"Poverty" - Roman Style

When most people hear the word "poverty," images of disease, bad housing, lack of opportunity, and malnutrition come to mind. Yet, Rome has a different definition of "poverty." Didn't you ever wonder how 'Mother' Theresa could claim to have taken a vow of "poverty," but at a moments notice have airplanes available to whisk her halfway across the world to the finest medical care whenever she needed it?

The June 6 issue of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio newspaper, 'The Catholic Telegraph,' brought this little known definition to light in an article titled, "Survey Revealing About Religious Vocations." It describes the aspects of, "the vows of 'poverty,' chastity, and obedience...," in an article about the 'Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur,' a Catholic womens' religious order, but the principle is the same for all those Catholic "religious" who take a vow of "poverty." The article said:

"The vow of poverty means members of the congregation do not use or dispose of the material goods independently. In addition, any income and gifts belong to the congregation. On a day-to-day level, this means sisters' salaries are paid directly to the congregation. If their work requires a car, the congregation provides one, but individual sisters do not own the cars they use. The congregation, for its part, provides for all aspects of the sisters' support..."

This is poverty?? It sounds more like Marxist-Leninist dogma to me.

In the above quote, remove the words, "The vow of poverty" and "congregation," and instead substitute, "Communism" and "state, and you have a good defintion of the Soviet system!! A system where the individual is nothing, and the group everything.

Yes - this "poverty" that Catholic religious orders love to boast about is really nothing but a form of communism that provides all your needs for the rest of your life - provided you tow the party line! Excuse me....or....is communism nothing but a form of Catholicism? After all, the Catholic Church was around long before Marx and Lenin!

Children of Southwest Ohio Still in Danger

The priests of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio, just went through a "workshop" on their revised "Decree on Child Protection." This was reported in the June 6 archdiocesan newspaper, 'The Catholic Telegraph,' under the ominous title of:

"Up to 30,000 to be Fingerprinted: Priests Prepare to Implement Revised Child Protection Decree."

Rome continues to protect its child-molesting priests. What a better way could there be to protect the clergy than to have the 'priests' "implement" the latest Catholic "Protection Decree." One has to ask, "Will priests...OR...children be better protected?" It still looks like the fox is in charge of the henhouse!

A careful reading of Catholic materials always reveals its real intentions, and this article is no exception:

1. One Catholic response to the child abuse scandal has been to spread the idea that anyone can be a child abuser - thus taking the spotlight off the Roman priesthood. In Cincinnati, this will be taken to new extremes. The article says, "The archdiocese anticipates that as many as 30,000 people (Catholic volunteers and employees) may need to be fingerprinted." By doing police background checks on everyone under the sun, Cincinnati archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk hopes to hide his priests by sheer weight of numbers, and to fool the "faithful" into thinking the "Church" is doing something about child abuse.

2. The article proudly boasts that at the end of the "workshop," Pilarczyk and his auxiliary bishop, Carl Moeddel, stepped forward and had themselves fingerprinted. But - NO MENTION is made of ANY OTHER priests stepping up to be fingerprinted!! A glaring omission!!

I continue to beg bible-believing Christians to pray daily that Christ protect children from - the Roman Catholic priesthood.