The Pope as “Ruler” of America?

By Stephen D. Mumford, DrPH | 12 May 2015
Church and State

Excerpt from Chapter 7 of our Chairman Dr. Stephen D. Mumford’s book, American Democracy and the Vatican: Population Growth and National Security (1984). The book is available at Kindle here and to read for free here.

Now that 150 million Latin American Catholics are poised for illegal immigration to the United States, a Catholic majority in the United States is clearly achievable in the next fifteen years. The Church merely needs to continue successfully thwarting illegal immigration control efforts for fifteen more years. With a Catholic majority, the Church will no longer tolerate a feeling of discomfort with American democracy. “The Catholic hierarchy is perfectly willing to compromise with democratic forms of government so long as its own special areas of power are respected. In a Catholic America the principal institutions of American democracy might be permitted to continue if they were operated for Catholic objectives.”[71]

As mentioned earlier in this chapter, the Vatican claims sovereignty everywhere there are Catholics in the areas of faith and morals, including the United States, and their claim is based upon “divine right.” Who determines what subjects come within the broad sweep of “faith and morals”? The pope, of course! The power to define jurisdiction makes authority almost limitless. The word morals is so broad that it invites indefinite expansion; similarly the word faith. “If faith deals with ideas and morals deals with behavior, is not the whole range of human experience encompassed within the papal claim?”[72]

Three-and-one-half decades ago, the editor of the leading diocesan paper in the United States, Monsignor Matthew Smith, made the position of the Catholic bishops quite clear. They favor a partial union in which the Church will have a privileged position as the recognized sovereign of the nation’s moral and religious life. “Where the Catholics are in overwhelming majority, it is theoretically better to have an official union of Church and State, with the state participating from time to time in public worship and using the machinery of government, when needed, to help the Church.”[73]

There must be concern that American democracy will find itself less and less tolerated by the Vatican as it achieves more and more power in America. “The Vatican’s affinity with fascism is neither accidental nor incidental. Catholicism conditions its people to accept censorship, thought-control, and, ultimately, dictatorship. Says Count Coudenhove-Kalergi, who was reared as a Catholic:

Catholicism is the fascist form of Christianity of which Calvinism represents its democratic wing. The Catholic hierarchy rests fully and securely on the leadership principle with the infallible Pope in supreme command for a lifetime…. Like the Fascist party, its priesthood becomes a medium for an undemocratic minority rule by a hierarchy…. Catholic nations follow fascist doctrines more willingly than Protestant nations, which are the main strongholds of democracy…. Democracy lays its stress on personal conscience; fascism on authority and obedience.”[74]

With increasing power of the Catholic hierarchy, we are seeing more and more defiance of American law. Specific examples will be discussed in later chapters. Under existing circumstances, we can expect this trend to continue.

The Catholic hierarchy constantly uses American Catholics by identifying its clerical ambitions, including its design to acquire more power, with the supposed wishes of its people. We have reviewed the major methods the hierarchy uses to fulfill these aspirations. Many of the hierarchy’s social and political policies are clearly incompatible with Western democracy and American culture and no American should ever apologize because he or she objects to these policies.

A good understanding of the hierarchy’s methods and policies are essential to understanding the population problem. Many of the population field’s most distinguished scientists and field workers have personally been victims of the hierarchy’s methods and policies and have been driven from the field. Among the survivors are many advocates of a policy of appeasement and limited cooperation with the Church. That they have survived is no doubt by Catholic hierarchy design, as will be shown in the next chapter. A few may be idealists of unquestioned integrity, though I am not sure I have ever met such a person. Most are cowards. They refuse to accept the facts about the Catholic Church discussed in this book and attempt to pass off their lack of courage for “tolerance and broadmindedness.”

These “idealists” fall back on the cliché, “You should never criticize another man’s religion.” That innocent-sounding doctrine, born in a Protestant America before the arrival of a significant Vatican presence, is full of danger to U.S. security. It ignores the duty of every good citizen to stand for the truth in every field of thought, most importantly, in matters of national security, including population growth control. It fails to recognize that a large part of what the Vatican calls religion is also politics and economics. The facts suggest that silence about “another man’s religion” means acquiescence to a complete loss of national security.

The remaining chapters will deal with specific cases of the Vatican’s application of these techniques and policies. Offered here are the disastrous results of the policies of the population field’s advocates of appeasement and “cooperation.”

[71] Paul Blanshard, American Freedom and Catholic Power (Boston: The Beacon Press, 1950), p. 267.
[72] Ibid., p. 25.
[73] Ibid., p. 50. [Quoted from the Denver Catholic Register.]
[74] Ibid., p. 257. [Quoted from Crusade for Pan-Europe.]

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