RLL Ep.39: The Vatican and Globalism

Hello everybody, it's Steve Matthews. Welcome to Radio Looks Lucid episode 39. The title of today's episode is The Vatican and Globalism. This is like take three of this live stream podcast, and I apologize for anybody who's been trying to watch this.

I know it's been a little bit frustrating. I've got this cable, and I've got to use a digital recorder to record a podcast, and I think it's a problem with the cable where the right channel keeps dropping out, and I've got another cable on order, but it hasn't come in yet, and I don't know.

This thing's just driving me nuts. It's really frustrating to see a channel just constantly drop out. I don't want to record and put that out on a podcast that way. So anyway, welcome to take three of this live stream slash podcast.

I do appreciate you watching and listening. So thinking about today's topic, I was trying to come up with something for this week, and I didn't have anything in particular in mind, but I ran across a couple of articles here the last few days that kind of really piqued my curiosity.

And also on top of that, they had a common theme, and that is, in this case, the common theme is the Vatican and globalism and the Vatican's interference in politics. And I'm going to read the first column.

The first piece column I wanted to talk about is a piece by Ann Coulter, and it's titled Voter Fraud Never Happens Except in These 10 ,000 Cases. And she goes in and she walks through a number of cases of fairly recent, I mean, within the last 20 years or so of voter fraud.

I think maybe the oldest one was back in 2000. But this was voter fraud by various Democrats. But what really caught my attention was something that she said toward the end. I'm just going to read. This is just a couple of paragraphs here.

So I'm going to quote.

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It's as if everyone who writes for the Times just graduated from college with honors in spotting racism. Republicans aren't complaining about the vote in Camden, New Jersey or Memphis, Tennessee. They're talking about cities with Democratic political machines, which were founded by Irish criminals long before Black people showed up in large numbers.

Democratic machines have been stealing elections since before the Civil War, end quote. OK, so what she's talking about here and in previous to to that comment, she had several quotes and quotes from the New York Times and whatnot that were saying that the reason that the only reason that Republicans were challenging the vote in Milwaukee and Detroit and Philadelphia is because those are heavily Black cities and the Republicans are racist.

You know, that was the focus of their questioning the integrity of the vote in those areas. And what Ann Coulter says here toward the end of this piece is that she says, no, it really, you know, this doesn't have anything to do with race.

It doesn't have anything to do with the kinds of things that the mainstream media wants you to think it is. What she does is she actually goes back and says that, and I'm going to read this again, that they're talking about cities and talking about these three particular cities, Milwaukee, Detroit and Philadelphia, with Democratic political machines, which were founded by Irish criminals long before Black people showed up in large numbers.

Democratic machines have been stealing elections since before the Civil War. Now, one of the things, you know, and this is a quote that I have used. Well, maybe before we get into that, I think this is really interesting, what Ann Coulter says here, because she gets really, really close to saying something that I have said a number of times myself fairly recently.

And that is, I've talked about, there was this quote by, it was a Presbyterian minister by the name of Samuel D. Burchard. It was from 1884, it was in the 1884 presidential election. He gave this speech where he got up and he called the Democrats, the party whose antecedents are Romanism and rebellion.

And Ann Coulter gets really, really close basically to saying that in this column. Now, she talks about these cities with Democratic political machines, which she says were founded by Irish criminals.

You know, it talks about the Democratic machines have been stealing elections since before the Civil War. Now, Ann Coulter can't come out. I mean, she's a Bigfoot columnist. I mean, she's, yeah, she's not afraid to speak her mind, but I think there are probably some things that, you know, maybe as a major syndicated columnist, as a New York Times bestselling author, this kind of thing, maybe there's some things she feels she can't say.

But I think what she's really, if you kind of read between the lines here, essentially, she's saying that the Democrats are the party of Romanism and rebellion. And all these corrupt political machines are actually Roman Catholic political machines.

I believe that is what she's saying. I think that she does understand that. And I think really that is at the heart of this big election steal. I think it's something that's being done by the Democrats, and it's being done principally by the old school political machines in certain cities.

And these political machines are essentially Roman Catholic political machines. And it shouldn't surprise us that Democratic politics are so corrupt. The Roman Catholic Church, I believe, and I think you can make the argument for this, is the most corrupt institution in the world.

I mean, when you look at what the New Testament says about the Roman Catholic Church, it calls the Roman Catholic Church Mystery Babylon, the Mother of Harlots. And when you've got a title like that, you know, it talks about this Mystery Babylon was drunk with the blood of the saints.

And the Apostle John marveled at her. He was appalled and astonished when he saw this vision. And he was being given a vision of the Roman Catholic Church. And, you know, when we're talking about an organization that is that corrupt in its theology, you know, it's also going to be corrupt in other ways.

Now, you know, the Roman Catholic Church is very, very deeply involved in politics. And in the United States of America, the political home of the Roman Catholic Church is and has been since before the Civil War.

You know, so we're going back well into the middle 1800s, if not earlier than that. You're talking about the Democrats, you know, as the home of the political home of the Roman Catholic Church. And if the Roman Catholic Church is corrupt, you would also expect the political party through which it wields influence to also be seriously, majorly corrupt.

And, of course, that's exactly what you see in Democrats, in these Democratic political machines, many of which came into being in the 19th century. There's a quote here from John Robbins in his book, Ecclesiastical Megalomania, where he talks some about this.

And let me just read a little bit of that here for you. He says, Much of the interference by federal, state, and local governments in the affairs of citizens, both Joe Klein and the papacy have told us is due to Roman Catholic influence in American politics.

Corrupt political machines were constructed and operated by Roman Catholics, following the church state's support for a policy of effective interference. Tammany Hall, the Daily Machine, the Curling Machine, and so on.

Klein could have mentioned much more. So he, you know, John Robbins correctly identifies the source, the origin, of these corrupt political machines as being tools of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States.

And I think that that's essentially what Ann Coulter is saying here, that these old school political machines in these big cities that, you know, Milwaukee and Detroit, Philadelphia, in particular. And she also even mentions Atlanta, that these political machines were constructed by Democrats, by Roman Catholic Democrats, are really substantially responsible for stealing the election.

Now, and I think when the history of this whole 2020 election is written, I very strongly suspect that you're going to see that. So that was one thing that caught my attention. Now, of course, you know, I mentioned the title of this particular podcast is The Vatican and Globalism.

Well, what is Joe Biden? Joe Biden is a committed globalist. I mean, Joe Biden's political program, his platform is essentially the same as that of Pope Francis. So I believe that basically what happened here, and of course, Joe Biden is himself a Roman Catholic, the Vatican got their man elected.

And I suspect that that's what, again, what you see going on here with this 2020 election. Now, there was another piece that I found. And this isn't about the US presidential election, but it does deal with the Vatican.

And in this particular case, it was an article in Big League Politics. And let me read the headline here for you. Of course, Vatican Inclusive Capitalism Project is run by Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, United Nations, and Rothschild.

Vatican is helping to rebrand corporate globalism. And this was by a writer by the name of Shane Trejo. And it was published on December the 9th. So just a couple of days ago here. I guess three days ago, this is the 12th now.

Let me read a little bit to you about this. Pope Francis has been speaking power to truth throughout the COVID -19 pandemic, denigrating lockdown protesters who have had their livelihoods destroyed, while stressing the importance of total submission to globalist mandates.

Therefore, it should come as no surprise that the Vatican's new Council for Inclusive Capitalism includes representatives from the most powerful government and corporate interests in the world. Newsmax correspondent Bree Dale noted that the guardians of this Vatican project include reps from the United Nations, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and other entities that have been in power for generations and are responsible for the reviled economic status quo worldwide.

And so there's a fair number of things to unpack here. I think it's interesting, of course, that they correctly identify Pope Francis as denigrating lockdown protesters and those who have had their livelihoods destroyed, while stressing the importance of total submission to globalist mandates.

I mean, Pope Francis, his basic message is obey. You don't like the mask mandates? Sit down, shut up, and obey. Put your mask on, lock down. If your job is destroyed, if your business is destroyed that you spent years of your life working on, if you struggle personally with isolation, just obey.

Just obey. That's what he says. Despite the fact that these lockdowns have not helped, they have been destructive of people's rights. They have prevented them from earning a livelihood. They have made them dependent, depressed.

There's been just so many problems with the lockdowns. I get so very frustrated with this. And of course, it's not surprising, though, that Pope Francis would push this, because Pope Francis, none of the popes, the Roman Catholic Church has never favored freedom.

They favored sort of a top-down tyranny. And you see this in the fact that the pope is promoting the COVID lockdowns. I would expect that he would do that. It's not surprising at all that he would make the statements that he has in favor of the lockdowns and in denigrating those people who have protested the lockdowns.

In fact, there's another headline in Big League Politics.

It says,.

Pope Francis Derides Anti-Lockdown Protests, Claims They Lack Healthy Indignation of Antifa and BLM Looters. Now, that's the headline. And just read a little bit of that here.

It says,.

Francis has complained that individuals who are having their livelihoods destroyed by the lockdowns lack the healthy integrity of leftist rioters who burned down whole cities in the aftermath of the drug-related death of serial felon George Floyd.

And here's a quote from Francis. Some groups protest refusing to keep their distance, marching against travel restrictions, as if measures the governments must impose for the good of the people constitute some kind of political assault on autonomy or personal freedom.

Francis wrote in a new book. Oh, yes, the pope, he has a new book out as well. So yeah, you know, Francis is very much upset that people are upset about having their personal freedoms denigrated, and he thinks that they should just basically sit down, shut up, and take it.

And again, that's not surprising. We would expect that kind of thing from Pope Francis, or from any pope for that matter. So yeah, the Vatican, you know, kind of back to the original headline from Big League Politics, where, you know, the Vatican is coming up with this inclusive capitalism project.

It's, what they've done here, and let's read a little bit more of this article. This group, and it's called the Inclusive Capitalism Project with the Vatican. This group says, An economic system that is fair and trustworthy and capable of addressing the most profound challenges facing humanity and our planet is urgently needed.

You have taken up the challenge by seeing ways to make capitalism become a more inclusive instrument for integral human well-being, Pope Francis said. Capitalism has created enormous global prosperity, but has also left too many people behind, led to the degradation of our planet, and is not widely trusted in society, said Lynn Forrester Drosschild, founder of the Council for Managing Partner of Inclusive Capital Partners.

Now, this is just too rich. And this is something that I've complained about quite a bit. And I think a real downfall of a lot of, you know, sometimes what's called the alternate media or the independent media, and by which I mean, for example, podcasters, bloggers, YouTubers, you know, the kind of people that do this sort of work, sort of work that I'm doing, I think what happens is, you know, there's a lot of really good research that's done out there on some of these groups, you know, for instance, you know, the UN or the World Economic Forum or the Rothschilds or George Soros or, you know, secret societies, I'm thinking here, like the Skull and Bones Society, Bohemian Grove, things of this sort.

And there's a lot of really creepy, weird stuff that goes on out there. But there seems to be a blind spot among just about everybody, I think, who does research in this area of globalism or various kinds of sort of nefarious doings by secret groups.

They almost never talk about the Vatican's role in promoting world government. But I mean, the Vatican has been, the Vatican is, I don't know, hundreds, maybe over a thousand years has been promoting global government.

Of course, you know, there was, they did global government on the European scale back in the day, and they certainly appear to be attempting to scale that up to a truly global system. And here they come up with another organization, this time it's called the Inclusive Capitalism Project.

And who are they partnering with? Some of the biggest globalists out there, such as the Rothschilds. And of course, the United Nations. I mean, you can't make this stuff up. I mean, right here, you know, the Vatican is right in the mix of it.

Yet most people, again, who research the globalists, you know, they talk about all these other organizations, you know, talk about the World Economic Forum, they talk about the Bilderbergers, these sorts of things, but they will very, very rarely explicitly mention the Vatican.

And there is no more dedicated globalist organization on the planet than the Vatican. There is, in fact, I would say this, the Roman Catholic Church is the premier globalist organization on the planet.

I don't think there's any question about that. I think you can make that argument from Scripture, and I think if you look on just the pages of the newspapers and do a little research for yourself, I think you'll quickly find that that is the case.

It is the premier globalist organization, the Roman Catholic Church is. But yet it's very rarely, if ever, identified as such. And at the very end of this article, the Big League Politics article, it says, this is as Pope Francis, who's allegedly protected known pedophiles as pontiff, is playing a key role in the destruction of the West.

Yes, he is. That's absolutely true. Pope Francis is most certainly playing a key role in the destruction of the West. Now, I'm going to use, what do we mean by the West? And I think that that's something that needs to be defined.

And I think the writer here for Big League Politics may be more right than he realizes when he writes that particular sentence. Now, when I say the West, I'm using the definition that John Robbins used in his book, The Christ and Civilization.

And in Western civilization, that is, the civilization was created by the Protestant Reformation. That the Protestant Reformation, we think of that as kicking off in 1517. And of course, we just celebrated the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's act of nailing his 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg Church.

And that's usually what people point to and say that was the beginning of the Reformation. Now, there certainly were people who taught the doctrines of grace before Martin Luther. I think I say Jan Hus, for example.

Sometimes John Wycliffe is referred to as the morning star of the Reformation. I mean, these are men that predated Martin Luther. When we talk about the Reformation, we usually date it from 1517. So just a little bit over 500 years ago, we celebrated Martin Luther's very brave act of not only just nailing the 95th thesis to the door of the Wittenberg Church, but also going on to teach the doctrines of grace.

And in particular, if we want to put that into a nutshell, we would say the doctrine says that salvation is by grace alone, through faith or belief alone, in the finished work of Jesus Christ alone. Those are the doctrines of grace.

And going back to the sentence here in the Big League Politics article, I'll just read that again. Pope Francis, who is allegedly protected known pedophiles as Pontiff, is playing a key role in the destruction of the West.

Well, the Western civilization is Protestant civilization. Western civilization is the civilization that came about as a result of widespread preaching of and belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ, the good news of what Christ has done to save sinners.

The gospel of justification by belief alone, that is that we have a right standing before God, not based on our works, not based on anything in us, because we're sinners, right? I mean, I'm a miserable sinner.

And it's by God's grace alone that I have any standing before Him. It's by God's grace alone that I'm saved. I'm not saved by my own works, by anything that I do. It's not by anything that my hands have wrought.

All the glory, all the credit goes to God. It doesn't go to me. You think about what the Apostle Paul said, you know, God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of Christ my Lord. And that is really a very good summary of what the Protestant Reformation is all about.

It's not about glorifying ourselves, it's about glorifying Christ and the work that He did to save His people. And that created, that gospel of what Christ did to save His people, the good news of what Christ did to save sinners, the nations to which that came, it produced a radically new civilization.

And that is the civilization, if you live in the West, I mean, if you live in the West, if you live in the United States or Western Europe or one of the other countries, you know, Australia or someplace where the civilization of the Reformation came, you live in the West, you live in countries that participate in the heritage of the Protestant Reformation.

And is Pope Francis destroying that? Yes, absolutely he is. One of the offshoots, one of the implications of the Protestant Reformation is it put an end to globalist empires. You know, when you think about, you know, say you look back in history, you can even just see this in the Bible, I mean, you see these massive, you know, world-beating empires, you know, whether it's Egypt or Assyria or Babylon or in the New Testament, the Roman Empire, you had these giant conglomerations of all these nations that were subjugated to a central power.

And then in the medieval period, you had that same thing going on where you had the nations of Western Europe subjected to the Roman Catholic Church. But when the Protestant Reformation came along, it gave people the—it created a whole new civilization.

One of the things that came out of that was the idea of what's called the Westphalian world order. The Westphalian world order says that the individual nation-state is the highest level of government, and that one nation-state doesn't have any business of interfering in the internal affairs of another nation-state.

In other words, it's sort of a live-and-let-live approach, and a lot of people, if you were to say this, may say, well, that's just common sense. But that idea of the Westphalian world order, that we would sometimes call—it's sometimes called national sovereignty.

I don't necessarily like the term of talking about national sovereignty, simply because in Scripture, of course, as Christians, we believe that God alone is sovereign. But that's sort of the historic way of talking about that.

When they use the term national sovereignty, what we're really talking about is just national independence, the ability of individual nation states to determine their own internal policies, which is the opposite of what's been done in most of history, where instead of having individual nation-states that had governments that were responsive to the wishes of the people, you had this sort of top-down conglomerations, these giant empires that ruled from a central authority.

And that's Romanism. You know, the New World Order, all of this globalism that you read about, that's really just Romanism. It's geopolitical Romanism. Whereas when we're talking about individual nation-states or nationalism or the Westphalian world order, that's geopolitical Protestantism.

And you're seeing this struggle playing out right now between the globalists on the one hand and the other people on the other hand who advocate for national sovereignty or the Westphalian world order.

I think that's the context when you need to look at the struggle between the globalists and the nationalists today, is really between geopolitical Protestantism on one hand and geopolitical Romanism on the other hand.

And yes, Pope Francis is doing his best to destroy the West, because the West is an enemy of his. The West stands in the way of the Roman Catholic Church achieving its goal of global government. And that's what Rome wants to do.

Now, I thought it was interesting in that article in Big League Politics, they actually provided a link to this new organization from the Vatican. It's called the Council for Inclusive Capitalism with the Vatican.

Well, I think it's kind of interesting that they've chosen to use the term capitalism. Now they don't use capitalism by itself, they call it inclusive capitalism, but they call it capitalism. They try to smuggle that term in.

Well, I mean, that very title is a lie, because the Roman Catholic Church doesn't believe in capitalism. They've made that very, very clear. I've been doing a video series for the Trinity Foundation called, on John Robbins' book, Ecclesiastical Megalomania.

And as you go through that book, you find very quickly that the Roman Catholic Church has always been hostile to capitalism. So I think it's interesting that they've come up with this sort of hybrid term, inclusive capitalism.

Now, I've been kind of just looking through the website a bit here tonight. And it's kind of hard to get a beat on it. This is actually a, the website's brand new. I think it just launched within the past week.

So there's not a lot of specific information on here. But I mean, I think you can gather just by the title itself, inclusive capitalism, you know, they're really what they're really they're pushing is not capitalism, they're pushing some sort of, of collectivism, some sort of globalism.

And just reading here from the homepage, it says the Council for inclusive capitalism is a movement of the world's business and public sector leaders who are working to build a more inclusive, sustainable and trusted economic system that addresses the needs of our people and the planet.

Well, you know, here's the thing, you know, it's the the people that that are partnering with the Vatican, the Vatican itself, they're the very people who have destroyed the world economic system. So they destroy it.

Now they're going to try to come by, come around and tell you that they're going to save it. Well, I mean, that's a lot of nonsense. And I think people should be very skeptical about the this particular initiative.

There was a fairly recent encyclical was written by the Pope published a couple of a couple of months ago, and I still haven't gotten around to reading it. But I know just from some of the comments that I've seen on it that, of course, it's also not surprising, it's a sustained attack on on capitalism.

So but I mean, here's the Roman Catholic Church that has done so much to attack capitalism. Now they're turning around, they're trying to posit themselves as inclusive capitalists, you know, they're trying to borrow the term, but they're they're emptying it of its meaning.

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