ruin of souls

Learned theologians have stated that Lucifer, Satan, or call the head of the Forces of Evil simply "The Devil", knows he did wrong and knows that he was wrong. He is a pure spirit and therefore indestructible. Knowing he is wrong he still is determined to drag as many souls as possible into hell with him to share his misery. This being a fact our duty is clear: We have to make known the TRUTH in this regard to as many others as quickly as possible so they can avoid the snares and pit-falls set by those who serve the devil’s purpose and penetrate the lies and deceits of those who wander about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Weishaupt’s plot requires :

1. Abolition of ALL ordered national governments.

2. Abolition of inheritance.

3. Abolition of private property.

4. Abolition of patriotism.

5. Abolition of the individual home and family life as the cell from which all civilizations have stemmed.

6. Abolition of ALL religions established and existing so that the Luciferian ideology of totalitarianism may be imposed on mankind.

The headquarters of the conspiracy in the late 1700s was in Frankfurt, Germany. After the Bavarian Government’s exposure in 1786, the High Priests of the Luciferian Creed established their headquarters in Switzerland; since World War Two the headquarters have been in the Harold Pratt Building New York. The Rockefellers have replaced the Rothschilds as far as the manipulation of finances is concerned.

It is our duty to make the people acquainted with the truth. Our purpose should be to put God back into politics so we may establish government in accordance with His Plan for the rule of the universe as explained to us in The Scriptures and by God’s only Son Jesus Christ. Only then will his will be done here as it is in heaven. In my humble opinion, not until this is done will God intervene on our behalf and the words of The Lord’s Prayer be accomplished.

William Guy Carr


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Monday, May 13, 2013

Exclusive: Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference







White House Benghazi Attack Talking Points Edited





By Jonathan Karl
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May 10, 2013 6:33am

When it became clear last fall that the CIA’s now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the documents were put together almost entirely by the intelligence community, but White House documents reviewed by Congress suggest a different story.

ABC News has obtained 12 different versions of the talking points that show they were extensively edited as they evolved from the drafts first written entirely by the CIA to the final version distributed to Congress and to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice before she appeared on five talk shows the Sunday after that attack.




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Related: Read the Full Benghazi Talking Point Revisions

White House emails reviewed by ABC News suggest the edits were made with extensive input from the State Department. The edits included requests from the State Department that references to the Al Qaeda-affiliated group Ansar al-Sharia be deleted as well references to CIA warnings about terrorist threats in Benghazi in the months preceding the attack.

That would appear to directly contradict what White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said about the talking points in November.

“Those talking points originated from the intelligence community. They reflect the IC’s best assessments of what they thought had happened,” Carney told reporters at the White House press briefing on November 28, 2012. “The White House and the State Department have made clear that the single adjustment that was made to those talking points by either of those two institutions were changing the word ‘consulate’ to ‘diplomatic facility’ because ‘consulate’ was inaccurate.”

Summaries of White House and State Department emails — some of which were first published by Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard — show that the State Department had extensive input into the editing of the talking points.

State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland raised specific objections to this paragraph drafted by the CIA in its earlier versions of the talking points:


“The Agency has produced numerous pieces on the threat of extremists linked to al-Qa’ida in Benghazi and eastern Libya. These noted that, since April, there have been at least five other attacks against foreign interests in Benghazi by unidentified assailants, including the June attack against the British Ambassador’s convoy. We cannot rule out the individuals has previously surveilled the U.S. facilities, also contributing to the efficacy of the attacks.”

In an email to officials at the White House and the intelligence agencies, State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland took issue with including that information because it “could be abused by members [of Congress] to beat up the State Department for not paying attention to warnings, so why would we want to feed that either? Concerned …”

The paragraph was entirely deleted.

Like the final version used by Ambassador Rice on the Sunday shows, the CIA’s first drafts said the attack appeared to have been “spontaneously inspired by the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo” but the CIA version went on to say, “That being said, we do know that Islamic extremists with ties to al-Qa’ida participated in the attack.” The draft went on to specifically name the al Qaeda-affiliated group named Ansar al-Sharia.

Related: ABC News’ Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl Answers Your Questions About Benghazi

Once again, Nuland objected to naming the terrorist groups because “we don’t want to prejudice the investigation.”

In response, an NSC staffer coordinating the review of the talking points wrote back to Nuland, “The FBI did not have major concerns with the points and offered only a couple minor suggestions.”

After the talking points were edited slightly to address Nuland’s concerns, she responded that changes did not go far enough.

“These changes don’t resolve all of my issues or those of my buildings leadership,” Nuland wrote.

In an email dated 9/14/12 at 9:34 p.m. — three days after the attack and two days before Ambassador Rice appeared on the Sunday shows – Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes wrote an email saying the State Department’s concerns needed to be addressed.

“We must make sure that the talking points reflect all agency equities, including those of the State Department, and we don’t want to undermine the FBI investigation. We thus will work through the talking points tomorrow morning at the Deputies Committee meeting.”

Related: Diplomat Says Requests For Benghazi Rescue Were Rejected

After that meeting, which took place Saturday morning at the White House, the CIA drafted the final version of the talking points – deleting all references to al Qaeda and to the security warnings in Benghazi prior to the attack.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said none of this contradicts what he said about the talking points because ultimately all versions were actually written and signed-off by the CIA.

“The CIA drafted these talking points and redrafted these talking points,” Carney said. “The fact that there are inputs is always the case in a process like this, but the only edits made by anyone here at the White House were stylistic and nonsubstantive. They corrected the description of the building or the facility in Benghazi from consulate to diplomatic facility and the like. And ultimately, this all has been discussed and reviewed and provided in enormous levels of detail by the administration to Congressional investigators, and the attempt to politicize the talking points, again, is part of an effort to, you know, chase after what isn’t the substance here.”

UPDATE: A source familiar with the White House emails on the Benghazi talking point revisions say that State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland was raising two concerns about the CIA’s first version of talking points, which were going to be sent to Congress: 1) The talking points went further than what she was allowed to say about the attack during her state department briefings; and, 2) she believed the CIA was attempting to exonerate itself at the State Department’s expense by suggesting CIA warnings about the security situation were ignored.

In one email, Nuland asked, why are we suggest Congress “start making assertions to the media [about the al Qaeda connection] that we ourselves are not making because we don’t want to prejudice the investigation?”

One other point: The significant edits – deleting references to al Qaeda and the CIA’s warnings – came after a White House meeting on the Saturday before Ambassador Susan Rice appeared on five Sunday shows. Nuland, a 30-year foreign service veteran who has served under Democratic and Republican Secretaries of State, was not at that meeting and played no direct role in preparing Rice for her interviews.


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Protestant South Becoming a New Catholic Stronghold

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Dixie Catholics credit the strong Southern sense of community, and dialogue with faithful Protestants, with helping to power the Church’s growth there.



by STEPHEN BEALE 05/11/2013 




Courtyard of St. Dominic's Monastery in Linden, Va.

– www.lindenopnuns.org


LINDEN, Va. — In the waves of turbulence that rippled throughout the Catholic Church in the 1970s, the nuns of St. Dominic’s Monastery found themselves forced to leave their longtime home in Wisconsin in search of a new one.

The nuns moved to a temporary residence in Washington, D.C., while looking for a permanent setting conducive to the cloistered, contemplative life they sought to lead. It would be more than two decades before they found one. When they did, it was what may seem a most unlikely place: the rural northeast of Virginia, considered one of the Protestant Bible Belt states of the South.

The story of St. Dominic’s Monastery’s southern move may be the story of U.S. Catholicism. New data shows that some of the fastest growing dioceses in the country are deep in the U.S. South.

The third fastest developing diocese is Atlanta, which saw the number of registered parishioners explode from nearly 322,000 in 2002 to one million in 2012 — an increase of more than twofold, according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. Atlanta also has the largest Eucharistic Congress in the country, with an annual attendance of about 30,000, according to an archdiocesan official.

Atlanta is not alone. Charleston has seen a 50% increase in parishioners over the last decade. Charlotte grew by a third, as did Little Rock. The Diocese of Knoxville, established just 25 years ago, is now the 25th fastest growing in the nation — and would rank near the top if those official figures counted as many as 60,000 unregistered Hispanic congregants, according to a diocesan official.

Dioceses like Knoxville stand in stark contrast to former Catholic strongholds like Boston and Philadelphia where parish consolidations, school closures, and dwindling priests are the norm.

“Instead of us closing parishes and closing schools, we’re doing the opposite. We’re in total growth mode,” said Deacon Sean Smith, chancellor for the Diocese of Knoxville.

When Knoxville was established as a diocese in 1988 it had 37 parishes. It has since added 14, including four mission parishes. It has also expanded three parishes, built a new high school, and opened one middle-elementary school. Meanwhile, the number of parishioners has doubled.



Bountiful Vocations

One telling indicator is vocations to the priesthood. Knoxville expects to have 23 men in graduate seminary next year. Contrast the Archdiocese of Chicago, which has 37 times as many parishioners but only three times as many graduate seminarians next year, at an anticipated enrollment of 70. Boston, which is nearly 30 times the size of Knoxville, will have 60.

“There’s excitement here in Tennessee and I would say in the Southeast in general,” Smith said.

That sentiment is shared by the nuns at St. Dominic’s Monastery, who have found a thriving local Catholic community that boasts nearby Christendom College as another institutional gem.

“We ourselves are astounded by the depth and beauty of the Catholic culture and community that surrounds us,” said one nun, permitted to speak only on the condition of anonymity because of rules governing the cloistered life of the monastery. “We never felt so loved by the surrounding community.” The Southeast does not have a monopoly on exponential growth. Among the top 25 high-growth dioceses, nearly half are in the U.S. Southwest, stretching from Fresno, California, the second-highest ranking diocese, to Laredo, Texas, the first. But there, Hispanic immigration is behind most of the growth, according to Mark Gray, a research associate at the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate.

In the Southeast, however, something different is happening. In a region where churches sit on seemingly every street corner and billboards belt out Bible verses and calls for repentance, local Catholics say they have found fertile ground for the renewal of the Church.

“Our Protestant brothers and sisters have done us a great favor. Talking about faith here in the South is like eating, breathing, and sleeping,” said Randy Hain, a managing partner at Bell Oaks Executive Search in Atlanta and co-founder of The Integrated Catholic Life, an online magazine. “There’s an openness about faith here which makes it easier to be open about your faith if you’re Catholic.”

Smith, who grew up in Colorado, suggested that it is easier for Northern Catholics to take their faith for granted because most of their friends belong to the Church. “It doesn’t really challenge the Catholics there to know their faith as well or be able to explain it clearly,” added Lisa Wheeler, founder of Carmel Communications, a Catholic marketing firm in the Atlanta area.

But in the South, where they are a decided minority in predominantly evangelical Protestant population, Catholics must constantly defend their faith. As a result, they come to cherish it, Smith said.



Streams of Converts

Dialogue with Protestants has produced a steady stream of Catholic converts, who now constitute one of the driving forces of growth in the region, Wheeler said.

When Hain, himself a convert, was received into the Church in 2006, there were 27 members of his confirmation class. His wife’s class, in the same year, had 33. At the time, there were 1,900 registered families his parish, St. Peter Chanel in Roswell, an Atlanta suburb. Now, there are more than 3,000, according to Hain.

Converts do more than just fill pews: they bring enthusiasm and passion for their faith with them into the Church, said Hain and Wheeler, a fellow parishioner at St. Peter Chanel. Such energy is reflected in the breadth of ministries at the parish, which number more than 60—and that’s not counting the many independent ministries run by parishioners.The Integrated Catholic Life is one example of the broad reach of the parish: the other co-founder of the site is a deacon at St. Peter Chanel.

Besides converts, transplants are a second source of growth. In Knoxville, many out-of-state arrivals are known as ‘halfbacks’: people who moved from the cold North to Florida, only to move half-way back, settling in eastern Tennessee, where they can enjoy four seasons, without the cold weather, Smith said. Atlanta has the added allure of being a major transportation hub for business, Wheeler said.

Hispanic immigration is still a factor in regional growth, but it is mentioned more as a secondary contributor than as the leading cause.



Strong Sense of Community

Another potential advantage working favor of the South: a greater sense of community associated with the predominantly rural character of the region, as contrasted with the dense urbanization of many Northern states.

The difference between rural and urban dioceses can be measured in terms of vocations. “I have seen a trend over the last ten years where the most rural dioceses are tending to generate more seminarians per capita than the major rural metropolitan dioceses,” said Father Thomas Baima, the vice rector at Mundelein Seminary in the Chicago area. He says higher-density cities have greater mobility, meaning young people don’t put down roots and make those long-lasting connections to parish communities out of which vocations arise.

Every single state in the U.S. South has a lower population density per square mile than each state along the Boston to D.C. urban corridor, U.S. Census data shows. At the extreme ends, New Jersey has just over 1,195 residents per square mile against 56 in Arkansas, as of the 2010 Census. In the middle, Pennsylvania has nearly 284 residents per square mile while Virginia has just over 202.

Even a large city like Atlanta is more decentralized. Most of the metro population is in the suburbs outside city limits, where communities coalesce around church and school, Hain said.



Lessons for the North

Catholics in the South say their experience holds lessons for their Northern counterparts. Wheeler says Southern hospitality has also rubbed off on local Catholics.

“I think that is something that is missing from many parishes in the North,” Wheeler said. She noted that some of her extended relatives in the Northeast have moved to Protestant churches due to a lack of hospitality in their local parishes.

Hain believes that if Catholics in other areas were as open about their faith as Southerners are, there would be a resurgence in the Church.

“Let’s worry less about offending others,” Hain said. “Let’s worry more about practicing our faith.”

Stephen Beale writes from Providence, Rhode Island.



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Whole Foods mixes up chicken, vegan salads


No illnesses reported; store will issue recall


May 10, 2013
Written by
Associated Press



AUSTIN, TEXAS — Whole Foods Market Inc. said labels on a chicken salad and those on a vegan version were reversed at some of its cold food bars in the Northeast.

The mislabeled salads — a curried chicken salad and a vegan curried “chick’n” salad — were sold in 15 stores in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York, Whole Foods said. In some locations, the company said the salads were sold in the bars where customers can scoop food into containers, which are then weighed at the register. In other locations, it said the salads were displayed in the prepared food sections behind glass. The salads were sold Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Food and Drug Administration noted the vegan salad contains soy, and the curried chicken salad contains egg. It said people who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to soy or eggs run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they eat the salads.

The company, based in Austin, Texas, said no illnesses have been reported.

Libba Letton, a spokeswoman for Whole Foods, said the salads were mislabeled at a company-owned commissary that supplies food to the stores.

She said the mix-up was discovered by an employee in the prepared food section at one of its stores.

Whole Foods was issuing a recall in line with guidelines set by the FDA and planned to post signs in stores Friday alerting customers about the mislabeled salads.


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Judge Rules For Cheerleaders In Bible Banner Suit



by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
May 08, 201310:45 PM


HOUSTON (AP) — A judge ruled Wednesday that cheerleaders at a Southeast Texas high school can display banners emblazoned with Bible verses at football games.

But the ruling might not have settled the issue of whether the banners are protected free speech, according to an attorney for the cheerleaders' school district.

State District Judge Steven Thomas determined the Kountze High School cheerleaders' banners are constitutionally permissible. In the ruling, Thomas determined that no law "prohibits cheerleaders from using religious-themed banners at school sporting events."

The Kountze school district had initially said the banners could not be displayed after receiving a complaint about them in September from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The foundation argued the banners violated the so-called First Amendment Establishment Clause that bars government — or publicly funded school districts in this case — from establishing or endorsing a religion.

Thomas ruled that the establishment clause does not prohibit the use of such religious-themed banners at school sporting events.

"This is a great victory for the cheerleaders and now they're going to be able to have their banners," said Hiram Sasser, a lead attorney for the Liberty Institute, a Plano, Texas-based nonprofit law firm that represented the cheerleaders.

But Thomas Brandt, the school district's attorney, argued that Judge Thomas also granted a school district motion in his ruling that says the district can permit the banners under the establishment clause but is not required to do so. Brandt said the motion also says the banners are the speech of the school, not private speech, so the school has a right to have editorial control of the banners.

Initially, the school district ruled the banners could not be displayed. But after a public meeting in February, the school board of trustees issued a resolution in which it wrote that the district was not required to prohibit messages on school banners that displayed "fleeting expressions of community sentiment solely because the source or origin of such messages is religious." But the trustees said the district retained the right to restrict the content of school banners.

Brandt said while he has yet to talk to the school district about whether or not it will appeal, it may seek some clarification from the judge on his ruling.

But Sasser said there is no ambiguity in the ruling and that the banners are the cheerleaders' protected private speech.

"We won and they didn't," he said, adding that he expects the school district to appeal.

The dispute began during the last football season when the district barred cheerleaders from using run-through banners that displayed religious messages, such as "If God is for us, who can be against us."

In October, Thomas temporarily allowed the cheerleaders to continue displaying the banners pending the lawsuit's outcome. Thomas at the time said the school district's ban on the practice appeared to violate the students' free speech rights. The Liberty Institute had argued the banners' messages were not asking anyone to believe in Christianity or accept the faith.

The cheerleaders in Kountze, located about 95 miles northeast of Houston, were supported by various state officials, including Gov. Rick Perry and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who filed court papers seeking to intervene on their behalf. A Facebook group created after the ban, Support Kountze Kids Faith, has more than 45,000 members.

Abbott praised the court's ruling on Wednesday, calling it a "victory for religious liberties."

Perry in a statement said the cheerleaders "showed great resolve and maturity beyond their years in standing up for their beliefs and constitutional rights."

The Freedom From Religion Foundation's co-president, Annie Laurie Gaylor, was disappointed with the ruling, saying the banners "carry the appearance of school endorsement and favoritism, turning Christians into insiders and non-Christians and nonbelievers into outsiders."

The Anti-Defamation League also criticized the ruling, calling it "misguided" and saying it "flies in the face of clear U.S. Supreme Court and other rulings."

Attorneys for the Kountze school district, in initially advising the superintendent to ban the religious statements on the cheerleaders' banners, argued there have been several precedent-setting rulings by the Supreme Court.

In one of the more well-known cases, the court ruled in 2000 that a practice of allowing student-led prayer ahead of high school football games in Texas' Santa Fe Independent School District violated the Constitution. In 1992, the Supreme Court made a similar ruling in a Rhode Island case that argued a rabbi's prayer at a middle school graduation ceremony also violated the Constitution.


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More Taxes for Struggling Economy? Senate passes Internet Tax


AIM Newswire — May 8, 2013


WASHINGTON – In an unsurprising move, the U.S. Senate voted to pass a bill for taxes for Internet purchasers. In a time of economic slowdown, is this what American consumers want to hear?


American consumers cannot shop for free online anymore and this has caused quite a buzz on Twitter and other social media platforms. The bill, officially named the Marketplace Fairness Act, is opposed by the prominent anti-tax group Americans for Tax Reform and the nonpartisan National Taxpayer’s Union.

The U.S. economy is struggling under Obama’s presidency, with low GDP almost stagnating in addition to rising payroll taxes. Some even worry that the U.S. economy will go back into recession.

The question is whether it can survive a House vote, where Republicans hold a majority. The House Republicans see it as a tax relief, but that did not stop a several Senate Republicans from voting for the tax.

The Republicans that voted for it were:
Lamar Alexander (TN)
Roy Blunt (MO)
John Boozman (AR)
Richard Burr (NC)
Dan Coats (IN)
Johnnie Cochran (MS)
Susan Collins (ME)
Bob Corker (TN)
Mike Enzi (WY)
Deb Fischer (NE)
Rob Portman (OH)
Lindsey Graham (SC)
John Hoeven (ND)
Johnny Isakson (GA)
Mike Johanns (NE)
John McCain (AZ)
Jeff Sessions (AL)
Richard Shelby (AL)
John Thune (SD)
Roger Wicker (MS)


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Benghazi Talking Points Revisions Pushed By State Department

Posted: 05/10/2013 12:49 pm EDT | Updated: 05/11/2013 1:50 pm EDT






http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/10/benghazi-talking-points_n_3253638.html?ir=Politics 


By DONNA CASSATA, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senior State Department officials pressed for changes in the talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used after the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya last September, expressing concerns that Congress might criticize the Obama administration for ignoring warnings of a growing threat in Benghazi.

An interim report by Republicans on five House committees last month had detailed how the talking points were changed, days after the Sept. 11 attack and in the heat of the 2012 presidential campaign. New details about the political concerns and the names of the administration officials who wrote emails concerning the talking points emerged on Friday.

The White House has insisted that it made only stylistic changes to the intelligence agency talking points in which Rice suggested that protests over an anti-Islamic video set off the attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Before the presidential election, the administration said Rice's talking points were based on the best intelligence assessments available in the immediate aftermath of the attack.

But the report and the new details Friday suggest a greater degree of White House and State Department involvement.

The latest developments are certain to add fuel to the politically charged debate over Benghazi. Republicans have suggested that the Obama administration sought to play down the possibility of terrorism during the campaign and has misled the country. A senior administration official reiterated Friday that the talking points were based on intelligence assessments and developed during an interagency process, which included the CIA, officials from the Director of National Intelligence, State Department, FBI and the Justice Department.

The official commented only on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation

Last Sept. 14, two days before Rice's appearance, the CIA's initial draft of the talking points referred to Islamic extremists taking part in the attack in Benghazi, possible links to Islamic extremist group Ansar al-Sharia, a CIA assessment of threats from extremists linked to al-Qaida and a mention of five previous attacks against foreign interests in Benghazi.

A congressional official who reviewed 100 pages of emails and the 12 pages of talking points said former State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland expressed concerns about the talking points, writing that they "could be abused by members of Congress to beat the State Department for not paying attention to agency warnings so why would we want to seed the Hill."

The reference to al-Sharia was deleted, but Nuland wrote later that night, "these don't resolve all my issues and those of my building leadership, they are consulting with NSS," a reference to the National Security staff within the White House.

A meeting of senior officials was convened on Saturday morning after the attack to work on the talking points and they included officials from the White House, State Department and CIA.

Deleted from the final talking points were mention of al-Qaida, the experience of fighters in Libya and Islamic extremists, according to the congressional official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly about the emails that have not been released.


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White House Spokesman Throws State, CIA Under Bus



12:20 PM, MAY 10, 2013 • BY STEPHEN F. HAYES


At a White House press briefing on May 1, Barack Obama spokesman Jay Carney attempted to frame new reporting on the Benghazi attacks as old news by noting that the attacks had taken place "a long time ago." 




Just ten days have passed since he uttered that infelicitous phrase. But it feels like a long time ago.

National Journal’s Ron Fournier takes a close look at the Obama administration’s unraveling spin in a piece today headlined: “Scrubbing the Truth from Benghazi.”

He describes the process that led to the removal of very carefully phrased references to Ansar al Sharia, an al Qaeda linked group operating in Benghazi and responsible for several previous attacks against western targets, including diplomatic facilities. By the time the Obama administration removed those rather generic references to Ansar al Sharia, the original reporting of their involvement had been bolstered by new intelligence, in multiple streams and from a variety of sources.

And yet, as Fournier puts it: “The paragraph was deleted. The truth was scrubbed.”

That’s important. But Fournier, who covered the White House from the front row of the briefing room for years for the Associated Press, picked up on very carefully phrased language that White House spokesman Jay Carney has used in his most recent explanations of the revision of the talking points.

Fournier writes: “In a statement to ABC, Carney notably insulates the West Wing and not the State Department by saying ‘the only edits made by anyone here at the White House were stylistic and nonsubstantive.’”

It’s an important catch. And there’s more.

The White House is also still assigning responsibility for the talking points mess to the CIA and the intelligence community.

Back on October 10, Carney said: “Again, from the beginning, we have provided information based on the facts that we knew as they became available, based on assessments by the intelligence community — not opinions — assessments by the IC, by the intelligence community. And we have been clear all along that this was an ongoing investigation, that as more facts became available we would make you aware of them as appropriate, and we’ve done that.”

Carney said this week: “What we said and what remains true to this day is that the intelligence community drafted and redrafted these points.”

Is Carney’s claim technically true? Did the intelligence community draft and redraft the talking points? Perhaps. The intelligence community certainly drafted the talking points. And internal Obama administration emails suggest that Mike Morell, the deputy director of the CIA, may have been the official to physically make the changes to previous CIA drafts.

But if Carney is suggesting that the only substantive changes came after suggestions from the intelligence officials – and that seems to be the point of his statement – what he is saying is demonstrably untrue. The most significant and substantive changes came after policymakers at the State Department and White House suggested revisions.

The simple fact that reporters are now having to parse the carefully-phrased utterances of top Obama administration officials – including and especially the president’s chief spokesman – means that, yes, Benghazi is a real scandal.

But the problem isn’t primarily Carney. Here’s what Barack Obama said in an appearance on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart on October 18, 2012:

“When a tragic event like this happens on the other side of the world, immediately a whole bunch of intelligence starts coming in and people try to piece together exactly what happened,” he explained. “And what I have always tried to do is to make sure we just get all the facts, figure out what went wrong, and make sure it doesn’t happen again. And we’re still in that process now. But everything we get, every piece of information we get—as we got it—we laid it out for the American people.”

Every piece of information we get – as we got it – we laid out for the American people.

The opposite is closer to the truth. The evidence is clear that senior Obama administration officials, including top advisers to the president and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, participated in a coordinated effort to keep the real story of Benghazi from the American people.

The question is whether the president will do now what he promised he would do – “a long time ago.”

IRS admits targeting conservatives for tax scrutiny in 2012 election




Video: Asked about reports that the IRS unfairly targeted the tax-exempt status of conservative groups during the 2012 election, White House press secretary Jay Carney said the actions were inappropriate.


By Zachary A. Goldfarb and Karen Tumulty, Published: May 10


The Internal Revenue Service on Friday apologized for targeting groups with “tea party” or “patriot” in their names, confirming long-standing accusations by some conservatives that their applications for tax-exempt status were being improperly delayed and scrutinized.


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