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Bad Books with Imprimaturs    Bad Books with Imprimaturs R. J. M. I. By The Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, The Grace of the God of the Holy Catholic Church, The Mediation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Good Counsel and Crusher of Heretics, The Protection of Saint Joseph, Patriarch of the Holy Family, The Intercession of Saint Michael the Archangel and the cooperation of Richard Joseph Michael Ibranyi To Jesus through Mary Júdica me, Deus, et discérne causam meam de gente non sancta: ab hómine iníquo, et dolóso érue me Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam 2 “Woe to you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves have not entered in: and those that were entering in, you have hindered. …Some, going astray, are turned aside unto vain babbling: Desiring to be teachers of the law: understanding neither the things they say, nor whereof they affirm.” (Luke 11:52 and 1 Timothy 1:6-7) St. Paul’s Preaching at Ephesus by Eustache le Seur-Alinari “Many of them that believed came, confessing and declaring their deeds. Many of them who had followed curious arts brought together their books and burnt them before all.” (Acts 19:18-19) Original version: 1/2003; Current version: 10/2004 Mary’s Little Remnant 302 East Joffre St. TorC, NM 87901-2878 Website: www.JohnTheBaptist.us (Send for a free catalog) 3 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................ 7 1) BAD BOOKS AND BAD TEACHERS ......................................................................................................... 7 HOW CATHOLICS BECAME CORRUPTED ............................................................................................................... 7 Amos’ Curse ...................................................................................................................................................... 9 ENEMIES PLOTS’ AND INFILTRATIONS ................................................................................................................ 10 Elders of Zion .................................................................................................................................................. 11 The Alta Vendita of the Carbonari................................................................................................................... 12 GOD WARNS OF BAD BOOKS, CLERGY, AND LAYMEN .......................................................................................... 13 St. Nilus (+430) ................................................................................................................................................ 14 Our Lady of Good Fortune 1634 ...................................................................................................................... 14 Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758) ...................................................................................................................... 15 Pope Clement XIII (1758-1769) ....................................................................................................................... 15 Pope Clement XIV (1769-1774) ....................................................................................................................... 16 Pope Pius VI (1775-1799) ................................................................................................................................ 16 Pope Pius VII (1800-1823) ............................................................................................................................... 17 Pope Leo XII (1823-1829) ................................................................................................................................ 18 Pope Pius VIII (1829-1830) .............................................................................................................................. 19 Pope Gregory XVI (1831-1846) ........................................................................................................................ 19 Our Lady of LaSalette, 1846 ............................................................................................................................ 20 Pope Pius IX (1846-1878) ................................................................................................................................ 20 Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) ............................................................................................................................... 23 Popes Cannot Examine Every Book ..................................................................................................... 25 Pope Pius X (1903-1914) ................................................................................................................................. 25 Warnings Continued ............................................................................................................................ 32 Pope Benedict XV (1914-1922) ....................................................................................................................... 32 Pope Pius XII (1939-1951) ............................................................................................................................... 33 Pius XII’s Fall: Evolution and Contraception .................................................................................................... 33 Popes’ Warnings Ignored .................................................................................................................... 35 WHAT TEACHINGS ARE TRUSTWORTHY? ............................................................................................................ 35 2) NON-JUDGMENTALISM: NO ONE CAN BE KNOWN TO BE GUILTY ...................................................... 38 BAD BISHOPS WERE NECESSARY FOR SUCCESS ..................................................................................................... 39 LOSS OF INQUISITION MENTALITY WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE DOWNFALL .............................................................. 41 Inquisition mentality is an integral part of the religion of God’s chosen people ................................. 41 Inquisition mentality and institution make a blessed and strong Catholic State ................................ 44 Propaganda against Holy Inquisitions and Inquisitors ........................................................................ 50 Inquisitors, as well as Doctors, can be bad ..................................................................................................... 50 Good becomes Evil and Evil Good ................................................................................................................... 52 Non-Catholic Inquisitions replaced Catholic ones ........................................................................................... 52 The real question is “Who will be the Inquisitors?” ........................................................................................ 53 Liberalism follows non-Judgmentalism ........................................................................................................... 54 Massive Immorality follows Liberalism ........................................................................................................... 55 Most importantly, Catholics must lose the inquisition mentality ................................................................... 56 OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND ........................................................................................................................... 63 Infamy is out of sight out of mind ....................................................................................................... 63 DIMINISHMENT PLOY .................................................................................................................................... 65 1917 Code of Canon Law diminishes Infamy ....................................................................................... 65 Penance and mortification were diminished ....................................................................................... 65 NON-JUDGMENTALISM’S ERRONEOUS AND HERETICAL THEOLOGIES ....................................................................... 66 VATICAN II CHURCH ENSHRINES NON-JUDGMENTALISM ....................................................................................... 69 TRAITS OF NON-JUDGMENTALISTS .................................................................................................................... 72 5 6 Introduction Important Note: This note regards books with imprimaturs that are not on the extinct “Index of Forbidden Books” and contain notoriously heretical statements, not ones that can be given an orthodox interpretation. Enemies of the Catholic Church have been known to tamper with the Catholics’ written or oral words by injecting heresy into them. They alter words by either additions or deletions. Being the enemies have more power than ever before, it logically follows that they have corrupted many good Catholic books with their heresies. Therefore, regarding bad books listed by me, a further investigation is necessary to see if there is notorious heresy in the authors’ original texts. Until then and if it can be proven that an author taught the orthodox position elsewhere, there is a strong suspicion that the heretical text attributed to him was added by someone else; thus, he should be given the benefit of the doubt. However, others must still
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