Anonymous church sources have said that Pope Benedict's decision to reside in the Vatican after he resigns will provide him with legal protection against prosecution in connection with sexual abuse cases around the world, reported Huffington Post.

One Vatican official, speaking on condition of anonymity said, "His continued presence in the Vatican is necessary, otherwise he might be defenseless.  He wouldn't have his immunity, his prerogatives, his security, if he is anywhere else.  I see a big problem, if he were to go anywhere else. I'm thinking in terms of his personal security, his safety. We don't have a secret service that can devote huge resources (like they do) to ex-presidents," the official said. 

A key consideration is the pope's potential exposure to legal prosecution over the Catholic Church's sexual abuse crimes. 


Catholic popes tortured, skinned and burned alive millions of Christians and Jews during the Inquisition.  There are historical records to these facts and Foxes Book of Martyrs is a good source, although I caution those who are faint of heart.  Personally, I have only been able to read few pages myself.  The accounts are too horrific to think about.  According to BishopAccountability.org, there have been more than 6,100 credible child sexual abuse claims against Catholic priests since 1950.  An attorney for plaintiffs said there are probably tens of thousands of unreported cases.  Given these facts, you would think that anyone in their right mind would get as far away from the Catholic church as possible. 

There is a reason why the Bible refers to people as "sheep."  Dumb sheep just follow the shepherd, good or bad. 

The Word of God provides plenty of scriptures that would give anyone caution about the Catholic church, if they will just read it!

Against worshiping and praying to idols:  God said, "You shall make no idols nor graven image, neither rear up a standing image, neither set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it, for I am the Lord your God" Leviticus 26:1.  The Catholic church has statues of saints and the mother of Jesus all over the place and Catholics bow down to these images, praying to them and worshiping them.  This is an abomination, because the first of the Ten Commandments is, "You shall have no other gods before Me" Exodus 20:3.

Against forbidding to marry and abstain from meat:  For hundreds of years the Catholic church held that parishioners should abstain from meat on Fridays and they still forbid priests and nuns to marry, which has perverted many:  "Now the Spirit speaks expressly that in the latter days some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron; forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving of them who believe and know the truth" 1 Timothy 4:1-3.

How much clearer can you get than that?  Calling all Catholics:  Read the Bible for yourself, learn the truth of God's Word, and get out of the Catholic church, while there is still time. 

The Bible tells us about a "great whore," an apostate church, in numerous scriptures (Revelation 17-19).  Revelation 17:9 says, "Here is the mind which has wisdom.  The seven heads are the seven mountains on which the woman sits."  This woman, the great whore, sits on seven mountains.  There is only one city in the world known as the City on Seven Hills, and that is Rome.  The Vatican City sits amidst Rome and she is the "great whore," the harlot apostate church described in the Word of God. It is very clear.  In fact, the Vatican holds itself out to be "The City on Seven Hills" in their own documents.

The Bible tells us further that this woman sits upon a beast with seven heads and ten horns, which represents an empire and rulers.  "The ten horns which you saw shall hate the whore and make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire" Revelation 17:16.  The empire of the last days will destroy the Vatican city. 

"I heard another voice from heaven, saying, 'Come out of her, My people, that you be not partakers of her sins, that you receive not of her plagues'" Revelation 18:4.  Before God allows the rulers of this world to destroy the Vatican, He is calling for His people to "come out of her."  "For true and righteous are His judgments, for He has judged the great whore, which corrupted the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of His servants at her hand" Revelation 19:2.  "Avenged the blood of His servants?"  Yes, the Catholic church killed innumerable Christians, tortured them mercilessly, skinned them alive, burned them alive at the stake during the Inquisition.  The world has forgotten, but God has not forgotten and the Vatican City will be destroyed, burned with fire to "avenge the blood of God's servants."

The Bible says, "The merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her, for no man buys her merchandise anymore...and saying, 'Alas, alas, that great city that was clothed in fine linen, purple and scarlet and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls'"  Revelation 18:11,16

You will never find more "scarlet and purple, gold, precious stones and pearls" in any one church, as described in Revelation of the "great whore," than you will find in the Catholic church.  I'm not certain that the Crown Jewels of Britain can compare with the Pope's jeweled tiara.

The great abomination of the Catholic church is that the pope holds himself out to be "God in the flesh."  No one can exalt himself to the place of God Almighty, no one.  God said, "Look unto Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none else" Isaiah 45:22.  "I am the Lord; that is My name, and My glory I will not give to another, neither my praise to graven images" Isaiah 42:8.

The Catholic church, in every respect, goes contrary to the ordinances and character of God.

Remember what the Lord is saying in the last book of the Bible, "I heard another voice from heaven, saying, 'Come out of her, My people, that you be not partakers of her sins, that you receive not of her plagues'" Revelation 18:4.

Are you a Catholic?  I challenge you to read the Bible for yourself.  Study the scriptures I have referenced for you above and "come out of her," that harlot church, which will be destroyed in the latter days.  Jesus is the only mediator between God and man, "There is one God and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus" 1 Timothy 2:5.  

The Bible says, "The veil of the temple was torn in twain from the top to the bottom" Mark 15:38.  Throughout Biblical history, there was a very high veil which separated the holy place from the "most holy place," where God sat on the mercy seat.  The high priest (before Christ) would sacrifice and make intercession before God for the people.  He was the only one who could enter the "most holy place," where the mercy seat of God was.  When Christ was crucified, the veil separating the holy place of the temple from the "most holy place" was torn from top to bottom.  The veil was more than 49' high (30 cubits) and the fact that it was torn from top to bottom meant that only the hand of God could have torn it on the day of Christ's death.  God demonstrated that the priest no longer had to come before God in behalf of the people; the people, at the time of Christ's death, could enter the most holy place for themselves and pray to God.  

The fact that the Catholic church ignores what the Bible said about the veil, which separated God from man, that it was torn when Christ died, and the fact that they still hold themselves out to be mediators between God and man, in place of Christ, is an abomination before God.  Their actions attempt to nullify what Christ did on the cross, dying for our sins and paving the way for men to "come boldly unto the throne of grace" Hebrews 4:16.

If you aren't saved, please visit the How Can I Be Saved page of this website.  There's no time to lose; time is short.  God bless you.