THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS MADE SAINTS OUT OF
DELIBERATE FRAUDS
Point 1: Roman Catholicism teaches that canonisations,
declarations that somebody is in Heaven, are infallible. This is because the
person is set as a role model for the whole Church. The beliefs of the person
are examined to see if they fit Church doctrine. This is necessary for
canonisation. And their life is looked at to see evidence of heroic virtue - as
the Catholic Church understands virtue. A person who is canonised is called a
saint.
Point 2: The person who is to be canonised must do some
miracles after death to show he or she is a saint. If we find that people who
cannot be saints have done miracles that would show that miracles are not
reliable as propaganda.
The Catholics believe the saints help them with their prayers. But they claim to believe that it is really God who helps and not the saints. So why pray to the saints then? Why pray, "Mary be thou my salvation!" instead of praying, "God hear the prayers of Mary for me to save me." The reason is because you are satisfying your desire for a new deity - Mary! The saints prayed to saints. So they were really idolaters. They are not role models.
Saints have led to this fraud. People who have
prayed that fraudulent way have been canonised!
FRAUDULENT SAINTS
St Maria Maddalena De’ Pazzi who was born in 1566 in Florence tortured herself
from childhood and died when she was thirty-three. She slept on the floor and
rolled in nettles and thorns. She had healing powers and could float in mid-air.
She was stigmatised at 19. Her penances have been described as unbelievable.
Seemingly as a grim trophy for breaking the world record for self-abuse, her
intact body reposes in a glass case in the Carmelite Church of Florence. There
is no scientific explanation for why she has not decayed simply because science
has not got the chance to examine her right. It would be an evil miracle for
that lady fasted continuously and miraculously for years on bread and water and
claimed she ate nothing else which is a dangerous example for anorexics. She
used to be found with food presses open but her excuse was that demons did it to
tempt her to break her holy fast (page 37, From Fasting Saints to Anorexic
Girls). Some miracle. Her stigmata must have been dubious as well when her
miracle fast was a hoax.
St Veronica Guilani was caught raiding the larder too though she claimed to be
fasting by virtue of a miracle. But this did not stop the Church making a saint
of her. The excuse given was that it was a demon in her form that was seen
gorging down food in the kitchen (ibid page 37). What point would there be in
God doing a miracle when he is going to let a demon do that for then you end up
guessing that the miracle was true which spoils the whole point of doing the
miracle. She was a stigmatist too which indicates how miraculous her wounds
were. Bizarrely, she prayed that the wounds would become invisible to prevent
the bishop and other examining them for it was so painful (page 139, The
Bleeding Mind). What use would an invisible miracle be to other people and God
isn’t going to do a miracle just for her. When she wanted to keep the wounds why
should she have minded the bishop hurting her for they couldn’t have been any
sorer anyway. She hinted that she was faking her wounds.
Blessed Elizabeth of Reute who died in 1420 was another
stigmatist who claimed to have lived for years without any food though food had
been found under her bed (page 37, From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls).
Again, it was assumed the Devil put it there. Saints who can live for years
without food, in many cases living on the consecrated wafer at Mass alone for
years, are shown to be less convincing when there are several cases of people
like Barbara Kremers from Germany who were eventually caught though everybody
was sure they were for real for they had been watched continuously to see if
they were eating on the sly and had done nothing suspicious.
Another indication of fraud is the fact that tiredness, constipation and sickness due to the fasting was very frequent (page 220, From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls). You would not expect that with a real miracle.
Yet another is the fact that many anorexics have died
believing they had the miracle of living without food performed by the Holy
Spirit on their bodies so the fruits of faith in this miracle, the miracle of
inedia, are diabolical to say the least. When the Church says that only human
credence can be attached to such miracles for it is not certain they are from
God it is clear that it is a sin for inediacs to refuse food and take the risk.
St John of the Cross warned about the dangers of apparitions and miracles for
they can so easily lead to illusion.
David Blaine was enclosed for 44 days in a glass case
above London in 2003 and was under constant camera surveillance to verify that
he had not eaten in that entire period. He did not show any physical change such
as getting thinner until much later on in the stunt. He did so well that it was
impossible to believe he was not eating but he wasn’t as urine tests verified.
He himself says there was nothing psychic or supernatural about his stunt. When
a magician could do that why couldn’t a Catholic saint be using discipline and
trickery as well?
When long and physical wonders like inedia and stigmata are so dubious though they should be more easily verifiable than visionaries and that ilk it bodes far worse for the latter. We should be treble suspicious where they are concerned. Nobody reporting these wonders should be canonised.
St Joseph Calasanz who was made the patron saint of all
the Catholic schools in the world by Pope Pius XII and praised by John Paul II
covered up clerical child-abuse in the teaching order of priests he founded. The
saint was canonised by Pope Clement XIII in 1767.
The saints we have looked at show that canonisations cannot be taken seriously.
THE WWW
The following two sites show just what a liar Mother Teresa was and her callous
heart is laid bare. They show the deceit of Pope John Paul II who was eager to
make a saint of her.
OPEN LETTER TO MOTHER TERESA, Aroup Chaterjee
http://website.lineone.net/~bajuu/chatlet.htm
MOTHER TERESA THE FINAL VERDICT Aroup Chaterjee
http://www.meteorbooks.com/index.html
This fascinating book reveals shockers such as that the pope has beatified
Archbishop Stepinac of Zagreb who stood idly by as Jews and Communists were
hounded to their deaths and the notorious fascist Cardinal Schuster of Milan.
THE POWER AND THE GLORY, Inside the Dark Heart of John Paul II's Vatican, David
Yallop, Constable, London, 2007 page 362 shows that there is no record or
evidence that Stepinac did anything to stop the priests and religious under his
authority who were part of efforts to force people into conversion to the Church
or die. The most senior Ustashi war criminals who operated this scheme were
protected by the Vatican until 1947 (page 363). The Vatican ratline for war
criminals enabled 30,000 plus to escape (page 364). Stepinac is quoted as giving
an defence of his evil actions that amounted to saying he should be excused for
he was only obeying orders (page 364).
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