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| Abp. Viganò: Abp. Lefebvre not a ‘schismatic,’ but a ‘holy man’ with great ‘fidelity’ to the Church |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-05-2022, 06:34 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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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
YouTube screenshot
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 |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-05-2022, 06:11 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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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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| The Prophecy of St. Francis About a Future Pope |
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Posted by: ThyWillBeDone - 10-04-2022, 08:58 PM - Forum: Catholic Prophecy
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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 |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-04-2022, 07:12 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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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 church”because 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 |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-04-2022, 06:07 AM - Forum: Abortion
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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 |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-04-2022, 05:56 AM - Forum: Socialism & Communism
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"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 |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-04-2022, 05:52 AM - Forum: Great Reset
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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 |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-03-2022, 10:51 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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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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| The True Colors of Benedict XVI |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-03-2022, 10:06 AM - Forum: The Architects of Vatican II
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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?”
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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| Abp. Viganò: The universal Masonic brotherhood fears the power of the Holy Rosary |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-03-2022, 06:05 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Abp. Viganò: The universal Masonic brotherhood fears the power of the Holy Rosary
Hold in your hands that Rosary that some consider a symbol of 'religious radicalism,' thereby seeking to disarm you and weaken your defense. But it is precisely this fear of the Holy Rosary that must lead us to hold on to it with even greater conviction.
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Oct 1, 2022
(LifeSiteNews) – Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò addressed the faithful at Our Warpath‘s National March for Catholics on Friday.
Dear friends,
The President of Our Warpath, Joseph Rigi, invited me to speak at this first National March for Catholics, organized on the feast of St. Michael the Archangel – which the Church celebrates on September 29 – to gather under the banner of the Cross the army of those who, by virtue of the sacrament of Confirmation, have become soldiers of Christ. May all of you therefore receive my greetings, my encouragement and the assurance of my prayers.
In a society that has neither ideals nor the capacity to fight for anything, in which the hypocritical pacifism of those who are cowardly surrenders its weapons in the face of the violence of the tyrant, you are called, as true Catholics, to bear witness to the Gospel and to show the world that Kingdom of Heaven which is conquered by the heroism of virtue and by love of God and neighbor. Hold in your hands that Rosary that some consider a symbol of “religious radicalism,” thereby seeking to disarm you and weaken your defense. But it is precisely this fear of the Holy Rosary that must lead us to hold on to it with even greater conviction.
Behold, they are finally here. Behold, they have finally come out into the open, the proponents of the universal Masonic brotherhood, to spew their hatred for the Most Holy Rosary, which in the prayer to the Virgin of Pompeii we call a “tower of salvation in the assaults of hell, safe harbor in the common shipwreck.” And it could not be otherwise: in a war involving the spiritual and material worlds, we have the confirmation once again that what lays behind the globalist mirage is the tyranny of Satan and his satellites.
“The State is secular,” they say. As if it were possible for contemporary man to deny God’s authority and refuse to submit individuals, families, societies, and nations to His Lordship. But this State, which calls itself secular, is in reality irreligious and ungodly, because while it chooses to profess atheism or religious indifference, it in fact offends the Divine Majesty by lowering Him to the level of idols and superstitions; it does violence to the Truth, placing it on the same level as lies and error; it maliciously deceives people, making them believe that we can be observant in private and secular in public without denying the One who created us not to “realize ourselves” or “walk together,” but to worship, serve, give glory to, and obey our Creator and Redeemer, to Whom each of us belongs and without Whom we would not have been created and saved.
This ungodly and anti-Catholic “secular State” does not consider the prayer of the Holy Rosary as a “papist superstition” – these are the generic accusations of anti-clericals and “free thinkers” – but as a real weapon whose power terrifies them. It hates the Catholic Mass, but not its conciliar parody. It hates Catholic doctrine, but not the “magisterium” of Santa Marta. It hates Catholic morality, but praises Bergoglio for his interventions in favor of sodomy, climate and immigration. It hates prayer, and in particular the Rosary, which places at the head of our small formation Our Lady under her title of Nikopéia, She who is the Bearer of Victories, the One who – invoked by Christianity as Queen of the Holy Rosary – allowed the fleet of Lepanto to defeat the followers of Muhammad. This “secular state,” which is secular in name only, but in reality is intrinsically rebellious to Our Lord, knows what the supernatural power of grace is, what the power of prayer and fasting is, and it knows the infinite value of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. This is why it wants to prevent any public manifestation of religion, and to brand as extremists – “radical traditionalists” – Catholics who wield the invincible weapon of the Rosary or who kneel before God but do not kneel for Black Lives Matter. It is no surprise that the servants of the enemy share with him this furious aversion to the Holy Rosary: every Hail Mary that ascends to Heaven to honor the Mother of God and asks Her to intercede “for us sinners,” adds a dart to the quivers of the Angels and crumbles the precarious power of the Prince of this world, who is in reality a usurping prince who appropriates the civil and ecclesiastical authority by means of deception, knowing well that his end is near and his tyranny is close to defeat.
The world of the Great Reset and the Agenda 2030, the world of Davos and the UN, the world of the WHO and usurious finance seem to have won. After the resignation of Benedict XVI and the electoral fraud of the American presidential elections, two figures of the katèchon were missing, the former a spiritual authority and the latter a temporal authority which could oppose the advent of the Antichrist. In their place were installed two people who are totally irreconcilable with the role they play – to use a euphemism – one chosen by the St. Gallen Mafia and the other by the American deep state and the elite of the New World Order. They are also united by their choice of corrupt and perverted friends and collaborators. The Catholic Church is eclipsed today by the deep church and the United States are eclipsed by the deep state. Both use their authority against the purpose for which they have been instituted: the salus animarum for the Church and the bonum commune for the State. And we find the leaders of the State and the Church significantly allied in the destruction of both: they meet, praise, buy and sell each other, and prostitute themselves to the elite in the hope of not being wiped out when they are no longer needed. And to show that they are devoted to the globalist Leviathan, they destroy everything that recalls the society born of Christian civilization.
We are the “control group” of the traditional world in a globalist society, just as those non-subjected to gene serum are the “control group” that disavows the pandemic narrative. What is the control group? It is a group of subjects who, during an experiment, are kept in the same conditions as those under examination, but do not undergo the treatment that is the subject of the trial. The function of the “control group” is to exclude alternative explanations of the results and to ensure that the data from the experimental group are actually due to the variable being tested and not to unknown external influences.
This is why they want to cancel us, make us invisible, and censor us. Our very existence is a point of comparison that reveals fraud and denounces its culprits. Resist, then: as Catholics and as Americans! Resist as you did by refusing mandatory vaccination, because your state of health, the fact that you do not suffer from myocarditis, that you have not been made sterile, and that you do not suffer from sudden illnesses, is evidence of the correlation between the inoculation of the experimental serum and the adverse effects.
The Bergoglian Sanhedrin and the public authority are once again in agreement in sending Our Lord to death, for the same “crime” as they did long ago: for having declared His Kingship. Those who recognize Jesus Christ as King are enemies of the deep state and the deep church, since both of these refuse to submit to His empire and obey His Law, and they know full well that where Christ reigns, there is no room for either bad shepherds or bad rulers.
At the end of the Holy Mass, after the Last Gospel, the prayer is recited to St. Michael, invoking him as “Prince of the Heavenly Host” and begging him to drive back to Hell Satan and the other evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. In the prayer that precedes it, the priest asks for the intervention of God pro libertate et exsaltatione Sanctæ Matris Ecclesiæ, for the freedom and triumph of Holy Mother Church. For this reason we pray to the glorious Archangel; for this reason we venerate the Mother of God with the prayer of the Holy Rosary and with pious devotions; for this reason priests celebrate Holy Mass every day, pouring out on this misguided world the infinite Graces of the Passion of Our Lord.
Americans! American Catholics! If the civil law recognizes the right to defend your homeland with weapons, the law of the Lord requires you to fight this epochal battle with the spiritual weapons that the Holy Church makes available to you: an inexhaustible arsenal. Take up the Holy Rosary, kneel down – you too, men and children! – and show your strength, your courage, and your honor as Christians by praying. It will not be our human forces that will overcome the enemy, but the tremendous phalanx of the Angels and Saints, behind the banner of the Cross held by the Archangel Michael and under the protection of the Virgin who is Auxilium Christianorum, Help of Christians. We are only asked to choose what side we are on and to fulfill our duty according to our state.
Pray, do penance, fast. Live in the Grace of God by confessing your sins often and receiving Holy Communion. Never stop keeping yourselves closely bound to Our Lady by means of the Holy Rosary: if in the past Europe was saved from the Muslim invasion thanks to this prayer, the world will be saved all the more, if the simple and holy words of the Hail Mary continue to rise to Heaven from every part of the earth.
I bless you all.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
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| She Will Crush His Head & an Era of Peace Will Follow |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-03-2022, 05:44 AM - Forum: Articles by Catholic authors
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She Will Crush His Head & an Era of Peace Will Follow
Msgr. Henri Delassus, Americanism and the Anti-Christian Conspiracy
It is interesting to see that the brilliant Msgr. Henri Delassus, who spoke so fiercely against the errors of Americanism and Modernism at the end of the 19th century, was also already predicting the inevitable defeat of Satan by Our Lady.
However, the terrible abomination of desolation that Msgr. Delassus was already seeing in his times and that we are experiencing today will not be the end of the world, he affirmed. Rather, it will result in a great triumph of Our Lady, and, following the era of war and persecution that started in the 16th century, "will end in a new era, an era of peace."
It will be the Reign of Mary also prophetically foretold by St. Louis de Montfort the time of the complete restoration and victory of the Immaculate Heart promised by Our Lady at Fatima and Quito.
Msgr. Henri Delassus
For 18 centuries, Satan, aided by those who have made themselves his sons by giving themselves to him – semen tuum [your offspring] – have continually combated Christ's work. And, on the other side, the great Catholic family – semen illius [her offspring] – under the banner of Christ's Mother, the Woman par excellence, terrible as an army set in battle array, has constantly defended Christ's work. She has always won.
The Church sings this beautiful antiphon to the glory of Mary: Cunctas haereses sola interemisti in universo mundo. For Thou, and Thou alone, hast destroyed all the heresies in the entire world.
But here is one heresy that seems to be the final one, because it is the radical negation of the whole supernatural order, going so far as to deny God Himself. And, to make matters worse, this heresy is presently being implanted even in children by a State institution.
This is the last stage of the revolt that began in the 16th century, which was reported in the Apocalypse in this strange way: “I saw a star fall from the Heaven (of the Church) upon the earth, and there was given to him the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit: and the smoke of the pit arose, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke of the pit.” (Apoc 9:1-2).
This vision of St. John is followed in the same book by another vision, which he describes as follows: “And I saw an Angel coming down, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the Dragon the old Serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.” (Apoc 20:1-2)
Behold the prince of this world cast out, according to the words of Our Lord. Behold his complete and definitive defeat announced from the beginning of the world: Ipsa conteret caput tuum, She shall crush thy head. Behold, by the incarceration of the Enemy of the human race, the possibility of a new era, an era of peace, following the era of war and persecution.
Now then, our Holy Father the Pope, by an innovation dating back only a few years, calls on us to ask for this defeat, this enchainment, this crushing of Satan every day at the Holy Mass. After prayers to the Immaculate Virgin, the victorious Archangel Michael, victorious over Lucifer, is thus invoked: “O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into Hell, Satan and all evil spirits who wander about the world seeking for the ruin of souls.”
To those who are astonished at these 1,800 years of combat without reaching the defeat of Satan, we say: But look at the number of centuries that God determined it would take to prepare for the coming of the Savior. In the sight of the Lord, “one thousand years are like a day.”
In the same way, the definition of the dogma of Immaculate Conception cannot be accused of having failed to fulfill the promises it seemed to make to us. What is a space of 50 years as a prelude to an event that has demanded so many centuries of preparation and that will extend to a period that can be still much longer, for God does nothing without measure? And should we not see, on the contrary, in the upheavals and persecution of these last 50 years the convulsions of Satan who, in 1854, felt the foot of the Immaculata placed on his head to crush it?
The Holy Pontiff Pius IX closed the dogmatic constitution in which he defines the Immaculate Conception of Mary with these words:
“We rest with absolute and complete confidence in the certainty of our hopes. Certissima vero spes et omni prorsus fiducia nitimur.”
And, what is this hope so great, this certainty?
“The all beautiful and Immaculate Blessed Virgin, to whom it has been given to crush the head of the cruel Serpent … by her powerful patronage, will make all the obstacles be removed and all the heresies vanquished, and will strengthen day by day our Holy Mother Church and make her flourish among all peoples and nations, ubicumque gentium, ubicumque locorum; that she will reign from sea to sea, to the ends of the earth, usque ad terminus orbis terrarum, and enjoy genuine peace, tranquility and liberty; so that there will be only one flock under the guidance of the one Shepherd.”
- trans. by Patrick J. Odou, Documents and Clarifications for chap. 14, n. 38
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Posted by: Stone - 10-01-2022, 06:22 AM - Forum: Pope Francis
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Belgian bishop claims Pope Francis approves of blessing ceremony for homosexual couples
‘Our guidelines for the blessing of homosexual couples, which we recently published, are in line with Pope Francis,’ argued Bishop Johan Bonny.
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Bishop Johan Bonny
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Sep 30, 2022
(LifeSiteNews) – Bishop Johan Bonny of Antwerp, who with a group of Flemish bishops in Belgium recently published guidelines for the blessing of homosexual couples, has now publicly said that he has spoken with the Pope, and that “our guidelines for blessing of homosexual couples that we have recently published are in line with Pope Francis.”
Bonny is currently in Germany where he met with the German bishops at their annual fall meeting in Fulda, spoking with them behind closed doors. In this context, he gave Katholisch.de, the official website of the German bishops, an interview, in which he encouraged the German bishops to continue the work of their Synodal Path which recently declared recently that homosexual acts are “not sinful.”
At the end of this Katholisch.de interview, Bonny was asked about the reaction to his own actions, since he himself in 2015 already advocated for a blessing of homosexual couples. The interviewer reminded him that he was still a bishop, even though he advocated for such a blessing.
Bonny responded: “Yes, I am still a bishop. I was called to Rome, and there I said what was my opinion about it. I have also personally spoken with Pope Francis about it.”
When asked about the result of this conversation with the Pope, Bonny answered that “I know now what he thinks. That is for me the most important thing.”
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The Belgian bishop insisted that the Pope is also in agreement with him and his Flemish fellow bishops and their newly released guidelines. “And I know that our guidelines for the blessing of homosexual couples, which we recently published, are in line with Pope Francis,” he said, adding that this was important to him “because communion with the Pope is sacred to me.”
The prelate continued:
Quote:It is the personal responsibility that the Pope has given us bishops and that he also supports. However, the same topics do not have to and cannot be discussed worldwide at all times. Moreover, the Pope does not have to write everything down on paper. Just as I as a bishop do not record every conversation on paper.
When the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith came out with a ban of the blessing of homosexual couples in March last year, Bishop Bonny expressed he was “angry” at Rome and said he felt “shame” for his Church.
He then also referred to the Pope himself when saying that “this responsum is not an example of how we can walk a path together. The document undermines the credibility of both the ‘synodal path’ advocated by Pope Francis and the announced year of work with Amoris Laetitia. Will the real synod please stand up?”
Now, under the growing pressure across the Universal Church – with Cardinals Gerhard Müller and Willem Eijk, among others, raising their voice of opposition – Bishop Bonny saw it fit to come out even more explicitly about the Pope’s intentions.
It is to be seen how the Vatican will respond to this new interview by Bonny.
However, it is not the first time that a clergyman has publicly recounted a private conversation with Pope Francis, saying that Francis supports the blessing of homosexual couples. In March of 2018, the French priest Fr. Daniel Duigou revealed that he received Pope Francis’ support for blessing homosexual couples.
LifeSite reported that Duigou described his private conversation with the Pope in a televised interview as follows:
Quote:“The first question he [the pope] asked me was: ‘Do you bless divorced and remarried couples?’ which is one of the big questions today in the Church,” explained Duigou. He recalled responding, “I listen and I bless, and I also bless homosexual couples.”
According to Duigou the Pope responded: “Yes, because to bless means that God thinks well of people and that God thinks well of all people.” The news show host asked incredulously: “Well, does this mean that the Pope is in favor of blessing homosexual couples?”
The French priest responded: “Yes, absolutely. It is not about marrying them.”
In 2016, Bonny went on record calling for a blessing for homosexual couples, as well as for cohabitating or divorced and “remarried” couples.
Following the CDF’s March 2021 ban on homosexual couples, Pope Francis removed the Vatican official who is said to have been the driving force behind the Vatican’s ban on blessing of homosexual couples.
He has continuously promoted the work of pro-LGBT activists such as Father James Martin, S.J., saying in public just in August that an event hosted by the pro-LGBT priest was “enriching.”
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