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Catholic Power Today By AVRO MANHATTAN LYLE STUART—NEW YORK CATHOLIC POWER TODAY Copyright © 1967 by Avro Manhattan Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 67-15886 Published by Lyle Stuart Inc. Typography by Toper Manufactured in the United States of America Digital Edition Foreword 2021 Though it is fifty-four years since this book was released, there has been no real reform in the Church of Rome, as revealed by the current Royal Commission investigating the sexual abuse of children perpetrated by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church in Australia. It has uncovered a tragic number of badly damaged victims, callous cover-ups and mere transfers of the perpetrators to new locations. In this work, Manhattan exposes the power-hungry mania and lying wonders of the papacy. Edited and Reset by Central Highlands Congregation of God Revised 28th August, 2021 Published by Central Highlands Christian Publications PO Box 236 Creswick Vic 3363 Australia [email protected] chcpublications.net To contemporary man and his search for dignity, truth, and a genuinely peaceful, truly united, world of tomorrow. By the same author: The Catholic Church Against The Twentieth Century The Dollar And The Vatican Latin America And The Vatican The Vatican in World Politics The Vatican In Asia Religion In Russia Spain And The Vatican The Vatican And The U.S.A. The Vatican In Asia Vatican Imperialism In The Twentieth Century Later Works: Religious Terror in Ireland The Vatican Billions Vietnam: Why Did We Go? Vatican’s Holocaust: Religious Massacre in Croatia Table of Contents 1—The Catholic Grand Master Plan of Conquest...........................1 2—The Catholic Church—a Conquering Army on the March......13 3—The Global Catholic Octopus..................................................21 4—Sundry Patterns of Catholic Power in London, Canberra, and Washington....................................................................................40 5—The Pattern of Catholic Power in Catholic Countries.............62 6—Patterns of Catholic Power in the Italian Peninsula................75 7—The Pattern of Catholic Power in Protestant Countries...........87 8—Pattern of Catholic Power in Great Britain and Australia.....102 9—The Pattern of Catholic Promotion of a Catholic America....114 10—Pattern of the Master Church of the U.S.A..........................127 11—Pattern of the Emerging Catholic Totalitarianism in the U.S.A...........................................................................................140 12—The Progress of Fear in the U.S.A.......................................154 13—The Pattern of Catholic Power on a Super-Catholic Island: Malta............................................................................................176 14—The Pattern of Catholic Power in a Non-Christian Country: South Vietnam.............................................................................197 15—The Pattern of Catholic Power in a Super-Catholic Dictatorship: The Independent Catholic State of Croatia............224 16—Like the Fingerprints of God . ..........................................265 1—The Catholic Grand Master Plan of Conquest One day, sometime in the eighteenth century, the attention of a certain Frenchman, François Marie de Arouet, was directed to a case which first shook a town, then France, and finally Europe: the murder of Jean Calas, a Protestant merchant of Toulouse. The Catholic Church had accused Calas of hanging one of his sons to prevent his becoming a Catholic, “as it was the common practice amongst Protestants.” Calas was arrested, and the civil magistrates—on ecclesiastical orders—condemned the old man to the rack, to be broken alive upon the wheel and then to be burned to ashes. This decree was executed on March 9, 1762. F. M. de Arouet dedicated the best part of three years to proving Calas’s complete innocence, which he did. Simultaneously he swore to wage relentless war against a church which was capable of such murderous intolerance. Having coined a slogan, Ecrasez l’infâme, he used it in all his books, articles, letters. His one-man campaign eventually contributed, perhaps more than any other, to the overthrow of Catholic encroachment upon civil authority in France, and, indeed, in most of Europe in the decades to come. François Marie de Arouet’s other name: Voltaire. One day, also in the same century, a certain Roger Williams, while passing through Springfield Green in the North American colonies, saw a youth of fourteen being burned at the stake by the civil magistrates, under orders of the Church of England. Roger Williams swore to fight to the utmost the Protestant church which had enjoined civil authority to enforce her religious tyranny. Voltaire in Europe and Roger Williams in America, by openly revolting against Catholic and Protestant intolerance, had personified the will of the old and new worlds to get rid of all ecclesiastical encroachment upon civil authority. Two hundred years later, almost to the day, the Catholic 2 Catholic Power Today Church’s Fathers, more than two thousand five hundred of them— Abbots, Bishops, Archbishops, Cardinals, Primates, Patriarchs, and the Pope himself—congregated at the Second Vatican Council where they advocated reunion, unity, and even “religious liberty.” Shortly before, the Ecclesiastical Head of the Church of England—preceded by Queen Elizabeth II—had visited the Vatican (the first time an Archbishop of Canterbury had done so since 1395) followed by Calvinist, Lutheran, and other Protestant leaders. Catholics, who up to only a few decades earlier had branded all Protestants and Orthodox “apostates, schismatics and heretics,” now addressed them as “our dear separated brethren”; while the Protestants now called the former “Romanists, Papists and idolatrous image-worshippers,” “our beloved brothers in Christ.” The most active champion of organized Christianity had radically changed, it was said. The Catholic Church at last had turned into a vigorous advocate of the basic tenets of freedom of conscience, of thought, of speech, and of the right of the individual to believe, to think, and to say whatever he liked. It was truly a portent worthy of a cry, for were not these the same churches which, only eight generations before, had tortured and burned at the stake an innocent old gentleman in France and a tender fourteen-year-old youth in North America? Indeed they were. Had they, then, transformed themselves so radically as to be practically no longer the same institutions? Indeed they had not. The spirit which had animated them one thousand or barely two hundred years earlier was still within them, as alive, as potent, and as aggressive as ever. The Protestant Reformation, when still a monolith, was as ruthlessly terroristic as its Alma Mater, the Catholic Church, which went on happily burning Protestants until 1781. Most of the original immigrants to the North American colonies were religious refugees, terrorized by the Churches of Scotland and of England, Catholic Power Today 3 which never hesitated to persecute, imprison, or hang whenever they had a chance. Witness Peter Annet, English writer (died 1769), imprisoned for attacking the authenticity of the Pentateuch; or Thomas Aitkenhead, an Edinburgh student, who, having referred to the Old Testament as “Ezia’s Fables,” was hanged for blasphemy in 1696 at the age of eighteen years. In Europe, torture was still enforced by all the Tribunals of the Holy Inquisition until the last century, the Pope having been forced to abolish it as recently as 1816.1 It was only when established Protestantism fragmented itself into a thousand-and-one conflicting denominations that (its intolerance having weakened) its power was greatly reduced. Since then, the bulk of its members have not only accepted but advocated contemporary liberties. Witness the flourishing multifaceted Protestantism of the United States and its evangelical movements. Because of this, most of the Protestant denominations hailing freedom may be accepted as a genuine contributory factor to the basic democratic principles of modern man. Their acceptance of the Vatican’s call to unity, however, is a different matter, since it jeopardizes, not so much their present, but their future existence. Their eagerness to unite is nothing more nor less than the most concrete demonstration of their monumental ignorance of the true aims of the Catholic Church or of a deliberate attempt on their part (following some incurable attack of ecclesiastical amnesia) at collective self-extinction. They have acted with the same lack of prudence as those rabbits, squirrels, and mice of the field who, having suddenly heard the lion roar “Brethren, let’s unite!” promptly persuaded themselves that the new recruit had miraculously developed a taste 1 The first thing Napoleon did on entering Madrid in 1808 was to abolish the Inquisition. When the Cortes in 1813 declared the Inquisition incompatible with the Constitution, the Vatican protested. Super- Catholic Ferdinand VII restored it in 1814, with the full approval of the Church. The Holy Inquisition was finally suppressed by the Liberals in July, 1834. 4 Catholic Power Today for grass. For the astonishing facts are that the Catholic Church— unlike disintegrating established Protestantism—is expanding in size, prestige, and power. Above all, she is more than ever resolved to fulfill her magnitudinous ambition for the subjugation of anyone outside herself. The pursuit of such an ambition is being carried out, not in secret, but in the open.

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