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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 75
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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MORE ON ALLEGED VATICAN PLOT AGAINST ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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In response to an item in CN 9.74 regarding the possibility
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of a 19th-century alliance between the Pope and European
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monarchs, CN reader Michael Hoffman II writes:
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Catholic theology denies the Divine Right of Kings for both
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Catholic and Protestant monarchs. The most distinguished
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Catholic political writer in this field (who may have
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influenced the American Founders), was the 17th century
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Jesuit scholar, Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, who debated the
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"Divine Right" proponent, the Protestant King James I of
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England. (Luther also upheld the doctrine).
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The Catholic Church had always put limits on monarchs.
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James and later Louis XIV of France, identified themselves
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with God and the state. Bellarmine, at the pope's behest,
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contested this (cf. John Clement Rager, "The Political
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Philosophy of St. Robert Bellarmine"). In France the
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papacy condemned Divine Right as the heresy of Gallicanism.
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Of course in the secular realm to this day there are
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Catholic reactionaries and royalists who are even willing
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to side with the Protestant crown than countenance the
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American Revolution. In America however, the Church was
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dominated by the Republican Irish who with their bad
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experience under the British monarchy embraced the American
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system of Republican government wholeheartedly.
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Pius IX was very concerned about the Union's use of Irish
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Catholics as cannon fodder in the war and issued a letter
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to be read in all the churches in Ireland resisting Union
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recruiting.
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Hoffman does not seem to deny the personification of the Divine
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Right concept within the Church itself, just the possibility of
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an alliance between the Church and European monarchs. After all,
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the Catholic Church is quite blunt about it: the Pope is
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(supposedly) God's representative on earth.
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But in spite of Hoffman's erudition, as apparent in the excerpt
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quoted above, why wouldn't the Catholic Church and European
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monarchs have found some common ground? Politics make strange
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bedfellows, and a secret agreement between European monarchs and
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the Pope is not too far-fetched.
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In Burke McCarty's book on the Lincoln assassination (*Suppressed
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Truth About the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln*, see CN 9.74),
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mention is made of a Rev. Charles Chiniquy, a defrocked Catholic
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priest who authored a book called *Fifty Years in the Church of
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Rome*. A CN reader was nice enough to send the following,
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indicating that Chiniquy's book is still in print:
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I am writing to inform you about a book written by a
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contemporary of Abraham Lincoln, which appears to confirm
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what Burke McCarty is saying. The book is:
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"50 Years in the Church of Rome"
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by Charles Chiniquy
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Copyright 1981
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by Jack T. Chick
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Published by:
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Chick Publications
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P.O. Box 662
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Chino, Calif. 91710
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ISBN: 0-937958-09-3
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In Burke McCarty's book, the ex-Rev. Chiniquy, who knew Lincoln,
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quotes the great president as having stated as follows:
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The common people hear and see the big noisy wheels of the
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southern Confederacy cars, and they call him Jeff Davis,
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Lee, Thompson, Beauregard, Semmes, or others. They
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honestly think that they are the motive power, the first
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cause of our troubles, but it is a mistake, the true motive
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power is secreted behind the thick walls of the Vatican --
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the colleges and schools of the Jesuits; the convents of
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the Nuns, the confessional boxes of Rome.
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And again, said by Chiniquy to be a statement having been made by
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President Lincoln:
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Father Chiniquy, I want your views about a thing which is
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exceedingly puzzling to me and you are the only one to whom
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I would like to speak on the subject. A great number of
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Democratic newspapers have been sent me lately, evidently
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written by Roman Catholics, publishing that I was born a
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Roman Catholic and baptized by a priest. They called me a
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renegade and apostate on account of that, and they heaped
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upon my head mountains of abuse. Now, no priest of Rome
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has ever laid his hand on my head. But the persistency of
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the Romish press to present this falsehood to their readers
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as gospel truth, must have a meaning. Please tell me, as
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briefly as possible, what you think about it.
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This, Chiniquy answered, was done solely to incite and justify
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the act of assassination in the minds of any Catholic fanatics.
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It was, says Chiniquy, equivalent to a command.
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Skeptics will rightly point out that as a defrocked Catholic
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priest, Chiniquy's claims are dubious. Yet that coin has two
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sides: as a defrocked priest, Chiniquy would have been free to
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speak his mind.
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