"Mr Masih was framed 'in a false case of insulting the Prophet Muhammad during the course of conversation with a Muslim friend' at the Joseph Colony concerning a property dispute."
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Basel, 1434: “… there is hope that very many from the abominable sect of Mahomet will be converted to the Catholic faith.” http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Councils/ecum17.htm
Pope Callixtus III: “I vow to… exalt the true Faith, and to extirpate the diabolical sect of the reprobate and faithless Mahomet [Islam] in the East.”
Pope Pius II - "Turn the anger of the Almighty against the godless
Turks and Barbarians who despise Christ the Lord.....In the royal city
of the east, they have slain the successor of Constantine and his
people, desecrated the temples of the Lord, defiled the noble church of
Justinian with their Mohometan abominations. Each
success, will only be a stepping stone until he has mastered all the
Western Monarchs, overthrow the Christian Faith, and imposed the law of
his false prophet on the whole world"
Pope Leo X - "...
the Turks and other infidels ... They treat the way of true light and
salvation with complete contempt and totally unyielding blindness ..."
Pope Clement V, Council of Vienne, 1311-1312: "It is an insult to the holy name and a disgrace to
the christian faith that in certain parts of the world subject to
christian princes where Saracens live, sometimes apart, sometimes
intermingled with Christians, the Saracen priests commonly called
Zabazala, in their temples or mosques, in which the Saracens meet to
adore the infidel Mahomet, loudly invoke and extol his
name each day at certain hours from a high place, in the hearing of both
Christians and Saracens and there make public declarations in his
honour. There is a place, moreover, where once was buried a certain
Saracen whom other Saracens venerate as a saint. A great number of
Saracens flock there quite openly from far and near. This brings
disrepute on our faith and gives great scandal to the faithful. These
practices cannot be tolerated any further without displeasing the divine
majesty. We therefore, with the sacred council's approval,
strictly forbid such practices henceforth in christian lands. We enjoin
on catholic princes, one and all, who hold sovereignty over the said
Saracens and in whose territory these practices occur, and we lay on
them a pressing obligation under the divine judgment that, as true
Catholics and zealous for the christian faith, they give consideration
to the disgrace heaped on both them and other Christians. They are to remove this offence altogether from their territories and take care that their subjects remove it, so that they may thereby attain the reward of eternal happiness. They are to forbid expressly the public invocation of the sacrilegious name of Mahomet. They
shall also forbid anyone in their dominions to attempt in future the
said pilgrimage or in any way give countenance to it. Those who presume
to act otherwise are to be so chastised by the princes for their
irreverence, that others may be deterred from such boldness. http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Councils/ecum15.htm
Pope Benedict XIV (14th
not to be confused with the current Pope Benedict XVI who panders to
this diabolical sect): We designated that abuse as a cowardly
concealment of the Christian profession, approaching infidelity. Since
then, We have learned with great mental anguish that many people in that
province continue to take Turkish or Mohammedan names despite the
consideration of their eternal salvation. They do so not only in order
to be immune and free from those taxes and burdens which have often been
and continue to be imposed on the faithful of Christ, but also in order
that neither they themselves nor their parents may be thought to have
abandoned the Mohammedan sect, thereby avoiding the requisite penalties.
For all this cannot take place without a pretense of the errors of Mohammed, even if the faith of Christ is adhered to in the heart, and this is at variance with Christian sincerity. It involves a lie in a most serious matter and includes a virtual denial of the Faith, most insulting to God and scandalous to their neighbors. It even gives the Turks themselves a suitable opportunity to rate all Christ's faithful as hypocrites and deceivers,
and accordingly to persecute them justly and deservedly. Our sorrow and
anguish is further increased by the fact that some of you yourselves,
venerable brothers, and of you also, beloved sons, parish priests and
missionaries, take no measures against so vile and hateful a pretense.
In fact, some of you even connive at it; by being impressed by empty
motives to find excuses for sins, you do not hesitate to allow those who
take common Turkish or Mohammedan names and desire to be addressed by
them, to partake of the Sacraments with no pang of conscience at all, to the public offense of the obedient faithful. We
who are entrusted with the care of all the churches and the supreme
administration of the sacred Apostolate; in this capacity, We are
obliged to lead all Christians back to the way of salvation and to
present them to God pure and sincere, walking in the spirit and in truth
without stain....We first renew and confirm by Our Apostolic authority
in this letter the praiseworthy canon of the council of your province of
Albania, and We command that it be strictly observed. Also We extend
the decrees of Our church by the same authority and uniformity to
include your province; We equally strictly prohibit any of Christ's faithful from daring to take Turkish or Mohammedan names in order to be considered Mohammedans, in any case, under any pretext, or in any conceivable circumstances. http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Ben14/b14quod.htm
St. Thomas Aquinas on Islam:
“He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to
which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also
contained precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he
gave free rein to carnal pleasure. In all this, as is not unexpected; he
was obeyed by carnal men. As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine,
he brought forward only such as could be grasped by the natural ability
of anyone with a very modest wisdom. Indeed, the truths that he taught
he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity.He did not bring forth any signs produced in a supernatural way, which alone fittingly gives witness to divine inspiration; for a visible action that can be only divine reveals an invisibly inspired teacher of truth. On the Contrary, Mohammed said that he was sent in the power of his arms – which are signs not lacking even to robbers and tyrants. What is more, no wise men, men trained in things divine and human, believed in him from the beginning (1). Those who believed in him were brutal men and desert wanderers, utterly ignorant of all divine teaching, through whose numbers Mohammed forced others to become his follower’s by the violence of his arms. Nor do divine pronouncements on part of preceding prophets offer him any witness. On the contrary, he perverts almost all the testimony of the Old and the New Testaments by making them into a fabrication of his own, as can be seen by anyone who examines his law. It was, therefore, a shrewd decision on his part to forbid his followers to read the Old and New Testaments, lest these books convict him of falsity. It is thus clear that those who place faith in his words believe foolishly.”- Summa Contra Gentiles, Book 1, Chapter 16, Art. 4. Footnote: 1. Sura 21:5, Sura 44:14; Sura 16:103, Sura 37:36
St. John of Damascus’s (Doctor of the Church) Critique of Islam:
There is also the superstition of the Ishmaelites which to this day prevails and keeps people in error, being a forerunner of the Antichrist. They are descended from Ishmael, [who] was born to Abraham of Agar, and for this reason they are called both Agarenes and Ishmaelites. They are also called Saracens, which is derived from Sarras kenoi, or destitute of Sara, because of what Agar said to the angel: ‘Sara hath sent me away destitute.’ [99] These used to be idolaters and worshiped the morning star and Aphrodite, whom in their own language they called Khabár, which means great. [100] And so down to the time of Heraclius they were very great idolaters. From that time to the present a false prophet named Mohammed has appeared in their midst. This man, after having chanced upon the Old and New Testaments and likewise, it seems, having conversed with an Arian monk, [101] devised his own heresy. Then, having insinuated himself into the good graces of the people by a show of seeming piety, he gave out that a certain book had been sent down to him from heaven. He had set down some ridiculous compositions in this book of his and he gave it to them as an object of veneration.
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