The following extracts are from authoritative works by Catholic dignitaries concerning the title and position of their leader.

"All the names which are attributed to Christ in Scripture, implying His supremacy over the church, are also attributed to the Pope." Bellamin, "On the Authority of Councils," book 2, Chapter 17.

"For thou art the shepherd, thou are the physician, thou art the director, thou art the husbandman, finally thou art another God on earth." Labbe and Cossart's "History of the Councils," Vol. XIV, Col. 109.

For the title "Lord God the Pope," see a gloss on the Extravagantes of Pope John XXII, title 14, chapter 4, Declaramus.

In an Antwerp edition of the Extravagantes, the words, "Dominum Deum Nostrum Papam" (Our Lord God the Pope.") occur in column 153. In a Paris edition, they occur in column 140.

Hence the Pope is crowned with a triple crown, as king of heaven, and earth, and purgatory." Prompta Bibliotheca," Feraris, Vol. VI, pg. 26, article "Papa."

In a passage which is included in the Roman Catholic Canon Law, Pope Innocent III declares that the Roman pontiff is "the vicegerent upon earth, not of a mere man, but of very God;" and in a gloss on the passage it is explained that this is because he is the vicegerent of Christ, Who is "very God and very man." See Decretales Domini Gregorii Papae IX (Decretals of the Lord Pope Gregory IX), liberi, de translatione Episcoporum, (on the transference of Bishops), title 7, chapter 3; Corpus Juris Canonice (2nd Leipzig ed., 188 1), Col. 99; (Paris, 1612), tom. 2, Decretales, Col. 205.

THE BEAST SAYS HE IS PERFECT, INFALLIBLE, THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE

Among the twenty-seven propositions known as the "Dictates of Hildebrand" (under the name of Pope Gregory VII) occur the following:
" 2. That the Roman pontiff alone is justly styled universal.
" 6. That no person ... may live under the same roof with one excommunicated by the Pope.
" 9. That all princes should kiss his feet only.
"19. That be can be judged by no one.
"22. That the Roman Church never erred, nor will it, according to the scripture, ever err.
"27. That be can absolve subjects from their allegiance to unrighteous rulers."

In Clark's Commentary on Daniel 7:25, it says: " They have assumed infallibility, which belongs only to God They profess to forgive sin, which belongs only to God."

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APPENDIX 4

 

THE BEAST FORBADE THE BIBLE

 

(NOW, HE FORBIDS THE BIBLE BY SAYING "YOU CAN'T JUST READ IT, WE MUST TELL YOU WHAT IT SAYS..."
In the Council of Toulouse, the church leaders ruled: "We prohibit laymen possessing copies of the Old and New Testament ... We forbid them most severely to have the above books in the popular vernacular." "'The lords of the districts shall carefully seek out the heretics in dwellings, hovels, and forests, and even their underground retreats shall be entirely wiped out." Council Tolosanum, Pope Gregory IX, Anno. Chr. 1229.

The church Council of Tarragona ruled that: "No one may possess the books of the Old and New Testaments in the Romance language, and if anyone possesses them he must turn them over to the local bishop within eight days after the promulgation of this decree, so that they may be burned." D. Lortsch, Histoire de la Bible en France, 1910, p. 14.

After the Bible societies were formed they were classed with Communism in an amazing decree. On December 8, 1866, Pope Pius IX, in his encyclical Quanta Cura issued the following statement: "Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means."

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