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priesthood are referred to as Pontifical Colleges. Those who love truth will readily discover that the
rites, symbols, clerical attire, holidays, and deities worshiped under the name of Roman Catholicism,
all derive from the idolatrous worship of false gods. The Pope may be Catholic, but he certainly is
not Christian. He is the Pontifex Maximus, “the king of heathendom.”

Pope Francis Meeting with Other Idolatrous Religious Leaders

You may note the banner behind these world religious leaders. It reads “TOGETHER THE FAITHS
OF THE WORLD UNITE.” Ecumenical meetings, joining all the religions of the world under the
umbrella of Roman Catholicism, are quite common. At the meeting pictured above, which occurred
in December 2014, the Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Anglican Church of England, was in
attendance. Also present were representatives of the Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, and Eastern
Orthodox religions. From the time of the Roman College of Pontiffs’ foundation by King Numa of
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Rome in the 7 or 8 century B.C., their mode of operation has been one of assimilation, the merging
together of disparate deities and their often irreconcilable beliefs. Beginning with Emperor
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Constantine in the 4 century A.D., this practice of assimilation included Christianity, as it was
merged with the worship of Sol Invictus and other Roman deities.

It is interesting to note that Numa appointed four pontifexes, with the Pontifex Maximus bringing
to total to five. The Pontifex Maximus was always counted separately from the other Pontiffs, as he
held a position superior to the other Pontiffs. In the year B.C. 300, the Ogulnian law raised the
number of pontiffs to eight, and adding the Pontifex Maximus, the number of Pontiffs was nine. In
this we see a parallel to the Hanukiah which has eight candles, with a ninth candle that stands apart
from the others.

Over the course of more than a millennia from the founding of the College of Pontiffs, the gods of
Rome waxed and waned. Some deities would recede in importance, to be replaced with others. Due
to this, the College of Pontiffs saw great changes in their roles as guardians of the state religion. In
the third and fourth centuries A.D., during a time when Christianity was spreading throughout the
Roman Empire, the worship of Sol, the Sun, gained a place of ascendancy. The Sun had been
worshiped from the time of the early Roman Republic, but its importance as a deity had been less
than that of other tutelary gods of Rome (gods associated with specific locations who were viewed