Pope Francis' Flirtation With Sleazy Televangelists

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 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”.  

 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 of these is ‘Eurochurch’.

Does that creep you out or what?   A sort of European Union of Church.  Happily, this, and ARC, are little more than concepts with an internet blog following, and occasional events hosted by “Charismatic”  meeting halls.  Palmer was working on getting ‘Eurochurch’ off the ground when the role of Pope’s envoy to Kenneth Copeland’s televangelist conference dropped in his lap.

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.

After 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.

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.”

“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.