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  Oklahoma man arrested after starting fire at Catholic cathedral, attacking employee with sword
Posted by: Stone - 10-08-2022, 05:56 AM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence - No Replies

Oklahoma man arrested after starting fire at Catholic cathedral, attacking employee with sword
The motive for the violence remains unclear.

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Oct 7, 2022
(LifeSiteNews) — An Oklahoma man was arrested and charged after starting a fire at a Catholic church and attacking one of the church employees with a sword.

Tulsa police responded to a call on October 5 from Holy Family Cathedral and Classical School around 4 p.m. The suspect initially fled the scene before police arrived but was arrested at a nearby grocery store. He has since been charged with “unlawful possession of an unregistered incendiary bomb.”

“Witnesses on the scene said they were taking photos of children who attend school there in front of the church when a man, later identified as Daniel Edwards, approached them speaking erratically and making threats about the children,” the Tulsa Police Department wrote in a Facebook post. “A witness said Edwards told her she needed to run away as fast as she could. The witness notified another school employee, who went after Edwards.”

The report continued to say that he “pulled out a sword and slashed one of the employee’s hands. The employee managed to get away from Edwards, and school administrators locked the school down and got the children to safety.”

Police said that the attacker came to the church with a red cooler, which held two jars “appearing to be a Molotov Cocktail,” a grenade consisting of a bottle filled with flammable liquid. Edwards threw both of his handmade explosives “against the side of the church” after trying to enter the locked building.

Shortly after, police responded to another call of a bomb threat at a nearby grocery store. When Edwards “failed to comply” with orders, “an officer utilized his Taser to gain control over the suspect so he could be taken into custody.” He was carrying a Bible at the time of his arrest.

Edwards’ car was found in the parking lot, with “a sword in the backseat.” Although police at the time anticipated “charges for assault with a deadly weapon with intent to do bodily harm, possession of an unregistered destructive device, and potentially other charges,” a Thursday release from the Northern District of Oklahoma Attorney’s Office states that the charges are simply “unlawful possession of an unregistered incendiary bomb.”

The statement also explained that there was surveillance footage from the church that caught the attack on video.

Father Gary Kastl, the rector at Holy Family Cathedral, released a letter on Thursday through the diocesan website.

“Yesterday, our parish and school community was targeted by an individual who intended to spread fear and harm,” Kastl wrote.

The priest thanked the school personnel “who reacted quickly and immediately moved the students inside the school.” He added that the fire had caused “damage to some south-facing windows.”

“We also want to express our sincere admiration for our front desk attendant, Rod Notzon, who confronted the individual and suffered lacerations on his hands after the individual attacked him with what appeared to be a sword,” Kastl continued. “Rod has been treated at Saint Francis Health System, is in stable condition, and currently recovering. The individual never approached nor made his way into the school.”

Kastl offered Mass this morning for Notzon’s healing, followed by a Eucharistic procession. “We invite the community to come, pray, and heal with us,” he said.

A clear motivation for the attack has yet to be identified.

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  The essential question - Bp. Williamson why did you change?
Posted by: SAguide - 10-06-2022, 11:31 AM - Forum: True vs. False Resistance - Replies (6)

audio of Bp. Williamson previous to 2012

listen to audio @ .55 min mark:
"... The New Mass is in any case illicit.  In any case.  It's designed to please Protestants, it's designed to undo Catholicism. It's intrinsically offensive to God, it's intrinsically evil. That's how it was designed and that's how it turned out."  -right from the mouth of Bp. Williamson

 The New Mass and the Satanic Mass are both valid, illicit and intrinsically evil.

audio @ 2.40 min. mark:
"If the New Mass is valid but illicit, may I attend?   NO! ... The fact that it's valid does not mean it's ok to attend."  - words spoken by Bp. Williamson


The burning question-  Why the change?
We are well aware of the new Bishop Williamson and what he now says about the New Mass, along with other erroneous things, such as N.O. Eucharistic miracles.  We know his words are quite the opposite of what the old Bishop Williamson used to say, "the New Mass is intrinsically Evil."   


So the burning question is... why?  Why has he changed?
Another question could be asked- Did he really and truly leave the SSPX or is he a planned subverter? 

Before the deal with Rome became public the SSPX could reasonably assume there would be some priests who would resist the Doctrinal Declaration and all, so they needed to have a net ready to catch and control the opposition.  Of course the priests would naturally be seeking a Bishop for guidance when the storm hits.
  I think the Recusant figured it out and demonstrated very well what Bishop Williamson and all those connected to him are about in the October 2015 Recusant editorial.  Thank you once again The Recusant for excellent detailing of the happenings since 2012!


Enemy Tactics – Take Note!
  Although I am able to offer no proof and no other reason than my own general impression, it does seem to me that the revolution is advancing and is now already much further advanced than it was a mere two years ago. The enemy is incredibly clever, and his plan is to neutralise Tradition - take note! - which means more than just making the SSPX assimilate into the conciliar Church, although that is surely a large part of it. To try to get an idea of what may be going on behind the scenes, what we might reasonably expect, it is useful to put ourselves in the shoes of the enemy. Try very, very hard to imagine that you are him. You want to see the destruction of all Tradition, of all resistance to the Council and to modernism, starting with the SSPX. You are very, very clever, you have a wealth of experience of using fair means and foul to get your way, not excluding subversion and outright lies and deception. And you are patient: you are prepared to wait all the time in the world to get your way, as long as you win in the end. Got that? Good. Let’s proceed with a little snippet of interview, somewhat in the style of the Lewis’s Screwtape Letters, where I will play the part of the enemy, sitting in campaign headquarters at anti-Christ HQ and answering questions candidly on how the campaign is to proceed.
Firstly: why has the open, unabashed, unashamed deal between conciliar Rome and conciliar Menzingen not yet been proclaimed? “Because I want to see the destruction of all Tradition, not just the SSPX. The SSPX was the largest bulwark of Tradition, it is important to neutralize it. But suppose I were to succeed in reducing the SSPX whilst allowing a small chunk of it to break off and continue resisting. What then? These fanatical extremist groups are like weeds, you stamp them out and in no time at all they’re back. However small their beginnings, they’ll be back. Just recall 1969, not long after our last major success: six ‘exiled’ seminarians living with one retired and marginalized Archbishop. It didn’t look much of a threat then, but in hindsight we would have been better to strangle the SSPX in its infancy! We waited patiently to reduce Fortress Vatican. We then had to wait patiently for another forty years to reduce Fortress SSPX. Do we really want to find that another fortress has been built despite our patient siege? No. This time we are going to do the job properly. We are going to be thorough. There will be no survivors!”
What, does that mean, practically speaking? How can you possibly prevent a breakaway from carrying on a war against you? What steps can you take to ensure the destruction not only of Archbishop Lefebvre’s SSPX, but also of anyone else wishing to break away and continue Archbishop Lefebvre’s SSPX?
“In theory it is remarkably simple. Experience shows that direct attacks have only a limited value. The more flexible and easily-adaptable the revolution can become, the more quickly and effectively it will advance. Remember the 1970s when we replaced the Mass of the Saints with a bastardized rite specially designed to make them lose the Faith? We thought that we had carried all before us and won the day, but before long we found that we still had some mopping up to do. Here and there the true Mass persisted, and with it Tradition. What was worse, we found that because refusing the New Mass in those days took guts and determination and a clear sense of Tradition, the result was that people could rally around the Traditional Mass and almost take for granted that the priest offering it was clear about what he was doing and why. The people went in search of a Traditional Mass for all sorts of mixed motives (sometimes no more than that this Mass was ‘more to their liking’) and ended up stumbling upon Tradition almost as a happy coincidence.
Once we realized what was happening, we soon began to refine our tactics and eventually found a very effective way to overcome this problem. Where direct attacks on Traditional chapels failed, we found that controlled opposition to them, although not entirely successful, worked remarkably well. Look at what a success Ecclesia Dei, the Indult Mass, the Motu Proprio have been for our cause!
With this Resistance then, we are finding the same thing. Our agents began by trying the usual old tactics: denunciations for disobedience, lamenting the disunity, crying wolf about “lies”, “calumny” and “slander”, emotional blackmail (“Think how much you appreciate your local chapel! Can you really live without the sacraments?” etc.) - the whole lot. To begin with these unimaginative, rusty old weapons did have some limited success. But a large part of the Resistance remained immune and as time went on we observed, paradoxically, that in many ways made the Resistance grow stronger with each attack. Going silent about the Resistance proved a short-term option and slowed down their growth, but it leaves the real troublemakers unmolested so that is no long-term solution either.
For the long term, then, what will probably work best is something more subtle, something akin to the way in which we enticed so many souls away from Tradition over the last twenty years, even before our subversion of the SSPX bore visible fruit. The indult, or “approved” Traditional Mass was something which only our fiendish intelligence could have conceived. Who controls an Indult Mass? Why the local bishop, of course. And he answers to Rome. Which is controlled by us. An Indult Mass, then, is controlled ultimately by us. We can afford to allow them the trappings and illusion of Tradition: they pose no threat to us once they are safely within our holding pen. Then we slowly, slowly squeeze out all their Faith until all that is left is pietistic sentimentality and a preference for “old” liturgy.
And all the while allow them to flatter themselves that they are still being “Traditional” and resisting the Council. After all, what they think they are doing does not matter half so much as what they actually are doing! We can afford to allow them the delusions as long as in reality they are achieving nothing. In fact, the delusion is key: above all they must have no shock which might wake them from their illusion. That most people nowadays tend not to think in terms of abstract principles, preferring instead to attach themselves to personalities and things, is a great help.”
How will you accomplish such a thing with the Resistance? It’s all very well talking about the idea, but how will you actually bring it about? “I am not at liberty to reveal the full details because our Fiendish Planning Department has not yet declassified them for general circulation. They will appear in due course when it is too late for the poor unsuspecting souls to do anything. But you do see the principle, the idea? We will create a harmless playpen, label it “Resistance” or some such, allow them to think that they are accomplishing something useful. And all the while we will be in ultimate control.
Most of our victims, once inside the holding pen, will keep themselves there. All we have to do is sow a little doubt and sap a little courage from their convictions. That’s all. Isn’t it wonderful? Just think. Even if the mask temporarily slips and they are tempted to doubt whether they really are resisting, the majority of them will feel too self-conscious to explore further, much less to act, and ultimately their doubt will end in inertia. They will say to themselves: “No, no, that can’t possibly be true!” and by the next morning they will have forgotten what they saw. We might even - and this is just pure evil genius! - encourage these poor fools to squabble with the SSPX. Only over trivial things, of course: personalities, personal injustices, and so on. Not doctrine! This will encourage them all the more to think that they are in the right place and doing the right thing. What is important is that our own fake “Resistance” will eventually supplant the real Resistance.
The SSPX has no chance of winning any argument with the Resistance and its only hope for avoiding losing more souls to the Resistance lies in silence. So we cannot use the SSPX to attack the Resistance. That is worse than senseless. But we can use a “Resistance” to attack the Resistance. If anyone sees our manoeuvre and raises the alarm we can get our agents to denounce him as a crackpot, a hater, etc.
Remember the disaster of 2012? We should have taken greater care! Hardly any priests spoke out or started resisting openly, but the ones who did were more effective than we could ever have guessed or dreamed possible. What’s more, like the 1970s, people who followed them for the most simple reasons ended up by chance receiving far more than they had asked for and in the care of priests who really had vision and clarity and were prepared to sacrifice themselves for the flock. The poor fools who followed them for silly mundane reasons had struck gold without even realizing it! Part of our plan must involve changing this unfortunate state of affairs. Our priests will look as close to the real thing as possible without actually being it. Their mission will be to supplant these enemy priests, to slowly but surely take as many souls away from them and leave them marginalized. When 80% of the souls in the Resistance are with them, we will know that 80% of the souls in the Resistance are in fact no longer in the Resistance, but in the play-pen controlled by us. These fake-Resistance priests can then set about weakening their flock by encouraging selfish tendencies. ‘You need your Mass. I can give you regular Mass. Come with me. Don’t be extreme like those others. Be balanced, be comfortable, think of the air of respectability and feeling of security which I can offer you.’ An occasional squabbly-sounding chat to the more ‘hard-line’ of the flock, you know, I hate Bishop Fellay, he’s a really bad guy, that sort of thing - nothing of any real consequence! and the trap is sprung. As long as the poor sheep do not ask too many questions nor probe too deeply about our fake priests and their motives, as long as they don’t stop to consider what they are really doing or why, or whose good they really have at heart, then they are in the bag for good!!
 Our agents can then deal with these “pockets” of fake “Resistance” when the time comes.  You’ll see.  It will make the previous masterstroke look like child's play!”

- from The Recusant Issue 30, October 2015
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  Italian bishop attends inauguration ceremony for new Masonic temple
Posted by: Stone - 10-06-2022, 06:12 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism - No Replies

Italian bishop attends inauguration ceremony for new Masonic temple
The Masonic Grand Master expressed typical anticlerical sentiments at the event and attacked what he called the 'domination of the Church' in Italy.

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Bishop Soddu (third from left) pictured at the inauguration of the Masonic House in Via Roma in Terni.
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Oct 5, 2022
TERNI, Italy (LifeSiteNews) – An Italian bishop last week attended the inauguration ceremony for a new entrance to the Masonic Lodge of the Grand Orient of Italy in Terni. Following public outcry at the scandal, the diocese quickly attempted to save appearance, defending the bishop’s presence at the event by invoking the “Synodal path.”

On September 27, the Bishop of the Diocese of Terni, Francesco Antonio Soddu, together with numerous city and government officials, as well as leaders and members Italy’s Masonic lodges, attended the ribbon cutting for the Masonic House in Via Roma in Terni. The Italian Catholic blogpost Messainlatino reported the event, noting the scandal of the bishop’s presence. 

According to the website and announcement of the Grand Orient of Italy (GOI), “The ribbon was cut by Grand Master Stefano Bisi, who was welcomed in front of the Via Roma headquarters by Luca Nicola Castiglione, president of the Circumscriptional College of Worshipful Masters of Umbria, Gabriele Cardona, president of the Council of Worshipful Masters of Terni, and numerous brothers.”

“After the ceremony,” the announcement continued, “a visit to the Masonic House, which has two temples inside, took place, which was attended by Mayor Leonardo Latini, Prefect Giovanni Bruno, [and] Bishop Francesco Antonio Soddu, who in their messages of greetings thanked for the invitation and expressed the hope that initiatives such as this can nurture dialogue and the comparison of different realities by defeating prejudices. Parliamentarian Raffaele Nevi and City Councilor Cristiano Ceccotti were also present.”

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Bishop Soddu (second from left) joins ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Masonic House in Via Roma. Credit: Grande Oriente d’Italia/Twitter

Commenting on the photos of the event posted by the GOI, Messainlatino made note of the bishop, who was appointed by Pope Francis in 2021, “participating all jubilant in the ribbon cutting, and then taking the ritual photo next to the ‘two columns’ placed at the entrance of the lodge, in one of the two Masonic ‘temples.’” 

The Grand Master, Stefano Bisi, in his keynote address expressed typical masonic anticlerical sentiments, praising the secular state as the one and only guarantor of freedom and voicing the hope that September 20 would be restored as a holiday in celebration of the liberation of Italy from “the domination of the Church.” 

“Today,” Bisi declared, “as in the past, our goal is always the same: to celebrate all the battles of freedom, starting with the one that in 1870 with the Breach of Porta Pia put an end to the domination of the Church, favoring the birth of free and secular Italy.”

Responding to the indignation among the Catholic faithful sparked by the bishop’s presence at Masonic ceremonies, the Diocese of Terni issued a statement defending the prelate’s attendance, stating that the faithful had “deliberately misunderstood and misinterpreted” his presence, which it claimed was not intended to “identify” with Freemasonry but to witness to the Gospel.

“Regarding the opening of the new entrance to the GOI headquarters in Terni,” the diocese stated, “astonishment, bewilderment and bitterness are aroused by the instrumental reading, deliberately misunderstood and misinterpreted, of Bishop Soddu’s presence at this circumstance.” The diocese further claimed that the bishop’s purpose at the ceremony was “witnessing fidelity to the Gospel and to the Church, especially in this time of the Synodal path that characterizes it.”

In response to the diocese’s justification of the scandal of the event, Catholic historian and author Prof. Roberto de Mattei published a reply, reminding the faithful of the Church’s continuous condemnation of any and all involvement in Freemasonry and the penalty of excommunication for any Catholic who joins their ranks. De Mattei drew attention to the fact that secular relativism lies at the heart of Freemasonry, making it utterly incompatible with the profession of the Catholic faith. De Mattei’s comments are offered here:

Quote:In 1968, a book by French writer Jean Madiran appeared entitled The Heresy of the Twentieth Century (L’Hèrésie du XX siècle, Nouvelles Editins Latines, Paris 1968): the heresy Madiran was referring to was that of the bishops, particularly the French bishops, whose heretical or heretizing positions he denounced as having been taken after the Second Vatican Council.

Madiran observed how it all stemmed from a yielding of Catholics to modern philosophy, and in particular to the principle that the evolution of society would force a change in the very concept of salvation brought by Christ. The Church should open up to the world, listen to its Gospel message of understanding the positive value of modernity, turning its back on the traditional, rigid and intolerant faith.

Madiran’s analysis, after more than half a century, is more relevant than ever, but perhaps today more than heresy we should speak of apostasy of the bishops, that is, of a global denial of the Catholic faith, which is expressed not only through heresies and errors, which are abundantly widespread among the ecclesiastical leadership, but by an underlying attitude that is also expressed in words and gestures of a strong symbolic value. We limit ourselves to citing one of the most recent examples […]

One of the first acts of Msgr. Francesco Antonio Soddu, bishop of Terni since Oct. 29, 2021, was to visit a headquarters of Freemasonry, a secret association condemned by countless Church documents that proposes a worldview directly antithetical to the Catholic one.

The condemnation of Freemasonry has never been abolished. The Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in one of its documents dated Nov. 26, 1983, states that “the Church’s negative judgment regarding Masonic associations remains unchanged, since their principles have always been considered irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Church and therefore membership in them remains forbidden. The faithful who belong to Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and cannot have access to Holy Communion.”

And this applies to every type of Freemasonry, whether Latin or Anglo-Saxon. There are not two or more Freemasonries, some good, some bad. Freemasonry, from its founding document, the “Anderson Constitutions” of 1717, presents an ideology, which sets aside all religious and moral truth, reducing traditional religions to subjective opinions. Relativism constitutes in this sense the soul of Freemasonry, although it does not encompass its entire essence. Freemasonry, in fact, presumes to be a “universal religion,” the repository of a secret of which the Freemason gradually becomes aware through the rites, symbols, and texts he assimilates, but also through the enthralling atmosphere he breathes in the lodges in which he is placed. The newly inaugurated temple of Freemasonry in Terni will be a place where the unwary would-be Freemason will abandon the Catholic Church and be placed in an anti-Christian sect in which he will lose his soul and lose his way to the destiny of eternal happiness to which fidelity to the Gospel calls him.

The bishop of Terni is a successor of the Apostles. There is a golden booklet by St. Alphonsus Maria de’Liguori, titled Riflessioni utili a’vescovi per la pratica di ben governare le loro chiese, republished a few years ago in Umbria itself (edited by Mario Colavita, Edizioni Tau, Todi 2015), which we recommend for Msgr. Soddu and all Italian bishops to read.

The task of pastors is to save the souls of their flock, not to lead them to apostasy and perdition. Therefore, St. Alphonsus explains, if the bishop is negligent about the health of his sheep, “he will be reprobate in the tribunal of Jesus Christ.” This, unfortunately, is the path Msgr. Francesco Antonio Soddu, bishop of Terni-Narni-Amelia, set himself on as he participated in the inauguration of the Grand Orient of Terni, side by side with the Grand Master of Italian Freemasonry.

What can one do in the face of such a serious event, if not openly denounce it and pray for an intervention of Divine Providence to put an end to these scandals that are multiplying in Italy and around the world?

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  Abp. Viganò on Abp. Lefebvre
Posted by: Stone - 10-05-2022, 06:42 AM - Forum: In Defense of Tradition - No Replies

Abp. Viganò on Abp. Lefebvre
Archbishop Viganò suggested that the 1988 Consecrations of bishops
by Archbishop Lefebvre was 'a vital necessity for the safeguarding of the Mass of all time.'


Below an excerpt from the Q & A session with Archbishop Viganò held at the end of a conference he gave at the Summer University – CIVITAS on August 14, 2020 in France. His full address can be found HERE.



Question: Thank you, Monsignor, I ask you a second question: What do you think of Archbishop Lefebvre and his struggle, particularly in his most controversial act, the Episcopal Consecrations of 1988?

Response:

I can only look at Archbishop Lefebvre with admiration and much gratitude for his fidelity and courage. A courage and a fidelity that are unfailing in the face of so much adversity, hostility, and even relentlessness on the part of a hierarchy won over to the ideas of modernity and infiltrated by the Masonic supporters of a project of capillary destruction, without precedent, the devastating scope of which we realize today in its extreme consequences.

Archbishop Lefebvre must be seen as a holy man, not as a schismatic! As a fervent missionary and confessor of the Faith, a zealous defender of Tradition, the priesthood and the Catholic Mass. He exposed himself to severe sanctions, up to and including excommunication, because he felt that it was more right to obey God than men, to guard and transmit Tradition rather than embrace modernist doctrines.

His life is marked by piety, a spirit of sacrifice, a sense of duty, a righteousness of conscience and a great inner consistency. His is a life given to God and the Church, devoted to the service of souls, to evangelization, to the teaching and preaching of sound doctrine, to the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice and to the formation of young men called to the priesthood.

A life that is entirely a witness to the solidity of the Faith handed down to us by the Apostles, the Pontiffs, the Councils and the Holy Doctors of the Faith, and for which the Martyrs shed their blood.

Some consider the 1988 Consecrations as “a step too far.” Others recognize a vital necessity for the safeguarding of the Mass of all time.

Archbishop Lefebvre grasped the urgency of the times in which we live and the drama of a situation that has worsened and taken on new accents of gravity in recent years, making more evident the state of exception in which we find ourselves.

Some speak of disobedience; we speak of fidelity!

Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre continued to teach and do what the Holy Church has always done and taught. He opposed liberalism, the destruction of the Mass and of the whole liturgical edifice of the Church, the ruin of the priesthood, of religious life and of Christian morals.

I repeat: some speak of disobedience; we speak of fidelity!

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  Abp. Viganò: Abp. Lefebvre not a ‘schismatic,’ but a ‘holy man’ with great ‘fidelity’ to the Church
Posted by: Stone - 10-05-2022, 06:34 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò - No Replies

Abp. Viganò: Abp. Lefebvre not a ‘schismatic,’ but a ‘holy man’ with great ‘fidelity’ to the Church
Archbishop Viganò suggested that the 1988 Consecrations of bishops 
by Archbishop Lefebvre was 'a vital necessity for the safeguarding of the Mass of all time.'

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Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre with Pope Pius XII
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Aug 29, 2022
Editor’s note: Below is the Q & A session with Archbishop Viganò held at the end of a conference he gave at the Summer University – CIVITAS on August 14, 2020 in France. His full address can be found HERE.

(LifeSiteNews [emphasis mine]) — Dear friends, I am very happy to have been given the opportunity to participate in this edition of your Summer University. It is a great honor for me to be able to offer my warmest greetings to the militants of Civitas, starting with your President, Mr. Alain Escada, the Secretary General, Mr. Léon-Pierre Durin, your dear Chaplain, Father Joseph, as well as the Capuchins of the Resistance.

By fighting for the re-establishment of the Social Reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ and by fighting against the Masonic oligarchy and against the Davos sect, Civitas finds itself – like David against Goliath – at the heart of the fight of the anti-globalist Alliance that I have called for with all my heart.

I can only rejoice to know that Civitas have now been established in Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Canada and Spain, following the example of France, and I believe it is highly desirable that the same initiative be extended everywhere. It is time for Catholics from all over the world to unite to form a common front against globalist tyranny.

The house built on the Rock is the Catholic Church and Christian civilization. It is also France, baptized in Reims by Saint Remi, built in the alliance of the Throne and the Altar on the day of the coronation of Clovis, King of the Franks.

There can be no remedy for the evils of our time except in the Social Reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in a society reconciled with God, honoring Him, and publicly confessing the Catholic Faith received from the Apostles and faithfully transmitted by the Holy Church down the centuries.

This is the true counter-revolution.


Dear friends, keep in your hearts and minds the example of the Martyrs to preserve Christianity and promote the Social Reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ. These martyrs who have fertilized the future of the Church, society and peoples with their blood! There can be no just and prosperous society where Christ the King does not reign, He who is the Prince of Peace. For the Peace of Christ can only exist in the Kingdom of Christ: Pax Christi in Regno Christi.

As Mr. Durin has informed me, I know you want to ask me some questions.


Question: Excellency, Vatican II took place more than 60 years ago, the destruction of the liturgy 50 years ago, Assisi almost 50 years ago; after 60 years of religious and political disaster where everything was destroyed, where faithful Catholics are despised, even unjustly condemned, you are becoming, at 80 years old, a staunch anti-conciliar. Why are you only acting now?

Answer:

I have already had the opportunity to testify in my past interventions what my journey of progressive awareness of the crisis afflicting the Catholic Church and the deep causes of the present apostasy has been. As I said then, my involvement in the diplomatic service of the Holy See, (first as a young secretary in the Pontifical Representations in Iraq and Kuwait, then in London; in the Secretariat of State; and then as Head of Mission in Strasbourg at the Council of Europe; then as Apostolic Nuncio in Nigeria; and again at the Secretariat of State as Delegate for the Pontifical Representations, then as Secretary General of the Governorate and finally as Apostolic Nuncio to the United States) my commitment – as I said – to the service of the Holy See, which I tried to carry out with dedication, devoting all my time and strength to it, completely absorbed me, making it practically impossible to reflect in depth on the events that were taking place in the Church.

However, this did not prevent me from harboring strong inner perplexities and even criticisms of the “novelties” introduced after the Council. I am thinking in particular of the serious liturgical abuses, the crisis in religious life, the Pantheon of Assisi, the deplorable requests for forgiveness for the Crusades, for example, during the Jubilee Year 2000. I am also thinking of what I perceived as a young student at the Gregorian University in Rome. I perceived that all of this stemmed from the new principles laid down by the Council.

But it was only much later, in the face of the grave scandals of the then Cardinal McCarrick and his entire homosexual network, and the even more serious scandals of Bergoglio, that the intrinsic link between doctrinal and moral corruption became clear to me, as well as the deep causes of the crisis that has been raging in the Church for decades, generated by the conciliar revolution.

And I could not remain silent.

The catastrophe was foreseeable from the beginning. But as I have explained, we had been trained – in our formation for the priestly ministry and even more so for diplomatic service – to consider it unthinkable that the Pope and the entire Catholic Hierarchy could abuse their authority by exercising it for a purpose contrary to that which Our Lord intended for his Church. We had been taught not to question the authority of Superiors. And this was exploited by those who, precisely by exploiting our obedience and our love for the Church of Christ, slowly, step by step, led us to accept new doctrines, alien to those that Holy Church had always taught, especially with regard to ecumenism and religious freedom.

Moreover, just as in the Church the deep church has spread by degrees towards the dissolution of the ecclesial body, so in the civil sphere the deep state has developed in what I would call a similar way, through a progressive infiltration reaching the tyrannical forms of the New World Order, the World Economic Forum and the Agenda 2030.

In this case too one might ask: Why didn’t the citizens rebel against the subversion of the state by seditious people who took power in order to destroy the institutions they should have served for the common good?

Many would answer: We could not imagine their perverse design, their plan to make us slaves to an iniquitous system. We could not believe that when they spoke of democracy or popular sovereignty, they wanted to gradually subject us to a totalitarian power that was radically anti-Christian.

I consider that the fact of not having understood yesterday the nature of the revolutionary process in progress could be excusable; on the other hand, not understanding today is irresponsible and makes us accomplices of a world coup d’état in temporal things and of apostasy in the ecclesial sphere.

Let us therefore thank those who, long before us, with their prophetic voice sounded the alarm about the threat to both civil society and the Catholic Church.


Question: Thank you, Monsignor, I ask you a second question: What do you think of Archbishop Lefebvre and his struggle, particularly in his most controversial act, the Episcopal Consecrations of 1988?

Response:

I can only look at Archbishop Lefebvre with admiration and much gratitude for his fidelity and courage. A courage and a fidelity that are unfailing in the face of so much adversity, hostility, and even relentlessness on the part of a hierarchy won over to the ideas of modernity and infiltrated by the Masonic supporters of a project of capillary destruction, without precedent, the devastating scope of which we realize today in its extreme consequences.

Archbishop Lefebvre must be seen as a holy man, not as a schismatic! As a fervent missionary and confessor of the Faith, a zealous defender of Tradition, the priesthood and the Catholic Mass. He exposed himself to severe sanctions, up to and including excommunication, because he felt that it was more right to obey God than men, to guard and transmit Tradition rather than embrace modernist doctrines.

His life is marked by piety, a spirit of sacrifice, a sense of duty, a righteousness of conscience and a great inner consistency. His is a life given to God and the Church, devoted to the service of souls, to evangelization, to the teaching and preaching of sound doctrine, to the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice and to the formation of young men called to the priesthood.

A life that is entirely a witness to the solidity of the Faith handed down to us by the Apostles, the Pontiffs, the Councils and the Holy Doctors of the Faith, and for which the Martyrs shed their blood.

Some consider the 1988 Consecrations as “a step too far.” Others recognize a vital necessity for the safeguarding of the Mass of all time.

Archbishop Lefebvre grasped the urgency of the times in which we live and the drama of a situation that has worsened and taken on new accents of gravity in recent years, making more evident the state of exception in which we find ourselves.

Some speak of disobedience; we speak of fidelity!

Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre continued to teach and do what the Holy Church has always done and taught. He opposed liberalism, the destruction of the Mass and of the whole liturgical edifice of the Church, the ruin of the priesthood, of religious life and of Christian morals.

I repeat: some speak of disobedience; we speak of fidelity!



Question: Thank you, Monsignor, I will ask you one last question before giving you the floor for a final word. Your Excellency, could you explain to us in a few words the project of the Anti-Globalist Federation that you mentioned, and how one can participate in it concretely?

Answer:

The Anti-Globalist Alliance is a call that I launched last November, aware of the very serious and unprecedented threat that weighs on all of humanity at this time in history. Aware also of the urgency of building a front of resistance everywhere to counter the planetary coup d’état orchestrated by a very powerful elite with a view to establishing an inhuman and antichristian New World Order.

I have never pretended to be the leader of a movement or to take over its organization. Like a sower, I have cast the seed to the four winds, so that it may be wisely gathered and may bear fruit. I cannot measure the state of its germination.

The current situation, both at the level of the different nations and on the international scene, is very fluid, dark and difficult to decipher. We only know that we must prepare ourselves inwardly for the events that await us and implore God’s intervention from Heaven.

Only one thing is certain: it is impossible to resolve the civil and ecclesial crisis in which we are sinking with human means. Man must first of all kneel before his God and King, Our Lord Jesus Christ. Nations and peoples must recognize His Lordship, and the Church must be the first to restore to the King the Crown that usurpers have taken from Him. Let us put Christ back into the center of our hearts and into the center of everything, He who is the Alpha and the Omega. Let us seek first the Kingdom and its righteousness, and all the rest will be given to us in addition.


Mr Durin: Thank you, Excellency, it is a pity that you did not see the people in the hall, and their joy at having heard a real bishop speak to them, telling them again the eternal truths of the Church. Thank you again on behalf of the Capuchins, the Dominicans of Avrillé who are here, and Father Morgan who is here with us. Thank you for everything, Monsignor. I will give you the floor one last time and thank you very personally for everything you have done for us.

Archbishop Viganò:
Dear Mr Durin, I too regret very much not having the possibility of seeing you and above all of being with you on this happy occasion in which you are gathered, to give thanks, to pray together to the Virgin Mary on this eve of the Feast of her Assumption, She who is the principal Patroness of France. Let us therefore renew our act of Hope and turn our gaze towards Heavenly things. Supported by the maternal protection and intercession of the Virgin Mary, the Woman clothed in the Sun who crushes the head of the infernal Dragon under her feet, we can persevere in the battles of this world, with greater strength and courage, but also with humility and trust. And I gladly bless you all: Benedicat vos omnipotens Deus Pater et Filius et Spiritus Sanctus. Amen.

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  Pagan Smudging Ritual At Toronto Cathedral
Posted by: Stone - 10-05-2022, 06:11 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism - Replies (1)

Smudging Ritual At Cathedral

gloria.tv | October 4, 2022



Thomas Collins, an injection- and lockdown-whip, and Toronto Cardinal, organised a pagan smudging in front of the table in Toronto Cathedral (September 30).

Collins presided a Eucharist for the "National Day for Truth and Reconciliation" and began it with that ceremony (Video here).

Shaman Peter Menzies told CatholicRegister.org that it was “an honour to be asked to lead the smudging ceremony at the cathedral.”

He treats smudging as part of his personal spiritual practice and does not often receive requests from parishes.


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Archdiocese of Toronto announces first annual collection for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

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Catholic Register | September 28, 2022

Below is the letter issued by Cardinal Collins, Archbishop of Toronto, announcing the first annual collection for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

Quote:My dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Friday, September 30th is observed across Canada as a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

As Catholics, we share a responsibility, with all Canadians, to take meaningful steps with Indigenous people and communities on the path to reconciliation. We also mourn the suffering and loss of those wounded physically, emotionally and spiritually as a result of the residential school system as well as the intergenerational trauma that remains for many throughout the country.

We invite the Catholic community throughout the Archdiocese of Toronto to take time on Friday for prayer, reflection and education. On September 30 at 7:30 a.m., I will offer Mass at St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica for the intention of our healing and reconciliation journey with Indigenous Peoples of This Land. You are welcome to join in person or virtually by clicking here. It will also be available here for later viewing.

On his recent penitential pilgrimage to Canada, Pope Francis said, “I trust and pray that Christians and civil society in this land may grow in the ability to accept and respect the identity and the experience of the Indigenous peoples. It is my hope that concrete ways can be found to make those peoples better known and esteemed, so that all may learn to walk together.”

Given the recent Papal Visit to Canada, you may wish to reflect on some of the texts offered by the Holy Father relating to the journey of healing, reconciliation and hope. These texts and videos of his remarks in Canada can be found here. Salt & Light Catholic Media also has produced a powerful one hour documentary on residential schools and the Indigenous delegation to Rome earlier this year. This informative educational resource can be found here.

Pope Francis’s apology, like the collective apology of the Canadian bishops in 2021, was an important step in our ongoing journey as Catholics. Over these past many months, we have provided resources and educational materials for the faithful and clergy. We have supported the Papal Visit to Canada through the sharing of significant financial and human resources. The focus and theme of the 2021 Cardinal’s Dinner was Indigenous healing and reconciliation. We have presented webinars and posted numerous resources on our website – many can be found here.

We also committed, in February of this year, $6 million over five years as the archdiocese’s contribution to the $30 million commitment by the Catholic Bishops in Canada. Our funds will be generated through the existing operations and assets and the generous participation of parishioners in our parishes.

Our first annual special collection to support the Indigenous Healing & Reconciliation Fund, a national initiative, will take place in parishes on the weekend of October 1, 2022. Donations can also be made online here. The archdiocese’s healing and reconciliation fund committee is beginning its work in earnest, researching and identifying funding priorities that focus on supporting projects that further:
  • Healing and reconciliation for communities and families;
  • Culture and language revitalization;
  • Education and community building; and
  • Dialogue for promoting Indigenous spirituality and culture.

Our funding will support Indigenous partners, organizations and communities in our archdiocese and beyond. Specific funded projects and initiatives will be announced in the coming months.

Let us continue to identify ways in which each one of us can participate in the ongoing journey of healing, reconciliation and hope. May our reflection and action this week assist us in our ongoing collective efforts.

St. Kateri Tekakwitha, pray for us!

Sincerely in Christ,

Thomas Cardinal Collins
Archbishop of Toronto

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  Pro abortion groups in Colombia carried out terror attacks on Bogota Cathedral
Posted by: Stone - 10-05-2022, 05:59 AM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence - No Replies

Pro abortion groups in Colombia carried out terror attacks on Bogota Cathedral




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  The Prophecy of St. Francis About a Future Pope
Posted by: ThyWillBeDone - 10-04-2022, 08:58 PM - Forum: Catholic Prophecy - No Replies

The Prophecy of St. Francis About a Future Pope  TAKEN FROM Works of the Seraphic Father St. Francis Of Assisi, Washbourne, 1882, pp. 248-250.
http://www.catholictradition.org/francis-prophecies.htm

  With the latest rabid statements from Francis, Bishop of Rome [title, per his request], the castigation of a mother who bore eight children, whom we presume, based on related comments, he considers a rabbit, then giving an audience to a so-called "transgendered" hopeful wishing "to marry", our Pope appears to have become deranged, if not outright mad. This is also indicative of hypocrisy: The "Who am I to judge" Pope in reference to objective sin, accuses an obedient, heroic woman of subjective sin. Francis exposes his true self along with his actual beliefs about morality, in particular the purpose of marriage.  When he was chosen as Pontiff, it was considered odd that he would choose the name of St. Francis for a number of reasons, but after pondering it a bit more, perhaps God was warning us early on, although by now is there anyone who would need such an admonition? The irony abounds when one reads the prophecy by our Seraph, the glorious St. Francis. Here I am referring to the abuse of papal power when Francis forbade traditional Franciscans the use of the Traditional Mass. I do not know if the prophecies below refer to our time, but one can't help considering the possibility, especially in light of the prophecies of St. Malachy and the number of Popes, although we are not obliged to believe his list. But when Saints provide us with prophecies, we ought not be so prudent as to dismiss them out-of-hand necessarily.  We must continue to pray for Pope Francis, while being faithful in resisting whatever attacks the body and soul of the Church, following the exhortation of the Saints.  Shortly before he died, St. Francis of Assisi called together his followers and warned them of the coming troubles, saying: 

1. The time is fast approaching in which there will be great trials and afflictions; perplexities and dissensions, both spiritual and temporal, will abound; the charity of many will grow cold, and the malice of the wicked will increase.

  2. The devils will have unusual power, the immaculate purity of our Order, and of others, will be so much obscured that there will be very few Christians who will obey the true Sovereign Pontiff and the Roman Church with loyal hearts and perfect charity. At the time of this tribulation a man, not canonically elected, will be raised to the Pontificate, who, by his cunning, will endeavor to draw many into error and death. 

3. Then scandals will be multiplied, our Order will be divided, and many others will be entirely destroyed, because they will consent to error instead of opposing it. 

4. There will be such diversity of opinions and schisms among the people, the religious and the clergy, that, except those days were shortened, according to the words of the Gospel, even the elect would be led into error, were they not specially guided, amid such great confusion, by the immense mercy of God. 

5. Then our Rule and manner of life will be violently opposed by some, and terrible trials will come upon us. Those who are found faithful will receive the crown of life; but woe to those who, trusting solely in their Order, shall fall into tepidity, for they will not be able to support the temptations permitted for the proving of the elect.

  6. Those who preserve in their fervor and adhere to virtue with love and zeal for the truth, will suffer injuries and, persecutions as rebels and schismatics; for their persecutors, urged on by the evil spirits, will say they are rendering a great service to God by destroying such pestilent men from the face of the earth. but the Lord will be the refuge of the afflicted, and will save all who trust in Him. And in order to be like their Head, [Christ] these, the elect, will act with confidence, and by their death will purchase for themselves eternal life; choosing to obey God rather than man, they will fear nothing, and they will prefer to perish rather than consent to falsehood and perfidy. 

7. Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will trample it under foot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days JESUS CHRIST WILL SEND THEM NOT A TRUE PASTOR, BUT A DESTROYER"

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  In historic first, Pope Francis approves an ‘ecclesial conference’ with lay people
Posted by: Stone - 10-04-2022, 07:12 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism - No Replies

In historic first, Pope Francis approves an ‘ecclesial conference’ with lay people instead of a bishops-only leadership body

America Magazine [emphasis mine] | October 03, 2022


“We are living a ‘kairos,’ a propitious time of God in the history of the church,” Cardinal Pedro Barreto Jimeno, S.J., told America in an exclusive interview in Rome on Sept. 6 in which he revealed for the first time that Pope Francis has approved the statute of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA), giving it formal recognition in the church.

Cardinal Barreto, 78, the archbishop of Huancayo in the Central Andes mountains of Peru, was elected president of the Amazon conference on March 27, succeeding Cardinal Claudio Hummes of Brazil, who resigned because of ill health and has since died.

Speaking in Spanish, he explained that the now officially recognized body “involves bishops, priests, women and men religious and the lay faithful from the nine countries of the Amazon region,” namely Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Suriname, Guiana and French Guiana. (An episcopal conference, in contrast, includes only the bishops of a certain territory.) “lt is the first of its kind in the history of the church,” he stated, and “the first concrete fruit of the Amazonian synod.” The cardinal was one of the three president-delegates of that synod.

CEAMA, he said, can be compared “to the small mustard seed that grows little by little and spreads its branches to welcome the entire universal church.” He expects similar ecclesial conferences to emerge on other continents in the coming years, including Africa and Asia, as bishops from those continents have already shown great interest in the structural developments in the Amazon region.

He predicted that in the coming years “bishops’ conferences will have to transform themselves into ecclesial conferences.” He believes that future synods will be “ecclesial synods,” as has been signaled by the fact that “Predicate Evangelium,” the constitution for the reform of the Roman Curia, has strategically dropped the phrase “of bishops.” No longer “the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops,” it is now called “the General Secretariat of the Synod.”

The Peruvian Jesuit recalled that the final document of the synod on the Amazon was “approved by the pope.” He saw this as “a revolution in the churchbecause prior to that, each synod presented its recommendations or proposals (usually around 50) to the pope, who would incorporate them into his post-synodal exhortation.

Pope Francis, however, did not follow this model for the Amazon synod; instead, he presented the synod’s final document to the whole church when he published his exhortation “Querida Amazonia,” saying, “I have preferred not to cite the final document in this exhortation because I would encourage everyone to read it in full.”

Cardinal Barreto said that final document emphasized the need for a new ecclesial body to promote synodality and shape a church with “an Amazonian face,” while seeking new paths for evangelization and for an integral ecology. The new Amazon ecclesial conference is that body.

It was officially created on June 29, 2020, as “an effective instrument” for implementing the proposals that emerged from the 2019 Synod on the Amazon and for giving life to “four great dreams” for the region expressed by Pope Francis in “Querida Amazonia,” his post-synodal exhortation.

Cardinal Barreto said that by choosing the title “Querida Amazonia” for his post-synodal exhortation, Pope Francis was “putting a name on a creature that is a biome in which 30 million people and three million communities of Indigenous peoples live.” The choice of name, he said, “indicates an attitude of the church, which also corresponds to the desire of the Indigenous peoples, that the church be an ally of these peoples who have historically only been beaten in their lives and today suffer deforestation and the exploitation of the resources of their lands.”

He cited as an example of their suffering the fact that while Brazil has 63 percent of the Amazonian territory, it has a lower population of Indigenous peoples than the other eight countries of the region that comprise 45 percent of the territory. He said, “this shows that the Indigenous peoples had historically suffered genocide in Brazil and in other countries like Peru.”

“‘Querida Amazonia,’ he said, “manifests the desire of Pope Francis to seek new paths for the church and new paths for an integral ecology.”

“I was struck by the fact that while being a synod for Amazonia it laid out new paths for the whole church, and not only for Amazonia,” he added. “Therefore, the pope was thinking of the universal church, but starting from the existential periphery of the culture of Amazonia.”

The cardinal sees “a relation” between “Querida Amazonia,” the synod’s final document and the newly recognized church body: “One could say the Ecclesial Conference of Amazonia is the best gift that Pope Francis has given not only to Amazonia but also to the universal church. Why? Because up to now there have been episcopal conferences, but the ecclesial conference of Amazonia is the first [of its kind] in the history of the church.

“The difference is immense because up to now the church has united bishops and cardinals in [episcopal] conferences of the different countries, and even in organisms like CELAM [the Conference of Latin American Bishops], whereas the ecclesial conference…is centered on the people of God in accordance with the Second Vatican Council,” he explained.

He recalled that the second chapter of Vatican II’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, “Lumen Gentium,” is devoted to “the People of God,” whereas its third chapter speaks of “the bishops at the service of the people of Jesus.” Cardinal Barreto recalled that “the Second Vatican Council saw the eruption of the Holy Spirit in the renewal of the universal church.”

Asked if the new Amazonian body could be considered “one of the great novelties of this pontificate,” the cardinal emphasized that “this is not something new from Francis; it really stems from the Second Vatican Council,” and “Francis is implementing that council.”

This ecclesial conference is “very much linked to REPAM, the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network,” a network for the Amazonian region set up in 2014 to respond to the grave concerns of the pope and the church regarding the deep wounds of the region and its peoples.

He recalled that “REPAM includes a unit that focuses on human rights in the Amazonian territory and reports rapidly to the United Nations, the Organization of American States and the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights when these rights are being violated, thereby making the voices of the region heard.”

Another significant development will be the creation of a Catholic Amazonian University, thanks to a foundation established by the Catholic University of Quito but independent from it, he said. This new university is important because of the low level of participation of students from Indigenous communities in higher education; a mere 3.2 percent are currently studying at university.

The cardinal explained that the conference is developing an Amazonian rite as called for by the synod and is reflecting on “the experiences with Amazonian rites, liturgical expressions and spirituality.” He revealed that during this visit to Rome he, together with other members of the conference leadership, visited the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments on Sept. 1.

“We are in a process of dialogue with the Dicastery for Divine Worship and with Cardinal [Arthur] Roche, and this is the first time ever that we have been able to dialogue with this dicastery in a fraternal way, in an attitude of listening,” he said.

The Peruvian cardinal emphasized that “from the very beginning, the church has sought to inculturate the Gospel in every way possible, and Pope Francis has clearly affirmed that this has to be done.” The cardinal recalled that Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), the Italian-born Jesuit missionary to China, was one who really went down the path of inculturation, but “Roman centralism” soon blocked this effort through its decision on the question of the Chinese rites, with consequences that we still see today.

He expressed joy, however, at finding that now a different mentality prevails in Rome at the Dicastery of Divine Worship where “we had an experience of welcome, listening, and accompaniment.” Consequently, he said, “we are on a good path, we have begun a dialogue, and we are not going it alone.” He expressed gratitude to the bishops of the dicastery.

He revealed that the members of the Amazon conference are “also discussing the question of ministries…their service in the church and, more specifically, the ministry of women and the service women are already giving in Amazonia.” He reported “that inside Amazonia, but also outside the region, women religious celebrate baptisms, weddings, liturgies and some even hear confessions for people who confide personal problems to them although they cannot give [sacramental] absolution.”

He recalled that CLAR—the acronym for the Latin American conference of women and men religious—is one of the founding entities of both the newly formed ecclesial conference and REPAM.

“Because of this, we are discovering the very important figures of Indigenous women…and the roles they have in the communities.” He mentioned, for example, that the leadership of REPAM consists of a president and three vice presidents, and two of the latter are women, including an Indigenous woman. Likewise, the leadership of the Amazon ecclesial conference consists of a president and four vice presidents, and again the latter includes not only a lay man but also a woman religious and an Indigenous woman.

Cardinal Barreto revealed the Dicastery for Bishops at first felt disconcerted by the new eccesial group. “They didn’t know how to relate to the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon,” he said. But then Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the head of the dicastery, wrote a letter to Cardinal Hummes, president of the Amazon conference, “communicating the canonical approval of CEAMA but at the same time asking us for modification of the statute.” The revised statute, which emphasized better the ecclesial nature of the conference, has been approved and ratified by Pope Francis and “will be published in the coming days,” the cardinal said.   

He concluded the interview with these words, “We are living in a very special moment of the grace of God. It is a time of hope in the midst of a desperate, aimless humanity.”

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  Satanic Temple sues Idaho and Indiana over Abortion Bans
Posted by: Stone - 10-04-2022, 06:07 AM - Forum: Abortion - No Replies

Satanic Temple goes after abortion bans


Axios [adapted] | October 3, 2022

The Salem-based Satanic Temple is suing Indiana and Idaho in federal court over their abortion bans, arguing they violate the religious rights of people in those states.

Driving the news: The Satanic Temple filed its complaint against Idaho on Friday, a week after filing a similar one in Indiana.

Both states have conservative governors who support near-total abortion bans.

Meanwhile, the temple's home state of Massachusetts restricts abortions after 24 weeks with some exceptions.
Why it matters: The temple is one of several organizations suing to block state laws that almost entirely ban abortions.

The temple, a nontheistic religious group that often gets confused for the Church of Satan, has used religious freedom arguments in a similar lawsuit challenging Texas' abortion ban earlier this year.

The other side: A spokesperson for Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita told the Indianapolis Star the U.S. Supreme Court decided abortion isn't protected under the Constitution. "This new lawsuit merely offers weaker arguments for the same discredited right," the spokesperson said.

Details: In latest lawsuits, the temple argued each state's ban violates the rights of people who took contraceptives and still became pregnant, denying the right of an "involuntarily pregnant woman" to engage in the "Satanic Abortion Ritual."

The temple's ritual includes the tenet, "One's body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone."

The temple accused the states of violating the 13th Amendment, discriminating against impregnated contraceptive users and the states' own religion protections.

The temple also accused the states of unconstitutionally "taking the property of involuntarily pregnant women" (i.e. their bodies) without just compensation, noting that people get paid thousands of dollars to be surrogates, per court documents.

What they're saying: Supporters of the Dobbs decision, which effectively struck down Roe v. Wade, "have woken a sleeping giant among women politically and have stirred up a hornets' nest of legal issues," James Mac Naughton, an attorney representing the temple, tells Axios. "(Supreme Court Justice Neil) Gorsuch, you want a national debate on abortion? Congratulations, you have one."

Of note: The Satanic Temple has launched various political actions and lawsuits over the separation of church and state.

The group is also suing Boston for the right to give an invocation before city council meetings, a practice other religious groups have performed.

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  "We Own The Science": UN Official Admits That They Partner With Google To Control Search Results
Posted by: Stone - 10-04-2022, 05:56 AM - Forum: Socialism & Communism - No Replies

"We Own The Science": UN Official Admits That They Partner With Google To Control Search Results


ZH | OCT 03, 2022

The UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, Melissa Fleming, recently admitted in a discussion with the World Economic Forum that the globalist institution has partnered with Big Tech platforms like Google in order to control search results on subjects like climate change, making the establishment narrative the predominant narrative while suppressing information and data that runs contrary to the UN's climate agenda.

Fleming went on to state that the UN is in control of the science: “We own the science, and we think that the world should know it, and the platforms themselves also do.”


In fact, no one "owns the science" on climate change, covid, or any other issue.  If the data does not support a narrative then the narrative should be abandoned as faulty.  The UN seems to think otherwise.

This open admission only reconfirms what the alternative media has been saying for years, that Big Tech corporations, governments and globalist institutions are actively collaborating to crush dissenting data and opinions as a means to keep the public as ignorant of the truth as possible.  Far from "fact checking" or fighting "disinformation," globalist efforts are purely about elevating their own propaganda as a means to gain more authority over society.

Carbon emissions laws associated with the UN's "Agenda 2030" give immense and intrusive power to governments over industry, private property as well as individual freedoms.  It only makes sense that the UN would try to combat any information source that contradicts the implementation of such laws; they have everything to gain by preventing the public from viewing all the information and making an informed decision on their own.

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  WEF Attendee Liz Truss Says British Economy "Needs A Reset" As Market Conditions Worsen
Posted by: Stone - 10-04-2022, 05:52 AM - Forum: Great Reset - No Replies

WEF Attendee Liz Truss Says British Economy "Needs A Reset" As Market Conditions Worsen

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ZH | OCT 04, 2022


New British PM Elizabeth Truss has been touted by many including the mainstream media as a “far-right” politician with wide appeal to British conservatives.  This is fast becoming a prerequisite ideological position to take in Europe as the open border/socialist policies of leftist political leaders are leaving the EU in economic ruins and as they approach an energy based catastrophe not seen since WWII.

Boris Johnson revealed himself to be nowhere near as conservative as many initially believed with his support of draconian covid mandates, stopping just short of enforcing vaccine passports but still requiring proof of vaccination for major venues.  All this while holding lavish parties at his official residence during the lockdowns he helped enforce.  Adding to the problem were Johnson's tax increases in the midst of an inflationary crisis, which led to widespread public discontent and his eventual resignation.

When Truss became a potential candidate to replace Johnson some in the alternative media warned that her ongoing associations with the World Economic Forum and attendance at Davos events might be a red flag of another political pretender playing at being conservative while actually serving the interests of globalist institutions.  This was, of course, called conspiracy theory by “fact checkers” in the MSM.

It is a concrete reality that the new PM has been a participant in the Davos meetings held by the World Economic Forum, a central hub of globalism that acts as a think tank and propaganda mill where new narratives are born.  Specifically, the WEF is most known for its “Great Reset” mantra, which is part of founder Klaus Schwab's “4th Industrial Revolution” concept.  A key focus of the Great Reset is something called the “Shared Economy,” which is described as the complete erasure of private property and the implementation of communist-like governance over individual economic participation.   

The Shared Economy is the source of the phrase “You will own nothing and be happy,” which actually comes from an article written by the WEF and published by Forbes Magazine titled 'Welcome To 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better.'

Far from being a “conspiracy theory,” the Great Reset is commonly presented by the WEF as the ultimate end game – An agenda, not just an idea.  This has rightly caused concern among the public, because many WEF concepts that are presented at Davos end up being adopted by major governments and instituted into law.  And, many Davos attendees tend to climb the political ladder rather quickly into positions of significant power.

Any legitimate conservative leader or candidate would therefore know about globalist terminology such are the term “Reset” and try to avoid using it at all costs.

No right wing leader would want to be associated with a globalist agenda that the majority of conservatives would rather go to war against.

It could be taken as a limited gaff or mistake, but Truss' recent use of the term raises eyebrows considering her past affiliations with the WEF.  She states that:

Quote:“We believe in making it easier for our wealth creators, doers and makers to get things done...

Britain’s economy needs a reset. We cannot continue on the current trajectory of managed decline. Instead, we must take a new direction. I will lead us down that path to a better future.

This comment was made not long after Truss addressed the plunge of the Pound and the near bankruptcy of the UK pension system. 

A key requirement built into any economic “reset” would be the collapse of the old model.  Truss might simply be describing what is likely to happen rather than what she wants to happen, but she does present the concept of a reset as a solution, and not as a threat.  Meaning, she should be watched carefully by conservatives.

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  Federal Reserve announces social credit system ‘exercise’ to ensure banks comply with ‘climate’ mode
Posted by: Stone - 10-03-2022, 10:51 AM - Forum: General Commentary - Replies (1)

Federal Reserve announces social credit system ‘exercise’ to ensure banks comply with ‘climate’ models
‘Climate finance’ is almost identical to that of the Chinese Communist Party's social credit score system.


Jordan
Schachtel
Mon Oct 3, 2022
(The Dossier) – The Federal Reserve has taken a major step in the direction of facilitating an ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) compliant monetary network that effectively acts as a parallel system to that of the Chinese Communist Party’s infamous social credit scoring system.

The Fed said in a statement Thursday:

Quote:Six of the nation’s largest banks will participate in a pilot climate scenario analysis exercise designed to enhance the ability of supervisors and firms to measure and manage climate-related financial risks. Scenario analysis—in which the resilience of financial institutions is assessed under different hypothetical climate scenarios—is an emerging tool to assess climate-related financial risks, and there will be no capital or supervisory implications from the pilot.

In other words, The Fed is working with the big banks to monitor their ability to comply with the ruling class’s preferred enviro statist technocratic tyranny.

The unaccountable people behind the American money printer claim that this exercise is “exploratory in nature and does not have capital consequences.”

The statement adds that the “scenario analysis can assist firms and supervisors in understanding how climate-related financial risks may manifest and differ from historical experience.”

What exactly does this mean?

The Fed is clearly leaning into the climate hoax narrative, or the pseudoscientific idea that humans are catastrophically impacting the climate, but not because they somehow care about the environment. The climate narrative is the chief rhetorical facilitator for the ESG movement.

ESG acts as a trojan horse for the continuing centralization of the American financial system. ESG finance, popularized by hyper political asset management behemoths like BlackRock and Vanguard, acts to prevent outsiders from challenging the regime-connected insiders on Wall Street and in Washington, under the guise of acting to manifest a healthier planet.

In other words, pro-ESG institutions are committed to attacking free market principles by means of deception, preferring the CCP-style “stakeholder capitalism” that allows for a small group of technocratic elites to make broad determinations about society.

Unsurprisingly, the legacy media has thus far cheered The Fed’s plan, with The New York Times reporting “that it often lagged behind its global peers when it comes to talking about and coming up with a plan for policing risks related to climate change.”



The ESG “green transition,” frequently popularized by powerful world governments and the Davos elite, has served as the main vehicle for this movement. Akin to the Chinese social credit score, which is used to coerce businesses, and, by extension, individuals, into specific actions, ESG rules force individuals and businesses in America to deploy capital through the gatekeepers of the system.

The Federal Reserve statement continues:

Quote:By considering a range of possible future climate pathways and associated economic and financial developments, scenario analysis can assist firms and supervisors in understanding how climate-related financial risks may manifest and differ from historical experience.

The banks involved in this pilot program are Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo.

Of course, it’s just a scenario, until it’s not. The Fed pilot program is set to launch in early 2023.

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  One of northern Europe's largest vegetable companies to shut down for six weeks
Posted by: Stone - 10-03-2022, 10:31 AM - Forum: Global News - No Replies

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  The True Colors of Benedict XVI
Posted by: Stone - 10-03-2022, 10:06 AM - Forum: The Architects of Vatican II - Replies (4)

The True Colors of Benedict XVI

TIA | May 16, 2005

My friend Jan couldn’t understand why I was not exulting with her in April over the news of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the next Pontiff. “He is so-ooo conservative!” she exclaimed, “Even more than John Paul II!”

It hardly needs to be said that many, myself included, did not consider JPII a conservative Pope. Quite the opposite. Ratzinger solidly supported the progressivist initiatives and errors of JPII regarding religious liberty, conciliar ecumenism, collegiality, unity of the Church, and feminism that have changed the face of the Catholic Church since Vatican II. In fact, in the theater of the last Papacy, where JPII was the on-stage star, one might say Ratzinger was a behind-the-scenes director of the production. Now that the director was given a stage role, my first indication was to think things would continue along the same progressivist pathway. More of the same, with no real change in sight.

Because of an artificial propaganda campaign presenting Ratzinger as doctrinally orthodox and traditional minded, it was not surprising to find media-influenced Catholics ecstatic and hopeful that the progressivist tide had turned with his election, and a grand restoration was en route. It was startling, however, to find sectors, significant sectors, of the traditionalist milieus joining that choir. “Give him a chance,” they were all were insisting, sharing the irrational optimism in the air after the last conclave.

Some of them were already pompously stating that “an authentic interpretation of Vatican II” - which Ratzinger purports to make - could bring about this desired restoration. I thought, “How curious that these supposed traditionalists surrendered so easily on the main point of our resistance against the conciliar Popes, that is to say, Vatican II and the inadmissible bad consequences that came in its wake. Were they ever really serious partisancs of the resistance to the evil that the Council executed, or were they just feigning objections to impress an audience?”

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Ratzinger's progressivist colors so far unchanged.

This was my reaction. But, I decided to remain quiet for awhile and wait a bit to see what Pope Ratzinger would do.

Well, he has already begun to reveal his position. The first actions and addresses of Benedict XVI give no cause to imagine that the progressivist Cardinal Ratzinger has changed colors. Although much could be said about his progressivist stances as Cardinal, let me limit myself in this article to pointing out some of the things Ratzinger has said and done since he was raised to the Papacy.

One of his first statements after the announcement he had been elected Pope was his proclamation of full and complete support for Vatican II. In his first Papal message, he affirmed his “determination to continue the commitment to put the Second Vatican Council into practice, following in the footsteps of my Predecessors.” (1) It is the application of the Vatican II agenda, let me note, that has led us into the abysmal crisis of Faith and Morals that the Church is suffering today.

He then went on to firmly commit to continue the policies of JPII with regard to the false religions. A top priority, he affirmed, was to maintain “an open and sincere dialogue” with the false religions. Later, in his first official address to delegates of the pagan, Jewish, heretical and schismatic sects, he emphatically affirmed “the irreversible commitment assumed by Vatican Council II” to journey on the “path toward full communion(2). This is the same progressivist jargon the Popes since John XXIII have been using to mask the progressivist aim of establishing a pan-religion where all men, believers or not, are brought together into a single universal church.

Benedict 16 also addressed the members of the Muslim community and expressed his desire to build bridges with followers “of all the religions” to seek “the true good of all persons and of the whole society” (3). The Catholic faithful continue to get more doses of progressivist lingo, with Pope Ratzinger addressing the sects as if they were on same footing as the Catholic Religion. After two and a half decades of JPII, many people have become accustomed to this kind of talk, hardly realizing it promotes religious indifferentism, a serious doctrinal error strongly condemned by the pre-Vatican II Popes, especially St. Pius X. It is not the language of a conservative Pope defending tradition.

Then he sent out invitations to his installation as Supreme Pontiff to the Grand Rabbi of Rome, the head of the Anglicans, Schismatic hierarchs, and leaders of some 130 other false religions. The Grand Rabbi declined. Later, on May 13, Benedict XVI re-affirmed his commitment to further the relations with the Jews set by John Paul II by announcing he would visit the synagogue of Cologne, the oldest in Germany, during his trip to World Youth Day in that city (4). As everyone knows, JPII was the first Pope to visit a synagogue, the one in Rome, in April 1986; Benedict 16 will be the second.

Another bad sign showing that Ratzinger has decided to adopt the egalitarian spirit of the last Pontiffs was his choice of an “installation” to initiate his pontificate instead of papal coronation. It signaled a decision to follow the examples of his recent predecessors and continue to move in the direction of less monarchical and more democratic Papacy. Another shocking innovation at the “installation” ceremony was the inclusion of a woman among the 12 people representing the Apostles who knelt and kissed the Pontiff’s ring (5). I really don’t know what Apostle she was representing… At any rate, it is the first time in History that a woman took part in this ceremony. Does it speak of more concessions to progressivist demands that women assume more dominant roles in the Church? I think it does.

Then, we come to the appointments. “Wait and see – things will change when he begins to name conservative ecclesiastics to important positions,” I was told. Well, shortly after his installment, Benedict XVI reinstated the full curia of John Paul II (6). It is curious to note that many conservatives, and even some naïve traditionalists, used to blame this very curia for the progressivist policy of JPII. They always tried to save JPII, protesting that he was a conservative being manipulated by a progressivist inner circle.

So now, what? Ratzinger reinstates the whole group. One thing for sure, if anyone knew the progressivst policies of a Cardinal Walter Kasper or Roger Echegaray, it was the insider Ratzinger. And if he had wanted to make a clear statement that he would be steering the Bark of Peter on a different path, this would have been the moment to do so. But he did not. On the contrary, he confirmed all the progressivists in their positions.

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Archbishop William Levada - a bad first appointment...
Los Angeles Times, May 13, 2005

The few major appointments Ratzinger has made should raise no cheers in the stands of conservatives. For example, on May 13, he announced the choice of his successor as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith (CDF): the American Archbishop William Levada (7.) The San Francisco Prelate is on record as supporting homosexual rights and the benefits that come with “legal” civil unions (8). He is also accused of blocking the release of the findings of a panel investigating priestly child abuse in his Archdiocese (9). Levada was Archbishop of Portland from 1986 to 1995, and there he was accused of covering for two priests charged with molesting boys (10). Ironically, the Congregation he was chosen to head has the juridical responsibility for handling cases of priests accused of sexual abuse… A friend of traditionalists? Hardly. Levada has refused to permit even an indult Tridentine Mass in his Archdiocese.

Finally, let me remind you, Jan, that it was Cardinal Ratzinger who worked tirelessly for suppression of the Fatima message. He and his top aide, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertrone, did all they could to bury the Fatima message in June 2000, declaring it a “past event” in the commentary they wrote about the contents of the third message of Fatima.


Despite the fact Ratzinger had insinuated in the past that the secret referred to a crisis in the Church, he interpreted the supposedly revealed secret, a vision of a bishop in white climbing a hill littered with corpses of martyrs who was suddenly cut down by a fusilade of bullets, as the failed assassination attempt on JPII’s life in 1981. With this arbitrary interpretation, he pretended that the Fatima message had ended, and therefore all speculations should cease. A good portion of the Catholic public did not swallow this story.

Regarding known points of the revelations, Ratzinger even went so far as to suggest that the vision of Hell Our Lady showed the children on July 13 might have been the active imagination of children under the influence of pre-Vatican II teaching. Then, after the death of Sister Lucy in February 2005, it was Ratzinger who ordered Sister’s Lucy’s cell sealed, to prevent any further disclosures on the topic he had declared closed.

I waited until the anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady of Fatima – May 13 – to see if Benedict 16 would perhaps take a different stance on the Fatima message, as many conservatives were buoyantly predicting. Would he speak of the need to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart or encourage a devotion to the First Saturdays as Our Lady asked?

He did not. On May 11, he spoke a few words, telling “believers” to turn “with confidence to Mary” as he reminded them that May 13 was the feast of the Virgin of Fatima. (11) That was all. The chapter is closed. Nothing about the errors of Russia or the corruption of customs Our Lady came to warn us about; nothing on the imminent chastisement she predicted; nothing about the need to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart following Our Lady’s specifications.

In fact, to the contrary, Ratzinger has indicated he will follow the same shameless policy of JPII with regard to the schismatic Russia. To overcome obstacles in the Rome-Moscow relationship, he has already assured the Moscow patriarch that the “Roman Catholic Church is not going to proselyte among the Orthodox Christians.” (12) Ignoring Our Lady’s command that Russia must convert, he is ordering Catholic missionaries to step back and give up efforts to convert the Russian people. The policy is alarming not just because it is an affront to Our Lady, but also because it denies the missionary character of the Church.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger has done enough and said enough as Benedict XVI to quash the optimism of conservative and traditionalist Catholics. I hope a spirit of objective analysis will set in soon. As the maxim says, undeserved praise is scandal in disguise.


1. “First Message of His Holiness Benedict XVI at the end of the Eucharistic Concelebration with the Members of the College of Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel,” Vatican online, April 20, 2005.
2. “Church Committed to Ecumenism, Says Pope And Calls for Growth in Dialogue With Muslims,” Zenit, April 25, 2005
3. Ibid.
4. “Benedict XVI to Visit Cologne Synagogue,” Zenit, May 13, 2005
5. “Benedict Emphasizes Service,” National Catholic Reporter, May 6, 2005, p. 5.
6. “New Pope Keeps Vatican Hierarchy Intact,” ABC News International online, April 22, 2005.
7. “American Succeeds Pope in Former Office,” Zenit, May 13.
8. “San Francisco’s Catholic Mayor Shakes Up His Church on Gay Marriage,” Pacific News Service online, March 3, 200.4
9. “Levada Takes Heat Over Abuse Inquiry,” San Francisco Chronicle online, November 12, 2004.
10. Ibid.
11. “Pope Points Faithful Toward Virgin of Fatima,” Zenit, May 11, 2005
12. “Vatican Ready to Overcome Difficulties in Orthodox-Catholic Relations,” RIA Novosti online, April 26.

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