Avro Manhattan - The Vatican Billions

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THE VATICAN BILLIONS describes an amazing 2000 years of wealth accumulation and pursuit of power by the Roman Catholic religious machine.

This incredible panorama from Caesar to the space age will change your view of history.

CONTENTS INCLUDE:

The Origin of the Churchs Temporal Riches

Pay to be a Christian Whether Alive or Dead

The Church Claims the Americas

The Catholic Church Welcomes

The Rise of Bolshevism

The Vatican Invests Millions in War Industries

BOOKS BY AVRO MANHATTAN

Currently out of print:

The Catholic Church in the 20th Century

The Vatican in World Politics

Spain and the Vatican

Catholic Power Today

The Vatican and the U. S. A.

The Dollar and the Vatican

Religion in Russia Religious

Terror in Ireland

The Vatican in Asia

Terror Over Europe

Terror Over Yugoslavia

Vatican Imperialism in the Twentieth Century

The Vatican Moscow Washington Alliance

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matthew 6: 21

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Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 83-72654

I. S. B. N.: 0-937958-16-6

Preface

Chapter 1

Historical genesis of the Vaticans accumulation of wealth The splitting of Christianity accelerated by its policy of acquisition of temporal riches Christianity expropriates all rival religions How the Apostolic tradition of poverty was abandoned.

Chapter 2

The cult of the Blessed Peter Sale of the filings from his iron chains King Canute goes to Rome Origin of the wealth of the church The Turnkey of Heaven writes a letter in gold St. Peters Throne Birth of the Papal States The pontiffs become kings.

Chapter 3

She claims the ownership of all the territories of the Roman Empire Ecclesiastical forgeries and counterforgeries The Donation of Constantine and its subsequent profound repercussions for the West.

Chapter 4

Basic policy for the establishment of a universal temporal domain of St. Peter The Church commands secular rulers to pay her She claims the ownership of all lands, with all their inhabitants and riches She sub-lets most of Europe to the Kings of England, of Germany and of France.

Chapter 5

A Pope sells Ireland to England All Irishmen to pay an annual tribute of one penny to the Holy See All islands the rightful possessions of St. Peter The Church lends the Americas to Spain and Portugal

Chapter 6

Why the world would come to an end in the year A. D. 1000 What caused the credence Reaction of a terrorised Christendom Believers give all their possessions the the Church. The Church becomes immensely rich Appearance of a new monasticism based on total poverty St. Francis and St. Bernard condemn the wealth of the Church Heretics as a source of more wealth Anathemas and excommunications as means to extract money Denounce your neighbor to seize his property Greed and corruption of the clergy

Chapter 7

The Pope who sold a million Italians for 800 ounces of gold Fines in the confessional The Exeter farmers trick Direct and indirect church taxationThe Churchs crushing burden: the tithes The second best Deadly ecclesiastical economic stranglehold The Church claims 33 per cent of personal riches of all dead Christians Collects money from lepers, beggars and prostitutes.

Chapter 8

Holy Mass Tourism for each generation Origin of the first Jubilee The Popes empty coffers prompt him to declare the Jubilee of A. D. 1300 Monetary considerations behind the reduction of intervals between Jubilee from 100 to 50 and then to 25 years Popes Boniface, Clement, Alexander and Paul as organizers of the Grand Tour Discounts and reductions from St. Peter Go to heaven via Rome... but pay first!

Chapter 9

Grasshoppers, caterpillars, leeches and snails excommunicated Florins and vermin Too many miracles The saint who had to work a miracle to stop miracles The blessed, as unending sources of money

Chapter 10

Pay for the release of a soul Buy one million years of indulgences, to avoid Hell and shorten Purgatory with money Dr. Martin defies the official seller of indulgences

Chapter 11

The Church leases the Americas to Spain, subleases part of them to Portugal Testifying to that effect The Borgia Pope completes the deal Text of The Popes Bull made to Castille, touching the New World sealed in the year of Our Lord 1493

Chapter 12

Extortions, greed and rapacity Luxury conclaves and papal extravaganzas The most beautiful Pope of all The Borgia Pontiff who could fill the Sistine Chapel with sacks of gold Honours and dignities to make money The explosion The Church loses more than half her immense temporal wealth

Chapter 13

The riots of Mexico City The Bishop who wanted also to be a businessman Conflict between the churchs temporal revenue and that of the State Confrontation between Madrid and Rome. Its significance The Catholic Church consolidates her economic strangle-hold on the Spanish-American Empire. She becomes the owner of half the total wealth of Central and South America

Chapter 14

The North American, French and South American Revolutions reduce the Churchs wealth The Church discovers new means to make money The invention of the miraculous medal The promotion of the greatest miracle of the nineteenth century; Lourdes The popes lose their temporal kingdom. The Papal State and Rome are taken away from them for ever

Chapter 15

The Church and the dawn of the Industrial Age A new orientation Anti-clericalism deprives the Church of economic influence in Europe The Catholic Church again becomes a billionaire in Latin America Mexico expropriates all her lands The Churchs alliance with the U. S. Oil Corporation Attempt to involve the U. S. in a war against Mexico to recover her wealth. President Roosevelt foils such machinations

Chapter 16

Secret negotiations with Lenin. She plans to replace the Orthodox Church, and prepares to administer the latters wealth Failure of the Vatican-Kremlin deal Reasons which prompted the Catholic Church to side with Fascism and with Nazism The Lateran Treaty, or the closure of an old era and the opening of a new Birth of a new Vatican Financial Empire.