Is Catholicism A Cult?: Revealed - The True nature of Roman Catholicism

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Put succinctly, the Catholic Church supports asking questions. St. John Paul II wrote in Fides et Ratio: My earliest memories are filled with the sound of laughter, of being in the constant company of the energetic and intellectual men and women of the community. I did not know that they had come together in this joyous enclave because of a falling out with the local authorities of the Catholic Church and Rome. (Father Feeney was dismissed by the Jesuits and excommunicated in 1953 after refusing to reply to a summons to the Vatican.) Nor did I know that my father, a teacher at the Jesuit-run Boston College, had, along with two other professors, been fired in early 1949, when I was just 7 months old, because of their rigid theological views. The Woman is Drunken With Blood-- at the instigation of her popes, Rome has shed rivers of blood of Christians who would not bow down to the Pope and Roman Catholic heresies and blasphemies-- the martyrs of Jesus

Remember, you have to do more than protest in the street with a sign ladies. You have to convince the men in your life to change. Don’t have sex with your men until Democrats win and can protect your rights. Don’t do anything around the house, don’t clean men’s things, don’t feed them, don’t treat them like equals —until they fight for your equality.

Although the Pope serves as spiritual leader of Catholicism, his authority is not absolute. Catholicism employs a hierarchical structure with various bishops and priests around the globe exercising some degree of autonomy within their dioceses; unlike cult leaders who demand unquestioning loyalty from followers, he does not claim divinity status or demand unquestioning devotion from his congregation. 3. Isolation and Manipulation While salvation by faith is the most crucial issue, in comparing Roman Catholicism with the Word of God, there are many other differences and contradictions as well. The Roman Catholic Church teaches many doctrines that are in disagreement with what the Bible declares. These include apostolic succession, worship of saints or Mary, prayer to saints or Mary, the pope / papacy, infant baptism, transubstantiation, plenary indulgences, the sacramental system, and purgatory. While Catholics claim Scriptural support for these concepts, none of these teachings have any solid foundation in the clear teaching of Scripture. These concepts are based on Catholic tradition, not the Word of God. In fact, they all clearly contradict Biblical principles. Once Christianity was legalized in the Roman Empire, the secrecy remained because of the sacredness of the Sacraments. If one wished to access them, they need only enter the catechumenate! The Sacraments are freely offered, but there is path to access to them to ensure that the person knows what they are asking for.

The most important right for me though, is the third one I’ve mentioned: access to abortion. Banning it is ridiculous, as the right to it (among other things) provides medical care to women dealing with 30 plus kinds of pregnancy complications that I’ve read about in the last four weeks. Sister Catherine died two years after my expulsion from the community. After her death, a number of children at the Center informed their parents of the secret, violent beatings they had received, leading to a mass exodus of families. In the early 1970s, Father Feeney became reconciled with the Catholic Church, though he never recanted his views on extra ecclesiam nulla salus. The community of men became a Benedictine Abbey, while the women came under the auspices of the Diocese of Worcester. While some members formed a new schismatic community in New Hampshire, the Still River community is in full communion with the Catholic Church.

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Constantine but he still worshipped the sun god. Although Christianity was not made the official religion of the Cults typically exercise rigid control over their members and demand unquestioning submission, with disobedience punished by shunning and/or excommunication.**This can include any church who discourages reading God's word. At one level, of course, the interpretation of Roman Catholicism is closely related to the interpretation of Christianity as such. By its own reading of history, Roman Catholicism originated with the very beginnings of Christianity. An essential component of the definition of any one of the other branches of Christendom, moreover, is its relation to Roman Catholicism: How did Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism come into schism? Was the break between the Church of England and Rome inevitable? Conversely, such questions are essential to the definition of Roman Catholicism itself, even to a definition that adheres strictly to the official Roman Catholic view, according to which the Roman Catholic Church has maintained an unbroken continuity since the days of the Apostles, while all other denominations, from the ancient Copts to the latest storefront church, are deviations from it. By the start of the nineteenth century, however such 'anti-popery' prejudices started to die away and full civic rights were restored in 1829. For some Catholics, Benedict remains the one true pope, forced to step down by greater powers at work. Despite frequent statements by Benedict and cozy photos of the two, Francis and his predecessor’s attempts to stress the continuity of the pontificate, the conservative ex-pope is seen in some corners as the real spiritual leader of the church.

There was hope when Sister Catherine announced that we would leave our home in Cambridge and move to the hamlet of Still River in central Massachusetts, where, she promised, we could run through the fields and have dogs and cats for pets and horses to ride. It’s certainly true that the word cult grabs our attention. But what exactly does it mean when we use words like cult or “cult leader”? More recently, groups like the Knights of Columbus had some secret initiatory rites (they are no longer secret as of this writing), but they were not confusing, bizarre, or offensive. They were geared towards charity, unity, and fraternity. The air of secrecy existed as something fun and interesting to share between brothers. The Pope and any of the bishops, priests, or deacons do not have ultimate authority. They are all dependent on the kingship of Jesus Christ. Abuses of power do happen because of fallen human nature and sin, but this is not from Holy Mother Church. The infamous Church of Scientology was formed in 1953 by the writer L. Ron Hubbard. Arguably one of the richest cults, with high-profile members like Tom Cruise, it has remained controversial since its origin. This religious cult is based on the idea of clearing the human psyche of ‘negative’ emotions and memories, and bring out it’s full potential, with intense therapy sessions that often rely on the use of lie detectors. Claimed to be based on scientific research and facts, Scientology is known for its official litigations, and murky ways of shutting up its critics and apostates alike, often by killing them, rumour has it.Heaven’s Gate is another UFO religion cum doomsday cult found in the 70’s. Apparently, the founders of this cult claimed that they have arrived on the Earth in a UFO from another world. They also urged their members “to shed every attachment to the planet” to be eligible for ‘another level,’ as the earth was believed to be ‘wiped clean’ too. In 1997, the bodies of 39 members of the cult were found by the police. They had committed mass suicide believing that it would take them to an alien space ship that was behind the comet Hale-Bopp, and which in turn would take them to ‘another level.’ Cults usually have some kind of authoritarian, totalistic leader or prophet. While some feel that the pope fits this category, in reality the pope governs the church with heavy dependence upon the bishops (college of cardinals), and within the restrictions of the official teaching of the church. Protestants clearly disagree with the authority and exalted titles given the pope, but he still does not fit the category of a cult leader. The secret rites, according to Sam & Tanner, are “confusing, bizarre, or even offensive.” They are there to test loyalty and entrench the shame-cycle. In the History of the Church, many of the initiatory rites (like Baptism and Liturgy of the Eucharist) were secret. They were closed to the public because the early Church was being killed for their beliefs. In fact, early Christianity could be called a cult because Christian beliefs and practices – such as not sacrificing for the emperor – were considered strange and dangerous in ancient Rome.

And the church didn’t like that. So the powers that be in the church changed their beliefs, and then changed their interpretation of the Bible to match. This severely twisted cult, founded by David Berg and also known as Family International, is devoted to pedophilia and sex, to put it bluntly. The followers of this cult believed that sex with children was natural and right. Based on the belief that apocalypse is coming (doomsday cult), this cult uses “flirty fishing”(use of sex) to get new members for it. The children who were born as a result of flirty fishing were referred to as “Jesus Babies”. Rose McGowan, the American actor escaped from this cult and revealed some of its brutality later. It is rumoured that the female members of this cult are also forced to go into prostitution and sex slavery! According to Pew Research Center data from 2015, roughly 2% of cradle American evangelicals have converted to Catholicism in recent decades. While a small cohort, many of the loudest and most vehement opposition to Francis comes from formerly Protestant converts.A view of St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City, and Rome from the top of Michelangelo’s dome in St. Peter’s Basilica. Photo by David Iliff/Creative Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0 A frequent characteristic of cults is their emphasis on a “remnant identity”— that is, they claim to be God’s exclusive agent or people who restore “authentic Christianity,” which has been corrupted or lost. Usually this type of restorationism has an accompanying anticreedal and antihistorical mindset. While Catholicism has at times been guilty of an unfortunate exclusivity 13 (some Protestant churches have also), they emphatically deny restorationism, and strongly emphasize the continuity of God’s church throughout history. until after the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century. The concept of praying to Mary, saints, and angels is not found in