Claims Against the Catholic Church

[Craig Hipkins]

Chiniquy had a vendetta against the Catholic church after he was supposedly excommunicated by the Bishop of Chicago in the late 1850s. He hired Abraham Lincoln as his attorney after he was sued for libel, and Lincoln was able to work out an agreement with the other party.
His whole theory that the Catholic Church was (especially the Jesuit order) somehow responsible for the assassination of Lincoln is totally without merit. After reading his book Fifty Years in the Church of Rome it is hard to imagine that anyone today takes his claims seriously. Yet they do. Check out this link: http://www.chick.com/catalog/comic/0251.asp

Most of the evidence that Chiniquy uses is accusatory and he provides no proof. For instance, he claims that he met with Lincoln on three occasions after he became President. Lincoln was suppose to have told him of a Papal plot to take over the government of the United States. this information was supposedly given to Lincoln by none other than Samuel Morse.
Chiniquy also claimed that Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt and David Herold were all Roman Catholic converts, but he never presents the proof. He merely suggests that the Jesuits were "too shrewd" to let the three of them go to the gallows as Catholics.

Interesting stuff!

Craig