Vatican Reverts to Setting Its Own Laws
Pope Benedict XVI is cleverly positioning the Vatican to be the legal standard for European law.
By: Ron Fraser / the Trumpet.com / January 21, 2009
This is a clever ploy with tremendous consequences for the future.
As Newsweek observed in its most recent edition, the pope firmly believes that 'his is the one true church' (January 5). To underline this, the pope declared last year that the only way for man to gain salvation is through conversion to the Catholic faith.
In addition to undertaking these initiatives, the pope has, from the earliest days of his pontificate, strengthened Pope John Paul II's cry for Europe to return to its religious and cultural roots, inferring that is the only way that Europe will regain the unity that it once knew under the old Holy Roman Empire.
Students of biblical prophecy ought to really make a strong connection between all of these papal pronouncements, in particular the most recent decision to become judge and jury over Italian law. These acts are all part of a masterful plan-one that European elites have been committed to since the close of World War ii: to indeed resurrect that ancient, ever-reviving institution of the Holy Roman Empire.
With a goodly number of committed Roman Catholics embedded within the legal and policy formulation echelons of the European Union, it is guaranteed that the EU legislative body, the European Parliament, will now increasingly take note of papal judgments on not only Italian law, but also, more significantly, EU law.
This latest move by Benedict sets a highly dangerous precedent for Europe. It is one more step toward the Vatican encouraging the imposition of a legal system that is destined to not only control the practice of religion throughout Europe, but also to control the lives of the masses to the point of life-and-death issues such as whether members of the general public will receive their daily bread! (Revelation 13:16-17)."
