The Assimilation of
Evangelist Billy Graham
Into the Roman Catholic Church
by Wilson Ewin, Quebec Baptist Missions, Quebec,Canada
Editor: The following is a book review by Pastor E.L.
Bynum, pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church and editor of the
Plains Baptist Challenger in Lubbock Texas.
This book contains 28 full-size glossy pictures of authentic
Catholicism and the key persons who led Graham.
The author first went to French speaking Catholic Quebec in 1953
to minister among the Catholic
population. Wilson has been jailed, stoned, manhandled, and
threatened with death. He could never be classed as a Catholic
hater, for he has spent his life to win these people to Christ.
The author does a good job in chronicling the amazing history of
Graham's escapades with Catholicism.
He gives full credit to his sources, and he even quotes from the
Plains Baptist Challenger on at least two occasions.
You will learn that Billy Graham said in 1948, "The three
gravest menaces faced by orthodox Christianity are Communism,
Roman Catholicism, and Mohamedanism". Yet, in February 1908,
the Saturday Evening quotes Graham as saying, "Since his
election, Pope Paul II has emerged as the greatest leader of the
modern world, and one of the greatest moral and spiritual leaders
of this century". This is indeed an amazing change of
opinions.
Graham's theology has suffered in the passing years. Many quotes
are given which show this to be true. When Billy Graham received
his degree in November of 1967 from the Roman Catholic Belmont
Abbey College, he said, "The gospel that built this school
and the gospel that brings me here tonight is still the way to
salvation". Why cannot people see that if this is so, then
Graham preaches a false gospel?
Graham's Acceptance of the Mass
In Milwaukee on October 21, 1973, Graham stated, "This past
week I preached in a great Catholic Cathedral, a funeral sermon
for a close friend of mine who was a Catholic and they had
several bishops and archbishops to participate, and as I sat
there going through the funeral Mass that was a very beautiful
thing and certainly straight and clear in the gospel I believe,
there was a wonderful little priest that would tell me when to
stand and when to kneel and what to do...". It is
unbelievable that someone who calls himself a Christian and a
Baptist minister would say and do such a ridiculous thing.
Reconfirmed Confirmation
In 1977 Notre Dame Crusade, he said, "Many of you want to
come tonight and reconfirm your
confirmation. You may want to come reconfirm the decision that
you made when you joined the church."
We are sure that his Catholic audience must have loved this. A
year later in Poland, preaching to another Catholic audience, he
said"reconfirm your confirmation".
The book confirms that Graham sends the Catholics back to their
false Church. In his crusades the
Catholic inquirers are referred directly to the Roman Catholic
churches. He has had Catholic nuns as counsellors in his
crusades. He is very careful not to say anything that would upset
the Catholics in his audience. Many times the priests, Bishops,
and Cardinals of the Roman Church have lavished words of praise
upon Graham.
The above facts, plus many more are found in this interesting
book.
~ Plains Baptist Challenger