“TAMMANY HALL is simply the political organization of the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, with a Bishop Hughes or a Cardinal McCloskey or Archbishop Corrigan at its head and a Fernando Wood, a William Tweed, or a John Kelly for his fugleman [mouthpiece, author]. The proper name for it is JESUIT HALL. By this name it should be called, and by none other; for name and nature should correspond, so that when the one is called the other should be understood, and that would help to guide both the mind and the action of the American people.”
I hope that paragraph got your attention. It’s a quote from a book that I just received titled Romanism and Politics: Tammany Hall The Stronghold of Rome by Joseph Hartwell. Published in 1887 in New York City, this book is representative of an entire body of literature produced in the 19th century by American Christian authors warning their fellow Americans about the dangers of what some of them called “political Romanism.” Their warnings were largely ignored; today, most of these authors and their works have been largely forgotten. But here in 2023, with an openly Romanist presidential administration and a government largely committed to furthering the policies of political and economic Romanism, it is imperative for Christians to read and understand the warnings of these authors, both to understand the source of the dangerous and tyrannical doctrines being implemented all around us in place of the liberties guaranteed to us in our Constitution and to effectively fight back against them. For fight back we must.
Just consider the disastrous situation on our southern border. One doesn’t need to do a deep statistical dive to know that what’s going on – with millions of illegal aliens flooding across our southern border as a direct result of the policies of the Biden Regime – is unsustainable and represents an existential threat to the United States as a nation. That this is being done deliberately as a matter of policy should shock every American and prompt him to ask, in whose service is this being done. Certainly, it’s not in the service of the American people. But someone wants this to happen and wants it to happen badly enough to open wide the welfare immigration spigots even though most Americans don’t want this to happen.
There are, in my opinion, a number of different interests promoting our current disastrous immigration policy. But the leader of the group is the Roman Catholic Church-State (RCCS), and in particular its lobbying wing in America, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Working principally through the Democrat party, the USCCB has been able to effect changes in American immigration law that advantage it and the globalist goals of the RCCS to the harm of the American nation. Yet while the Biden Regime works 24/7 to implement the Antichrist RCCS’s immigration policies, almost no one seems to understand that these policies are, in fact, the immigration policies of the Vatican.
One can find video after video, article after article, showing massive lawlessness on our border and decrying the woeful situation. But these reports never talk about where the policies that are the source of this disaster come from. They come straight from the Vatican. That is, their source is the Antichrist system of Rome. But you will never learn this from watching the new reports.
This is where reading 19th-century Christian authors, authors who lived and wrote at the time of the inception of political and economic Romanism in the United States, can be helpful. One such author is Joseph Hartwell, a Protestant minister and author of the book that is the subject of this week’s post, and likely those of the next few weeks.
It has long been the opinion of this author that growing socialism in the United States is substantially the work of the RCCS. After watching the obviously fraudulent 2020 presidential election, one that saw the ouster of a nominally Presbyterian president and the installation of the Roman Catholic Joe Biden, it seemed even more important than before to establish the link between the manifestly evil policies of the Democrats and the work of the RCCS in America. My working idea has been this: the theft of the 2020 presidential election was just a scaled-up version of the 19th-century thug politics of Tammany Hall and other big city, Roman Catholic-controlled Democrat political machines. But while the fraud – election and otherwise – of Tammany Hall mainly affected those unfortunate enough to live in New York City, the thug politics as practiced by the Democrats in the 21st century harms all Americans.
Yet as is the case with the disaster on our southern border, while there are many good articles detailing the election fraud in 2020 and 2022, the source of that fraud, namely, the Antichrist RCCS working through the Democrats, is never discussed. Truly, Rome has done a masterful job hiding its evil activities from the eyes of the public, even from Christians who otherwise should be alert to the evils of Rome. It seems as if in 2023, even the elect are blind to the ravages of Antichrist being conducted right under their noses.
This is why it’s critical for Christians to read and understand the warnings of 19th-century authors such as Joseph Harwell, who lived when political Romanism was just beginning to be felt in America and had the liberty and courage to speak out against it. It is this author’s hope that this post will be the first of many posts covering these forgotten authors. I suppose that this will be a years-long process, perhaps one ending in the publication of a book on the subject. One certainly is needed. Lord willing, it is my goal to produce such a book. Now with that said, let’s begin our look at Hartwell’s piece.
Happy New Year 2023: A Look Back and a Look Ahead
January 1, 2023 by Steve Matthews
It’s that time of year again. The time when we say goodbye to the old year and welcome in the new one with all its possibilities.
In the first place, I would like to thank the Lord for his grace and strength in 2022. The year was a challenging one for me personally, as I went through a period of unemployment. But God was gracious to me, helping me to find a job with a good company. And though things were a bit tight at some points, I always had the things I needed. I’m reminded of what Jesus said in his Sermon on the Mount, “Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things – food, clothing, etc. – shall be added unto you.”
I’m thankful also for another year of serving the Lord through blogging and podcasting. 2022 was my 14th year of writing Lux Lucet and it’s been a labor of love the whole time. Ideas are powerful things, and ideas always come in the form of words. There was a time when I was in the habit of saying “words cannot express” when talking about something that deeply affected me. But many years ago, John Robbins disabused me of that notion. In Genesis, we see that the worlds were framed by the word of God. He spoke the universe into existence. Christ himself is called God the Word. There is nothing deeper than words. There is nothing that cannot be expressed by them. To have the opportunity to work in the medium of words. To write, to express ideas, to teach. That is a high privilege. It is also a great responsibility. It is my prayer each time I write that the words I use may honor God and edify his people.
War in Ukraine
In reviewing the year’s writing, I wrote 53 articles. And the prize for my most popular article written in 2022 goes to “The Reformed Church’s Lost Doctrine of Antichrist” published on April 3, 2022. The context of that piece was Pope Francis’ consecration of Russia and Ukraine “to the Immaculate Heart of Mary” on March 25, 2022. One of the biggest stories of the year was when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. And about a month later, there was Pope Francis dedicating Russia to “the Immaculate Heart of Mary.” I didn’t catch the significance of this story the first time I hear it, but in the week leading up to the papal consecration, there was so much chatter in the media about it that I decided to investigate the matter further. What I found was that the Pope’s decision was connected to the prophecies of Fatima from over a hundred years ago, in which the demon impersonation Mary promised that if the pope dedicated Russia to her immaculate heart, the nation would be freed from its errors and convert to Catholicism. Catholic commentators were ecstatic at the consecration and at least some of them were optimistic that quick results would soon follow. But here we are over nine months later, and the Pope’s consecration seems to have had precisely no effect. The likely excuse for this among Catholic commentators is that the Pope didn’t do the consecration right. At the time of the consecration, one prominent Catholic commentator, I think it was Taylor Marshall, mentioned his concern that Francis added “Ukraine” to his consecration rather than limiting it to “Russia,” as the demonic Fatima apparition instructed.
I thought at the time of writing that article, and still think today, that one of the major overlooked aspects of the war in Ukraine is the role of the Roman Catholic Church-State (RCCS). Pope Frances has verbally come out in support of Ukraine on several occasions over the past year, and very clearly his consecrating Russia is a power play for the RCCS against its ancient rival, the Russian Orthodox Church, and against Eastern Orthodoxy more broadly. It is the long-term goal of the RCCS to create a one-world religion and a one-world government. Rome is the beating heart of New World Order globalism, and this shows very clearly in Ukraine, but most commentators either don’t notice or pretend as though they don’t.
Then there’s the fact that the CIA has been egging on this war since at least 2014 when they overthrew the elected leader in Ukraine and installed a pro-Western regime. The overthrow of Viktor Yanukovich in 2014 likely was precipitated by his announcement of a pro-Russia foreign policy for Ukraine in place of a pro-Western one. It’s worth noting, too, that the CIA has historically had close ties to the Roman Catholic Church going all the way back to its predecessor organization, the OSS during World War II. At that time, the OSS was headed by William “Wild Bill” Donovan, who was decorated “with the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Sylvester, the oldest and most prestigious of papal knighthoods.”
Keep an eye out for further papal intrigue in Ukraine. As things stand, the RCCS has captured America’s federal government and seems fully intent on prosecuting a war in Ukraine in which no clear American interest is at stake. Is the CIA carrying out its proxy war against Russia in connection with advancing the Vatican’s goals of subjugating Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church? It seems likely to the author that this is the case.
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