Last rites declaration of Ioannes Paulus PP. II (Karol Wojtyla)
Ioannes Paulus PP. II
Nationalism, capitalism, and hoarding. The idea of every nation
should be forgot, price should be struck from the commons, and
princes should be seen for the devils they are. The sins include
our church, secret societies, and other religions which make of
the spirit of God a divide."
Last rites declaration of Ioannes Paulus PP. II (Karol Wojtyla)
2nd April 2005
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to show that this was not their meaning and that, on the contrary, they knew
well that this temporal kingdom should cease, they said that they would be
without a king and without a prince, and for a long time. Hosea 3:4.
720. Non habemus regem nisi Caesarem.[140] Therefore Jesus Christ was the
Messiah, since they had no longer any king but a stranger, and would have no
other.
721. We have no king but Caesar.
722. Daniel 2: "All thy soothsayers and wise men cannot shew unto thee the
secret which thou hast demanded. But there is a God in heaven who can do so,
and that hath revealed to thee in thy dream what shall be in the latter
days." (This dream must have caused him much misgiving.)
"And it is not by my own wisdom that I have knowledge of this secret, but by
the revelation of this same God, that hath revealed it to me, to make it
manifest in thy presence.
"Thy dream was then of this kind. Thou sawest a great image, high and
terrible, which stood before thee. His head was of gold, his breast and arms
of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet
part of iron and part of clay. Thus thou sawest till that a stone was cut
out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet, that we