In 1870, Pope Pius IX was the most HATED man in Italy. In July 1870, he was declared infallible by Vatican Council I, and in September, war broke out between France and Prussia. The French troops upholding the last remnants of the Pope's temporal power had to be withdrawn to oppose the invading Prussian soldiers. The Italians rushed into Rome and proclaimed the United Kingdom of Italy with Victor Emmanuel as king.
Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan 2 of the Pope's boys were already in this country and they began to send millions of dollars to the Italian government to persuade them to let the Pope stay:
Multi-millionaire Roman Catholics like John D. Rockefeller and J. P. (Pontifex Maximus) Morgan began to send millions to the Italian Government to persuade them to let the Pope stay!! In 1913, the Federal Reserve or 3rd Bank of the U.S. was formed by these super-monopolists. Warburg (war bucks), Morgan, Rockefeller, Aldrich, Strong, Wilson etc., etc., were some of the names that secretly foisted this Bank on the U.S. Great Contenders Hall of Fame. While Rome was busy undermining our freedoms and seeking to take over North Cabotia, the God of Israel was not asleep. He was raising up his men and women to defend the Protestant Christian Faith from its deadly rival. Here are a few of the Statesmen, writers, lecturers, that preserved liberty during this titanic struggle:
The Presidential Election of 1928.
New York Governor Alfred E. Smith (1873 - 1944). Al Smith was the Roman Hierarchy's candidate for President in 1928. He was from the lower East Side of New York City. His grandfather came to the U.S. from Italy in 1844 and he probably heard Professor Gavazzi preach in 1854. His grandmother was from Co. Westmeath in Ireland.
Al Smith (center) and the other Cardinals on the steps of City Hall in 1926. Al was completely controlled by Rome and would have restored the Pope's temporal power by the use of American arms and money. The Rockefellers, Morgans, big business, Wall St., beer barons, liquor kings and the Chairman of General Motors Corporation John Jacob Raskob, etc., etc, were all for Al Smith. Money was no object. However the Lord of God of Israel was not sleeping this time either. He raised up an army of millions of loyal Americans armed only with the Bible and the Constitution and Al Smith was soundly defeated by Herbert Hoover. Smith did not even win his own State of New York!! |
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Clark home in Milan, Illinois. |
Clark home after the fire in Jan. 1929. |
Roman Catholics burned Mr. Clark's house to the ground on Jan. 1929. All its contents including thousands of very rare volumes were destroyed.
The Lateran Treaty.
In Feb. 1929, the Vatican signed the Lateran Treaty with Mussolini granting the Vatican 110 acres to be know as Vatican City State. This was all they could hope for with the loss of the American election. It was a very poor compromise as it did not give the Vatican their own airport and access to the sea. Everything passing into Vatican City State had to go through Italian customs.
Mussolini signs the Lateran Pact of 1929, which brought into being Vatican City State.
Wall St. crash of 1929.
The 2nd act of revenge was the Wall St. crash of Oct. 1929. Rome planned to destroy the American economy and ruin small publishers like Mr. Clark. Before the Crash there were thousands of such publishers but the Great Depression caused most of them to close.
Confiscation of gold in 1933.
The 3rd major act of revenge was the confiscation of gold in 1933. Americans were ordered by President Roosevelt to turn in their gold to the government at $20 an ounce and it was soon revalued to $33.00 an ounce!!
The Rise of Hitler in Germany
How the Popes became Temporal Monarchs
After the fall of the Western part of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D., Western Europe was invaded by many barbarian tribes e.g. Franks, Huns, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Burgundians, Ango-Saxons, Lombards, etc., etc. Eventually the nations of modern Europe grew out of these tribes.
3 of those tribes, Vandals, Visigoths, Ostrogoths were uprooted or plucked up by the roots to make way for the Papal States. These wars lasted for hundreds of years and blood flowed in torrents.
In 507, Franks under Clovis I defeat and slay Visigothic King Alaric II at Vouillé. Visigoths lose most of their possessions in Gaul, including Aquitaine.
552 Emperor Justinian I sends large army under Narses to confront Totila, and Totila is killed in battle near Taginae, in the Apennines west of Ancona. This ended the Ostrogoths as a culture.
In 533, the Vandals were finally defeated by Eastern Emperor Justinian and his General Belisarius.
Eventually Pepin and Charlemagne gave the lands in Central Italy to the Popes which they usurped until the 19th century.
| The Popes shed rivers of blood to acquire the Papal States!! |
| The Popes shed rivers of blood to maintain their States during the Dark Ages!! |
| The Popes shed rivers of blood to reconquer the lost States during the 20th century!! |
St. Paul told the Christians at Rome to obey the government!!
"Let EVERY soul be subject to the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves DAMNATION. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil......" (St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans 13:1-2).
The Apostle Paul wrote these words to the Christian Congregation at Rome around 60 A.D. At that time Emperor Nero was running the Empire. He was a diabolical monster and persecutor. Did Paul tell the Christians to try and overthrow him and establish their own State in Italy? He never even dreamed of such a thing. Such an idea (and opportunity) did not even emerge until after the fall of the Roman Empire.
Satan was the original rebel and began his career of evil by trying to overthrow the Government in Heaven. It is not surprising that he would try and supplant God's legitimate Rulers and substitute his own.
Vatican City State is a Government within a Government. Its head—the Pope—is not even elected by the residents of the state. It is not subject to the lawful rulers in Italy. It has its own police force, post office, radio station, publishing house, TV station, and ambassadorial staff. The Papal ambassadors are called Nuncios or Legates. They are assigned to any country of the world that will accept them and recognize them as Deans of the Diplomat Corps—above every other diplomat.
Benito Mussolini "We have 8 million bayonets"
Benito Mussolini—Il Duce—the sawdust Caesar—was the father of Vatican City State. He was also the father of Fascism. In 1929, he gave the Pope back 110 acres of the land that Italian patriots led by Giuseppe Garibaldi liberated in 1870.
Birds of a feather: Mussolini and Hitler. Fascism began in Italy with Mussolini and spread to Germany. The German variety was called Nazism. Hitler was an eager pupil and learned much from Mussolini's Blackshirts.
There are 3 Divine Institutions which God established upon the earth:
The Family (Gen 1.28).
Nations or Governments (Gen. 9:1-7).
The Congregation founded upon Christ the Rock (Matt 16:18).
"Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready for every good work." (Titus 3:1).
St. Peter, far from claiming supremacy for himself said:
"Submit yourself to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme (I St. Peter 2:13).
The last words of King David, Ruler of Israel:
"The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God"
(II Samual 23:3).
Editor's Notes
John Jacob Raskob eventually went on the build the Empire State Building in New York City.
Benito Mussolini
and his mistress.
Mussolini turned the world upside down by placing the Vatican State above and not subject to the lawful Italian Government. . . . God turned him upside down and he was executed and hung upside down by Italian Partisans in 1945.
