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May 14, 2024 · The Vatican’s Gamble With Beijing Is Costing China’s Catholics. In trying to hold the Church together, Pope Francis has compromised on religious freedom. By Francis X. Rocca. Illustration...
- “Babylon”—What’S in A Name?
- Commits Fornication
- Clothed in Purple and Red
- Possesses Great Wealth
- A Golden Cup
- The Mother of Harlots
- Sheds The Blood of Saints
- Reigns Over Kings
Hunt notes that the Whore will be a city “known as Babylon.” This is based on Revelation 17:5, which says that her name is “Babylon the Great.” The phrase “Babylon the great” (Greek: Babulon a megala) occurs five times in Revelation (14:8, 16:19, 17:5, 18:2, and 18:21). Light is shed on its meaning when one notices that Babylon is referred to as “t...
Hunt tells us, “The woman is called a ‘whore’ (verse 1), with whom earthly kings ‘have committed fornication’ (verse 2). Against only two cities could such a charge be made: Jerusalem and Rome.” Here Hunt admits that the prophets often referred to Jerusalem as a spiritual whore, suggesting that the Whore might be apostate Jerusalem. Ancient, pagan ...
Hunt states, “She [the Whore] is clothed in ‘purple and scarlet’ (verse 4), the colors of the Catholic clergy.” He then cites the Catholic Encyclopedia to show that bishops wear certain purple vestments and cardinals wear certain red vestments. Hunt ignores the obvious symbolic meaning of the colors. Purple symbolizes repentance, and red honors the...
Hunt states, “[The Whore’s] incredible wealth next caught John’s eye. She was ‘decked with gold and precious stones and pearls . . . ’ [Rev. 17:4].” The problem is that, regardless of what it had in the past, the modern Vatican is not fantastically wealthy. In fact, it has run a budget deficit in most recent years and has an annual budget only arou...
Hunt states that the Whore “has ‘a golden cup [chalice] in her hand, full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication.’” This is another reference to Revelation 17:4. Then he states that the “Church is known for its many thousands of gold chalices around the world.” To make the Whore’s gold cup suggestive of the Eucharistic chalice, Hunt inse...
Now for Hunt’s most hilarious argument: “John’s attention is next drawn to the inscription on the woman’s forehead: ‘THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH’ (verse 5, [Hunt’s emphasis]). Sadly enough, the Roman Catholic Church fits that description as precisely as she fits the others. Much of the cause is due to the unbiblical doctrine...
Hunt states, “John next notices that the woman is drunk—not with alcohol but with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus . . . [cf. verse 6].” He then advances charges of brutality and killing by the Inquisitions, supposed forced conversions of nations, and even the Nazi holocaust. This section of the book abounds with ...
For his last argument, Hunt states, “Finally, the angel reveals that the woman ‘is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth’ (verse 18). Is there such a city? Yes, and again only one: Vatican City.” This is a joke. Vatican City has no power over other nations; it certainly does not reign over them. In fact, the Vatican’s very exi...
Catholic–Protestant relations refers to the social, political and theological relations and dialogue between the Catholics and Protestants . This relationship began in the 16th century with the beginning of the Reformation and thereby Protestantism. A number of factors contributed to the Protestant Reformation.
Mar 21, 2023 · Holy See draws attention to people facing religious persecution. Addressing the UN's council on Human Rights, the Vatican representative of the Holy See's Permanent Mission to the United Nations highlights the ongoing plight of people being persecuted for their religious beliefs. By Vatican News staff writer. Addressing the 52nd session of the ...
Nov 3, 2020 · Steve Weidenkopf • 11/3/2020. Listen to the audio version of this content. ‘They will persecute you’. In a discourse to his apostles, Jesus warned about the fate to befall Christians: “A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you” (John 15:20).
Oct 14, 2021 · VATICAN CITY — It's one of the few parts of the Vatican readily accessible to the public: a small office, steps inside the city-state's border, where Catholics can purchase certificates of papal ...
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The Centre of Christianity since the foundation of Saint Peter’s Basilica by Constantine (4th century), and at a later stage the permanent seat of the Popes, the Vatican is at once the pre-eminently holy city for Catholics, an important archaeological site of the Roman world and one of the major cultural reference points of both Christians ...
