The word Catholic

[FONT=&quot]Hólos:[/FONT][FONT=&quot] A combining form meaning “whole,” or, “entire,” used in the formation of compound words such as holomorphic. Origin: Greek. History of this Word "holo" is from "holos" (whole) spoken by people of Greece starting about 1000 B.C.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Where does the Bible mention the Greek word Katholikos? [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]It doesn't mention the word "Katholikos." It does, however, use the phrase, in the book of Acts, "ekklesia kath holos," which is translated "the Church throughout all," and from this we derive the word "katholos." [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Quote:[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Ἡ μὲν οὖν ἐκκλησία καθ' ὅλης τῆς Ἰουδαίας καὶ Γαλιλαίας καὶ Σαμαρείας εἶχεν εἰρήνην, οἰκοδομουμένη καὶ πορευομένη τῷ φόβῳ τοῦ κυρίου, καὶ τῇ παρακλήσει τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος ἐπληθύνετο. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](Acts 9, 31)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The prepositional phrase "throughout all" (kath oles) appears in Luke 4:14; Luke 23:5; Acts 9:31; Acts 9:42; Acts 10:37. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]St. Ignatius of Antioch[/FONT][FONT=&quot] (born 38-50 AD, died 98-117 AD) is the earliest witness to the origins of our present use of the word "Catholic." [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]He is also responsible for the first known use of the Greek word katholikos (καθολικός), meaning "universal", "complete" and "whole" to describe the church, writing: [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be; as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. It is not lawful to baptize or give communion without the consent of the bishop. On the other hand, whatever has his approval is pleasing to God. Thus, whatever is done will be safe and valid. — [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Letter to the Smyrnaeans[/FONT][FONT=&quot] 8, J.R. Willis translation (circa 110 AD?). [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]If holos means whole or entire, then what does Cath mean? And ikos means "pertaining to." [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Candel:[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Old English, candel "lamp, lantern, candle," an early ecclesiastical borrowing from Latin candela "a light, torch, candle made of tallow or wax," from candere "to shine," from PIE root *kand- "to glow, to shine, to shoot out light" (cf. Sanskrit cand- "to give light, shine," candra- "shining, glowing, moon;" Greek kandaros "coal;" Welsh cann "white;" Middle Irish condud "fuel").

Candles were unknown in ancient Greece where oil lamps sufficed, but common from early times among Romans and Etruscans. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Cata-[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]word-forming element from Latinized form of Greek kata-, before vowels kat-, from kata "down from, down to." Its principal sense is "down," but occasionally it has senses of "against" ([/FONT][FONT=&quot]catapult[/FONT][FONT=&quot])or "wrongly" ([/FONT][FONT=&quot]catachresis[/FONT][FONT=&quot]). Also sometimes used as an intensive or with a sense of completion of action ([/FONT][FONT=&quot]catalogue[/FONT][FONT=&quot]). [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]cathedral (n.)[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1580s, "church of a bishop," from phrase cathedral church (c.1300), partially translating Late Latin ecclesia cathedralis "church of a bishop's seat," from Latin cathedra "an easy chair (principally used by ladies)," also metonymically, e.g. cathedrae molles "luxurious women;"[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Lux[/FONT][FONT=&quot] in the word luxurious The lux (symbol: lx) is the SI unit of illuminance and luminous emittance.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Cath[/FONT][FONT=&quot]:[/FONT][FONT=&quot] A sun goddess. The daughter of the sun. She was also a goddess of beginnings and the dawn, and was also shown rising from the ocean. Catha is from the Etruscan root cath-, meaning "the sun", and was also in use as a family name among the Etruscans in Italy. [/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The Greek word "Katholikos" which now days means "universal" was first used to refer to the Church founded in 107AD by St.Ignatius of Antioch. [/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Long before Ignatius used the term Katholikos for the church, Cath was in use for the name of that goddess. Cath is where we get the word catheter and cathode ray. It is also from the word katholikos that the word "[/FONT][FONT=&quot]catholic[/FONT][FONT=&quot]" comes. St Ignatius wrote a letter to the Smyrnaeans in about the year 107 and used the word "catholic". So as you can see the Etruscan root cath-, meaning "the sun" was in use before St Ignatius used it.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The suffix -ic:[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Modern English[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]adjectival[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]suffix[/FONT][FONT=&quot] -ic was first seen as a suffix in English during the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Middle English[/FONT][FONT=&quot] period. It was borrowed in words from [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Old French[/FONT][FONT=&quot] '-ique', which came from [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Latin[/FONT][FONT=&quot] '-icus', which came ultimately from [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Ancient Greek[/FONT][FONT=&quot] '-ικος (-ikos)'. There are some that contend that '-icus' was native to Latin and was [/FONT][FONT=&quot]cognate[/FONT][FONT=&quot] with rather than borrowed from Greek. The suffix -icus was very wide-spread by the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Classical Latin[/FONT][FONT=&quot] period in native words as well as in words derived from Greek. And again you can see that the suffix “ic” is part of the Latin and Greek.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In the past and even these days Mary is worshipped as a sun goddess, and that is the reason for the halo and sun rays around her. [/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Pope Gregory and Paganism[/FONT][FONT=&quot]. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The attitude of the Catholic Church toward paganism is best summed up by Pope Gregory the Great, in his words to a missionary: “You must not interfere with any traditional belief or religious observance that can be harmonized with Christianity.” [/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Not only were the Congregations divided by Gnosticism, but enticed by philosophy and paganism also, and there were geographic divisions as well. [/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Pope Gregory [/FONT][FONT=&quot]540 – 12 March 604. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]What were the Pagan beliefs harmonized with Christianity? Maybe the answer can be found by comparing Orthodox Judaism to Paganism. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Catholics Claim "Keys" To Heaven[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The Catholic Church claims That Peter passed on the keys to the gates of Heaven, and that no one can enter into God’s presence unless that Catholic Church opens the gates. The word "Cardinal" means "hinge." The Cardinals of the Roman Church are the “hinges” upon which the “gate,” whom is the Pope, is able to open. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot][12th century. Via French < Latin [/FONT][FONT=&quot]cardinalis[/FONT][FONT=&quot] < [/FONT][FONT=&quot]cardin-[/FONT][FONT=&quot] "hinge"][/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
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Mat 4:18 Now as Jesus [Yahshua] was walking by the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon who was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.

Simon already had the nick name [Peter/Rock] before Yahshua met him. Therefore Yahshua did not name him Rock, but was only calling him by his nick name. That would mean that Yahshua was speaking of the Father being that Rock, which is used often in scriptures.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]The Vatican cave was a Mithraeum: a temple of the Roman God Mithras[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]"The cave of the Vatican belonged to Mithra until 376 A.D., when a city prefect suppressed the cult of the rival Savior and seized the shrine in the name of Christ, on the very birthday of the pagan god, December 25."
Barbara G. Walker (The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Paul says, 'They drank from that spiritual rock and that rock was Christ' (I Cor. 10:4).[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]These are identical words to those found in the Mithraic scriptures, except that the name Mithra is used instead of Christ.

The Vatican hill in Rome that is regarded as sacred to Peter, the Christian rock, was already sacred to Mithra. Many Mithraic remains have been found there. The merging of the worship of Attis into that of Mithra, then later into that of Jesus, was effected almost without interruption.


The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You to Read (various authors)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The throne in the Vatican Mithraeum[/FONT][FONT=&quot], upon which the Pater Patrum ("Father of Fathers", the head priest of Mithraism) was customarily seated, was also taken. It is now the throne of St. Peter, though it is adorned by Mithraic carvings and is older than the later Vatican Church. Seated upon it now is the Bishop of Rome, also known as the Pope (from Papa meaning father, late vulgarization of Latin Pater). [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Christian Bishops of Rome pre-empted the Mithraic high priest's title of Pater Patrum, which became Papa, or Pope.[/FONT]
[h=1][FONT=&quot]"oracles" that breathed the fumes from fumaroles of volcanoes before pontificating.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]"'The oracle of Delphi functioned in a specific place, the adyton, or "no entry" area of the temple's core, and through a specific person, the Pythia, who was chosen to speak, as a possessed medium, for Apollo, the god of prophecy."

The temple was constructed over an area of rock in which there were fissures and cracks leading from a deep cavern; the fissures allowed vapors of gases contained in an underground stream to seep up through the rock. The Pythia - an initiated female priestess who had undergone extensive training and conditioning that included fasting - would sit in the adyton, breathe the vapors to induce a trancelike state, and prophesize to those who waited to hear her words outside. The prophecies were obscure and cryptic - in fact, one synonym for the word "cryptic" is "Delphic" - and open to very wide interpretation. The gases were "sweet and perfume-y" according to Plutarch - a known statesman and historian, and one of the two Priests of Delphi - and they did not affect the uninitiated in the same way that they would the priestess. Plutarch also noted that the gases were beginning to lessen and dissipate even during his time (in the first century BC.) The Oracle fell out of use in the 4th century AD with the onset of Roman Christianity, and until very recent times the existence of the gases and even the underground spring was in doubt; modern science has revealed that the legend could have indeed been fact.'" [/FONT][FONT=&quot]

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]The [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Vatican[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]City[/FONT][FONT=&quot], the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Vatican[/FONT][FONT=&quot]. [/FONT][FONT=&quot]The[/FONT][FONT=&quot] word vaticinor means "foretell, prophesy" from vatis "poet, teacher, [/FONT][FONT=&quot]oracle[/FONT][FONT=&quot]".[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]History:[/FONT][FONT=&quot] The origin of the word Vatican is shrouded in as much mystery as the place itself. It was used simply as the name of a hill in Rome, Mons Vaticanus "the Vatican Hill". The Latin word vaticinor means "foretell, prophesy" from vatis "poet, teacher, oracle". This suggests that the original hill was the location of an oracle, a place where high priests communicated with the Roman gods. Thus the name reflects a long history of contact with spiritual powers.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Vaticinor[/FONT][/h] [FONT=&quot]Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]From [/FONT][FONT=&quot]vātēs[/FONT][FONT=&quot] (“soothsayer, prophet”).[/FONT]
[h=3][FONT=&quot]Pronunciation[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][/h]

• [FONT=&quot]([/FONT][FONT=&quot]Classical[/FONT][FONT=&quot])[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]IPA[/FONT][FONT=&quot]: [FONT=&quot]/waːˈti.ki.nor/[/FONT][/FONT]

[h=3][FONT=&quot]Verb[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][/h] [FONT=&quot]present active[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [FONT=&quot]vāticinor[/FONT], present infinitive [/FONT][FONT=&quot]vāticinārī[/FONT][FONT=&quot], perfect active [/FONT][FONT=&quot]vāticinātus sum[/FONT][FONT=&quot]. ([/FONT][FONT=&quot]deponent[/FONT][FONT=&quot])[/FONT]

1. [FONT=&quot]I [/FONT][FONT=&quot]prophesy[/FONT][FONT=&quot], [/FONT][FONT=&quot]foretell[/FONT][FONT=&quot].[/FONT]
2. [FONT=&quot]([/FONT][FONT=&quot]figuratively[/FONT][FONT=&quot])[/FONT][FONT=&quot] I [/FONT][FONT=&quot]sing[/FONT][FONT=&quot], [/FONT][FONT=&quot]celebrate[/FONT][FONT=&quot] (as a poet).[/FONT]
3. [FONT=&quot]([/FONT][FONT=&quot]figuratively[/FONT][FONT=&quot])[/FONT][FONT=&quot] I [/FONT][FONT=&quot]rave[/FONT][FONT=&quot], [/FONT][FONT=&quot]rant[/FONT][FONT=&quot], [/FONT][FONT=&quot]spout[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]foolishness[/FONT][FONT=&quot].[/FONT]

• Vatican Hill (in Latin, Mons Vaticanus ) is the name given, long before the founding of Christianity, to one of the hills on the side of the Tiber opposite the traditional seven hills of Rome. It may have been the site of an Etruscan town called Vaticum.
• The name "Vatican" has often been thought to derive from the Latin "vates", meaning "seer, soothsayer."

The Vatican Hill was the home of the Vates long before pre-Christian Rome. Vaticanus, also known as Vagitanus, was an Etruscan god of prophecy, and his temple was built on the ancient site of Vaticanum (Vatican Hill).

The seven hills are:
• Aventine Hill (Latin, Aventinus; Italian, Aventino)
• Caelian Hill (Caelius, Celio)
• Capitoline Hill (Capitolinus, Capitolino/Campidoglio)
• Esquiline Hill (Esquilinus, Esquilino)
• Palatine Hill (Palatinus, Palatino)
• Quirinal Hill (Quirinalis, Quirinale)
• Viminal Hill (Viminalis, Viminale)