Today’s Reading helps us understand Jesus, Peter, and what some Protestantism has done.
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Question 1: “Peter was chosen to be the first of 268 Popes in the last 2,000 years by The Church-Creating Word of Jesus to him: ‘And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.’ Why did many of America’s first Protestants think it was ‘Christian’ to use their modern weapons and Iron Age Technology to kill millions of Indians in every Tribe between Connecticut and Oregon and steal their land?”
Answer: “Catholics see an answer in Today’s Reading, which includes Acts 11:1-18. We see the Word of God that Peter and the early Jewish Catholics obeyed and that murderous waves of Pilgrims did not: Thousands of Jewish people in Jerusalem had been so overwhelmed by Words of Jesus to His First Catholic Pope and Cardinal Bishops that they became the first Catholics.”
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Question 2: “Were the first Jewish converts to Catholicism in Jerusalem offended when they heard that Peter and six of The Disciples were ordered to tell nearby Gentiles to ‘Be Catholic!’: ‘As I began to speak, The Holy Spirit fell upon them as it had upon us at the beginning and I remembered The Word of The Lord, how He had said ‘John Baptized with water but you will be Baptized with The Holy Spirit.’ ?”
Answer: “Thousands of the first Jewish Catholics in Jerusalem were offended until Peter asked them: ‘If God then gave them the same gift He gave to us when we came to believe in The Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to be able to hinder God?’”
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Question 3: “How did the first Jewish people to become Catholics respond?”
Answer: “They respected God and His First Catholic Pope more than human vanity! ‘When they heard this, they stopped objecting and glorified God, saying ‘God has then granted life-giving repentance to the Gentiles, too.’”
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Question 4: “Why didn’t English Pilgrims, Puritans, French Hugenots, and other European Protestants respect ‘Thou shall not kill.’ enough to help convert Indians instead of killing them and stealing their land for the next 250 years?”
Answer: “Remember the sad fact! America’s Protestants had survived and were escaping the persecutions that came after leading heretics became Profiteers of Protestantism and used their political power to steal 20 million acres of land donated to The Church for their own mansions and vast estates. The Church had used that property to provide Churches, workshops, farms, mines, monasteries, convents, schools, universities, and accommodations for the poor for the preceding thousand years. People in England and other European nations were forced to replace ‘Love God and your neighbor as yourself.’ with this sad fact: ‘The only way I can get a job and stay alive is to become some kind of Protestant.’”
American History lets us understand: Non-Catholics had been taught by centuries of example to look at Indians the way Profiteers of Protestantism looked at them: “We must destroy all who do not share our beliefs and steal everything they have!”
American History also lets us realize that those who would not ‘Love God and their neighbors as themselves’ were soon led to accept abortion. Millions of their unborn children met the agonizing end that their Protestant ancestors inflicted on America’s Indians.
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Sins of the fathers fall on their sons, / But The Mercy of Jesus can save each one, / If to Him and His Church we come.”
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