St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York.
This post is the first of what I intend to be a recurring series on this blog, the purpose of which is to shed light on the anti-Christian beliefs and activities of the Roman Catholic Church-State.
Having spent some time over the past year studying Rome’s theory and practice of immigration, I was impressed not only by the thoroughgoing wickedness of Rome’s stance on immigration, but also the profound ignorance that exists in the Protestant church generally about the doctrines and practices of Rome.
Rome, as Martyn Lloyd-Jones has correctly noted, is the devil’s greatest masterpiece. But where once Protestants understood this, today the best educated Protestants – and I’m not talking about liberals here, but those who claim to be Bible believers – can offer only a shrug of the shoulders when pressed on the identity of Antichrist or the Babylonian Harlot.
This series of short posts is intended to give the Protestant reader a better understanding of the Satanic doctrines and practices of the Roman Catholic Church-State, in the hope that by comparing the teaching and practice of Rome to what the Bible teaches, Christians will be both forewarned and forearmed against the wiles of the devil.
For our first installment, let’s turn to an article from U.S. News & World Report with the headline “French Priest’s 150-Year-Old Heart Being Worshipped in NYC.” The piece goes on to inform the reader that the heart in question belonged to Saint John Vianney and that Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, will be leading a procession venerating the it on Sunday.
Now a Roman Catholic apologist would surely object to this headline by saying that Roman Catholics do not worship relics, they venerate them. In the view of this author, U.S. News got it right, there’s no substantial difference between worship and veneration.
We could spend a good deal of time parsing definitions of venerate and worship, but a more direct way for Christians to determine whether Rome’s practices are Christian is to ask themselves if there is any example in Scripture to support Rome’s doctrine of relics.
The short answer to this question is no.
Even Rome concedes this in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. In paragraph 2132, Rome defends its practice of venerating relics, not by arguing from the Bible, but by quoting Basil and Thomas Aquinas. If Rome could produce an argument from Scripture, surely here would be the place for it. But the RCCS doesn’t even make the attempt. Instead, it relies on the words of men.
But Christians are not subject to the words of men, but to every word which proceeds from the mouth of God. And the Bible alone is the Word of God. The words of Basil and Aquinas must be judged in light of what the Scriptures say, and considered in the light of God’s Word, the words of Basil and Aquinas are found wanting.
Lux Lucet 
It made my stomach turn just thinking about how gross the idea is of looking at a heart that is so old. And then to venerate it? It is a repulsive idea. And yet a billion plus people find no problems with that.
We need another Reformation to lift such darkness and shine the light of Scripture upon the people.
All good points, John. What’s amazing to me is that almost no one points out the absurd and wicked practices of Rome. Where are the Christian ministers? Where are the Christian broadcasters and writers? It’s almost total silence. The Word of God tells us to mark and to expose false teaching and evil practices, but scarcely anyone wants to talk about the overt idolatry and obvious wickedness of the the RCCS.
When Christians remain silent about relic worship, when we say nothing while RC archbishops parade relics around and urge Catholics to partake in this crass superstition, and when we then turnaround and speak of RC’s as our brothers in Christ, do we not share in these enormous sins of Rome?