A Sleeping Giant Awakes

The Roman Catholic Church has designated "Fortnight for Freedom" in America from June 21st to July 4th. What's Fortnight for Freedom all about? It's about the Church's protest against the U.S. Government's encroachment on religious freedom in America, specifically the Obamacare mandate that will force religious institutions to violate their principles by funding contraception and abortion.

Some Roman Catholic archbishops claim that the upcoming protest may eventually become the equivalent of the bloody civil rights protests of the 1960's that eventually brought down segregation and Jim Crow laws in the South. The Catholic Church is warning that if peaceful protests don't bring a halt to the U.S. Government's encroachment into religious freedom, then civil disobedience may be next.

A bulletin that will be distributed by the Catholic Church throughout America beginning in June reveals the Church's game-plan and strategy for resisting Obamacare: "Some unjust laws impose such injustices on individuals and organizations that disobeying the laws may be justified. Every effort must be made to repeal them. When fundamental human goods, such as the right of conscience, are at stake, we may need to witness to the truth by resisting the law and incurring its penalties. This is a matter of whether religious people and institutions may be forced by the government to provide (certain medical services) even when it violates our consciences."

We haven't heard this sort of rhetoric from the Catholic Church for a long time. You can bet that the order and blessing for this protest came right from Rome. Though the Catholic Church has long been considered a washed-up has-been, biblical prophecy reveals that this church is going to become extremely powerful again throughout the world in the last days. (Revelation 17) In fact, prophecy reveals that the dreaded Antichrist will eventually come from Rome and will rule a global government as both a political and a religious figure.

Will the upcoming protest succeed? Many American Roman Catholics are lapsed and couldn't care less whether their church or any religious institution has to foot the bill for contraception and abortion. But the upcoming protest isn't about how much power and influence the Roman Catholic Church still retains in America; it's a test of how much power the Vatican still wields over the entire world. Remember that just over 30 years ago, a young Pope John Paul II inspired Eastern Europe to rise up and throw off the chains of communism. Does Rome still possess that kind of power? We'll soon find out with Fortnight for Freedom.