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ANSWER: The counter-reformation is the response of Roman Catholicism to counteract and utterly destroy the Protestant Reformation. They devised five main strategies to counteract the Reformation which are as follows: [i]I. “[Faith Militant] Rome’s recognition of the Jesuits as a militant Catholic order raised up to combat the reformation in the schools, universities, and colleges of the world.”Did you know that Ignatius de Loyola (1491-1556), the founder of the Society of Loyola (the Jesuit Order) was a contemporary of Martin Luther (1483-1546)?“Between 1555 and 1931 the Society of Jesus was expelled from at least 83 countries, city states and cities, for engaging in political intrigue and subversion plots against the welfare of the State, according to the records of a Jesuit priest of repute…Practically every instance of expulsion was for political intrigue, political infiltration, political subversion, and inciting to political insurrection.”—J. E. C. Shepherd (Canadian historian), “The Babington Plot: Jesuit Intrigue in Elizabethan England” (Toronto, Canada: Wittenburg Publications): 12:According to Abraham Lincoln, “The Protestants of both the North and South would surely unite to exterminate the priests and the Jesuits, if they could learn how the priests, the nuns, and the monks, which daily land on our shores, under the pretest of preaching their religion... are nothing else but the emissaries of the Pope, of Napoleon III, and the other despots of Europe, to undermine our institutions, alienate the hearts of our people from our constitution, and our laws, destroy our schools, and prepare a reign of anarchy here as they have done in Ireland, in Mexico, in Spain, and wherever there are any people who want to be free.”—Restated in ¨Fifty Years in the Church of Rome¨ by Charles Chiniquy, (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1968; originally published in 1886) p. 499.Abraham Lincoln was hired by Charles Chiniquy as a lawyer. Chiniquy was a former Catholic Priest."At what then do the Jesuits aim? According to them, they only seek the greater glory of God but if you examine the facts you will find that they aim at universal dominion alone. They have rendered themselves indispensable to the Pope, who, without them, could not exist, because Catholicism is identified with them. They have rendered themselves indispensable to governors and hold revolutions in their hands; and in this way, either under one name or another, it is they who rule the world..."—Luigi Desanctis, “Popery, Puseyism and Jesuitism¨, (London: D. Catt, 1905; translated by Maria Betts from the original Italian edition published as Roma Papale in 1865), p. 139.An excerpt of the Jesuit Oath: “I furthermore promise and declare that I will, when opportunity present, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do, to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex or condition; and that I will hang, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants' heads against the walls, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poisoned cup, the strangulating cord, the steel of the poniard or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity, or authority of the person or persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by any agent of the Pope or Superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Faith, of the Society of Jesus.”—Carlos Didier, “Subterranean Rome” (translated from the French and published in New York in 1843). Dr. Alberto Rivera escaped from the Jesuit Order in 1967, and he describes his Jesuit oath in exactly the same way as it appears in this book, “Semper idem: always the same”—The Jesuit Oath of Induction is also recorded in the Congressional Record of the U.S. (House Bill 1523, Contested election case of Eugene C. Bonniwell, against Thos. S. Butler, Feb. 15, 1913, pp. 3215-3216).According to the historical writings of the most translated female author in the history of literature:“Throughout Christendom, Protestantism was menaced by formidable foes. The first triumphs of the Reformation past, Rome summoned new forces, hoping to accomplish its destruction. At this time the order of the Jesuits was created, the most cruel, unscrupulous, and powerful of all the champions of popery. Cut off from earthly ties and human interests, dead to the claims of natural affection, reason and conscience wholly silenced, they knew no rule, no tie, but that of their order, and no duty but to extend its power. The gospel of Christ had enabled its adherents to meet danger and endure suffering, undismayed by cold, hunger, toil, and poverty, to uphold the banner of truth in face of the rack, the dungeon, and the stake. To combat these forces, Jesuitism inspired its followers with a fanaticism that enabled them to endure like dangers, and to oppose to the power of truth all the weapons of deception. There was no crime too great for them to commit, no deception too base for them to practice, no disguise too difficult for them to assume. Vowed to perpetual poverty and humility, it was their studied aim to secure wealth and power, to be devoted to the overthrow of Protestantism, and the re-establishment of the papal supremacy.”—E.G. White, “The Great Controversy” (unabridged version), Pacific Press Publishing Association (Mountain View, California); Chapter 12—’The French Revolution’, p. 267"When appearing as members of their [Jesuit] order, they wore a garb of sanctity, visiting prisons and hospitals, ministering to the sick and the poor, professing to have renounced the world, and bearing the sacred name of Jesus, who went about doing good. But under this blameless exterior the most criminal and deadly purposes were often concealed. It was a fundamental principle of the order that the end justifies the means [Machiavellian ethics]. By this code, lying, theft, perjury, assassination, were not only pardonable but commendable, when they served the interests of the church. Under various disguises the Jesuits worked their way into offices of state, climbing up to be the counselors of kings, and shaping the policy of nations. They became servants to act as spies upon their masters. They established colleges for the sons of princes and nobles, and schools for the common people; and the children of Protestant parents were drawn into an observance of popish rites. All the outward pomp and display of the Romish worship was brought to bear to confuse the mind and dazzle and captivate the imagination, and thus the liberty for which the fathers had toiled and bled was betrayed by the sons. The Jesuits rapidly spread themselves over Europe, and wherever they went, there followed a revival of popery." —Ibid, p. 268In 1816, John Adams wrote to President Thomas Jefferson,“Shall we not have regular swarms of them [Jesuits] here, in as many disguises as only a king of the gypsies can assume, dressed as painters, publishers, writers, and schoolmasters? If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on Earth and in hell it is this Society of Loyola’s”—George Reimer, “The New Jesuits” (Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown & Co., 1971) p. 14Are the Jesuits still relevant in the Catholic Church?Pope Benedict XVI to the Jesuits (February 21, 2008):"For this, I have invited you today to also reflect, in order to find again a sense of fuller obedience to the Successor of Peter, so that it does not only involve the cases of sending you on missions to far lands, but also - in the most genuine ignited spirit of "feeling with the Church and in the Church" - "to love and to serve" the Vicar of Christ on earth with that "effective and affective" devotion that must make of you the precious and irreplaceable collaborators in the service for the universal Church."—Translated From The Original Latin: “DISCORSO DI SUA SANTITÀ BENEDETTO XVI AI PADRI DELLA CONGREGAZIONE GENERALE DELLA COMPAGNIA DI GESÙ.” Sala Clementino Glovedi, 21 febbraio 2008//ABOVE: Painting of Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit Order), kneeling before Pope Paul III in AD 1534. The Order was officially formalized in 1540 through a Papal bull sent from Pope Paul III. In January 10, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI addressed the Jesuits in letter (prior to the election of the Jesuit General, Peter-Hans Kolvenbach) calling upon the Jesuits to “to implement ever better the ideal of the [Jesuit] Society”.II. “[Tradition Over Scripture] The Council of Trent (1545 - 1563) which affirmed the conquest of tradition over the cry of the reformers to abide by Scripture only.”“Tradition, NOT Scripture, is the rock on which the [Catholic] church of Jesus Christ is built.”—Adrien Nampon, from the ¨Catholic Doctrine as Defined by the Council of Trent¨ (p. 157)“Now if God commands me under pain of damnation to believe what He has taught, He is bound to give me the means to know what He has taught. What is this means? ‘The Bible,’ say the Protestants. But we Catholics say, ‘No, not the Bible, but the Church of God.’”—"An Open Letter To Non-Catholics," Our Catholic Faith Website.“The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons…ARE ALL OF PAGAN ORIGIN AND SANCTIFIED BY THEIR ADOPTION INTO THE [CATHOLIC] CHURCH.”—Catholic Cardinal John Newman, “An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine” (London: Basil Montague Pickering, 1878): 373“It has often been charged… that CATHOLICISM IS OVERLAID WITH MANY PAGAN INCRUSTATIONS. Catholicism is ready to accept that accusation and even to make it her boast… THE GREAT GOD PAN IS NOT REALLY DEAD, HE IS BAPTIZED”—”The Story of Catholicism” p. 37.A History lesson on Tradition:Constantine’s ChristianityThe Infiltration of Tradition//ABOVE: A painting of the Council of Trent made by Pasquale Cati in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome (1588). This council reaffirmed the Catholic understanding of Tradition and Scripture in response to the Protestant Reformation’s belief in “Sola Scriptura”.III. “[Learning Against Learning] The invention of counter interpretations of the reformers' historicist approach to Biblical prophecy.”“The Jesuits [Society of Jesus] were commissioned by the Pope to develop a new interpretation of Scripture that would counteract the Protestant application of the Bible’s prophecies regarding the Antichrist to the Roman Catholic Church. All the reformers’ studies pointed the finger directly at the Roman Catholic Church as the Antichrist power described in Daniel as the ‘little horn.’”—Source: Jesuit Futurism, Amazing DiscoveriesThe intent of both Futurism and Preterism was to be diversionary, as part of Church politics, so that it served only to counter or offset the Protestant Historical interpretation of prophecy by presenting alternatives, no matter how implausible they might be.THE RISE OF FUTURISM: “Francisco Ribera (1537-1591), a brilliant Jesuit priest and doctor of theology from Spain, answered Papacy’s call. Like Martin Luther, Francisco Ribera also read by candlelight the prophecies about the Antichrist, the little horn, the man of sin, and the beast of Revelation.¨—George Eldon Ladd, The Blessed Hope. A Biblical Study of the Second Advent and Rapture (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1956): 37-38.What resulted from Ribera´s political counter-theology was futurism.“the belief that John wrote primarily about events that have yet to occur even in our day, including the future rise of the antichrist. Futurism is the interpretation put forth by the popular Left Behind series and today enjoys the most support from mainstream Protestant Christianity. Ironically, this theory was first put forth by a Jesuit—Francisco Ribera—in the late 1500s.”—Robert Caringola, Seventy Weeks: The Historical Alternative (Abundant Life Ministries Reformed Press, 1991): 6.“It is a matter of deep regret that those who hold and advocate the futurist system at the present day, Protestants as they are for the most part, are thus really playing into the hands of Rome, and helping to screen the Papacy from detection as the Antichrist.”—Joseph Tanner, Daniel and the Revelation: The Chart of Prophecy and Our Place In It, A Study of the Historical and Futurist Interpretation (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1898): 16.Later on, Futurism would be popularized for Protestants in the form of what is known as “dispensationalism”.Ironically, unknown to almost all protestants who adhere to dispensationalism, dispensationalism was actually invented much earlier by the Chilean Jesuit named Manuel Lacunza (1731-1801) who posed as a converted Jew under the pseudonym “Juan Josafat Ben-Ezra”. The Jesuits are important because they spearheaded the counter-reformation.This Jesuit priest wrote a large apocalyptic work in Spanish entitled “The Coming of the Messiah in Glory and Majesty” which remained virtually unknown for many years. Then an enterprising man named Edward Irving translated it into English.[Is it also just coincidental that modern speaking in tongues started in Irving's church?]Then John Nelson Darby took that doctrine and modernized it after which Roman Catholic cardinals added a touch or two about the Antichrist coming from the tribe of Dan. The Papists deliberately fed it to Protestant Christianity who fell for it (about ninety-five percent of the Christian world today teaches dispensationalism).THE RISE OF PRETERISM:A Jesuit by the name of Luis del Alcázar (1554–1613) wrote a book, later to be published in 1614, which proposes theories of eschatology that would later be called “Preterism”.Preterism is understood in this manner,“Revelation [is] described [as] the plight of Christians in the late first century, and its apocalyptic symbols pointed directly to [the city of] Rome as the church’s persecutor...Most modern [preterist] interpreters...insist that the book was never intended to predict conditions or events beyond the first century.”—Jerry L. Walls, The Oxford handbook of eschatology (Oxford University Press, 2007)In other words, it is the belief that the apostle John wrote Revelation as a book of mere history which ends by AD 70. Preterism teaches that the the book of revelation describes, with symbolic elements, the extreme challenges of the early Christian church in overcoming the antichrist power of Pagan Rome and the influence of Judaism and thereby screening the Papacy from the detection of being the Antichrist.Those who ascribe to this interpretation are likely to associate the Antichrist with the Greek King, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, and not the Pope.Did you know that the first person to call the seat of the papacy ¨Antichrist¨ was himself a pope?Pope Gregory the Great (540-604) in his letter to the Emperor Mauritius, Book 4, Letter 30, he states, ¨Moreover, I say confidently that anyone calling himself universal priest [Pope or Supreme Pontiff], or desires to be so called, shows himself, by this self-exaltation, to be the forerunner to the Antichrist because by this display of pride he sets himself superior to others…¨"We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty."—Pope Leo XIII, in an Encyclical letter, June 20, 1894. [This is the blasphemous/pompous speech mentioned in Daniel 7:25]"The leader of the Catholic church is defined by the faith as the Vicar of Jesus Christ (and is accepted as such by believers). The Pope is considered the man on earth who TAKES THE PLACE [this is what “Anti-Christ” means - “to take place” or “in place of”] of the Second Person of the omnipotent God of the Trinity."—Pope John Paul II, “Crossing the Threshold of Hope”, p. 3, 199"The Pope is NOT only the representative [Vicar] of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ Himself, hidden under veil of flesh."—The Catholic National, July, 1895.//ABOVE: [Left] Title page from “Vestigatio arcani sensus in Apocalypsi” (1614) written by the Jesuit, Luis del Alcázar (1554–1613)—this put forth what would later be called the ‘preterist’ view of eschatological Bible Prophecy. [Right] Page from “In Sacrum Beati Ioannis Apostoli, & Evangelistiae Apocalypsin Commentarij” (1590) written by the Jesuit, Francisco Ribera (1537-1591)—this put forth what would later be called the ‘futurist’ view of prophetic eschatology.IV. “[Censorship] The creation of the Index of Forbidden Books (including the Bible in the language of the people) which the Roman Papacy would not allow to be read or circulated.”They hate the received text,"Then the Bible, that serpent which with head erect and eyes flashing threatens us [Jesuits] with its venom while it trails along the ground, shall be changed into a rod as soon as we are able to seize it... for three centuries past this cruel asp has left us no repose. You well know with what folds it entwines us and with what fangs it gnaws us.”—¨The Jesuits in History¨, Hector Macpherson, (Springfield, Missouri: Ozark Book Publishers, 1997; originally published in 1900) Appendix 1."Wherever the so-called Counter-Reformation, started by the Jesuits, gained hold of the people, the vernacular was suppressed and the Bible kept from laity. So eager were the Jesuits to destroy the authority of the Bible — the paper pope of the Protestants, as they contemptuously called it — that they even did not refrain from criticizing its genuineness and historical value."—Von Dobshutz, "The Influence of the Bible", p. 136They resorted to church espionage,“Before the English people could go the way of the Continent and be brought to question their great English Bible, the course of their thinking must be changed. Much had to be done to discredit, in their eyes, the Reformation—its history, doctrines, and documents—which they looked upon as a great work of God. This task was accomplished by those who, while working under cover, passed as friends. In what numbers the Jesuits were at hand to bring' this about the following words, from one qualified to know, will reveal:”—Benjamin G. Wilkinson, “Our Authorized Bible Vindicated”, Leaves of Autumn Books, Inc., 1996According to a priest at Rome, Professor of Theology and the official Theological Censor of the Inquisition,"The English clergy were formerly too much attached to their Articles of Faith to be shaken from them. You might have employed in vain all the machines set in motion by Bossuet and the Jansenists of France to reunite them to the Romish Church; and so the Jesuits of England tried another plan. This was to demonstrate from history and ecclesiastical antiquity the legitimacy of the usages of the English Church, whence, through the exertions of the Jesuits concealed among its [protestant] clergy, might arise a studious attention to Christian antiquity. This was designed to occupy the clergy in long, laborious, and abstruse investigation, and to alienate them from their Bibles."—Gaetano De Sanctis, “Popery and Jesuitism in Rome”, pp. 126,134; quoted in Walsh, “Secret History of Oxford Movement”, p. 33.John Henry Newman (canonized as a Saint by Pope Francis in 2019), leader of the Oxford movement who later became a Catholic Cardinal, wrote in 1841:“Only through the English Church can you act upon the English nation. I wish, of course, our Church should be consolidated, with and through and in your communion, for its sake, and your sake, and for the sake of unity.”—J.H. Newman, “Apologia”, p. 225 [He and his associates believed that Protestantism was Antichrist]F.W. Faber one of the associates of John Henry Newman (the leader of the Oxford movement) in the Oxford Movement, said:“Protestantism is perishing: what is good in it is by God's mercy being gathered into the garners of Rome... My whole life, God willing, shall be one crusade against the detestable and diabolical heresy of Protestantism."—J.E. Bowden, “Life of F.W. Faber” (1869), p. 192//ABOVE: A page taken from the Index of Forbidden Books.V. “[Inquisition] The use of persecution (largely through the Inquisition) to exterminate ‘heretics’ who disagreed with the doctrines and traditions of the Roman Church.”“From the birth of Popery in 606 [AD], to the present time, it is estimated by careful and credible historians, that more than fifty millions [a conservative estimate] of the human family have been slaughtered for the crime of heresy by popish persecutors, an average of more than forty thousand murders for every year of the existence of Popery.”—John Dowling, “History of Romanism,” pp. 541, 542. New York: 1871.Even LONG before the Protestant Reformation of AD 1517, the Papacy was bent on massacring any who denounced the authority of the Bishop of Rome.In AD 860 when King Bagoris (had become a recent catholic) inquired Pope Nicholas I (who Catholics call “Nicholas the Great”) if he had sinned in compelling his subjects to become Catholics, even putting to death those who refused, through a letter, Pope Nicholas I responded with,“I glorify you for having maintained your authority by putting to death those wandering sheep who refused to enter the fold; and you not only have not sinned, by showing a holy rigour, but I even congratulate you on having opened the kingdom of heaven to the people submitted to your rule. A king need not fear to command massacres, when these will retain his subjects in obedience, or cause them to submit to the faith of Christ; and God will reward him in this world, and in eternal life, for these murders.“—Louis Marrie de Cormenin, “A Complete History of the Popes of Rome”, Vol. 1, 1851 ed., p. 244).“The papacy acknowledges that they have done just this when they said, ‘The church has persecuted. Only a tyro [novice] in history will deny that… Protestants were persecuted in France and Spain with the full approval of the church authorities. We have always defended the persecution of the Huguenots and the Spanish Inquisition.’”—”Western Watchman”, a Roman Catholic periodical, December 24, 1908.THE HUGUENOT MASSACRE: In AD 1572, the King of France was urged on by Romish priests and prelates to lend his sanction for the massacre of the Huguenots in France. The plan was, upon the signal of a bell tolling at dead of night, to commence the slaughter of the innocents. Protestants (men, women, and children) by thousands were sleeping quietly in their homes “trusting to the plighted honor of their king, were dragged forth without a warning and murdered in cold blood.” (The Bible and the French Revolution). This is also known as the “St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre”. The frenzied soldiers killed at least 10,000 Protestants during the first three days and at least 8,000 more Protestants as the slaughter spread throughout the countryside.THE WALDENSIAN MASSACRE“Little [Waldensian] children were torn from the arms of their mothers, clasped by their tiny feet, and their heads dashed against the rocks [comprare this to the Jesuit Oath]; or were held between two soldiers and their quivering limbs torn up by main force. Their mangled bodies were then thrown on the highways or fields, to be devoured by beasts. The sick and the aged were burned alive in their dwellings. Some had their hands and arms and legs lopped off, and fire applied to the severed parts to staunch the bleeding and prolong their suffering. Some were flayed alive, some were roasted alive, some disemboweled; or tied to trees in their own orchards, and their hearts cut out. Some were horribly mutilated, and of others the brains were boiled and eaten by these cannibals. Some were fastened down into the furrows of their own fields, and ploughed into the soil as men plough manure into it. Others were buried alive. Fathers were marched to death with the heads of their sons suspended round their necks. Parents were compelled to look on while their children were first outraged [raped], then massacred, before being themselves permitted to die.”—Wylie, J. A. (1996) [1860]. “History of the Waldenses”. Hartland, p. 132. [This is historically known as the ‘Piedmont Easter massacre’ of the year 1655. It is estimated that around 1,700 Waldensians were slaughtered in such a brutal manner that it aroused severe indignation throughout Europe.]“Alas! alas! these poor people were undone. They [Waldensian Protestants] had received under their roof the executioners of themselves and their families. The first two days, the 22d and 23d of April, passed in peace, the soldiers sitting at the same table, sleeping under the same roof, and conversing freely with their destined victims … At last the blow fell like a thunderbolt. At four of the clock on the morning of the 24th April the signal was given from the Castle of La Torre. But who shall describe the scenes that followed? On the instant a thousand assassins began the work of death … LITTLE CHILDREN WERE TORN FROM THE ARMS OF THEIR MOTHERS, and DASHED AGAINST THE ROCKS; or, more horrible still, they were held betwixt two soldiers, who, unmoved by their piteous cries and the sight of their quivering limbs, tore them up into two halves. Their bodies were then thrown on the highways and the fields. Sick persons and old people, men and women, were burned alive in their own houses; some were hacked in pieces; some were bound up in the form of a BALL, and precipitated over the rocks or rolled down the mountains … Some were slowly DISMEMBERED, and FIRE APPLIED TO THE WOUNDS to staunch the bleeding and prolong their sufferings; some were FLAYED ALIVE; some ROASTED ALIVE; others were DISEMBOWELLED; some were horribly and SHAMEFULLY MUTILATED, and of others the FLESH AND BRAINS WERE BOILED AND ACTUALLY EATEN by these cannibals.”—Jean Leger, “L'Histoire Générale des Eglises Evangeliques des Vallées de Piemont ou Vaudoises” [Note on the author: Jean Léger was a Pastor of the Piedmontese valleys and a first-hand witness of the massacres. He saw his goods confiscated and his house razed by order of the Duke of Savoy. He took refuge in Leiden where he was appointed pastor of the Walloon Church in 1663. The Court of Rome destroyed a large number of copies of this work by which most of the figures within his work illustrated the ferocity with which the repression of the Waldensians (also called “Vaudois”) was carried out. Pastor Léger comes from a very old line of "Barbes" and was the moderator (president) of the Vaudois churches.]“Church historian R. Tudor Jones writes that ‘the majority of the martyrs were ordinary people, including many women’...John Foxe was an eyewitness and earnest historian of the fierce persecution in England in his day. His Book of Martyrs gives detailed accounts of many public trials and executions of those whom the Roman Catholic Church judged to be ‘heretics’ worthy of death. His descriptions of Christians being burned at the stake tell of their inspiring bravery in the face of such a horrible death and of the determination of Roman Catholicism to exterminate everywhere true Christians who opposed her. Similar records have come down of the massacres of Jews at the hands of the Roman Church.”—Dave Hunt, A Cup of Trembling (Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House Publishers, 1995): 160:“Of eighty popes in a line from the thirteenth century on, not one of them disapproved of the theology and apparatus of Inquisition. On the contrary, one after another added his own cruel touches to the workings of this deadly machine.”—Peter de Rosa, “Vicars of Christ: The Dark Side of the Papacy” (New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1988): p.175An Example of Papal Aggression Towards Protestant Nations:“Most of our encyclopedias and history textbooks do NOT tell us that the purpose of the attempted invasion of England in 1588 by the Spanish Armada was to land troops in England to be joined by local Roman Catholics in an effort to overthrow the government and bring England [under the rule of the Protestant Queen of England, Queen Elizabeth I], by force, back under the authority of Papal Rome! The Roman Catholic King of Spain (Philip II) wanted financial ‘compensation’ for launching this invasion. And so the Roman pontiff, Pope Sixtus V, promised King Philip II 200,000 crowns as soon as the Spanish Armada had set sail for England, and more cash to follow later. Thus the Papacy was helping to fund the planned invasion of England (all emphasis in original)!”—Darryl Eberhart, "Deceitful Revisers, Tackling the Tough Topics” (January 20, 2006). [In fact, Pope Sixtus V treated this invasion of England as another ‘crusade’]."The Jesuits were called to help and they said, 'We must undermine the Bible of the Protestants and destroy their teachings.'... The Queen of England realizing the damage the Jesuit [Douay] Bible would do, sent to Europe for Beza, who was with John Calvin, to help...Thomas Cartwright... With one hand he took hold of all the Greek manuscripts and with the other hand he took hold of all the Latin manuscripts from the Received Text, and he hit the Jesuit Bible blow after blow...Finally the Spanish Armada came against England with 136 armed ships some with 50 cannons... England could only gather thirty ships and these were lead by Sir Francis Drake. Freak storms came down the English Channel and the Spanish ships were found wrecked right up to the Scottish coast and England became a great sea power."—Les Garret, 1982, “Which Bible Can We Trust?”, Christian Centre Press. P. 60)Inquisition resources:Timeline of Bloody History of Papal RomeHistorical quotes about The Bloody History of Papal RomeInquisition EncyclopediaEven to this very day, the Jesuit influence during the Holocaust shouldn’t be overlooked: Jesuits and the Nazi Party (the crusade of the 20th century)Did the Catholic Church change the doctrines regarding supposed ‘heresy’?The Papacy itself says that no doctrines were changed during Vatican II:“FIRST QUESTION: Did the Second Vatican Council change the Catholic doctrine on the Church?RESPONSE: The Second Vatican Council neither changed nor intended to change this doctrine, rather it developed, deepened and more fully explained it. This was exactly what John XXIII said at the beginning of the Council. Paul VI affirmed it and commented in the act of promulgating the Constitution Lumen gentium: “There is no better comment to make than to say that this promulgation really changes nothing of the traditional doctrine. What Christ willed, we also will. What was, still is. What the Church has taught down through the centuries, we also teach. In simple terms that which was assumed, is now explicit; that which was uncertain, is now clarified; that which was meditated upon, discussed and sometimes argued over, is now put together in one clear formulation (emphasis added).”—The Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, “Responses to Some Questions Regarding Certain Aspects of the Doctrine on the Church”, from Vatican.va. [It is interesting to note that the “Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith”, the oldest among the nine congregations of the Roman Curia, is formerly known as the “Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition”]“All dogmatic decrees of the pope, made with or without this general council, are infallible… Once made, no pope or council can reverse them…This is the Catholic principle, that the church cannot err in faith.”—”The Catholic World”, June 1871, pp. 422-423.“[The Catholic] church never erred; nor will it, according to the Scriptures, ever err”.—John L. von Mosheim, “Institutes of Ecclesiastical History”, book 3, century II, part 2, chapter 2, section 9, note 17“Prior to 1960, the Catholic Church was still regarded with suspicion by many, and the ideas of the reformers remained in the minds of many Protestants. History had made it abundantly clear that the Catholic Church was not friendly to anyone that opposed her. Anyone refusing to accept Catholic doctrine or to submit to Catholic rule had been seen as a heretic. People still felt that Roman Catholics believed that salvation was only to be found within the Catholic Church. But in 1962, Pope John XXII called the Vatican II Council. This ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church did not revoke any of its doctrines or statements, but did declare that salvation was not restricted only to Roman Catholics, but could be found by all who live according their consciences. This seemed like a huge concession on the part of the Roman See, but in reality, it was only a half-­truth, as the Papacy maintains that only the will of the Pope and the doctrines of the Catholic Church are acceptable for any good Christian.”—Professor Walter J. Veith, PhD, “The Vatican II Council”, Amazing Discoveries™, (May 9, 2014)“There is no graver offense than heresy... and therefore it must be rooted out with fire and sword.”—Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 14 (1911): 767-768“A heretic merits the pains of fire....By the Gospel, the canons, civil law, and custom, heretics must be burned.”—”The American Textbook of Popery”, p 164 (quoting from the “Directory for the Inquisitors”).According to Pope John Paul II,"Whoever denies or places in doubt any truth that must be believed with divine and catholic faith, or repudiates the Christian faith as a whole, and does not come to his senses after having been LEGITIMATELY WARNED, is to be punished as a HERETIC...whoever obstinately rejects a teaching that the [1] Roman Pontiff or the [2] College of Bishops, exercising the authentic Magisterium, have set forth to be held definitively, or who affirms what they have condemned as erroneous, and does not retract after having been LEGITIMATELY WARNED, is to be punished with an appropriate penalty."—Pope John Paul II, in his apostolic letter Ad Tuendam Fidem (May 18, 1998)“All present were in accord on two key points: (1) Pope John Paul II was endorsed by consensus as the planet’s chief spiritual guide and overseer; and (2) Religious fundamentalists who refuse to go along with the global ecumenical movement are to be silenced. They must also be denounced as ‘dangerous extremists’ [or “heretics”] full of hate.”—St. Peter’s Basilica Meeting (Vatican City, October 28, 1999)The only thing the Catholic Church has done since then is to say a quick, “Oops, sorry”, without ever recanting their long-held tradition of the Church’s violent sentiments against “heresy”. The church of Rome has never changed its teachings. They are tied to the teaching of “Semper Idem” meaning, “always the same”.“The defenders of the papacy declare that the church has been maligned, and the Protestant world are inclined to accept the statement. Many urge that it is unjust to judge the church of today by the abominations and absurdities that marked her reign during the centuries of ignorance and darkness. They excuse her horrible cruelty as the result of the barbarism of the times and plead that the influence of modern civilization has changed her sentiments[563]. Have these persons forgotten the claim of infallibility put forth for eight hundred years by this haughty power? So far from being relinquished, this claim was affirmed in the nineteenth century with greater positiveness than ever before. As Rome asserts that the “church never erred; nor will it, according to the Scriptures, ever err” (John L. von Mosheim, Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, book 3, century II, part 2, chapter 2, section 9, note 17), how can she renounce the principles which governed her course in past ages? [564]. The papal church will never relinquish her claim to infallibility. All that she has done in her persecution of those who reject her dogmas she holds to be right; and would she not repeat the same acts, should the opportunity be presented? Let the restraints now imposed by secular governments be removed and Rome be reinstated in her former power, and there would speedily be a REVIVAL OF HER TYRANNY AND PERSECUTION [564].”—White, E. G. (2015). “The Great Controversy”. Originally published in 1858.Source:[i] Five Strategies of the Counter Reformation//ABOVE: A statue of Ignatius de Loyola stepping on Martin Luther next to the Lutheran Bible written in the German vernacular with the power of the Eucharist and I.H.S.//ABOVE: Here’s another one. The statue features Loyola holding the Jesuit Constitution while trampling underfoot a Christian holding a Bible.Within the ‘Chiesa del Gesù’ (built around AD 1568 and 1584—during the Reformation), the first Jesuit church built in Rome, is this statue:Notice that a woman, representing the Catholic Church, is stomping on two men. These two men are representative of protestant reformers of the Protestant Reformation which began in AD 1517.You will also note an angel-like figure (more like a cherub) ripping up the pages of a book.If one takes a closer look at this statue, he will notice something interesting on the binding of the book which is being ripped apart.The name of John Calvin (1509–1564).The name of Martin Luther (1483-1546).Although I don’t have the picture, Ulrich Zwingli’s (1484-1531) name appears there as well.To this day, the Jesuits publicly deny the idea that the statues are about crushing Protestantism, but their statues don’t lie.Additional reading: What are the effects of the Counter-Reformation?