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Pope Francis' Flirtation With Sleazy Televangelists

July 26, 2014

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In his ecumenical zeal, Pope Francis  embraced some dubious characters.
Luckily he seems to have stepped back in time.










by Richard Evans
(henrymakow.com)


Since January 20 until July 20th this year, the Catholic pope and the big fat 'Televangelist' mafia seemed to be announcing an ecumenical merger.

Although a merger between the ancient Roman church and these tax exempt snake-oil salesmen seems 'too weird', consider that the TV Jesus racket has siphoned off 500 million - that's half a billion people onto the rolls of the "Mega-churches".   These crooks aren't just millionaires anymore. 

None of them like to give solid figures on how much they really pull in, but Kenneth Copeland couldn't help bragging in January that his "ministry" had passed the billion dollars collected figure "some time ago", and said he's in the "billion club" - thinly veiling it by implying that means how many souls he's 'saved'.

Back in January, 500 of these professional false prophets met for the Kenneth Copeland Minister's Conference, near Ft. Worth Texas. One of them was an English-slash-South African 'Anglican-slash-Episcopal-slash-Bishop', named Tony Palmer. 

 Palmer wasn't a "real" Anglican, but ordained in a quasi-Anglican spinoff termed "Convergence".  'Convergence' refers to a 'movement' to squish or merge all the Christian denominations together into one big bag.  Palmer, who said in interviews he started out in 'the medical profession' (medical transcriptionist), converted in 1992.  I think he went to work for Copeland's organization in 1994.  He made no secret of his long, tight association with the High Priest of the televangelism, and vice versa.  In the interviews that followed the 'big event' I'm about to tell you about, Palmer referred to Copeland as "my spiritual father".


Tony-Kenneth-at-Brighton.jpg(Tony Palmer l. and Ken Copeland r.  Cheesier than a  deep dish pizza.  And look at the eyes of the Satanic Kenneth Copeland.  He looks like Hannibal Lector - "I ate his liver, with some fava beans, and a nice Chianti." )

PALMER-POPE LINK

Now here's where it gets weird.   Palmer  spoke a great deal of his personal friendship with Pope Francis - and the pope acknowledged this, referring to Palmer as "my brother bishop". 

 Palmer introduced himself to the Archbishop of Buenos Ares in 2008 when he was representing the Ecumenical Convergence movement in Argentina.  Later, (the story went) when Jorge Bergoglio became pope, after a while he called Palmer out of the blue and asked him to "come and see me at my house in Rome".  

aaapopeandpalmer.jpg Bergoglio appointed Palmer to the 'Pontifical Council for Christian Unity', essentially legitimizing him as an autonomous envoy of the Vatican in Ecumenical affairs.   I heard Vatican Radio dignify Palmer by referring to hims as "International Evangelical Officer of the Episcopal Communion of Evangelical Churches" and Founder of the ARC online Christian Community.

I've read and listened to Palmer tell his own bio on a May 21 radio interview on TrueNews (online) Radio.  He was "ordained" by a schismatic Anglican and his "Church" is a couple of websites he and his wife put up in the mid 1990's. 


ONE WORLD, ONE RELIGION, ONE 'CHURCH'


As you know, the New World Order has to replace all the traditional, cultural religions with one World religion.   Ultimately the World religion for the masses is to be Earth worship.   But before they can really get down to the business of erasing the vestiges of the masculine image of God (Jesus and the Apostles, Church fathers;  Abraham and the prophets;  Allah and Mohammed), they have to get all the faithful under the Big Top (one big tent or umbrella). During the past two hundred years there have been hundreds of cults and man-made religions that have attempted to pull this off.

If at any time while reading any of this, it crosses your mind that a merger of Televangelism 'holy rollers' with the Roman Catholic Church is too absurd to be true, keep in mind that what gives the concept gravity is the entrance of 500 million "Evangelical Charismatics" into the churches of 2 billion Catholics.   

MSM loves Televangelists because they've become second only to porn as the true religion of Television.

BUT - Televangelism isn't Christianity.  They teach a different Gospel, called "Prosperity Gospel" which is exactly the same thing as "The Secret", "Think and Grow Rich", and Theosophy's "Ye are gods" doctrine.   It's all about getting rich and realizing your 'little god' potential'.    I don't have time to go into that right now, except to remind people that Jesus taught that we are all sinners and the key to redemption is repentance -turning away from sin and rejecting Satan.   Yes, Jesus forgave all repentant sinners, but he told them 'sin no more' and to TAKE UP THE CROSS and follow his example.

The once universal understanding of this by all Christian denominations has collapsed since Vatican II.   And no small part of that collapse and emergence of this new twisted "Gospel" of using Jesus as your personal ATM machine has been fostered by TV "Evangelism" and their Megachurchs and Crusades all over the world.  This has become a MULTIBILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY 2nd only to porn.  More lucrative than porn because it's tax exempt.

Televangelists fleecing the flock...


By now bloggers across the board have noticed that the Pope who fired the Catholic "Bishops of Bling" has been 'reaching out' to the most diabolical flock fleecers on Earth as 'brothers'.

At Kenneth Copland's convention of his Televangelist mafia he gave a warm welcome to Tony Palmer as the keynote speaker.   Palmer shocked the blogosphere when after a speech calling for Unity, with a lame explanation of how "Luther's Revolution is Over - what about yours?"  and "Are you born again?  Then you're already Catholic!"  

Palmer's speech would have been a big flop if that was all had up his sleeve.  But he produced a video he made on his cell phone in the Vatican of Pope Francis, who spoke for 11 minutes (mostly in Italian with subtitles) of a merger of sorts between all denominations.  He concluded by inviting Copeland his coven - er - closest friends - to come visit him in Rome.

aaacopeland.jpgAfter the video was over, Copeland took the podium and said, 'WE HAVE A POPE', and started speaking gibberish ('Speaking in tongues'), calling this nonsense a prayer for Pope Francis.  Copeland rattled on for over an hour self-congratulating himself for this MIRACLE.

Here's the abridged viral video.  The Miracle of Unity has Begun: KCM Minister's Conference 2014

The Vatican visit between all these reptiles really did take place on June 20th.  (Can you imagine the weird energy in that room?)   Meantime the Vatican media outlets had laid low and the MSM gave the whole thing passing interest, but cautiously, waiting to see if it would fly.

It was a pretty deal across the board on the Christian and Catholic biospheres, but the mainstream public and people who leave church at church don't seem to have heard of it, or if they did, they didn't take it seriously.

POPE STEPS BACK FROM THE BRINK

The buzz on the blogoshere was negative. Conservative Protestants and Catholics reacted violently against it. Nobody was really excited by it - except Kenneth Copeland,

The big meeting at the Vatican finally took place on June 24th.   The Pope showed up to greet FIFTY THOUSAND "Charismatics".   The event was billed as a prayer day of "Catholic Charismatics" - a 'movement' within the Catholic church - but  Copeland and others were allowed to speak, and the Pope made some noise about doing away with 'division' among Christians.    Then the Pope assumed a prayer posture while the crowd went into their "speaking in tongues" nonsense.   Here's footage of a major event in Toronto in 1994 - I won't go into to it here, but this is what they do.

After the June 24 Rome arena event, Francis met Copeland and the charlatans named in the group photo.  But later Francis distanced himself from them.

In one statement he said their way of praying made him 'uncomfortable'.   There were no glowing followup press conferences or press statements by anybody, except Palmer.  

On July 2nd Francis received Houston, Texas "Prosperity Gospel" Rev. Feelgood,  JOEL OSTEEN.  But the electricity just wasn't there either. It was like a movie that bombs because the leading actor and actress "have no chemistry".   The whole thing seems to have fizzled.

Finally on July 3rd, Francis' weekly address from St. Peters Square showed Francis can speak decisively when he chooses to.  He said in Italian,

"No one becomes Christian on his or her own! Is that clear? No one becomes Christian by him- or herself."

"Christians are not made in a laboratory. A Christian is part of a people who comes from afar. The Christian belongs to a people called the Church and this Church is what makes him or her Christian, on the day of Baptism, and then in the course of catechesis, and so on," the Pontiff continued.

"We are able to live this journey not only because of others, but together with others. In the Church there is no 'do it yourself', there are no 'free agents',"


Whatever you may feel about how people relate to God or believe they've been saved by Jesus, Francis has made the most Catholic statement I've ever heard him make.

 If there's one thing everybody should know about the Roman Catholic Church,  their most foundational doctrine is that only through the Church can people follow Jesus.  It doesn't matter what I may think about this - my point is that this statement makes clear that the Vatican's flirtation with Protestants is an invitation to convert to Catholicism.   Clearly, Francis was interested in making a deal with the Televangelists to reward them somehow, IF they would go through the motions of converting - that is, swearing obedience to the Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church. Just like TONY BLAIR did, just like NEWT GINGRICH did.

Obviously, Kenneth Copeland and his entourage thought the Pope's offer of 'Unity' came with no strings attached.   Evidently, so did Tony Palmer.

DEATH OF THE MESSENGER

Sunday morning, July 20: Tony Palmer, who captured Pope Francis' bid for Christian unity with a cellphone, dies after motorcycle crash.

from Vatican Radio, Rome  :  Pope's friendship with late Evangelical leader Tony Palmer
22/07/2014:  The Vatican's Council for Christian Unity has sent a message of condolences following the sudden death of an Evangelical leader with whom Pope Francis became friends during his time as archbishop of Buenos Aires. Bishop Tony Palmer, the international ecumenical officer of the Communion of Episcopal Evangelical Churches and founder of the online Ark Community, died on Sunday following a motorbike accident near his home in the south of England.

The Palmer story may not be over yet.  Friday, Wikipedia said Palmer was released from the hospital Sunday.  Now it's been edited to say, "It was claimed that Bishop Tony Palmer died on Sunday 20th July, 2014, after injuries sustained in a motorbike accident."

The links to UK articles reporting his death have been pulled.   Plus, it seems somebody's tried to start a YouTube rumor that he walked out the hospital.

But I already read those early UK articles that told exactly where he died, the vehicle involved (silver Audi), plus that police were looking for passengers of a red Ford sedan that may have witnessed the accident.  

Palmer was killed while taking a spin on his motorcycle on a winding country two-lane blacktop at 6:50am Sunday morning. He was in surgery for ten hours and died of his injuries.   It doesn't take a chief inspector of Scotland Yard to see powerful motives for getting rid of him.  He'd proven to be an embarrassment to Pope, and the Vatican.

Related- Pope Francis is a Jewish Imposter
https://henrymakow.com/2014/06/pope-francis-is-a-jewish-impos.html

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First Comment from Austin:


Henry - I'm glad that you've chosen to expose these 'snake oil salesmen' and their henchmen - it's about time the church and the world witnessed their outright betrayal of their christian brethren. Shaking hands with the current Pope is the same as shaking hands with Satan himself - neither of them can be trusted. I'm supplying several links where people can go and see for themselves the opulence these people enjoy and the lavish lifestyles that go with it:

http://www.inplainsite.org/html/tele-evangelist_lifestyles.html - facts about some televangelists

http://kennethcopelandblog.com/ - insight into the Copeland family & some scandals surrounding them

http://www.inplainsite.org/assets/images/JM-Home-Aerial.jpg

Check out the Joyce Meyer "compound" - these people are billionaires, and they have built their 'evangelistic' empires on false teaching and gullible people's money. The mere fact that some of these traitors to the cause of Christ are being photographed next to the Pope, should send shivers up and down people's spines, but it won't.

 The eccumenical movement of our day has allayed any past fears that Protestants may have had towards the Catholic hierarchy, but that false sense of security may one day be the downfall of the many.

"All roads lead to Rome..."






Scruples - the game of moral dillemas

Comments for "Pope Francis' Flirtation With Sleazy Televangelists"

Hans said (July 27, 2014):

Kenneth Copeland is no Christian, but a Satan-worshipper. All evil begins with the love (adoration) of money.

Christ says: "Blessed be ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of heaven"

Copeland says: "Poverty is an evil spirit" [Kenneth Copeland, Prosperity: The Choice is Yours, p.4].

I am sorry for that poor guy Copeland! (and the "Pope")


Debra said (July 27, 2014):

How dare anyone (pope in this case) come forward and claim to be the vicar for Christ!

The papacy is the wealthiest business EMPIRE on earth. They obtain money by deception, from the poor, to buy shares; property; paintings; gold; precious stones and pearls (Rev./Apoc. 17 v 4). What did God say about NOT storing up treasures on earth (Matt. 6 v 19-21) and about Lazarus and the rich man (Luke 16 v 19-26), dressed in purple (like a bishop) and fine clothes and who lived sumptuously every day (like a bishop); and about a camel going through the eye of a needle before a rich man can enter heaven? Which means that a rich man can NEVER go to heaven (it is impossible for a camel to go through the eye of a needle).

Christ told the rich man to give his riches to the "poor", which was the disciples' collective purse or "kitty" and to follow Him; His teaching and example.

What do the popes do? They take money from the poor and give it to the rich; hoarding it in the Vatican's vaults (creating mass poverty) - the OPPOSITE of what Christ said His followers must do.

IF the popes work for Christ, why do they do the OPPOSITE of what they were commanded to do?

It is because they serve mammon NOT God.

I’ve never seen a wealthy televangelist separated from the popes. All one and the same. Honestly, knowing followers of the two types of organized-religions, neither have they. A lack of reaction from their followers (Catholic or otherwise) is because it is not news.


David said (July 27, 2014):

I can't distinguish televangelists from banksters, trial lawyers or mafia dons. They all wear expensive suits and ties to look professional, while they fleece and shake down the rest of humanity


Jason said (July 27, 2014):

A hastily arranged oddfellows conclave which ended with the Pope subtly lecturing Evangelicals on operating (lawlessly) outside of the Church. This followed by Bishop Tony Palmer's sudden death and one must ask the following.

Is it rational to believe that Church doctrine, often dogmatic, can be successfully fused with those holding a subjective theological interpretation of the Holy Scriptures?
e.g. Thousands upon thousands of Protestant denominations in existence each with a different charter.

How far is the Mother Church willing to bend to accommodate the Daughter?

Note: Bishop Palmer mentioned Salvation by grace through faith. Most Protestants don't actually believe this.

One must understand that Luther's Reformation almost immediately fell into error. Luther's rediscovery of grace (Grace: unmerited favour to those who didn't and couldn't earn it. It can never be taken away!) through faith alone (faith: a gift from God given to believers before the ages began) based on Paul's epistles to the uncircumcised quickly became imparted with grace through faith and works. Works therefore also being associated with some inclusion of the Law which was only ever given to the circumcised.

This error creates great doubt in the minds of believers. It fuels an enormous misunderstanding within the Holy Scriptures as they appear unnecessarily to contradict themselves.


Art Granda said (July 26, 2014):

I think Marcos [below]has hit the nail square on the head. Everyone is waiting for a single church to arise and all that aren't it will be forced to join. That is very one dimensional and not what one should expect from a fallen angel.

Satan is all about deception and what better way to deceive than to change the inner workings and dogma of the world's monotheistic faiths, slowly over centuries if need be, to assure that the believers are actually believing error of their own free will (free will is most important if the devil wants to appear as Christ).

They may even fight to the death to protect their beliefs, which would be a double points bonus for the devil. While we wait for the guillotines to be rolled out and the big question to be asked of us, the devil works in the shadows. As long as we have a free will choice in the practice of our religion, the red flags never appear.


Charles said (July 26, 2014):

Your current piece by Richard Evans is highly offensive. I'm not talking about the easy hits on Kenneth Copeland, but many of the more general statements which are both inaccurate and offensive. This Evans is not very intelligent nor knowledgeable but pretends to be both. He can't help but tar anybody he doesn't like or understand.

I assume he thinks of himself as some Christian and if so, judging by his regurgitated, canned criticism he is of the ilk that believes in multiple cult-like heresies such as "the Rapture". This move by Copeland and the Pope is significant and is wrong, but having a moron like Evans add his moronic two-cents to it is not OK. I deal with these morons every day. They are late to the the party on every thing as, for instance, accepting most commonly held truths regarding the Illuminati, etc. only after decades of bitterly rejecting it and fighting it.

They claim to be biblically based but are mostly biblically illiterate. Like liberals they are bullies and have a carefully monitored list of talking points which they regurgitate but do not fully understand. Most of them are spiritually shallow people.


JG said (July 26, 2014):

This article is obviously an attack on the Catholic Church as well as Tony Palmer and Kevin Copeland.

The accusation that the Catholic Church rubbed out Tony Palmer because he was an embarrassment to Pope Francis is garbage. Some of their own priests with the help of the MSM had already done that for them.

The attempt and move to unite the Catholic Church with the Protestant Church is not a step towards a One World Religion but an attempt to consolidate the believers and not to divide them any longer.

I've also heard all the wild theories that the Anti Christ will be an End Time Catholic Pope who will deceive the nation of Israel and occupy their Temple.

These theories are quite amusing but are detached and void of reality. Israel would never accept or choose a Roman Catholic to decide the fate of their nation or people. The Roman Empire is long gone and these theories that the EU will be the revived Latter Day Roman Empire are just as unfathomable. Europe dwells today as a captive debt slave to the NWO and has lost it's sovereignty in the process.

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From Richard Evans;

JG - there's a difference between attacking the Catholic Church and reporting factual information involving Pope Francis that anyone can verify on Catholic News Agency and Vatican Radio. The article in no way accuses the Catholic Church of "rubbing out" anybody. Nor does it contain any propaganda about 'The End Time', the Antichrist, or the Malachy Prophecy (which is a 16th century forgery by the way).

Give me some credit. Kyrie eleison!


Eduardo (BR) said (July 26, 2014):

What is strange for me on this article is that the Pope is displayed as a good person dealing with wolves.

The Rome church is not the Church of Christ, and this pope is not, by any means, a successor of Peter or representative of Jesus.

There are so many heresies that only a very blind by Satan could even think that the Roman Church could somehow represent Jesus interests on this world. (an I am not talking of all atrocities, lies, robbing, pederasty, etc. that are behind that institution, I am talking about the direct disobedience to the Bible, changing its significance to keep lying to the people, same thing of this TV evangelists)

Considering that this pope is a Jesuit, things get even worst: The Jesuits was created to be the Rome Mossad and make the dirt work: kill the Protestants, what they did very well, thankfully some remained.

These TV evangelist do not represent the Church of Christ, they are hand-to-hand with the Illuminati bringing them captive to the almighty power of TV.

The very same thing that Constantine understood: Religion is a way to control the people, and by that, He took the control: the Roman church started, and him the first Pope

For me, this Pope is just gathering together with his pack.

The only true God is presented by the pages of the Bible, and for the very few that love the truth.


Marcos said (July 26, 2014):

We have to understand that Perennial Philosophy is behind the move to create the world religion. It doesn't mean religions will disappear so we can have only one dictatorial church. Instead, religions will be considered cultural, ethnic exoteric (with a X) receptacles to a universal esoteric (with a S) gnostic common faith that says we are all gods.

Only fundamental religions who believe in a God who is distinct from His creation will have to be eliminated by the new world order.

Eventually, a man will claim to be the most developed being in this quest for godhood, and will require that the whole world follow his leadership.


Steve said (July 26, 2014):

Well! Is Tony Palmer really dead or alive - some say he's dead and some say he's alive being discharged from the hospital ??? Just search 'Tony Palmer alive'.

I watched Palmer and Copeland give their sermons (speeches?) quite some time ago and then saw Pope (Bergoglio) give his address from his private office looking somewhat like a mafia don.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsF2q-8ez08 I also note at about 17mins into this video Palmer prays a prayer that he calls "a dying mans prayer". A strange co-incidence?

I was totally gobsmacked by this remarkable turn of events. Amazing! It seemed to me to be too premature in the ecumenical, one world united church plans.

If Palmer is really dead I smell a rat! Fascinating also that Copeland came totally out of the woodwork.

Let us know if its been verified one way or another if he is dead or alive as I am fascinated by this story.


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