Ebook: Catholic Power Today

One day, sometime in the eighteenth century, the attention of a certain Frenchman, Francois Marie de Arouet, was directed to a case which first shook a town, then France, and finally Europe: the murder of Jean Calais, a Protestant merchant of Toulouse.
The Catholic Church had accused Calais of hanging one of his sons to prevent his becoming a Catholic, “as it was the common practice amongst Protestants. ” Calais was arrested, and the civil magistrates ecclesiastical orders—condemned the old man to the rack, to be broken alive upon the wheel and then to be burned to ashes. This decree was executed on March 9, 1762.
F. M. de Arouet dedicated the best part of three years to proving Calas’s complete innocence, which he did. Simultaneously he swore to wage relentless war against a church which was capable of such murderous intolerance. Having coined a slogan, Ecrasez l’infame, he used it in all his books, articles, letters. His one-man campaign eventually contributed, perhaps more than any other, to the overthrow of Catholic encroachment upon civil authority in France, and, indeed, in most of Europe in the decades to come. Francois Marie de Arouet’s other name: Voltaire.
One day, also in the same century, a certain Roger Williams, while passing through Springfield Green in the North American colonies, saw a youth of fourteen being burned at the stake by the civil magistrates, under orders of the Church of England. Roger Williams swore to fight to the utmost the Protestant church which had enjoined civil authority to enforce her religious tyranny.
Voltaire in Europe and Roger Williams in America, by openly revolting against Catholic and Protestant intolerance, had personified the will of the old and new worlds to get rid of all ecclesiastical encroachment upon civil authority.
Catholic Power today, as yesterday and tomorrow, has one supreme objective: the Catholicization of the human race.
To attain this, the Catholic Church will suffer no obstacles, be deterred by no barriers, tolerate no enemies, rivals, competitors, or even friends. Her clarion call to Ecumenism, reunion and Unity is nothing but a specious screen behind which to hide such millenarian ambition.
It cannot be otherwise. Her aim has never changed in the past, does not change in the present, and will change less in the future.
What has changed now is her strategy, her tactics, her methods, her approach, her parlance, and her seeming acceptance of modern liberties.
Neither her revolutionary innovations nor the individual humanity or intellectual liberality of some of her latest Popes can obliterate the central fact that she considers herself divinely inspired, divinely commissioned, and divinely predestined to Catholicize the world.
His book is warning of a danger, and a threat for the generations yet to come, a nightmarish omen for the future of mankind.
Baron Avro Manhattan was born April 6, 1914, in Milan, Italy, of American and Swiss/Dutch parents. He was educated at the Sorbonne in Paris and the London School of Economics. He was jailed in Italy for refusing to serve in the Fascist dictator Mussolini's army.
For his service he was made a Knight of Malta, a Knight of the House of Savoy as well as a Knight Templar, a Knight of the Order of Mercedes as well as a member of the Royal Society of Literature. Of his more than 20 books include the best-selling The Vatican in World Politics, was a best-seller translated into most major languages including Chinese and Russian.