Wings of Liberty • February 13, 2023

The Papacy’s War On National Independence

The world is rapidly heading toward a centralized and globalist authoritarian governance model which will strip individual human beings of their civil liberties.


The World Economic Forum, an elitist cabal with aspirations of global control, has been growing in influence for decades. In 2023, it hosted yet another annual forum in Davos, Switzerland which was attended by many of the world’s key government and corporate leaders. The purpose of the ongoing meetings in Davos are to implement global collaboration on a supranational level to combat so-called global threats. The initiated elites are working overtime to bring in what they call a Great Reset, or Fourth Industrial Revolution, but which in reality is government and private industry uniting to control humanity and to eliminate the civil liberties and freedoms of humanity, including liberty of individual conscience, free speech, and the right to assemble to protest tyranny. The tools being utilized to accomplish these ends are:


  1. A so-called “climate emergency”, which requires supranational control over the nations of the earth for the common good;
  2. The claimed need to centralize information in the form of digital ID and digital currency to control all movement and all economic involvement;
  3. The so-called “Covid emergency” which requires universal participation in a global health initiative to inject humanity with dangerous and ineffective drugs created by corporations who are immune to legal liability or the standard laws of transparency;
  4. Trans-genderism and sexual immorality of every kind to break down family structures, personal independence, and what is left of biblical morality in the western world; and
  5. War and threats of war against non-compliant nations who will not submit to the New World Order.


What is far less well-known is the key involvement of the Papacy with the WEF, and the common interests,

communications and goals between Klaus Schwab and Pope Francis. Schwab and Francis also have a common mentor, a Marxist revolutionary archbishop from South America, Helder Camara. Camara endorsed Cuban communism, and endorsed armed rebellion against government.1


One of the key obstacles still standing between global totalitarian control by Pope Francis and the WEF, are national interests and the weakening national constitutions that protect civil liberties in individual countries. Global priorities clash violently with constitutional protections for individual rights. It is impossible for the WEF to control so-called “misinformation” if there is a recognized individual right of freedom of speech in a given land. In the globalist world view, the right of dissent and protest must be eliminated or at least dramatically weakened. That is why there is a constant narrative from elites like Pope Francis of the need to elevate the so-called “common good” (as defined by himself) as a priority superior to individual rights.


Principle WEF advisor, best-selling author and prominent globalist homosexual, Yuval Noah Harari, has declared that human rights are actually a fiction, that life has no meaning, and that the God of the Bible is dead.2


There is a connection between the Vatican’s war against individual rights and the centuries-old papal attacks on the idea of national sovereignty. The papacy has always claimed to be the vicar of Christ on earth, vested with all of Christ’s authority, and therefore above all civil powers.3 Pope Leo XIII famously declared, “We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.” And, as Pope Pius XI stated, “If there is a totalitarian regime, totalitarian in fact and by right – it is the regime of the Church, because man belongs totally to the Church.”4


The clash between the absolute power claimed by the Popes of Rome and the national constitutions which protect individuals from papal authoritarianism, is obvious.


"The Constitution of the United States guarantees liberty of conscience. Nothing is dearer or more fundamental. Pope Pius IX, in his Encyclical Letter of August 15, 1854, said: `The absurd and erroneous doctrines or ravings in defense of liberty of conscience are a most pestilential error--a pest, of all others, most to be dreaded in a state.' The same pope, in his Encyclical Letter of December 8, 1864, anathematized `those who assert the liberty of conscience and of religious worship,' also 'all such as maintain that the church may not employ force.'"5

The clash between papal power and nations right to self-government is equally clear.


Five centuries ago, when Martin Luther was condemned by the Pope by a papal bull, Exsurge Domine,6 a lengthy debate occurred within Germany as to whether Luther ought to be heard to answer to the charge of heresy by German authorities, or whether he should simply be handed over the Papacy to be presumably tortured by the Inquisition.


For himself, Luther burned the papal bull against him in the gate of Wittenberg in 1520.


Pope Leo X, who had issued the bull condemning Luther, demanded that Luther be turned over immediately. But German authorities were not so sure. Perhaps Luther ought to be given an opportunity to answer to the charge of heresy before German officials so his defense could be heard and judged accordingly. This enraged the pope. The Pope had already declared Luther guilty of heresy. The Germans had no right to consider anew a question which the Pope had already determined!


The pope’s agent, Papal Nuncia Jerome Aleander, railed against the interference with the papal bull by German authorities. When asked whether Luther should be permitted to appear before a secular tribunal to be examined as to the faith, Aleander replied, “Never”. He stated:


As for myself, I would gladly confront this Satan [referring pejoratively to brave Luther], but the authority of the Holy See should not be prejudiced by subjection to the judgment of the laity. One who has been condemned by the pope, the cardinals, and prelates should be heard only in prison. The laity, including the emperor, are not in a position to review the case. The only competent judge is the pope. How can the Church be called the ship of Peter if Peter is not at the helm? How can she be the ark of Noah if Noah is not the captain? If Luther wants to be heard, he can have a safe conduct to Rome. Or His Majesty might send him to the inquisitors in Spain.7 [emphasis added]


And here, in plain sight, is the root of papal opposition to the concept of national authority, or nationalism. If a nation is independent from papal (or globalist) authority, then the papacy (or globalists) cannot compel a nation and its people to do anything. The concept of national autonomy must be broken, or at least cowed to the place where nations become compliant. In the words of Aleander, the laity are in no position to judge for themselves. If the laity, the common people, the common nations, have sovereignty to judge for themselves, they may well refuse to bend the knee to Covid vaccines, digital IDs, or climate Sunday laws, the modern sacraments of Pope Francis’ papacy.


The Vatican has been working for over two centuries to recover the loss of its global authority since Napoleon took Pope Pius VI captive, and broke the back of papal domination over the minds and consciences of the nations. Nationalist interests, and national constitutions, still stand in the way of the re-establishment of global papal control.


Below are some recent examples of papal objections to the concept of nationalism.


“No one nation can provide the common good for its people all by itself”, Francis said. “The common good has become global and nations must come together for their own benefit.”


https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2019/05/nations-stirring-up-nationalism-betray-their-mission-pope-says


“On one side”, Francis said, “there is “a solidarity grounded in justice and the attainment of peace and unity within the human family, which is God’s plan for our world,” while the other path, he warned, “emphasizes self-sufficiency, nationalism, protectionism, individualism and isolation.“It [nationalism] must not prevail,” he added.


https://religionnews.com/2020/09/25/nationalism-must-not-prevail-pope-francis-said-addressing-the-united-nations/


“Our ‘we,’ both in the wider world and within the Church, is crumbling and cracking due to myopic and aggressive forms of nationalism and radical individualism,” he said.


https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/247547/pope-francis-migrants-bearing-brunt-of-aggressive-nationalism-and-radical-individualism


In our time, world peace is “threatened by forms of particularism and nationalism, driven by selfish interests and unbridled greed,” the pontiff told a delegation from B’nai B’rith International, a nonprofit Jewish organization. “This increases the risk, in the end, of even greater contempt for human dignity and rights.”


https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2022/05/30/pope-francis-world-peace-is-threatened-nationalism-unbridled-greed/


Conclusion


The Biblical book of Revelation predicts a global coalition between the papacy, the nations of the earth, and the merchants of the earth which prohibits buying and selling except for those who have the mark of the authority of the first beast of Revelation 13 (the papacy). Covid demonstrated the collaboration of these powers to deprive individuals of mobility and civil liberties. Humanity is moving at lightning speed toward the establishment of much greater controls in these areas.


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1 https://markcrispinmiller.com/2022/01/bad-religion-klaus-schwab-pope-francis-and-archbishop-dom-helder-camara-founder-of-liberation-theology/; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwz4tPlOYs0


2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGt5xklfmsU; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzj7Wg4DAbs – starting at minute 9.


3 See for example Papal encyclical “Quinquagesimo Ante” On His Sacred Jubilee, Pope Pius XI – 1929: “For Italy is Our own country, the country in which the overruling hand of God placed and fixed See of His Vicar on earth. He placed it here in Rome, which had been the capital of that marvelous, yet limited empire, thus making it the capital of the entire world. For thus it becomes the sovereignty that surpasses all national and political boundaries, that embraces all men and all peoples, like the sovereignty of Christ Himself, whom it represents and whose office it fills. The origin and character of this sovereignty… require that it should be, in fact and in appearance, independent and free from every human authority and law…”


4 Kertzer, David I., “The Pope and Mussolini: the secret history of Pius XI and the rise of Fascism in Europe”, 2014 Random House, p. 328, quoting Guasco 2010, pp 94-95.


5 The Great Controversy, p. 564.5


6 Exsurge Domine (Condemning the Errors of Martin Luther) https://famous-trials.com/luther/294-domine


7 https://www.famous-trials.com/luther/298-aleanderview



By Wings of Liberty October 18, 2025
Humanity is accelerating toward the fulfillment of Bible prophecy and the events warned of in Revelation 13-18. Ecumenism is bringing Protestantism back into harmony with the Papacy. The wall of separation between church and state is under attack from religeonists who covet state power to compel their dogmas on the human population. We have passed another signpost. The Church of England split from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534 during the Reformation over a dispute about papal authority and the annulment of Henry VIII’s marriage. As a result of this schism, Anglicans have long had an established creed similar to the Westminster Confession of the Reformed Church. Like the Westminster Confession, the “39 Articles of Anglicanism” formally rejects the papal claim to universal supremacy for the Bishop of Rome. The 39 Articles of Anglicanism include the following: “As the Church of Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch, have erred, so also the Church of Rome hath erred, not only in their living and manner of Ceremonies, but also in matters of Faith”; “The Romeish Doctrine concerning Purgatory, Pardons, Worshiping and Adoration, as well of Images as of Relics, and also Invocation of Saints, is a fond thing, vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the Word of God”, “It is a thing plainly repugnant to the Word of God, and the custom of the Primitive Church to have public Prayer in the Church, or to minister the Sacraments, in a tongue not understanded of the people”, “Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, are not commanded by God's Law, either to vow the estate of single life, or to abstain from marriage: therefore it is lawful for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness”, and “ The Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this Realm of England.” The Popes assert they “hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty”. England rejected these boastful claims and the Pope’s presumptuous authority to dominate the minds and hearts of humanity. It is not a coincidence that while many other European countries were suffering under the oppression of the Inquisition, England was advancing toward empire. So vast was is influence at one time it was famously even claimed that “the sun never sets on the British empire”. But a great change has come. For some decades England, which never sufficiently distanced herself from Rome doctrineally, has been increasingly friendly toward the Papacy. Today, the globalism of the Roman pontiff is the globalism of King Charles III. The climate change agendas of Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV are also shared by King Charles III, the latter of who’s father publicly advocated for population reduction and compared humanity to a “plague”. England is also adopting digital IDs and carrying out mass surveillance and censorship on its own citizens, a practice near to the hearts of the prelates of Rome, to be sure. And now, King Charles III, who holds the title of not only king but Supreme Governor of the Anglican Church, is headed to Rome to hold a public prayer ceremony with Pope Leo XIV. The leader of the Anglican Church has not engaged in public prayer with the Bishop of Rome for approximately 500 years. According to the Royal Palace, “This will be the first state visit, since the Reformation, where the Pope and the Monarch will pray together in an ecumenical service in the Sistine Chapel, and the first time the monarch will have attended a service in St Paul’s Outside the Walls, a church with an historic connection to the English Crown.” According to MSN News, Charles III will also accept a new title. “Charles is also being recogenised for the British monarchy’s historic association with the Papal Basilica of St Paul’s Outside the Walls in Rome, the seat of a Benedictine Abbey, and will be made “Royal Confrater” of the abbey.” Rome never changes. The Papacy has not retreated one letter from its false doctrines. It still claims authority over this earth. It still teaches the false doctrine of purgatory and forbids priests to marry, as well as many more false doctrines which Protestants, including Anglicans, object to. So why this ecumenical development today? The change is with the Anglican Church, which is drifting back toward the once-estranged mother as prophecy foretells. The light of sola scriptura that was brought to England by the Bible is being rejected. It seeks the company of the pope, the pretender to the throne of Christ. Like Israel of old, Anglicanism will say, “we have no king but Caesar.” Of all the Protestant denominations, Anglicanism is the closest to Catholicism. The pageantry and formal rites still have many similarities. England mirrors the union of church and state of Roman Catholicism by unifying church and state in the person of the monarch of England. It has no pope, but it has a king who claims to be the head of the church. Now that king will go to Rome. All roads lead there, it is said, and Protestantism has set itself to prove it. The sun is setting on the British empire after all. SOURCES: https://www.papalencyclicals.net/leo13/l13praec.htm https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/king-to-pray-at-public-service-with-pope-during-state-visit-to-vatican/ar-AA1OF5lH https://www.ibtimes.com/prince-william-shares-prince-charles-philips-grave-concern-over-issue-2767853
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By Wings of Liberty October 3, 2025
“ It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of Citizens...” – James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance Let us soberly consider Madison’s warning. It is “ proper ” to be alarmed at the “ first ” experiment (in modern terms, “threat”) to our liberties . The first threat, mind you. And, not only is it “proper to take alarm”, but “ this prudent jealousy ” is the “ first duty of citizens .” What a warning! Our world is full of tyrants. There are tyrants on the Left, and yes, do not deceive yourself, there are also plenty of tyrants on the Right. Let us soberly evaluate ourselves as citizens then. Have we, do we, exercise “that prudent jealousy” to safeguard individual liberties, not only ours but the individual liberties of our society? No. If we are honest, the answer is “no.” Collectively and individually, western society has woefully failed to take alarm when individual liberties are threatened. If “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”, as Jefferson said, we should expect to be enslaved. And we ought not to be surprised that this is precisely what is happening. We are entertained. We are preoccupied. We are self-absorbed. And we have failed to be vigilant for liberty. What liberties are we to guard? We do not have to guess. We are to jealously safeguard as our first duty those liberties enshrined in the Constitution. First and foremost, we are to safeguard the separation of church and state, freedom of religion, free speech, freedom of the press, and the right to assemble. Before considering the existential threat to liberty that Christian Nationalism poses, which is the primary subject of this article, we first must make dishonorable mention of certain other threats to liberty which so many of us have ignored to our shame and peril. Compulsion to use biologically discordant gender pronouns is a threat to liberty. Silence while the world plays make-believe about men becoming women and having babies is a threat to liberty. Government removal of parental rights is a threat to liberty. Suing bakeries to punish them for refusing to make wedding cakes for gay weddings is a threat to liberty. And yes, killing millions of babies in utero is absolutely a threat to liberty. Not only is it uncivil and immoral, it is national suicide to wilfully destroy the next generation of human beings. Killing millions of babies is correlated with western willingness to accept mass migration. There is a need to replace workers the western world does not have. How is that going for you, France? Germany? UK? America? But if any of the above makes you feel partisanly righteous, however, let us disabuse you of your sanctimony. Both Left and Right governments locked their populaces down during Covid. Both forced and bullied their citizens into social distancing and “two weeks to flatten” the spine of the population. What would Madison have said about an America where the government threatens the civil liberties of the entire country, and American’s response was to roll up their sleeves, and say, “fine, Fauci says I need it, and I really want a free hamburger”? We are to take alarm at the First Experiment upon our liberties. And when does that start? Is 37 trillion dollars of national debt a threat to liberty? What about currency debasement? Mass warrantless public surveillance? Digital money tied directly to the Federal Reserve so that authorities can shut your entire life off with the push of a button? No, Christian Nationalism is not the first threat to liberty. Not even close. But it is a threat to liberty and more than this, it is biblically prophetic, as we have discussed. Click Here For Previous Articles You might ask – why shouldn’t the Christian Right take control of civil power and abuse the Left as much as the Left has abused us? And we could respond, and do respond, “because it is unconstitutional”. And it is. But the answer is bigger than that. Doug Wilson, and Jared Longshore. Timon Cline and Lennox Kalifungwa. Stephen Wolfe. These, and many other modern and intolerant “Christian” thought leaders all believe in the establishment of a Christian Republic in America as a cure for society’s ills. What do they propose? Liberty? Far from it. The Woke Left violated free speech through state-sponsored gender confusion and forced pronouns. The Christian Nationalist response is blasphemy laws enforced by the state. Doug Wilson and friends are constantly telling everyone who will listen how great the Puritans in Massachusetts were, and that they founded America, which is false by the way. But they do not tell you that in Massachusetts violations of blasphemy laws were historically punished by piercing the offender’s tongue with a hot poker, or death. Today in Massachusetts, a blasphemy law still exists (although it is not currently enforced), and states as follows: Section 36: Blasphemy Section 36. Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, his creation, government or final judging of the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to contempt and ridicule, the holy word of God contained in the holy scriptures shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, and may also be bound to good behavior. Are we so blind that we do not see that censorship from the Right is as much a threat to liberty as censorship from the Left? Christian Nationalists claim Swiss Reformer John Calvin is the father of America. This is a dangerous and outrageous falsehood, and will be the subject of an upcoming article. It must never be forgotten that John Calvin had men murdered for the supposed crime of heresy, the substance of which was nothing more than disagreeing with John Calvin. The Woke Left hijacked government to enforce their religion of gender ideology. And Christian Nationalists want to establish Protestantism as an official state religion, contrary to the First Amendment to the Constitution. Doug Wilson and company intend to legislate compliance with the first table of the Ten Commandments. That includes blasphemy laws, of course, but also Sunday ‘Sabbath’ blue laws, and punishments for supposed violations. Violations of Sunday laws historically included whipping. Jailing. Chain gangs. Stocks. And death. And in case you were wondering, all of those things when imposed for simply disagreeing with religious bigots are a threat to liberty. Christian Nationalists want to demolish the separation of church and state in America, and even admit their intention to impose a religious test for public office, contrary to the Article VI of the Constitution: The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution ; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. Doug Wilson and company are openly stating their intention to threaten the liberty of every single American. Madison would have opposed them publicly, were he alive. But he has left the trust to us. Madison as a youth stood outside a local prison and listened to an incarcerated minister preach through the bars of his cell window. The minister had been imprisoned for the so-called “crime” of “preaching the Gospel incorrectly”. Because he had seen oppression from religious bigots firsthand, James Madison had a lifelong animus to the union of church and state. And so should you. It is a threat to liberty, and it is your first duty as a citizen to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. ********************************* Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmSG4U06X2o – Discussion between Walter Veith et al and Doug Wilson where Doug Wilson states he is in favor of the state establishment of the Protestant religion. “I believe the Christian faith ought to be the public faith of our civic polity. That’s why I’m a Christian Nationalist.” – Doug Wilson, minute 33:30. Wilson claims he nevertheless believes in the First Amendment and the separation of church and state, which is disingenuous. He also believes the government should enforce the first table of the Decalogue, proving further that he is really aiming to break down the wall of separation between church and state. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgkfi191qV0 – David Shepherd and Lennox Kalifungwa interview Pastor Douglas Wilson and Ben Merkle https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hRZ1eTNX65w – Senate hearing on Covid shot safety, September 2025 https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/senate-and-constitution/constitution.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFeIO0ZjdF8 - CNN interview with Christian Nationalist Doug Wilson