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Appendix VII
Some selected quotes from H.G. Wells regarding the Roman Catholic Church.
Toward the end of World War II, after enduring repeated bombings from the Axis Powers which he called the Roman Catholic Shinto Alliance, H.G. Wells, neither a Roman Catholic, nor a Christian, wrote a book entitled “Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church”, published in England in 1943 and in the U.S. surprisingly by the American Atheist Press in 1981 (1). He clearly saw the hidden hand of the Roman Catholic Church in the orchestration and performance of this destructive war, and he called Pope Pius XII, the Axis Pontiff, implying that the orders came from Rome, not Berlin. The following quotes are from this book. Unfortunately, Wells confused Roman Catholicism with true Christianity.
Commenting on the book “The City of God” by Augustine of Hippo, who favored a Roman Catholic world under the Papacy, Wells summarized the failed attempt of world domination by the Catholic Church from the fifth to the fifteenth Century A.D.
“The City of God leads the mind very directly towards the possibility of making the world into a theological and organized Kingdom of Heaven. …The Church was to be the ruler of the world over all nations, the divinely-led ruling power over a great league of terrestrial states. …The history of Europe from the fifth century onward to the fifteenth is very largely the history of the failure of this great idea of a divinely ordained and righteous world government to realise itself in practice.”
pg. 23-24
Concerning the bloody history of Papacy, Wells quotes a letter of Lord Acton to the Catholic historian Lady Blennerhasset:
“The accomplices of the Old Man of the Mountains (the classic assassins of history) picked off individual victims, but the Papacy contrived murder and massacre on the largest and also on the most cruel and inhuman scale. They were not only wholesale assassins, but they also made the principle of assassination a law of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation” (Selections from the Correspondence of the First Lord Acton, 1917, Vol, I, p.55)” pg. 142
Then Wells expanded further on this topic:
“From 1820 to 1860 at least 300,000 unarmed men, women and even children died in massacres, on the scaffold, or in pestilential jails for claiming what we now consider human rights. The more Catholic the country, indeed, the more savage were the torture and bloodshed. The Kingdom of the Sicilies (Italy and Sicily) witnessed the longest and vilest reaction. General Coletta claims that there were 200,000 victims from 1790 to 1830, and his Neapolitan successor claims 250,000 in the next thirty years; and as late as 1860 the brutality of the oppression shocked all Europe.” pg. 142-143
Concerning the abuses of the popes of Rome and the clergy, which brought about the Reformation from within:
“The Pope was the supreme lawgiver of Christendom, and his court at Rome the final and decisive court of appeal. The Church levied taxes; it had not only vast properties and a great income from fees, but it imposed a tax of a tenth, the tithe, upon its subjects. It did not call for this as a pious benefaction; it demanded it as a right. Steadily more and more of the nation’s property fell into the dead hand (Mortmain) of the Church and paid its tribute to St. Peter. The clergy, on the other hand, claimed exemption from lay taxation. This attempt to trade upon their peculiar prestige and evade their share in fiscal burdens was certainly one considerable factor in the growing dissatisfaction with the clergy.”
“It must be understood that it was from within the body of the Catholic Church that the destruction of its own unity came. It was men in holy orders striving to be good Christians who began to question the methods and disciplines of the Church. The Reformation came out of the heart of the Church. It was the subtle and obstinate Wycliffe who denied Transubstantiation and split off a living and progressive Protestantism from an ever more reactionary Church, who had the Bible translated into the vulgar tongue, and, together with his pupil, Jan Huss, begot the Reformation.”
Regarding the negative influence of the Jesuits on British education:
“The latest drive to rally “Believers”…so far as I can find an understandable objective, is to drive every honest teacher of history or science out of our schools.” pg. 147
Regarding the demoralizing influence of the Jesuits on British citizens during World War II:
“I have been watching the current effort to subjugate this easygoing, profoundly skeptical country to the Roman Catholic Church with a lively interest. The process has been systematic and impudent to the point of incredibility. I only realise how much has been attempted now that it is past its climax. In the same way one did not realise the gravity of the Blitzkrieg until the climax was past. There has been a Catholic Blitzkrieg upon Britain during the immense stresses of the war. The one remaining vestige of Protestant England has been the Protestant Succession. By releasing the Crown from that Protestant oath – and that might easily have been arranged in the name of “freedom of worship” – that last obstacle would have been removed. For four years Great Britain officially has been behaving like a Catholic country determined to emerge from a deplorable past. The Rev. So-and-So, S.J., and the Very Venerable So-and-So, S.J., have had a disproportionately large share of our broadcasting time.” pg. 129-130
According to H.G. Wells, there have been several attempts by the Vatican Octopus to strangle mankind with its tentacles.
“As this present world war goes on, and even if there is some sort of temporary half peace before it degenerates into a tangle of minor wars, it will become plainer and plainer that it is no longer a geographically determined warfare of governments, nations and peoples, but the world-wide struggle of our species to release itself from the strangling octopus of Catholic Christianity. Everywhere the Church extends its tentacles and fights to prolong the Martyrdom on Man.” pg. 131
H.G. Well’s frustration and anger toward the Vatican was so intense that he favored bombing Rome and the Vatican.
“I cut the following paragraph from The Times of October 27th, 1942. “The air raids on Italy have created the greatest satisfaction in Malta, which has suffered so much at Axis hands. At least the Italians now realise what being bombed means and the nature of the suffering they have so callously inflicted on little Malta since June 12th, 1940, when they showered their first bombs on what was then an almost defenceless island. As that bombing was intensified, especially since the Italians asked Germany’s help in their vain attempt to reduce Malta, the people’s reaction became violent and expressed itself in two words ‘Bomb Rome,’ which were written prominently on walls in every locality.
On June 1st, 1942, the enemy bombed Canterbury and as near as possible got the Archbishop of Canterbury. But what is a mere Protestant Archbishop against His Holiness the Pope? In March 1943 Rome was still unbombed. Now consider the following facts: We are at war with the Kingdom of Italy, which made a particularly cruel and stupid attack upon our allies Greece and France; which is the homeland of Fascism; and whose “Duce” Mussolini begged particularly for the privilege of assisting in the bombing of London.
Not only is Rome the source and centre of Fascism, but it has been the seat of a Pope, who, as we shall show, has been an open ally of the Nazi-Fascist-Shinto Axis since his enthronement. He has never raised his voice against that Axis, he has never denounced the abominable aggression, murder and cruelties they have inflicted upon mankind, and the pleas he is now making for peace and forgiveness are manifestly designed to assist the escape of these criminals, so that they may presently launch a fresh assault upon all that is decent in humanity. The Papacy is admittedly in communication with the Japanese, and maintains in the Vatican an active Japanese observation post. No other capital has been spared the brunt of this war. Why do we not bomb Rome?” pg. 152-153
As an epilogue, Wells gave some advice to British citizens:
“Heresy-hunting and the Inquisition are possible only where the Church is strong; where it is weak it may be very complaisant for the time being.”
pg. 156“Speak, publish, challenge every falsity. Avoid true and social intercourse with Roman Catholics, since they have invented and developed a complex boycott of liberal thought, and will do the same with you. Condemn every mixed marriage which introduces the priest into the ménage as the supervisor of the children’s education. Resist the diversion of public funds to the upkeep of Roman Catholic schools, withdraw patronage from Roman Catholic booksellers, organize public protests at the inordinate preference shown by the B.B.C. for Jesuit discourses,…Fight intolerance with intolerance. We have tolerated the Roman Catholic Church in England for more than a century, believing that it would play a game of candour. We know better now.” pg. 159
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