The drift and gist of the Pope's scheme is salvation by superstitious ceremonies. The most moral life and most disciplined remembrance of ceremonies will land you short of the Salvation of your Soul and land you in the lowest hell. The Vatican's gospel is just this: Attend to ceremonies and neglect the Righteousness of God in Jesus Christ. The Pope wants you to remain Lost religiously: the greatest of sins lies in refusing to submit to God's Righteousness found only in His Dear Son, not in Mary whatsoever. The Pope wants your Soul in bondage to his made-up outward forms, darkness of rites, and foolishness of gorgeous ceremonies. Are you buying what the Pope is saying? Only a poor benighted soul would follow after the Pope.
The Catholic priest devilishly leads souls to rely upon good works, outward ceremonies/observances, and resolutions. The Catholic priest wants your mind stuffed with proud self-righteousness, belief in priestcraft, and reliance upon some form or ceremony dreamed up by some Pope. Ritualistic professors are lax in conduct, strict in creed, boastful in creeds received by the tradition of men. Religious trinkets and garments like crucifixes, priestly vestments, symbols, and emblems of superstition cannot satisfy your Soul. The shrine of the virgin goddess, dead saints, idols, images and just outward religious gewgaws.
The Pope is simply the mouthpiece for the old errors/lies straight from the heart of Lucifer, the father of all lies. The Mass is a collection of wicked superstitions. The nucleus of superstition is the Mass and Eucharist, the blessed virgin Mary is an idol of superstition. Catholics worship and pray to a female motherhood pagan deity called mary, very similar to Ishtar; the worship of Mary is a direct violation of the 1st Commandment, and a form of paganistic idolatry. Forsake the superfluity of superstition, fable of purgatory, and religion united with vain pomp, show, and worldly power. The dreaded sentence of excommunication keeps the catholic dupes in line, as they live religious libidinous lives, whitewashed with human morality and outward religiousness. Catholics try their best to be exceedingly moral, extremely religious, but while living in gross ignorance.
Benighted Catholics trust a certain religious order of men called priests; they utter strange spells, conjure up unclean spirits, and set forth idolatries. The Mass is a deadly snare of the devil. Greatest of sins is enmity with God, and the most damning of iniquities is to refuse Christ (put Him off), and prefer your religion over Christ Himself. The pride of human nature chooses its own wicked way and refuses to ask for free Mercy and avoids Christ Himself, and persistently refuses to submit to the Righteousness of God in Jesus Christ. Self-righteous religion is outright defiance to the simple free Gospel.
The Catholic Mass, sacramental system, and countless religious observances are presented by the Popester as channels of grace, yet they cannot replace the once-for-all Atoning Sacrifice of Christ Jesus Himself that puts away Sins for evermore. Salvation is not obtained through ritual, but through Simple Faith in the crucified and risen Savior. The Gospel proclaims that Christ has accomplished everything necessary for the free Salvation of sinners.
The pride of human nature resists the Gospel message. Man prefers a religion that allows him to contribute something toward his salvation rather than receiving God's Mercy as a Free Gift. Yet the greatest sin is to reject Christ's RIGHTEOUSNESS and attempt to establish one's own righteousness. Self-righteous religion, however sincere it may be, remains an opposition to the free grace of God.
If you continue to follow after the Pope, eternal doom will eventually be upon your head. The Pope uses very nasty tricks to deceive Souls, and he is a wicked extortioner who is always grasping, a real greedy grinder of the poor. The cardinals are very greedy for wealth, grovel for wages, grasp for power, grind the poor, devour widows' houses, and greedy pretermissions. The priestly hierarchy set up their temples and altars and tell you to pray their prayers there, and confess your sins to them there. Human nature is sensually fascinated with religion, and newly invented philosophies and skepticisms. Even the devils believe in God and tremble: they have more faith than you do. The priests spread deadly errors and commit
The Roman Catholic Church is a hideous operation overloaded with superstition and perverted by vicious falsehoods. Sheer foolish trickery, evil subtlety, mischievous religiousness, wretched guile are the Vatican's core values. Drowning Catholic souls grasp at ceremonial straws thrown to them by diabolical priests while they struggle hard in sin's quicksand . The wafer and wine gives the guilty conscience temporary ease while they remain in the bond of iniquity and gall of bitterness. The carnal mind loves mere formal heartless religion. The priest says: Confess your sins, but do not hate and forsake your sins. Praying to Mary is an egregious downright falsehood. Being trained up religiously as a child, and being educated in a moral way still leaves your sinful Soul lost and unregenerate.
The inward crookedness of human nature desires and delights in Popish lies. Nurse the idea that "one day" it will be convenient to seek and receive the LORD JESUS CHRIST. Daring defiance of God sears the conscience. Procrastination, I will get religion one day soon, but you are knaves to your own soul. Hideously evil subterfuge/deceit. Proxy, second-hand religion without personally dealing with Christ is the Vatican's way to Hell. Pope Leo blasphemously ventures to say, that the virgin goddess Mary will accompany you and watch lovingly over you through the week and keep you safe from all harm.
To believe the Pope at all is pure willful ignorance. Mere outward religious mechanical performance, mere delusional professors of Satanic superstitions. The Pope is a mere Farce. Mere names, forms and empty creed will never affect you Salvation. Vain pilgrimages visiting visible shrines on holy days are a waste of your precious time. Outward forms are only husks, chaff and stubble. Blind heathen cannot see through the veneer of false religion or superficial varnish. The Rosary is a devilish collection of blind chants. The most absurd enchantment and blasphemous spell called the Eucharist misleads poor dying Souls.
The Pope is the Master of knavish religious tricks seeking the money of frightful lost souls. The priests love to be seen of men in their hideous long robes, birettas, camauros, and zuchettoes. Idolatrous rites and ceremonies, weary outward ceremonies, man inventing pompous marian processions and ceremonies. The idea of the Mass helping a lost Soul is utterly ridiculous and profane. Praying to Mary is hollow empty pretense and vainglorious presumption. The Rosary is the utterance of repetitious, profane and vain babblings where deluded souls seek the virgin mary goddess and her blessing. The greatest of all vain religionists is any cardinal dressed up in his long scarlet cape/ferraiolo and his red skullcap/zucchetto.
Carnal curiosity, conceited speculations, vain imaginings, routine outward religion is sought to calm and quieten their troubled conscience, but then the sow returns to the mire as soon she leaves her marian shrine on Sunday morning. Deceptiveness of outward appearances will never fool the all-seeing eye of God. Human nature delights in the beggarly elements of outward materialistic worship, Romish lies, and loves sin secretly.
The Pope is a deadly Impostor who lifts up his ferula/crucifix, but not the Lamb of God. The Pope gives the queen of heaven (mary) the Preeminence in all things, but not The Lord Jesus Christ. The Preaching of Christ Crucified grates on the ears of lost priests, because they labor to create noise and confusion, distort the gospel, and hinder Souls from getting direct access to Christ Jesus by Faith in His Most Precious Blood.

