Lighthouse Trails Research Journal
16
Pope Francis/Vatican
Launch eRosary to
Help Bring About
“World Peace”
By LT Editors
n October of 2019, Pope Francis and the
Vatican launched the “eRosary” app with
the hopes of drawing in more young people
to pray the rosary. A BBC article, “Vatican
launches new ‘eRosary’ bracelet,” states:
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The Vatican is hoping to pull in
tech-savvy youngsters with the
launch of an “eRosary” bracelet.
The gadget, which costs $109
(£85), can be worn as a bracelet
and is activated by making the sign
of a cross.
It is connected to the “Click to Pray
eRosary” app, which is designed to
help Catholic users pray for world
peace and contemplate the gospel. 1
On ChurchPop (a Catholic news source
part of the EWTN Network), an article an-
nouncing the release of the eRosary states:
The Vatican recently launched and
promoted an eRosary, a digital and
wearable prayer aid activated by
the Sign of the Cross. The official
website describes the eRosary as “an
innovative way to help you pray for
peace in the world.” . . .
Aimed at the peripheral frontiers
of the digital world where the
young people dwell, the Click
To Pray eRosary serves as a
technology-based pedagogy to
teach the young how to pray the
Rosary, how to pray it for peace,
how to contemplate the Gospel.
Therefore, this project brings
together the best of the Church’s
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spiritual tradition and the latest
advances of the technological
world. 2
The Catholic Church has worked very
hard at not only rounding up their own young
people to become more committed to the
Catholic Church but has also worked very
hard at bringing in what they call “the lost
brethren” (the Protestants and evangelicals).
They have also worked tirelessly to convince
the world that if the Catholics, Protestants,
and evangelicals would just come together in
unity, then world peace could be achieved.
A little history worth mentioning: In
1917, an apparition of “Mary” appeared in
Fatima, Portugal to three young shepherd
children. “Mary” told the children:
God wants to establish in the world
devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If
you do what I tell you, many souls
will be saved, and there will be peace.
Continue to say the Rosary every
day in honor of Our Lady of the
Rosary, to obtain the peace of
the world and the end of the war,
because only she can obtain it. 3
Roger Oakland discusses the Marian ap-
paritions, including the one at Fatima, in his
book, Another Jesus: the eucharistic christ and
the new evangelization and ties them in with
end-time deception throughout the world:
The world is being prepared for great
deception through lying signs and
wonders; according to the Bible it is
a deception that is so great it has the
potential to unite the religions of the
world for the cause of peace and in so
doing give the world a false sense of
security that everything is just fine. 4
As the Catholic Church is stepping up
its efforts (as we can see with the new eRo-
sary app) to bring all into unity under its
authority, Protestant and evangelical leaders
are showing less and less resistance to the
Catholic “gospel” and more and more com-
radeship with the Vatican. And as Warren
B. Smith points out in his booklet Be Still
and Know That You Are NOT God, 5 Ro-
man Catholic doctrine teaches that man can
be God as shown in these quotes from the
Catechism of the Catholic Church (1995):
Let us rejoice then and give thanks
that we have become not only
Christians, but Christ himself.
Do you understand and grasp,
brethren, God’s grace toward us?
Marvel and rejoice: we have become
Christ. (#795) (emphasis added)
For the Son of God became man so
that we might become God. (#460)
(emphasis added)
The only-begotten Son of God,
wanting to make us sharers in his
divinity, assumed our nature, so that
he, made man, might make men gods.
(#460) (emphasis added)
In his book, Simple Answers: Under-
standing the Catholic Faith, Ray Yungen
documents how Christian leaders are help-
ing the Catholic Church to bring about its
“new evangelization” plan. Yungen names
Rick Warren, Beth Moore, Kenneth Cope-
land, Nicky Gumbel (of the Alpha Course),
Wheaton College, Franklin Graham, and
Southern Baptist Convention as those who
are doing this. Yungen further explains:
It is not just a fluke or an aberration
that the evangelical churches and
the Catholic Church are coming
into alignment with each other. The
Catholic Church is taking a softer
approach to the evangelical church,
and the evangelical church is starting
to downplay the traditional and
significant differences that have kept
it at bay with the Roman Catholic
Church. While church history has
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