Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 2 Thessalonians 2:3,4
"The Constitution of the United States guarantees liberty of
conscience. Nothing is clearer or more fundamental. Pope Pius
IX., in his Encyclical Letter of August 15, 1854, said: 'The
absurd and erroneous doctrines or ravings in defense of liberty
of conscience,
are a pestilential error–a pest, of all others, most
to be dreaded in a State.'
The same pope, in his Encyclical
Letter of December 8, 1864, anathematizes 'those who assert
the liberty of conscience and of religious worship,' also 'all such
as maintain that the church may not employ force.'"
The pacific tone of Rome in the United States does not
imply a change of heart.
--She is tolerant where she is helpless.
Says Bishop O'Connor: 'Religious liberty is merely endured
until the opposite can he carried into effect without peril to the
Catholic world.' . . . "
All this and much more is true of Romanism. And although
there is just cause for fear that the principles of Romanism will let
be legalized by the laws of this nation, we are certain that it will
never accomplish this of itself nor in its own name."
A.T. Jones