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Rivera had allegedly been a Jesuit before becoming a Fundamentalist Protestant , and many of the stories Chick published about Rivera involve Jesuit activities. He is most notable for his claims about his time as a Catholic priest and the inner workings of the Catholic Church. Most of these claims are fiercely disputed by the Catholic Church and others and Rivera was not able to provide compelling evidence in support of this claim.
The two conflicting versions are summarized below. According to Rivera, [3] he was brought into a seminary in when he was 7. Two years later, as his mother was dying, she saw " ugly creatures " coming at her deathbed, and faced a " Christless eternity " because of her Catholic faith.
When visiting his mother's grave, Rivera vowed to find answers to the truth. After education at an unnamed Catholic seminary , he was sent to destroy various Protestant organizations and discredit Protestant leaders, but Rivera claims that he became disillusioned upon finding that the Vatican was behind Freemasonry and that its reverence of the Virgin Mary was contradicted by the Bible.
In , at an Ecumenical Conference in a Guatemalan stadium, he denounced the Catholic Church to an audience of 50, people. Rivera claims that the Jesuits then sent him to a top-secret psychiatric hospital in Spain to make him embrace the Catholic faith—what Rivera referred to as "recanting his faith.
According to Rivera, he was "nearly at death" when he asked Jesus to forgive him and was miraculously healed. Rivera claimed that a senior Jesuit attempted to persuade Rivera to return to Catholicism, but instead was himself persuaded to give Rivera the passport and papers he needed to escape Spain.
Warrants had been issued for his arrest in New Jersey and Florida , and he was wanted by the Spanish police for 'swindles and cheats'. While in the U.
The details of his religious claims changed over time. For example, in he claimed that he had left the Catholic Church in July Rivera later put the date at March 20, - an almost year discrepancy. Despite this second claim of conversion from Catholicism in March , Rivera was still promoting Catholicism in a newspaper interview of August that same year. Although supposedly placed involuntarily in the sanatorium where he claimed to have nearly been murdered in and held there for three months, he gave the date of his release as September This leaves a period of more than a year unaccounted for in Rivera's narrative.
The document exhibited by Rivera to prove his status as a Catholic priest was fraudulent. The Catholic Church denies his claim of having been a Jesuit priest, or another claim that he was a bishop.
He had only one sister in London. She was not a nun, and she did not live in a convent, so the claim that his sister the nun nearly died in a convent in London was a lie.
In an employment form dated , Rivera stated he was married to Carmen Lydia Torres, and the couple had two children in the U. In his narrative, Rivera claimed that he was a priest living in Spain in Cornerstone also questioned Rivera's claim to various degrees, including three doctorates Th.
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