TEN MYTHS 3

MYTH 4: THE DA VINCI CODE The Knights Templar were suppressed by the evil Catholic Church because they knew too much. They knew the secrets of the cosmos and these secrets were secured by the Free Masons and expressed in the ideals of the French Revolution: liberty, equality and fraternity.

TEMPLAR TREASURE?  SECRETS OF THE SOLOMON TEMPLE?  PROTECTING THE BLOOD LINE OF JESUS?  BLACK MASSES AND SATANIC RITUALS?  INVENTION OF COMMERCIAL PAPER!

Pope Clement V or King Philip IV

From Knights to Shriners?  Arrest  Torture for “confessions”  Then … papal inquiry  November 22, 1307 Papal call for suppression and trials; property to go to Hospitalers.  Philip’s Revenge: March 18, 1314  Jacques de Molay and Geoffrey de Charnay burned at the stake with a charcoal fire!

History of the Masons 1672 Institutions, Laws and Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter by Elias Ashmore Pierre and Jacques Dupuy sanitize the role of King Philip the Fair 1736 Chevalier Ramsey’s late night speech to “Masons”

1760 George Frederick Johnson and Pastor Samuel Rosa scheme: “grades of vengeance” against the Catholic Church 1785 Illluminati suppressed in Bavaria; angry protest from G. Washington. Dan Brown’s Priory of Sion hoax.

MYTH 9: HITLER’S POPE Pope Pius XII feared the Communists so much that he wanted the Nazis to save Western Civilization. This meant ignoring anti-Semitism and the Holocaust.

Multiple Sides of National Socialism Remilitarization Race idolatry

Mit Brennender Sorge Violations of the concordat, the many forms of oppression of the freedom of organized religion, the idolatry of race and blood, the horrendous campaigns of scandals against the clergy, the battle against Catholic education, the suppression of the press.

Anti-Pius “Historians”  Der Stellvertreter, 1963  Rolf Hochuth  The Catholic Church in Nazi Germany, 1965  Günter Lewy  Hitler’s Pope, 1999  John Cornwell

Professionals reject this  Owen Chadwich  Alan Bullock  Raul Hilberg  George Lawler, Popes and Politics,2002, “papaphobia”

The Final Word on the Final Solution  Hitler, The War and the Pope,2000, Ronald J. Rychlak  Pope Pius XII: Architect for Peace, 2000, Margherita Marchione  Pius XIII and the Second World War, 1999, Pierre Blet  (The Defamation of Pius XII, 2001, Ralph McInerny)  José Sanchez, Saint Louis University

MYTH 10: THE CHURCH IS MYSOGONIST AND MEAN-SPIRITED The Catholic Church, run by men, tries to dictate about a woman’s body, is anti-gay, won’t perform same sex marriages. It doesn’t care about minorities and the vulnerable. It’s all about white-suburban-upper middle class values.

CATHOLIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO SAINT LOUIS MISSOURI July 2014 Deposition Contemporary Civic and Charitable Contributions Historical Civic and Charitable Contributions Contemporary Contributions in Education Historical Contributions in Education Contemporary Contributions in Health Care Historical Contributions in Health Care Other Contributions: Solicitude to the Most Vulnerable

Civic and Charitable Almost Home Women in Transition Dismas House Little Sisters of the Poor Mother of Good Counsel Our Lady’s Inn

More civic and charitable Cardinal Ritter Senior Services Catholic Charities of Saint Louis (156,000 people annually) Father Dempsey’s Home Guardian Angels Settlement St. Vincent de Paul Society (143 parishes) Cemeteries (17)

Educational Contributions 35,000 children in 121 grade schools 15,000 students in 27 high schools Financial aid is available through the Tuition Family Plan, the Catholic Family Tuition Assistance Endowment Fund, and Parish Employees Endowment Fund.

Health Care Contributions Cardinal Glennon Hospital for Children, De Paul Health Center, Mercy Hospital, Saint Alexius, Saint Joseph Hill Infirmary, SSM Saint Clare Medical Health Center, Saint Anthony Medical Center, Saint Joseph Hospital in Saint Charles, Saint Louis University Hospital and Saint Mary’s Health Center.

St. Louis without Catholic Hospitals? The Catholic Church is urged on by the charity of Christ to serve the most vulnerable in society. Our problem is … 11 of 20 regional hospitals are Catholic

We won’t compromise our moral principles to do so.

In the end, Our task is to… guard and present better the precious deposit of Christian doctrine in order to make it more accessible to the Christian faithful and to all people of good will. That includes our history!