SAINTS
FROM HELL
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INTRODUCTION
The bizarre Catholic practice of honouring saints has aided that religion to have such tremendous clout over the world because it offers divine beings to its audience which they can identify with. The lack of saints in Protestantism has led to that faith not being as successful as Catholicism.
The Church declares that somebody is a saint through a process called canonisation. Canonisation does not make anybody a saint. It only recognises them as a saint.
Everything about saint-worship smacks of ignorance and superstition. The whole way saints are produced smacks of tremendous dishonesty and the pious fraud involved is astounding in its daring and testifies to the irrationality that reigns over the world. The Church has lied about evil people and made saints of them. In some branches of Catholicism, Pontius Pilate who Christians believe slew their nebulous Jesus is honoured as a saint along with his wife, Claudia Procula!
The Catholics believe the saints help them with their prayers. But they claim to believe that it is really God who helps and not the saints. So why pray to the saints then? Why pray, "Mary be thou my salvation!" instead of praying, "God hear the prayers of Mary for me to save me." The reason is because you are satisfying your desire for a new deity - Mary!
FRAUDULENT
SAINTS
St Maria Maddalena De’ Pazzi
who was born in 1566 in
St Veronica Guilani
was caught raiding the larder too though she claimed to be fasting by virtue of
a miracle. But this did not stop the
Church making a saint of her. The excuse
given was that it was a demon in her form that was seen gorging down food in
the kitchen (ibid page 37). What point would there be in God doing a miracle
when he is going to let a demon do that for then you end up guessing that the miracle
was true which spoils the whole point of doing the miracle. She was a stigmatist
too which indicates how miraculous her wounds were. Bizarrely, she prayed that the wounds would
become invisible to prevent the bishop and other examining them for it was so
painful (page 139, The Bleeding Mind).
What use would an invisible miracle be to other people and God isn’t
going to do a miracle just for her. When
she wanted to keep the wounds why should she have minded the bishop hurting her
for they couldn’t have been any sorer anyway.
She hinted that she was faking her wounds.
Blessed Elizabeth of Reute who died in 1420 was another stigmatist
who claimed to have lived for years without any food though food had been found
under her bed (page 37, From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls). Again, it was assumed the Devil put it
there. Saints who can live for years
without food, in many cases living on the consecrated wafer at Mass alone for
years, are shown to be less convincing when there are several cases of people
like Barbara Kremers from Germany who were eventually
caught though everybody was sure they were for real for they had been watched
continuously to see if they were eating on the sly and had done nothing
suspicious.
Another indication of fraud is
the fact that tiredness, constipation and sickness due to the fasting was very
frequent (page 220, From Fasting
Saints to Anorexic Girls). You
would not expect that with a real miracle.
Yet another is the fact that many
anorexics have died believing they had the miracle of living without food
performed by the Holy Spirit on their bodies so the fruits of faith in this
miracle, the miracle of inedia, are diabolical to say
the least. When the Church says that
only human credence can be attached to such miracles for it is not certain they
are from God it is clear that it is a sin for inediacs
to refuse food and take the risk.
David Blaine was enclosed for 44
days in a glass case above London in 2003 and was under constant camera
surveillance to verify that he had not eaten in that entire period. He did not show any physical change such as
getting thinner until much later on in the stunt. He did so well that it was impossible to
believe he was not eating but he wasn’t as urine tests verified. He himself says there was nothing psychic or
supernatural about his stunt. When a
magician could do that why couldn’t a Catholic saint be using discipline and
trickery as well?
When long and physical wonders
like inedia and stigmata are so dubious though they
should be more easily verifiable than visionaries and that ilk it bodes far
worse for the latter. We should be
treble suspicious where they are concerned.
Nobody reporting these wonders should be canonised.
Saint Don Bosco said, “There will be chaos in the Church. Tranquillity will not return until the Pope succeeds in anchoring the boat of Peter between the Twin Pillars of Eucharist Devotion and devotion to Our Lady. This will come about one year before the end of the century.” (The Thunder of Justice. Flynn Ted and Mary, MaxKol Communications, Inc. Sterling (VA), 1993, p. A213). This prophecy by the Catholic saint Don Bosco did not come to pass when he said it would. Hence, he is a false prophet, yet he is still a Roman Catholic saint. The Church makes the excuse that the prophecy is conditional. But a date was given. God may know what will happen if people do x or don't do x but he cannot know the time or year. God cannot can only make clever guesses about what will happen in a future that will not take place.
BREAKING
FAITH
The excellent book by John Cornwell, Breaking Faith, needs to be read by
everybody interested in the subject of ridiculous and false canonisations. Its fourteenth chapter, The Science and
Politics of Saints, tells us a lot. It
tackles the alleged holiness of some of those saints and because the Church
requires miracles attributable to the intercession of the person before the
person can become a saint these are put under scrutiny as well.
The first “saint” in for a slating is Saint Simon Stylites
who sat on top of a pillar sixty feet tall for twenty long years. This lunatic is presented as an example of
Christian behaviour despite the fact that he had no clothes on the entire
time!
The book mentions the miracle
when a young man fell from a high building and should have been killed or very
seriously injured but just had grazes as the miracle accepted by the Church for
the canonisation of Juan Diego the fictitious seer of the blessed virgin of Guadulupe. The pope
canonised the seer on account of this miracle for the lad’s mother had invoked
Juan the moment the lad had fallen out.
Had there been a real miracle there would have been no grazes. Are we to believe that God can’t do miracles
properly? The event is inexplicable but
everything inexplicable doesn’t have to be a miracle or supernatural. The mother was probably lying that she said
she invoked Juan. When things like that
happen you will automatically invoke God, Jesus or Mary and not some obscure
person who isn’t a saint. You will
invoke the highest authority that comes to mind in that moment of terror. And wouldn’t it be dangerous to invoke
somebody who might not be a saint in such a circumstance? Better to invoke somebody who is a saint and
who certainly can do a miracle. If this
is a miracle then God doesn’t mind people being reckless!
The book says the doctors only
certify to the
The book informs us that the
Cornwell found that if you want
to check out the reasoning and research that led the Church to declare certain
healings to be miracles both the doctors and the Church hide behind
confidentiality and putting the records out of reach. Canonisation and beatification processes are
secret (page 234). He went to see Monsignor
Michele di Ruberto who
takes care of the medical scrutiny of reported miraculous healings who promised
to let him see before and after x ray pictures of a child that supposedly grew
legs and feet over a few weeks but the priest made excuses for not producing it
though he was asked for it several times.
He had no intention of keeping his promise. He didn’t even offer an alternative. Small wonder when the miracle wasn’t exactly
instant. It might indicate some unknown
power of healing but it doesn’t amount to a miracle! A perfect God does miracles perfectly.
Incredibly, Father Cyprian
Michael Tansi, was beatified by the pope, after and
on account of the disappearance of a huge cancerous tumour afflicting a young
woman who touched Tansi’s coffin and who believed the
tumour then disappeared, despite the facts.
The doctors investigating this did say the tumour going away was
inexplicable but they didn’t say the cancer had entirely gone. What they declared was that it was almost a
total reduction in growth. Two and a
half years later a small growth was found to be what was left of the big
tumour. Also the documentation proved
that the lady never had cancer, it was a benign tumour.
The long space between the alleged cure and the specialist examining her
makes the miracle suspicious.
Father Maximilan
Kolbe who was made a saint by John Paul II was believed to be an antisemitist before the Second World War. The Church ignored the fact that St Edith
Stein who was canonised because she was a martyr for the faith at Nazi hands
didn’t die for the faith at all but for her Jewish origin.
Pope John Paul II beatified
Jacinta and Francisco the little visionaries of
The Pope in Winter,
says that John Paul II canonised St Josemaria Escriva on the basis of a report that was tailored to make
this man who was harsh, vain, ill-tempered, and even a critic of popes, look
like the perfect papal puppy (page 107).
This saint founded the sinister Opus Dei.
John Paul himself will be a saint someday but we read of his corruption on page 37 of THE POWER AND THE GLORY, Inside the Dark Heart of John Paul II's Vatican, David Yallop, Constable, London, 2007.
DUBIOUS SAINTS
St John Mary Vianney the patron saint of parish
priests is one of Catholicism’s best-known saints. He ascribed the miracles that are now
attributed to him to St Philomena (page 77, Church and Infallibility). He should be taken at his word for he would
know best. The trouble is that it became
so clear that this child-martyr saint never existed that the Church recently
dropped her from the list of saints though Leo XII made her a saint and Pius XI
created a Mass in her honour (another warning that the Church approval for a
cult be it based on a saint or an apparition is not necessarily well-founded). It is not so keen however to see his miracles
as satanic fakes or at least as evidence that miracles cannot prove any
religious thesis which would be the logical conclusion. It uses them as proof that Vianney was a saint.
St Monica, the mother of St Augustine told him on her deathbed, "This body of mine, lay it just anywhere. Let not the care of it in any way disturb you. I request one thing only of you, that you would remember me at the altar of God no matter where you be" (page 254, THE FAITH OF OUR FATHERS, James Cardinal Gibbons, Forty Ninth Edition, John Murphy and Co Publishers, Baltimore, London, New York, 1897 (TAN Books keep this book in print). Clearly she was saying faith comes before doing right on earth such as burying the dead!
The pope’s schedule to canonise
Isabella of Spain in 1992 had to be halted.
Had it not been for Jewish and Muslim protests, this evil woman would
have been made a saint though she drove Jews and Muslims out of Spain and
established the Spanish Inquisition.
There was no stopping of the 1987
canonisation of Fr Junipero Serra
who was a member of the Spanish Inquisition.
He started the Catholic missions in California. He deployed baptism as a means of enslaving
the Indians who were treated like dirt (page 155, All Roads Lead to Rome?).
St Augustine of Hippo advocated converting
heretics and Donatists by coercion. He denied that God would be so evil as to
predestine people to eternal damnation and yet he inconsistently claimed that
God predestines some not all to everlasting life which
amounts to saying the same thing. This
dollop of hypocrisy and hatred and blasphemy was at the root of his theology
and his spiritual life which shows that if he is a saint Karl Marx has more
right to be one. Augustine believed that
the doctrine he believed as a Manichaean that evil was a real thing which
proved there had to be a bad God and a good one was wrong for evil was just the
absence of good and not a power. The man
was saying then that God was not doing wrong by making poisonous snakes for
evil is just a falling short of good! He
was a major promoter of the lie that you love the sin and hate the sin as if to
say that an act is hateful is not the same thing as to say the person that
freely creates the act is not though it clearly is. All the saints, miracles and apparitions of
the Catholic support this lie for it is a bedrock of the Church and to support
the Church is to support it.
St Alphonsus
De Ligouri, a bishop who founded the Redemptorists, was notorious for wresting the Bible out of
context to fool his naïve flock. For
example, he said once that King David stated in Psalm 20:10 that the bodies of
the damned will be like furnaces of fire (page 91, Sermons of St Alphonsus Liguori) though
there is no evidence that the Psalm had Hell in mind at all. Countless examples could be given. He also interpreted Ecclesiastes 7:19 as
saying the vengeance on the wicked will be worms and fire as referring to Hell
(page 90) which is out of context for never does the Old Testament mention the
everlasting burning Hell of the Christians.
The man who twists the word of God would twist anything.
St Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897) was a Carmelite nun who was canonised
in 1925. She is nicknamed The Little
Flower. Her book, Story of a Soul, is
the reason for the fame she has and she has been proclaimed patroness of
missionaries even though she never worked as a missionary. She boasted contradicting the Bible which
says that everybody sins that she never committed even a venial sin since she
was three. She was no saint. Yet her autobiography speaks of her terrible
depressions and fits of crying and her temptation to commit suicide due to her
conviction that she would never get into Heaven. Her spirituality did this to her and we are
led to believe that this was not sinful!
Of course if sin is possible it would have to be. Her example to the world is worrying. Life comes first and it is better to be a
sinner in the world than a suicidal nun than to take the risk of a mental or
spiritual breakdown that may result in suicide.
Her appeal lies in her detailing how she struggled against
temptation. She had very human
temptations which she claimed to have resisted.
She boasted that friendship based on affection though she had a very
affectionate nature was something she avoided for she was bad at attracting
friends and that affection of this kind for others was a poison. She said that feelings for others are always
bad for they block or reduce one’s intimate union with God (Autobiography of
a Saint, Translated by Ronald Knox, 1:13).
She wrote, “Okay then, okay,
long for death. But death will make
nonsense of your hopes. It will bring
you the darkest night of all, mere non-existence”. Though this madam said she believed in life
after death and in divine providence, the doctrine that God always looks after
you even when it seems he has left you, she clearly did not. Death according to Christianity is the
gateway to a better life and does not make nonsense of your hopes. Your hopes should be according to
Christianity to serve God as if he were the only living being in existence and
others for his sake and not their own and to live with him as a servant
forever. Since only the perfect get into
Heaven, according to Roman Catholicism, then death cannot be said to make
nonsense of your hopes but to be the fulfilment of your hopes. And death does not take you into night but to
the light of God. The Church says Teresa
meant that you cease to exist on earth when you die and in this sense death is
the darkest night of all which does not deny the view that the soul goes to
Heaven and goes to the brightest day of all.
The girl is talking about what death does to your hopes so the Church is
pretending the context does not exist.
Death is the night of your hopes and it cannot be that if your soul goes
to Heaven for then your hopes still exist for you still exist and they are
fulfilled in Heaven.
She was only canonised as an example for people to follow of how obedience to Rome’s interpretation of the gospel should be maintained no matter what and that normality should be despised. She was another pawn in papal power games.
Saint Nicholas Carruti of Tolentine (1245-1305) was an Augustinian priest. The big devotion of his life was to pray for the souls in Purgatory. His fasts were so long that he ended up getting visions of the dead. His friends said these visions were caused by these long fasts. The Church through Pope Leo XIII canonised this man in 1884 despite knowing that somebody who starves themselves until they hallucinate is not a good role model for believers. It gives the message that such behaviour is sanctioned by God.
On one occasion, Nicholas heard the voice of a dead friar calling upon him to celebrate Mass for seven days for him and other souls in Purgatory so that they would be released. Upon the completion of the seven days, the friar spoke to Nicholas and thanked him for getting himself and a large number of souls out of Purgatory with his observance of the request. Nicholas was saying Mass anyway every day so the request makes little sense. Nicholas made all his prayers for the souls. Nicholas did not have the right to decide that his experience was real. Many people have revelations that contradict the revelations of others. The friar might have went to Hell or to Heaven. If he went to Heaven and Nicholas thought he was in Purgatory then Nicholas was demeaning and slandering him. And Nicholas saying that the friar and a large company of others got release because of his paltry seven Masses is just Nicholas boasting that his prayers were better than the prayers and Masses of other priests. It seems monstrous to suggest that if prayer is acceptable, that praying for the souls all the time is a great thing. Why assume there is a Purgatory where people suffer when most people don't believe in it and it has no credibility? Why not pray for the suffering you see every day on the streets and in the world instead? Put reality first.
There is a bigger holocaust today in the world than abortion. That is the concentration camps we create to cruelly raise animals and fatten them with no regard for their happiness so that we can kill them cruelly for food. We buy meat in supermarkets of animals that have been treated this way. The saints did that too. St Josemaria Escriva and his Opus Dei did that and yet he is a saint. If that is not proof that we should be sceptical about the miracles worked by these monstrous saints and their canonisations then what is? The God that declares them saints is to be reviled.
Link: John Paul 2 makes a fake saint http://www.odan.org/tw_opposition_to_canonization.htm
CONCLUSION
Making saints is
a business that is rife with fraud. It
makes money for the Church and makes good politics in Church politics. Many of the saints were bad news. Rather than being icons of human greatness
they are icons of how easily the Church can pull on peoples’ heart strings and
exploit them.
BOOKS CONSULTED
ALL ROADS LEAD TO
ROME, Michael de Semlyen, Dorchester House
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CHRISTIAN ORDER Vol 39 Number 1 Simon Clency Mariapa, Editorial Office,
COUNTERFEIT
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FROM FASTING
SAINTS TO ANOREXIC GIRLS, Walter Vandereycken and Ron
van Deth, Athlone Press,
London, 1996
MAKING SAINTS,
Kenneth K Woodward, Chatto & Windus,
London, 1991
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ROMAN CATHOLICISM, Ed by Michael de la Bedoyere,
Constable, London, 1964
POPE FICTION,
Patrick Madrid, Basilica Press, San Diego, California, 1999
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E Kenny BD, Church of Ireland Printing, Co Dublin, 1939
SERMONS OF ST ALPHONSUS LIGUORI, Tan Books,
Illinois, 1982
THE BANNER OF THE
TRUTH IN
THE GOSPEL
ACCORDING TO WOMAN, Karen Armstrong, Pan Books,
THE GREAT MEANS
OF SALVATION AND PERFECTION, St Alphonsus De Ligouri, Redemptorist Fathers,
THE LEGENDS OF
THE SAINTS, by Hippolyde Delehaye,
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POSITION, Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, Christopher Hitchens,
Verso, London, 1995
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WINTER, John Cornwell, Viking,
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AND ROMAN CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENTS, Rev John A F Gregg, BD, APCK,
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Peter de Rosa, Corgi, London, 1995
THE WWW
The following two
sites show just what a liar Mother Teresa was and her callous heart is laid
bare. They show the deceit of Pope John
Paul II who was eager to make a saint of her.
OPEN LETTER TO
MOTHER TERESA, Aroup Chaterjee
http://website.lineone.net/~bajuu/chatlet.htm
MOTHER TERESA THE
FINAL VERDICT Aroup Chaterjee
http://www.meteorbooks.com/index.html
This fascinating book reveals shockers such as that the pope has beatified Archbishop Stepinac of Zagreb who stood idly by as Jews and Communists were hounded to their deaths and the notorious fascist Cardinal Schuster of Milan. THE POWER AND THE GLORY, Inside the Dark Heart of John Paul II's Vatican, David Yallop, Constable, London, 2007 page 362 shows that there is no record or evidence that Stepinac did anything to stop the priests and religious under his authority who were part of efforts to force people into conversion to the Church or die. The most senior Ustashi war criminals who operated this scheme were protected by the Vatican until 1947 (page 363). The Vatican ratline for war criminals enabled 30,000 plus to escape (page 364). Stepinac is quoted as giving an defence of his evil actions that amounted to saying he should be excused for he was only obeying orders (page 364).
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