Rome and the European Union

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The official teaching of Rome makes clear that this statement concerning "the Christian roots of the continent" is a facade. When the Pope or his Church use the term "Christian" they mean "Roman Catholic". A recent official decree of Rome condemns "the tendency to read and to interpret Sacred Scripture outside the Tradition and Magisterium of the Church."[3] Rome officially proclaims that the Christian Church of Christ is the Catholic Church. In her decree she states,

 

"Therefore, there exists a single Church of Christ, which subsists in the Catholic Church, governed by the Successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him."[4]

 

Just as the Nazis declared non-Aryans to be non-humans, so now the Church of Rome declares other churches to be non-churches. Her official words are,

 

"the ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery, are not Churches in the proper sense..."[5]

 

In the same document, Dominus Iesus (September 5th 2000), footnote 51 refers to a decree which states,

"We declare, say, define, and proclaim to every human creature that they by necessity for salvation are entirely subject to the Roman Pontiff."[6]

 

The mind of Rome is thus expressed in her official decrees. Once the Protestant nations are committed to the emerging European superstate and its Constitution, the Vatican's plan to once again "Christianize" the European Union will be implemented. As described by the London Sunday Telegraph, "The Pope is calmly preparing to assume the mantle which he solemnly believes to be his Divine Right - that of new Holy Roman Emperor, reigning from the Urals to the Atlantic."[7]

 

 

The Vatican as a "Unique Contribution" to the EU

 

The EU already has most of the attributes needed for nationhood. It has a passport, a flag, a single currency and an anthem. It is also drawing up in its constitution the further characteristics of nationhood such as a president, international ambassadors and a foreign secretary. The Vatican carefully gives soul to all of this by claiming that this is "a unique contribution to the building up of a Europe open to the world". The Pope in his Ecclesia in Europa states,

 

"One and universal, yet present in the multiplicity of the Particular Churches, the Catholic Church can offer a unique contribution to the building up of a Europe open to the world. The Catholic Church in fact provides a model of essential unity in a diversity of cultural expressions, a consciousness of membership in a universal community which is rooted in but not confined to local communities, and a sense of what unites beyond all that divides."[8]

 

"The Particular Churches in Europe are not simple agencies or private organizations. Rather, they carry out their work with a specific institutional dimension that merits legal recognition, in full respect for just systems of civil legislation."[9]

 

"Particular Churches in Europe" is simply a pretense. The Vatican views itself as the Particular Church, and officially states,

 

"The Catholic faithful are required to profess that there is an historical continuity - rooted in the apostolic succession - between the Church founded by Christ and the Catholic Church."[10]

 

From the decrees published it is clear that, apart from the Church of Rome establishing herself as the "unique contribution to the building up of a Europe open to the world", she claims for herself "legal recognition" in accord with her own "civil legislation". This has been the basis of the Vatican's political manipulation over the centuries. While Rome carefully prepares her own legal place, she will tolerate no rivals - "the ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate are not Churches in the proper sense."[11] Most certainly they are not to be included as part of the "unique contribution to the building up of a Europe open to the world"!

 

As author Adrian Hilton has warned in a recent article in The Spectator,

 

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