At The Vatican Today Pope Francis Gave President Trump The Gospel…Of Climate Change

Pope Francis’s choice of gift suggests he is adding his voice to those
pressing Trump not to renege on the Paris accord, which is the
cornerstone of global efforts to limit climate change. The Vatican said
in a statement that the talks focused on international affairs and the
promotion of peace, with particular emphasis on health care, education
and immigration.

by Geoffrey Grider May 24, 2017

Pope
Francis gave President Trump a copy of his 2015 encyclical calling for
urgent, drastic cuts in fossil-fuel emissions after a half-hour meeting
in his private study

“And upon her forehead was
a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND
ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of
the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw
her, I wondered with great admiration.” Revelation 17:5,6 (KJV)

If Pope Francis was a Bible believing Christian,
he would have spoke to President Trump about his soul and his eternal
destiny. If Pope Francis was a Bible believing Christian, he would have
given him the gospel of the grace of God as first preached by the
apostle Paul. But Pope Francis is neither a Bible believer nor a
Christian, so what is he? He is a king over the country of Vatican City,
and when the president arrived he did what any other worldly king would
do. He talked politics, and the gospel of Climate Change in particular.

Pope
Francis joined an international chorus urging Donald Trump to meet U.S.
commitments on climate change in talks at the Vatican Wednesday

Pope Francis gave President Trump a copy of his 2015 encyclical calling for urgent, drastic cuts in fossil-fuel emissions after a half-hour meeting in his private study.

Francis’s
choice of gift suggests he is adding his voice to those pressing Trump
not to renege on the Paris accord, which is the cornerstone of global
efforts to limit climate change. The Vatican said in a statement that
the talks focused on international affairs and the promotion of peace,
with particular emphasis on health care, education and immigration.

The king of Vatican City receives the President of the United States:

Here is the Whore of Babylon in all her devilish pomposity. Enjoy!

10 Things You May Not Know About the Vatican

The Vatican and Vatican City
are many things to many people, but God has a rather unique name for
it. The Bible calls the Roman Catholic Vatican system the “Whore of
Babylon”, and describes her in graphic detail in Revelation 17 and 18 in
your King James Bible.

So here are 10 fun facts that you should know about the “mother of harlots” that is the Vatican.

1. Vatican City is the smallest country in the world. Encircled
by a 2-mile border with Italy, Vatican City is an independent
city-state that covers just over 100 acres, making it one-eighth the
size of New York’s Central Park. Vatican City is governed as an absolute
monarchy with the pope at its head. The Vatican mints its own euros,
prints its own stamps, issues passports and license plates, operates
media outlets and has its own flag and anthem. One government function
it lacks: taxation. Museum admission fees, stamp and souvenir sales, and
contributions generate the Vatican’s revenue.
2. St. Peter’s Basilica sits atop a city of the dead, including its namesake’s tomb. A
Roman necropolis stood on Vatican Hill in pagan times. When a great
fire leveled much of Rome in A.D. 64, Emperor Nero, seeking to shift
blame from himself, accused the Christians of starting the blaze. He
executed them by burning them at the stake, tearing them apart with wild
beasts and crucifying them. Among those crucified was St.
Peter—disciple of Jesus Christ, leader of the Apostles and the first
bishop of Rome—who was supposedly buried in a shallow grave on Vatican
Hill. By the fourth century and official recognition of the Christian
religion in Rome, Emperor Constantine began construction of the original
basilica atop the ancient burial ground with what was believed to be
the tomb of St. Peter at its center. The present basilica, built
starting in the 1500s, sits over a maze of catacombs and St. Peter’s
suspected grave.
3. Caligula captured the obelisk that stands in St. Peter’s Square. Roman
Emperor Caligula built a small circus in his mother’s gardens at the
base of Vatican Hill where charioteers trained and where Nero is thought
to have martyred the Christians. To crown the center of the
amphitheater, Caligula had his forces transport from Egypt a pylon that
had originally stood in Heliopolis. The obelisk, made of a single piece
of red granite weighing more than 350 tons, was erected for an Egyptian
pharaoh more than 3,000 years ago. In 1586 it was moved to its present
location in St. Peter’s Square, where it does double duty as a giant
sundial.
4. For nearly 60 years in the 1800s and 1900s, popes refused to leave the Vatican. Popes
ruled over a collection of sovereign Papal States throughout central
Italy until the country was unified in 1870. The new secular government
had seized all the land of the Papal States with the exception of the
small patch of the Vatican, and a cold war of sorts then broke out
between the church and the Italian government. Popes refused to
recognize the authority of the Kingdom of Italy, and the Vatican
remained beyond Italian national control. Pope Pius IX proclaimed
himself a “prisoner of the Vatican,” and for almost 60 years popes
refused to leave the Vatican and submit to the authority of the Italian
government. When Italian troops were present in St. Peter’s Square,
popes even refused to give blessings or appear from the balcony
overlooking the public space.
5. Benito Mussolini signed Vatican City into existence. The
dispute between the Italian government and the Catholic Church ended in
1929 with the signing of the Lateran Pacts, which allowed the Vatican
to exist as its own sovereign state and compensated the church $92
million (more than $1 billion in today’s money) for the Papal States.
The Vatican used the payment as seed money to re-grow its coffers.
Mussolini, the head of the Italian government, signed the treaty on
behalf of King Victor Emmanuel III.
6. Popes did not live at the Vatican until the 14th century. Even
after the construction of the original St. Peter’s Basilica, popes
lived principally at the Lateran Palace across Rome. They even left the
city altogether in 1309 when the papal court moved to Avignon, France,
after King Philip IV arranged for a French cardinal to be elected pope.
Seven popes, all French, ruled from Avignon, and the papacy did not
return to Rome until 1377, by which time the Lateran Palace had burned
and the Vatican started to be used as a papal residence. Much repair
work needed to be done, however, because the Vatican had fallen into
such disrepair that wolves dug for bodies in the cemetery and cows even
wandered the basilica.
7. The Swiss Guard was hired as a mercenary force. The
Swiss Guard, recognizable by its armor and colorful Renaissance-era
uniforms, has been protecting the pontiff since 1506. That’s when Pope
Julius II, following in the footsteps of many European courts of the
time, hired one of the Swiss mercenary forces for his personal
protection. The Swiss Guard’s role in Vatican City is strictly to
protect the safety of the pope. Although the world’s smallest standing
army appears to be strictly ceremonial, its soldiers are extensively
trained and highly skilled marksmen. And, yes, the force is entirely
comprised of Swiss citizens.
8. At several times during the Vatican’s history, popes escaped through a secret passageway. In
1277, a half-mile-long elevated covered passageway, the Passetto di
Borgo, was constructed to link the Vatican with the fortified Castel
Sant’Angelo on the banks of the Tiber River. It served as an escape
route for popes, most notably in 1527 when it likely saved the life of
Pope Clement VII during the sack of Rome. As the forces of Holy Roman
Emperor Charles V rampaged through the city and murdered priests and
nuns, the Swiss Guard held back the enemy long enough to allow Clement
to safely reach the Castel Sant’Angelo, although 147 of the pope’s
forces lost their lives in the battle.
9. The majority of Vatican City’s 600 citizens live abroad. As
of 2011, the number of people with Vatican citizenship totaled 594.
That number included 71 cardinals, 109 members of the Swiss Guard, 51
members of the clergy and one nun inside the Vatican walls. The largest
group of citizens, however, was the 307 members of the clergy in
diplomatic positions around the world. With Benedict XVI residing as a
pope emeritus in the Vatican, the population will increase by one when a
new pope is named.
10. The Vatican Observatory owns a telescope in Arizona. As
Rome expanded, light pollution from the city made it increasingly
difficult for astronomers at the Vatican Observatory—located 15 miles
from the city at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo—to view
the night skies, so in 1981 the observatory opened a second research
center in Tucson, Arizona. The Vatican conducts astronomical research
with a state-of-the-art telescope that sits atop Mount Graham in
southeast Arizona.

At The Vatican Today Pope Francis Gave President Trump The Gospel...Of Climate Change • Now The End Begins

THAT HE HATH BUT A SHORT TIME

Wednesday, May 24, 2017