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Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by Nobody: 6:05pm On Nov 06, 2013
FACTS ABOUT THE POPE:

1. The title pope stems from the Greek word papas, which simply means "father."

2. Doctrinally, the pope is regarded as the successor of St. Peter, leader of the apostles after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

3. Pope Benedict XVI received roughly $200 million annually for his personal use, money which is not counted as income to the government of the worldwide Catholic Church (the Holy See) nor the government of the Vatican City State, an independent country in which St. Peter’s Basilica and the Vatican offices, residences, library and museums are located. It is his alone...(http://opentabernacle./2011/05/08/popes-personal-income-200-million-annually/)

4. The Pope wears a ring called The fishermans ring which is made of gold and it has a representation of Saint Peter in a boat fishing and the name of the reigning pope around it. The ring is used to seal the class of papal official documents known as briefs..It is placed on the third finger of the Pope.


5. The pope is one of the most powerful people in the world.

6. In history the Pope was seen as a king/ruler/emperor.

7. Some Popes in history were known to be evil:

Pope Sergius III. He obtained the papacy by murder. He also had children with the famous Vatican harlot Marozia. Marozia’s teenage son Pope John XI became pope after she assassinated Pope Leo VI. His reign was considered the start of pornocracy.

Pope Stephen VI. He exhumed the corpse of Pope Formosus and had a cadaver trial. The corpse of Formosus was found guilty and sentenced to be de-fingered and thrown into the Tiber River.

Pope Alexander III. He commanded that all personal testament and wills be made in the presence of a priest or bishop. Otherwise, the person would be excommunicated.

Pope John XII. He was a paedophile, having sex with young girls. He was an adulterer, as described by the Catholic Encylopedia. He had no respect for age or status of any woman he wanted to bed. He even raped pilgrims who came to visit the seat of the Roman Catholic Church.

Pope Benedict IX. He was known as the pope who abdicated the seat and sold to another man. He later returned to reclaim the papacy. He was accused of homosexuality and bestiality.

Pope Paul II. He was an ardent teacher of adultery, fornication, and sexual immorality. Fathering several illegitimate children, he taught others to do the same.

Pope Sixtus IV. He was in a crusade war and he sold various bishop seats and other offices to finance the war. He was a master and artful businessman full of bribery records.

Pope Leo X. In the aim to reconstruct St. Peter’s Basilica, he ordered the sale of indulgences which was refuted by Martin Luther. In this times, he ordered the murder of several cardinals who defy his orders.

Pope Boniface VII. Considered as a monster of the church. He engineered several murders on various people, including cardinals and noblemen to increase his wealth.

Pope Alexander VI. He was the father of the Borgia family. He had a relationship with her daughter and had a son with her. He held parties and orgies in the basilica of Rome. He started the dynastic Borgia popes.

Pope Eugene IV. Best remembered as the murder of Joan of Arc. He accused Joan of Arc as a witch, yet later, she was declared a saint by Pope Benedict IV.

Pope Innocent IV. Considered as the master of the Inquisition. It was the darkest moments of the entire Europe’s history. Those who would defend their faith aside from the Roman Catholic church were killed, butchered, or burned alive. His famous victim was the scientist and thinker Galileo. The only mistake of Galileo is renouncing the Copernican theory and claiming that the earth revolved around the sun.

Pope John XV. He ruled the papacy with corrupt principles and procedures. He had the church finances divided among his relatives. He accepted bribes to sell different offices of the church. His reign was considered corrupt and full of evil ideas.

Pope Urban VI. He was nothing but the pope who had the cardinals who opposed him tortured and killed. Historians said that while the cardinals were tortured he screamed that he hadn’t heard enough screaming.

Pope Boniface VIII. He was the man who declared the Roman Catholic Church who declared is as the only and true church. During his reign, Vatican was the center of heresy, immorality, idolatry, magic, and simony. Those who liked to have office and position in the church could buy it from Boniface.

Pope Clement VII. He came from the powerful Medici family. He had a poor understanding of Rome and had the German emperor sacked the Vatican. He gave up his power and died. He was considered as the most hated pope in Rome.

Pope John XXIII. He was called the devil incarnate. With more than 200 girls in his harem in Boulogne, 300 nuns violated, and other sexual crimes, he was considered the most sexually charged pope ever. He was charged of fornication, simony, adultery, incest, sodomy, murder, and theft...(http://www.pureandundefiledreligion.com/2013/06/worst-and-most-evil-catholic-church.html)

8. The Pope actaully has an army called the Swiss army or guards who have sworn an oath to protect the pope since 15th century till date and they are highly skilled just like any other army in the world..(http://www.romereports.com/palio/popes-army-new-swiss-guard-recruits-take-their-oath-english-9966.html) (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/8873853/A-history-of-the-Vaticans-Swiss-Guard.html)

9. The Pope's former buttler Paolo Gabriellle was arrested in May after he nabbed a stash of papal documents and leaked them to the press to expose evil and corruption in the vatican.

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Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by mumumugu(m): 6:14pm On Nov 06, 2013
Please tell us amazing facts about general overseer and protestanism

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Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by Nobody: 6:18pm On Nov 06, 2013
Olodo why didnt you tell us about Mother Theresa,Pope Johnpaul2nd and the churches charitable projects.Are these the only popes in cathlic history? Just wait i will soon come with amazing facts about the numerous Daddy GO starting with the antisemitic Martin Luther and his muderous book 'on the jews and their lies"

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Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by Nobody: 6:29pm On Nov 06, 2013
Facts about the Roman Catholic Church:

1. The Roman Catholic Church is by far the largest and wealthiest of all the so-called Christian denominations.

2. Roman Catholic's Pope is in Rome. There are other churches that call themselves Catholic, such as the Easter Rite, or Byzantine Church: it has no Pope.

3. It is the oldest Christian denomination in the world.

4. The church has done many good things and several terrible things in the past.

5. The Catholic Church is among the oldest institutions in the world and has played a prominent role in the history of Western civilisation, inspiring art, culture and philosophy.

6. During the Dark Ages the Catholic Church slaughtered over 150 million Christians. The world has almost completely forgotten the many millions of people who were burned at the stake by the papacy because they wanted to worship God according to the Bible.

7. The papacy of the roman catholic church still claims that it has a right to slaughter so called 'Heretics' as it did in the dark ages...(http://www.pacinst.com/antichri.htm)

8. There are several Catholic sex abuse cases which are a series of allegations, investigations, trials and convictions of child sexual abuse crimes committed by Catholic priests, nuns and members of Roman Catholic orders against children as young as three years old with the majority between the ages of 11 and 14..(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_sex_abuse_cases)

9. In 1979, an 11-year-old German boy identified as Wilfried F. was taken on a vacation trip to the mountains by a priest. After that, he was administered alcohol, locked in his bedroom, stripped naked, and forced to suck the peni.s of his confessor.

10. The Catholic Church believes in Pugatory.

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Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by farem: 6:36pm On Nov 06, 2013
What is the big deal of this write-up? What does it intend to achieve?
To make me sorry or sad?
Never!
Adherents of Roman catholicism have consistently declared they are catholics and not christians. I have since confirmed and believed they are not via several catholic biographies and official encyclopedia, especially, having search through the Word of God.
SINCE IT IS ANOTHER RELIGION WEARING THE CLOAK OF JESUS, WHY SHOULD I BOTHER?
Abeg!!!

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Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by Nobody: 6:47pm On Nov 06, 2013
FACTS ABOUT THE VATICAN:

1. The Vatican is its own country – and the smallest in the world.

2. The Vatican has Museums that contains one of the largest art collections in the world, with over 9 miles of pieces, which could wrap four and half times around the Vatican walls.

3. Every Wednesday morning the Pope holds a Papal Audience, during which he addresses the public in multiple languages and concludes with a final blessing of people and objects held up by members of the crowd.

4. The highest crime rate in the world is commited in the vatican.( measured per head of the population)

5. The Vatican has a bank and till today, noboy knows the amount likely to be stored in its vaults.

6. The pope has full legal, executive, and judicial powers. Executive power over the area is in the hands of a commission of cardinals appointed by the pope. The College of Cardinals is the pope's chief advisory body, and upon his death the cardinals elect his successor for life.

7. The Vatican has its own post office and stamps.

8. You become a citizen of the Vatican as soon as you get a job there – and your ­citizenship is revoked if you lose that job. If you have no other citizenship to revert to you ­automatically become Italian.

9. There was a murder in the Vatican in 1998. The newly ­appointed commander of the Pope’s Swiss Guards and his wife were killed in their ­apartment.

10. The Vatican lost £20million in the collapse of the Franklin National Bank in 1974...(http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bizarre-secrets-of-the-vatican-1739853)
Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by Nobody: 8:02pm On Nov 06, 2013
mumumugu: Please tell us amazing facts about general overseer and protestanism

the only difficulty thing in ur request is backing it up with evidence..will check it up soon.
Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by tobechi20(m): 8:08pm On Nov 06, 2013
Here comes catholic haters

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Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by macof(m): 9:34pm On Nov 06, 2013
farem: What is the big deal of this write-up? What does it intend to achieve?
To make me sorry or sad?
Never!
Adherents of Roman catholicism have consistently declared they are catholics and not christians. I have since confirmed and believed they are not via several catholic biographies and official encyclopedia, especially, having search through the Word of God.
SINCE IT IS ANOTHER RELIGION WEARING THE CLOAK OF JESUS, WHY SHOULD I BOTHER?
Abeg!!!


Christianity was created by the catholic church. The Bible was compiled by the catholic church. The Bible was modified by the catholic church
They catholic church is the mother of christianity

So u ditch catholism u ditch christianity

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Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by Nobody: 9:46pm On Nov 06, 2013
tobechi20: Here comes catholic haters


There is no catholic hate here but just mere facts that very very few people know.

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Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by Nobody: 10:35am On Nov 08, 2013
farem: What is the big deal of this write-up? What does it intend to achieve?
To make me sorry or sad?
Never!
Adherents of Roman catholicism have consistently declared they are catholics and not christians. I have since confirmed and believed they are not via several catholic biographies and official encyclopedia, especially, having search through the Word of God.
SINCE IT IS ANOTHER RELIGION WEARING THE CLOAK OF JESUS, WHY SHOULD I BOTHER?
Abeg!!!


There is no big deal about the write up sir, just to show some facts that many people never knew.

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Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by farem: 10:56am On Nov 08, 2013
macof:


Christianity was created by the catholic church. The Bible was compiled by the catholic church. The Bible was modified by the catholic church
They catholic church is the mother of christianity

So u ditch catholism u ditch christianity
[color=#990000]
THE LORD [JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH, not apostles,disciples, lutheran, catholic, celestial, redeemed, c&s, pastors popes, or G.o's] ADDED TO CHURCH DAILY. Acts 2:47
"...feed the Church which He [JESUS CHRIST, not the one emanated from your Catholic ] has purchased with His own blood" Acts 20:28
"THEREFORE IF ANY MAN [regardless of status, or race] BE IN CHRIST [not in catholic or protestant church], HE IS A NEW CREATURE" 2Cor 5:17
"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" 1 Timothy 2:5
"And.... God was manifested in the flesh, and the Word was God, the Word became flesh" 1 Tim 3:16, John 1:1, 14
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh to the Father (inherit the kingdom of God, will be raptured-ready/qualified ), but by me [taking the other means-arranged by the deceitfulness of satan- is heading for hell-fire]" John 14:6
I HAVE GIVEN JUST VERY FEW OF WHAT CHRISTIANITY IS ALL ABOUT.ANY ATTEMPT TO SHIFT THE DIVINE POST-TRADITION OF MEN,:IT HAS BEEN THERE FOR CENTURY, THIS ONE LOOKS DIVINE, WORSHIPPING 'SAINTS' AND OTHER IMAGES, APPOINTING POPE SUCCESSORS WHOSE MINISTRY WAS NOT REALLY ROME-BASED, ASKING POPE TO BE CELEBATES WHEN THE SUPPOSED 1ST POPE (PETER)'S MOTHER-IN-LAW WAS HEALED BY JESUS -,SHOWS THAT ROMAN CATHOLICISM IS NOT THE SAME AS CHRISTIANITY.
It's purely another religion!

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Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by farem: 10:58am On Nov 08, 2013
macof:


Christianity was created by the catholic church. The Bible was compiled by the catholic church. The Bible was modified by the catholic church
They catholic church is the mother of christianity

So u ditch catholism u ditch christianity
[color=#990000]
THE LORD [JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH, not apostles,disciples, lutheran, catholic, celestial, redeemed, c&s, pastors popes, or G.o's] ADDED TO CHURCH DAILY. Acts 2:47
"...feed the Church which He [JESUS CHRIST, not the one emanated from your Catholic ] has purchased with His own blood" Acts 20:28
"THEREFORE IF ANY MAN [regardless of status, or race] BE IN CHRIST [not in catholic or protestant church], HE IS A NEW CREATURE" 2Cor 5:17
"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" 1 Timothy 2:5
"And.... God was manifested in the flesh, and the Word was God, the Word became flesh" 1 Tim 3:16, John 1:1, 14
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh to the Father (inherit the kingdom of God, will be raptured-ready/qualified ), but by me [taking the other means-arranged by the deceitfulness of satan- is heading for hell-fire]" John 14:6
I HAVE GIVEN JUST VERY FEW OF WHAT CHRISTIANITY IS ALL ABOUT.ANY ATTEMPT TO SHIFT THE DIVINE POST-TRADITION OF MEN,:IT HAS BEEN THERE FOR CENTURY, THIS ONE LOOKS DIVINE, WORSHIPPING 'SAINTS' AND OTHER IMAGES, APPOINTING POPE SUCCESSORS WHOSE MINISTRY WAS NOT REALLY ROME-BASED, ASKING POPE TO BE CELEBATES WHEN THE SUPPOSED 1ST POPE (PETER)'S MOTHER-IN-LAW WAS HEALED BY JESUS -,SHOWS THAT ROMAN CATHOLICISM IS NOT THE SAME AS CHRISTIANITY.
It's purely another religion!
Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by macof(m): 11:05am On Nov 08, 2013
farem: [color=#990000]
THE LORD [JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH, not apostles,disciples, lutheran, catholic, celestial, redeemed, c&s, pastors popes, or G.o's] ADDED TO CHURCH DAILY. Acts 2:47
"...feed the Church which He [JESUS CHRIST, not the one emanated from your Catholic ] has purchased with His own blood" Acts 20:28
"THEREFORE IF ANY MAN [regardless of status, or race] BE IN CHRIST [not in catholic or protestant church], HE IS A NEW CREATURE" 2Cor 5:17
"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" 1 Timothy 2:5
"And.... God was manifested in the flesh, and the Word was God, the Word became flesh" 1 Tim 3:16, John 1:1, 14
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh to the Father (inherit the kingdom of God, will be raptured-ready/qualified ), but by me [taking the other means-arranged by the deceitfulness of satan- is heading for hell-fire]" John 14:6
I HAVE GIVEN JUST VERY FEW OF WHAT CHRISTIANITY IS ALL ABOUT.ANY ATTEMPT TO SHIFT THE DIVINE POST-TRADITION OF MEN,:IT HAS BEEN THERE FOR CENTURY, THIS ONE LOOKS DIVINE, WORSHIPPING 'SAINTS' AND OTHER IMAGES, APPOINTING POPE SUCCESSORS WHOSE MINISTRY WAS NOT REALLY ROME-BASED, ASKING POPE TO BE CELEBATES WHEN THE SUPPOSED 1ST POPE (PETER)'S MOTHER-IN-LAW WAS HEALED BY JESUS -,SHOWS THAT ROMAN CATHOLICISM IS NOT THE SAME AS CHRISTIANITY.
It's purely another religion!

shut up

you are simply in denial
Catholism is the mother of christianity
PAUL and PETER are the ones that brought christianity to Rome.
Vatican city is the headquarters of Christianity in the world

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Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by Nobody: 2:54pm On Nov 08, 2013
joel lala:

the only difficulty thing in ur request is backing it up with evidence..will check it up soon.

Hypocrite !! Barawo!! Onye iru abuo!! Did you adduce any evidence for the thrash above you wrote about the catholic church?

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Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by Nobody: 4:31pm On Nov 08, 2013
chukwudi44:

Hypocrite !! Barawo!! Onye iru abuo!! Did you adduce any evidence for the thrash above you wrote about the catholic church?


What ever you say goes back to u several times becos if you werent blind you will see several links posted as evidence with the write up..try using ur brains for once and learn to read things through...BTW i just post few facts and u want to kill ursef, if i now posted all the facts maybe you for hug transformer..SMH

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Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by Nobody: 5:59pm On Nov 08, 2013
joel lala:


What ever you say goes back to u several times becos if you werent blind you will see several links posted as evidence with the write up..try using ur brains for once and learn to read things through...BTW i just post few facts and u want to kill ursef, if i now posted all the facts maybe you for hug transformer..SMH

YOU ARE A slowpoke WITHOUT ANY IOTA OF GRAY MATTER INSIDE YOUR EMPTY NUMBSKULL.SO A LINK TO AN ANTI-CATHOLIC WEBSITE IS YOUR EVIDENCE.SMH FOR YOUR ENORMOUS STUPIDITY

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Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by Nobody: 7:56pm On Nov 08, 2013
chukwudi44:

YOU ARE A slowpoke WITHOUT ANY IOTA OF GRAY MATTER INSIDE YOUR EMPTY NUMBSKULL.SO A LINK TO AN ANTI-CATHOLIC WEBSITE IS YOUR EVIDENCE.SMH FOR YOUR ENORMOUS STUPIDITY

Eyah! Joel u done kill sombdy o. But if those stories are false, you can post a reply disproving them. This Popes shouldnt be fallible remember.

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Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by bongila(f): 8:22pm On Nov 08, 2013
Interesting! @ Joel do well to get a copy of this book" In God's Name by David Yallop. Thank me later! Another interesting reading refer to Mario Puzo's The Family. Peace!
Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by Nobody: 8:47pm On Nov 08, 2013
JMAN05:

Eyah! Joel u done kill sombdy o. But if those stories are false, you can post a reply disproving them. This Popes shouldnt be fallible remember.


All what i posted are not stories neither are they false...everything posted are true facts that very very few people knw..you can always check them out on the internet atleast google is there..so many people are in several organisations and they dont even know the background of it...i didnt even post many facts here because some ignorant, gullible, deluded and sucidial folks like chukwudi will nearly hug transformer..
Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by Nobody: 3:47am On Nov 10, 2013
Ok bookmarked.
Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by Nobody: 12:04pm On Nov 10, 2013
@ Farem: Good work so far. I hope to find out the truth. At least your write up seems to be void of fallacious reasoning.
@ Macof: Some of us are here to build our understanding. You would do well create post that can be reasoned through. Coming here with unproven claims and being unable to defend them against well stated arguments makes you look very bad.
@Chudkwudi44: You are giving the Catholic church a very bad representation by you invectives. That won't convince anyone. Seems like you're on the defensive. Now why is that?
Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by Nobody: 12:08pm On Nov 10, 2013
macof:

shut up

you are simply in denial
Catholism is the mother of christianity
PAUL and PETER are the ones that brought christianity to Rome.
Vatican city is the headquarters of Christianity in the world

Before any mention of Paul or Peter going to Rome, the disciples of Christ were already called Christians at Antioch (Acts 11:26). Consequently, Rome is immaterial to a person's Christian status. Jesus Christ himself has already given us the way. Many Catholics I know try to suggest that the teachings of the Catholic church supersede the teachings of Jesus Christ.
Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by thaoriginator: 12:24pm On Nov 10, 2013
#following
Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by macof(m): 1:24pm On Nov 10, 2013
NeoTesla:

Before any mention of Paul or Peter going to Rome, the disciples of Christ were already called Christians at Antioch (Acts 11:26). Consequently, Rome is immaterial to a person's Christian status. Jesus Christ himself has already given us the way. Many Catholics I know try to suggest that the teachings of the Catholic church supersede the teachings of Jesus Christ.


Lol do not deny ur brethrens in Christ

Catholism was founded by Paul, and Peter is even regarded as the first pope

Original Jesus wasn't a Messiah of salvation for the world, he was honored by his apostles as Messiah of the Jews
Catholics have re-edited the Bible to seem as if dat was Jesus mission from the beginning

Jesus failed to be the Messiah of the Jews and in a bid to use a living man as a figure for brainwash and political influence the Romans re-edited the books of certain early Christians, some were even working for them.

Why do u think Peter and Paul fought? Paul was leading people away from wat the prophets Jesus preached. Paul was claiming wat Jesus never claimed.

Read ur Bible carefully and stop being a toy to ur pentecostal pastors
Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by Nobody: 1:46pm On Nov 10, 2013
I will respond to your post in steps. So I can get your points clearly.

macof:
Catholics have re-edited the Bible to seem as if dat was Jesus mission from the beginning
You know this how? Have you seen original copies of the manuscripts that were compiled to form the bible?

macof:
Jesus failed to be the Messiah of the Jews and in a bid to use a living man as a figure for brainwash and political influence the Romans re-edited the books of certain early Christians, some were even working for them.
What Romans are you referring to?
macof:
Why do u think Peter and Paul fought? Paul was leading people away from wat the prophets Jesus preached. Paul was claiming wat Jesus never claimed.
Please explain further on this fight. Historical records would be helpful.

macof:
Read ur Bible carefully
Will do

macof:
stop being a toy to ur pentecostal pastors
Completely uncalled for.

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Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by macof(m): 3:33pm On Nov 10, 2013
I see u doubt me, I expect nothing more but I can't ask u to believe me.

Read ur Bible carefully, research, read about the history of the church and christianity, visit certain worship sites.

A lot of people have been revealing the conspiracy of the church for centuries.

And where the catholic church flaws, the whole of christianity does because christianity owes its existence to catholism
Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by Leadn(m): 10:37pm On Nov 10, 2013
bongila: Interesting! @ Joel do well to get a copy of this book" In God's Name by David Yallop. Thank me later! Another interesting reading refer to Mario Puzo's The Family. Peace!

That Mario Puzo's the family is just soooo anti Catholic but I love the book... #Borgia_Family really interesting read...
Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by chuqudy(m): 2:13am On Nov 11, 2013
joel lala: FACTS ABOUT THE POPE:

1. The title pope stems from the Greek word papas, which simply means "father."

2. Doctrinally, the pope is regarded as the successor of St. Peter, leader of the apostles after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

3. Pope Benedict XVI received roughly $200 million annually for his personal use, money which is not counted as income to the government of the worldwide Catholic Church (the Holy See) nor the government of the Vatican City State, an independent country in which St. Peter’s Basilica and the Vatican offices, residences, library and museums are located. It is his alone...(http://opentabernacle./2011/05/08/popes-personal-income-200-million-annually/)

4. The Pope wears a ring called The fishermans ring which is made of gold and it has a representation of Saint Peter in a boat fishing and the name of the reigning pope around it. The ring is used to seal the class of papal official documents known as briefs..It is placed on the third finger of the Pope.


5. The pope is one of the most powerful people in the world.

6. In history the Pope was seen as a king/ruler/emperor.

7. Some Popes in history were known to be evil:

Pope Sergius III. He obtained the papacy by murder. He also had children with the famous Vatican harlot Marozia. Marozia’s teenage son Pope John XI became pope after she assassinated Pope Leo VI. His reign was considered the start of pornocracy.

Pope Stephen VI. He exhumed the corpse of Pope Formosus and had a cadaver trial. The corpse of Formosus was found guilty and sentenced to be de-fingered and thrown into the Tiber River.

Pope Alexander III. He commanded that all personal testament and wills be made in the presence of a priest or bishop. Otherwise, the person would be excommunicated.

Pope John XII. He was a paedophile, having sex with young girls. He was an adulterer, as described by the Catholic Encylopedia. He had no respect for age or status of any woman he wanted to bed. He even raped pilgrims who came to visit the seat of the Roman Catholic Church.

Pope Benedict IX. He was known as the pope who abdicated the seat and sold to another man. He later returned to reclaim the papacy. He was accused of homosexuality and bestiality.

Pope Paul II. He was an ardent teacher of adultery, fornication, and sexual immorality. Fathering several illegitimate children, he taught others to do the same.

Pope Sixtus IV. He was in a crusade war and he sold various bishop seats and other offices to finance the war. He was a master and artful businessman full of bribery records.

Pope Leo X. In the aim to reconstruct St. Peter’s Basilica, he ordered the sale of indulgences which was refuted by Martin Luther. In this times, he ordered the murder of several cardinals who defy his orders.

Pope Boniface VII. Considered as a monster of the church. He engineered several murders on various people, including cardinals and noblemen to increase his wealth.

Pope Alexander VI. He was the father of the Borgia family. He had a relationship with her daughter and had a son with her. He held parties and orgies in the basilica of Rome. He started the dynastic Borgia popes.

Pope Eugene IV. Best remembered as the murder of Joan of Arc. He accused Joan of Arc as a witch, yet later, she was declared a saint by Pope Benedict IV.

Pope Innocent IV. Considered as the master of the Inquisition. It was the darkest moments of the entire Europe’s history. Those who would defend their faith aside from the Roman Catholic church were killed, butchered, or burned alive. His famous victim was the scientist and thinker Galileo. The only mistake of Galileo is renouncing the Copernican theory and claiming that the earth revolved around the sun.

Pope John XV. He ruled the papacy with corrupt principles and procedures. He had the church finances divided among his relatives. He accepted bribes to sell different offices of the church. His reign was considered corrupt and full of evil ideas.

Pope Urban VI. He was nothing but the pope who had the cardinals who opposed him tortured and killed. Historians said that while the cardinals were tortured he screamed that he hadn’t heard enough screaming.

Pope Boniface VIII. He was the man who declared the Roman Catholic Church who declared is as the only and true church. During his reign, Vatican was the center of heresy, immorality, idolatry, magic, and simony. Those who liked to have office and position in the church could buy it from Boniface.

Pope Clement VII. He came from the powerful Medici family. He had a poor understanding of Rome and had the German emperor sacked the Vatican. He gave up his power and died. He was considered as the most hated pope in Rome.

Pope John XXIII. He was called the devil incarnate. With more than 200 girls in his harem in Boulogne, 300 nuns violated, and other sexual crimes, he was considered the most sexually charged pope ever. He was charged of fornication, simony, adultery, incest, sodomy, murder, and theft...(http://www.pureandundefiledreligion.com/2013/06/worst-and-most-evil-catholic-church.html)

8. The Pope actaully has an army called the Swiss army or guards who have sworn an oath to protect the pope since 15th century till date and they are highly skilled just like any other army in the world..(http://www.romereports.com/palio/popes-army-new-swiss-guard-recruits-take-their-oath-english-9966.html) (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/8873853/A-history-of-the-Vaticans-Swiss-Guard.html)

9. The Pope's former buttler Paolo Gabriellle was arrested in May after he nabbed a stash of papal documents and leaked them to the press to expose evil and corruption in the vatican.

There are some elements of truth in your post. But most of the guys you listed were anti popes and are not recognized as Popes. You said Pope Eugene iv was made saint and that was a great lie. Your motive is to rubbish the Catholic Church. In your mind, you have succeeded.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Eugene_IV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popes
Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by EzePromoe: 8:15am On Nov 11, 2013
macof:


Christianity was created by the catholic church. The Bible was compiled by the catholic church. The Bible was modified by the catholic church
They catholic church is the mother of christianity

So u ditch catholism u ditch christianity
Catholic has its own standard bible which also contains the Deuterocanonical books, but the ones used by the Protestant churches was originally translated from the Hebrew manuscripts by King James II, a protestant (precisely Anglican)

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Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by Nobody: 10:18am On Nov 11, 2013
Who gave pentecostals the mouth to argue with catholics.
Common, crawl back to your shout alleluya churches where you came from and be thinking of how to pay your next tithes
Re: Amazing Facts About The Pope, Roman Catholic Church And The Vatican by macof(m): 11:32am On Nov 11, 2013
Eze Promoe:
Catholic has its own standard bible which also contains the Deuterocanonical books, but the ones used by the Protestant churches was originally translated from the Hebrew manuscripts by King James II, a protestant (precisely Anglican)
how did King james become christian? through the catholic church. every christain doctine he was exposed to was influenced by the catholic church.

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