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Rome and the European Union

By Michael de Semlyen and Richard Bennett

 

Dear Friend,

 

The Vatican has been the most powerful institution in Europe, and although its influence declined at the time of the Reformation it has made a significant recovery in the past two centuries. The Protestant nations of Europe that were religiously, politically and economically freed from a totalitarian Roman Church seem now to be blindly returning to her yoke.

The Vatican Bank's tax exempt status in Italy has made it possible for her to manipulate many of the largest multi-national corporations This influence is however as nothing when compared with her power in Europe and in the world of politics and religion. A Jesuit priest writing in 'Inside the Vatican' stated, "Despite the importance of the papacy for the Catholic church and its prominent role in international affairs, its internal workings are little known to Catholics, to world leaders, or to the world at large."(*)

 

This lack of knowledge is particularly evident when it comes to the role the Vatican is playing in the making of the EU. If the Protestant nations of Europe are to remain free, true believers on both sides of the Atlantic must address the issue of Rome and the EU and take it to our God in prayer. The alternative may well prove to be the return of the Inquisition.

 

It is the authors' desire that this study of one of the most powerful institutions in the world today be carefully examined. Our purpose is to sound the alarm and to stimulate others to do so too.

Kindly study and comment on the article. Please forward the article to others, and place on your WebPage. The paper has already published by Christian Watch in the UK. John Robbins of Trinity Foundation is about to publish it in his Trinity Foundation newsletter (www.trinityfoundation.org).

 

Yours with deep concern for the New Europe as it is being formed,

Richard Bennett and Michael de Semlyen

 

(*) Inside the Vatican : The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church, by Thomas J. Reese, Harvard University Press, 1996, 4

 

 

Papal Rome and the European Union

 

Papal Rome is widely respected and admired by the world. She is seen as well organised, successful and influential, as well as dignified and authoritative. The aura of uncritical acclaim around the person of successive popes is unique to the Church of Rome. No other global institution has it. Her pronouncements on moral issues carry great weight. So well regarded is the Papacy today that the acceptance of her extends even to Evangelicals, most of whom have ceased to question her doctrine.

 

Why then should we take a position contrary to this avalanche of present-day approval? We do so because we are commanded by the Lord God to proclaim His truth and His warnings. For all is not at all as it seems. We believe that the late great British preacher Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones was correct when he proclaimed that "the Roman Catholic Church is a counterfeit and a sham; it represents prostitution of the worst and most diabolical kind...It binds the souls of its people absolutely, just as Communism and Nazism did, and it is itself a totalitarian system."[1]

 

 

Papal Pronouncements on Europe

 

On August 31st 2003, Pope John Paul II entrusted the future of the new Europe to the Virgin Mary. In the words of the Catholic news agency Zenit,

 

"He placed Europe in Mary's hands, so that it would 'become a symphony of nations committed to building together the civilization of love and peace.' Last Sunday, the Holy Father urged that the final draft of the European Constitution should recognize explicitly the Christian roots of the continent, as they constitute a 'guarantee of a future.'"[2]

 

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