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Ecuador used to be Catholic republic!
« on: March 20, 2007, 10:47:26 AM »
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  • President Gabriel Garcia Moreno was a thoroughly Catholic leader who was violently killed by the Freemasons in 1875 3 years after consecrating his nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
     
    Today, not one nation (as far as I know) recognizes the Catholic Church offically. I have brought this up countless times but how can one justify Rome exhorting Catholic nations to grant religious liberty (in the name of Dignitatis Humanae) when Catholics constituted the majority (e.g. Spain, Italy etc..) in such nations thus granting equal status to false religions and thereby destroying the strong influence the Catholic Church had in the life of society to help its citizens get to Heaven?
     
    Here are some of the articles of the Concordat which show just how Christ is to be recognized officially by the government....call me naive but I believe this is the ideal. [Taken from Garcia Moreno, Rev. Fr. Augustine Berthe, Introduction pp. V-VI]
     
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    Article 1. The Roman Catholic Apostolic religion will continue to be the only religion of the Republic of Ecuador, and the State will always protect all the rights and perogatives that it ought to enjoy according to the laws of God and canonical dispositions.  Consequently there will never be permitted in Ecuador a dissident cult or any society condemned by the Church.
     
    Article 3. The instruction of the youth in Universities, Colleges, Faculties, and public and private schools will be in all things conformed to the doctrine of the Catholic religion...(and) the Bishops will exercise freely the right to prohibit books contrary to religion and good customs.
     
    Article 4. The Bishops will take care that there shall be no instruction contrary to the Catholic religion and good customs.  With this aim no one can instruct in any public or private institution in the subjects of theology, catechism, or religion doctrine without the Bishop's permission.
     
    Article 6. The ecclesiastical Ordinaries of the Republic can govern their dioceses with full liberty, convoke and celebrate provincial and diocesan councils, and exercise the rights which belong to them by virtue of their sacred ministry, without suffering interference in the performance of their sacred duties.
     
    Thus the Government of Ecuador will assist the Bishops when solicited, particularly when they are confronted with the evil works of those people who seek to pervert the spirit of the faithful and corrupt their customs.
     
    Article 10. Out of respect for the majesty of God who is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the immunity of church buildings will be respected in so far as public security permits.
     
    Article 19. The Church will enjoy the right to acquire property freely and by any just title, and the properties now in its possession or acquired later will be guaranteed by law.
     
    Article 20. The Bishops can freely and without exception admit and establish in their respective dioceses new Orders or Institutes approved by the Church in conformity with the necessity of the people.  To facilitate this the Government will lend its aid.
     
    Article 21. After the Divine Offices in all the churches of the Republic of Ecuador, the following prayer will be said: Domine salvam fac Rempublicam; Domine salvum fac Praesidem ejus.
     
    Article 22. The Goverment of the Republic of Ecuador is obligated to employ all proper measures for the propagation of the faith and for the conversion of the people found in that territory, and to favor the establishment of the missions.

     
    And then contrast this with the following:
     

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    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.



    The articles from the 1862 Concordat in Ecuador is precisely what the Social Kingship of Christ entails...Christ and the laws of the Church officially recognized by a nation.
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