The Catholic Church And 666
From the American Newspaper (Thurs., Sept. 14, 1989) we learn that in Wolcott, Connecticut, “a sign advertising a church mission was found defaced Wednesday with the number 666–the Biblical `number of the beast’–spray-painted across it. The plywood sign, which the St. Maria Goretti Church posted on a telephone pole to promote a parish mission at the church next week, was apparently vandalized Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. `It’s just one of those things,’ said the Rev. Harold Heinrich, the church’s pastor. `You can’t stop people like that, unfortunately.'”
The thing you want to notice about this article is the private comment by the private interpreting staff reporter, whose name is Michael Rappoport. At the end of the article, after telling his people that “in the book of Revelation, the number 666 represents the beast, who is an agent of the Antichrist,” he says this: “Incidents of possible cult activity have been reported recently in Waterbury, Naugatuck, and Salisbury, but most officials and church members do not think the Wolcott vandalism is an indication that a cult has started operating in town.” That is in Wolcott. Notice what the press gets away with. You are being told here that if anybody associated 666 with the Roman Catholic church, they have to be a member of a “cult.”
That would include the Bogomiles of the ninth century, the Paulicians of the fifth century, the Lollards of the fourteenth century, and all of the major reformers of the sixteenth century. That is the present condition of your news media.