The Secret History of the Jesuits

The most dangerous of men are those who appear very religious, especially when they are organized and in a position of authority. They have the deep respect of the people who are ignorant of their ungodly push for power behind the scenes. These religious men, who pretend to love God, will resort to murder, incite revolution and wars if necessary to help their cause. They are crafty, intelligent, smooth religious politicians who live in a shadowy world of secrets, intrigue, and phony holiness.

This pattern, seen in “The Secret History of the Jesuits,” spiritually speaking can be seen in the Scribes, Pharisees and Sadducees at the time of Jesus Christ. This same evil spirit directed the Roman emperors to issue the ten murderous decrees to persecute the early Christian church. The “Early Fathers” observed most of the ancient Babylonian system plus Jewish theology and Greek philosophy. They all perverted most of the teachings of Christ and His apostles. They paved the way for the Roman Catholic machine that was to come into existence. Piously, they attacked, perverted, added to and took away from the Bible.

The Vatican receives one tenth to one fifth of monies received by lower levels of the church hierarchy. German Catholics have been funding the church through income taxes since the early 20th century; according to tax data the current yearly amount is about 5 billion dollars.

In America donations at the parish level on up amount to over 6 billion a year. Total global annual revenues must be in the tens of billions. The bulk of the assets received by the Holy See probably reside in accounts of the Institute per le Opero di Religione (IOR), or the Institute for Religious Works, commonly known as the Vatican Bank, which does not release information on its holdings and investments.

http://churchandstate.org.uk/2016/02/the-understold-story-the-vatican-the-mob-super-ponzi-schemes-and-more/

Investigators have concluded that the Vatican Bank has extensive accounts in Switzerland and other nations and islands with minimal banking regulations. In 1979 Hoffman reported that “Papal finances are to this day enveloped in secrecy.”

Mike Pence was raised Catholic, attended an evangelical megachurch and recently met the pope in 2020. Pence served as an altar boy and went to parochial school in Columbus, Indiana.

Of course, "Pence" is also a reference to money, as in the British penny and pence. Pence is term used as the plural of penny, as in the phrase "sixpence none the richer" (which is also a religious reference).

The Holy See partially derives income from charitable organization they refer to as Peter’s Pence. Donations to the annual Peter’s Pence collection, which supports the work of the Roman Curia and funds the charitable activity of the pope, held steady in 2021. Pence donations and income from investments totaled 46.9 million euros (about $49 million) in 2021.

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2022/06/16/peters-pence-donations-stable-243177

Historians have extensively documented how the collaboration between fascists and the Catholic church in the 1920's and 1930's facilitated a great rise in the church's fortunes. (Scholdor 1988, Gellately 2001, Steigman-Gall 2003)

In 1929 Mussolini and Pious XI signed a concordat and other treaties which included a lump sum payment of nearly 100 million dollars (equivalent to a billion in current dollars), more in investments in Italian industry plus government salaries for the clergy, and the sovereign Vatican state.

German Catholic church members Hitler, Papen and Kaas negotiated with the Holy See a mutually beneficial concordat that the Protestant dominated Weimer democracy had refused. The Fuhrer’s legitimacy was greatly enhanced, and the all German Catholic bishops were required by the concordat to swear loyalty to the Reich, rendering impossible direct clerical opposition to the existence of the regime.

Scholder, K. 1988. The Churches and the Third Reich Vols I & II. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.

Gellately, R. 2001. Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Steigman-Gall, R. 2003. “The Holy Reich.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.