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| Pope appoints long-time ally and ghostwriter of Amoris Laetitia as new Vatican doctrine chief |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-02-2023, 05:44 AM - Forum: Pope Francis
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These words ring more true with each passing year:
“What could be clearer? We must henceforth obey and be faithful to the Conciliar Church, no longer to the Catholic Church. Right there is our whole problem: we are suspended a divinis by the Conciliar Church, the Conciliar Church, to which we have no wish to belong! That Conciliar Church is a schismatic church because it breaks with the Catholic Church that has always been. It has its new dogmas, its new priesthood, its new institutions, its new worship… The Church that affirms such errors is at once schismatic and heretical. This Conciliar Church is, therefore, not Catholic. To whatever extent Pope, Bishops, priests, or the faithful adhere to this new church, they separate themselves from the Catholic Church.” (Archbishop Lefebvre, Reflections on his suspension a divinis, July 29, 1976)
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Pope appoints long-time ally and ghostwriter of Amoris Laetitia as new Vatican doctrine chief
Pope Francis' appointment of Argentinian Archbishop Fernández to the Vatican's top doctrinal position has raised concerns over his support for Communion for the divorced and 're-married,' promotion of erotic actions, and downplaying Church teaching opposing same-sex 'marriage.'
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Abp. Victor Fernández, new prefect of the CDF
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Jul 1, 2023
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has appointed the highly controversial Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández of La Plata as new Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (now Dicastery), with the new prefect known for his roles as the Pope’s long-time friend and theologian, and ghost writer of numerous papal texts including Amoris Laetitia.
Issuing the news July 1, the Holy See Press Office stated that Pope Francis had called Archbishop Fernández to succeed the outgoing Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, S.J., who has come to the “conclusion of his mandate,” having held the position since 2017.
The 60-year-old Fernández, like Francis, is a fellow native of Argentina and was raised to become archbishop on May 13, 2013, just two months into the new pontificate. Their close relationship dates back to Francis’ time as a prelate in Argentina, with then-Cardinal Bergoglio giving Fernandez advice on his clerical career choices.
This resulted in Bergoglio bringing Fernández to the 2007 Fifth General Conference of the Latin American Bishops as a peritus, or expert.
He was then nominated by Bergoglio to serve as rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in 2009, but only acceded to the post in 2011 after completing questioning and answering objections from the CDF. The CDF’s treatment of Fernández reportedly angered Bergoglio at the time.
Much speculation emerged in December and January regarding the possible nomination of heterodox German Bishop Heiner Wilmer as the new CDF head. Pope Francis had in fact considered Wilmer’s nomination, but was blocked by several cardinals who intervened with the Vatican not to make the appointment.
Fernández will now assume his new role as head of the Church’s doctrinal office in mid-September. With Fernández now in position at the head of the CDF, his roster includes, as expanded upon in the article below:
- Ardent promotion and defense of Amoris Laetitia opening the door to Communion for the divorced and “re-married.”
- Public promotion of erotic kissing and actions.
- Downplaying of need to oppose same-sex marriage.
- Stating how he is more progressive than the Pope on certain issues.
Key papal ally and ghostwriter
Fernández’s career has been long been guided by Francis, both before and after Francis’ ascent to the papal throne. This intimate link has only grown since March 13, 2013, with Fernández now being widely acknowledged as Francis’ “primary ghostwriter” and “trusted theologian.”
This includes his ghost-writing of Evangelii Gaudium, Laudato Sí, and the highly controversial Amoris Laetitia.
His role in writing Amoris Laetitia should not be unexpected: indeed, Pope Francis had given Fernández key roles in the running of the 2014 and 2015 Vatican synods which led to the controversial apostolic exhortation.
Amoris Laetitia’s now infamous Chapter 8 opened the door to allowing the divorced and “re-married” access to receive Holy Communion. Francis soon responded to questions by saying there is “no other interpretation” of Amoris Laetitia except the one provided by the bishops of Buenos Aires allowing Communion for the divorced and remarried.
Francis was subsequently also asked if Amoris Laetitia contained a “change in discipline that governs access to the sacraments” for Catholics who are divorced and “re-married.” He replied, “I can say yes, period.” Within months, a group of Catholic scholars issued a letter to all the cardinals and patriarchs, warning that Amoris Laetitia contained “dangers to the faith.”
It is Fernández who is believed to be chiefly responsible for the lines which have led to so much consternation amongst faithful Catholics. So much so, that veteran Vatican journalist Sandro Magister highlighted how the most controversial passages of text were in fact very closely mirroring Fernández’s own writings from years prior when in Argentina.
READ: The pope’s ghostwriter: controversial archbishop penned key passages of Exhortation ten years ago
In his personal defense of the apostolic exhortation, Fernández argued that:
Quote:It is also licit to ask if acts of living together more uxorio [i.e. having sexual relations] should always fall, in its integral meaning, within the negative precept of ‘fornication’… there can be a path of discernment open to the possibility of receiving the food of the Eucharist… I say, ‘in its integral meaning,’ because one cannot maintain those acts in each and every case are gravely dishonest in a subjective sense.
Francis’ “great innovation is to allow for a pastoral discernment in the realm of the internal forum to have practical consequences in the manner of applying the discipline,” wrote Fernández.
Papal welcome
Issuing a letter of welcome to the incoming CDF prefect, Pope Francis hailed him as “brother,” writing the CDF’s “central purpose is to guard the teaching that flows from the faith in order to ‘give a reason for our hope, but not as enemies who point out and condemn.’”
Francis condemned the CDF, saying that “in other times [it] came to use immoral methods. Those were times when, rather than promoting theological knowledge, possible doctrinal errors were pursued. What I expect from you is certainly something very different.”
Quoting from Evangelii Gaudium, Francis urged Fernández to recognize that the Church “needs to grow in her interpretation of the revealed Word and in her understanding of truth,” adding:
Quote:We need a way of thinking that can convincingly present a God who loves, who forgives, who saves, who liberates, who promotes people and calls them to fraternal service.
Only yesterday, Fernández had posted a picture online standing alongside the Pope, praising the pontiff for his work ethic after having spent “a week” with Francis.
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Abp. Victor Fernández with Pope Francis June 2023
Fernadez and Francis jointly pushing against doctrine
In 2015, Fernández praised Pope Francis’ pontificate, arguing that “No, there’s no turning back” from his course of actions. “For example, the Pope is convinced that the things he’s already written or said cannot be condemned as an error. Therefore, in the future anyone can repeat those things without fear of being sanctioned,” he stated.
Separately, Fernández said:
Quote:The Pope goes slow because he wants to be sure that the changes have a deep impact. The slow pace is necessary to ensure the effectiveness of the changes… You have to realize that he is aiming at reform that is irreversible. If one day he should sense that he’s running out of time and doesn’t have enough time to do what the Spirit is asking him, you can be sure he will speed up.
Fernández has even openly stated how “in many issues I am far more progressive than the Pope.”
Indeed, Fernández’s role in drafting Amoris Laetitia is now more topical than ever before. Only days ago, the latest document set to guide the upcoming Synod of Bishops in October was released.
READ: Major Synod on Synodality document highlights need to ‘welcome’ polygamists, ‘LGBTQ+ people’
While promoting LGBT issues and ideology heavily, the document (Instrumentum Laboris IL) pushed the widely accepted, and papally approved, interpretation of Amoris Laetitiae allowing the divorced and “re-married” to Holy Communion as an already finalized issue. The document states:
Quote:Some of the questions that emerged from the consultation of the People of God concern issues on which there is already magisterial and theological teaching to be considered. To give just two examples, we can note the acceptance of remarried divorcees, dealt with in the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris laetitia, or the inculturation of the liturgy, the subject of the Instruction Varietates legitimae (1994) of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. The fact that questions continue to emerge on issues like these should not be hastily dismissed, rather, it calls for discernment, and the Synodal Assembly is a privileged forum for so doing.
Over its many stages so far, the Synod on Synodality has been consistent in its push for a need to “welcome” the “remarried divorcees, people in polygamous marriages, LGBTQ+ people.” Now, its latest document promotes the anti-Catholic teaching of Amoris Laetitia in allowing the divorced and “re-married” to receive Communion, at the time when that document’s author will assume one of the highest offices in the Catholic Church, as head of the Church’s doctrinal office.
READ: Vatican preparing document for couples living in ‘new unions’ after ‘marriage failure’
Furthermore, a key Vatican cardinal revealed some weeks ago that the Vatican is in the stages of drafting a document on the divorced and “re-married” in line with the wishes of Pope Francis. Cardinal Kevin Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life, stated in April how “the dicastery is working on the preparation of a text specifically regarding – as you wished, Holiness – men and women who, having marriage failure behind them, live in new unions.”
Farrell has also been a consistent and ardent promoter of Amoris Laetitia, stating how “I firmly believe [Amoris Laetitia] is the teaching of the Church. This is a pastoral document telling us how we should proceed. I believe we should take it as it is.”
In contrast, Pope John Paul II’s Familiaris Consortio championed the Catholic Church’s longstanding teaching that the divorced and remarried whose previous unions the Church has not declared null may not receive Holy Communion. John Paul II wrote:
Quote:[The] Church reaffirms her practice, which is based upon Sacred Scripture, of not admitting to Eucharistic Communion divorced persons who have remarried. They are unable to be admitted thereto from the fact that their state and condition of life objectively contradict that union of love between Christ and the Church which is signified and effected by the Eucharist. Besides this, there is another special pastoral reason: if these people were admitted to the Eucharist, the faithful would be led into error and confusion regarding the Church’s teaching about the indissolubility of marriage.
[More here on Archbishop Fernández's scandalous writings here.]
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| Israeli Reporter Goes Undercover as Priest – and Gets Spat At |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-01-2023, 07:08 AM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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Israeli Reporter Goes Undercover as Priest – and Gets Spat At
The report in Jerusalem's old city by Israel's Channel 13 comes amid a spike in anti-Christian hate crimes in the country
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Channel 13 journalist Yossi Eli dressed as a priest in his investigative report on violence against Christians in Jerusalem.Credit: Screenshot
Haaretz.com | June 26, 2023
An Israeli journalist was derided and spat at, including by a child and a soldier, as he spent a day dressed as a priest in Jerusalem to investigate spiraling hate crimes against Christians in the city.
Donning a brown priest's robe, Channel 13’s Yossi Eli was spat at just five minutes after setting out with a Franciscan clergyman, Father Alberto.
A bit later a man mocked them in Hebrew, saying, “Forgive me father for I have sinned.” Then an 8-year-old spat at them, as did a soldier when a group of troops passed by later.
This is not the first time that soldiers have been caught committing hate crimes against Christians in Jerusalem. In November, troops from the Givati infantry brigade spat at the Armenian archbishop during a procession. They were later disciplined by the army.
Anti-Christian hate crimes in Jerusalem soaring this year
Jerusalem Churches Protest 'Systematic Attempt to Drive Christians Out'
How Israeli Jews' Fear of Christianity Turned Into Hatred
Channel 13's report comes as attacks against Christians in Jerusalem – spanning from vandalism of grave sites to physical assaults – have been spiking, with the police reluctant to track down perpetrators.
In his first interview with Israeli TV, the Vatican's custodian of the Holy Land, Father Francesco Patton, blamed Israel’s politicians, arguing that the wave of attacks began "when the political language became more violent."
He mentioned the desecration of a Lutheran cemetery, the vandalizing of a Maronite prayer room and the spraying of “death to Christians” on Armenian property, all in the space of weeks. He also noted "the responsibility of the leaders, of those who have power.”
Channel 13 drew on several recent incidents, including the desecration of 33 graves in the Protestant cemetery on Mount Zion. Two teenagers have been indicted.
Channel 13 also spoke to Armenian clergyman Father Gurion, who was assaulted by a group of Jews in the Old City – and was then detained by the police. First arriving in Israel in 1996, Gurion said there have always hate crimes, but the situation has deteriorated.
Without punishment, he said, “They feel that anything is permissible,” adding that people have urinated on holy sites and even filmed themselves doing so.
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| Florida Issues Statewide Emergency Malaria Alert |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-01-2023, 06:21 AM - Forum: Health
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Florida Issues Statewide Emergency Malaria Alert
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This thin film blood smear photomicrograph reveals the presence of two Plasmodium malariae schizonts, which cause malaria.
(CDC/Dr. Mae Melvin)
ZH | JUN 30, 2023
Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times
The Florida Department of Health issued a statewide alert after four people in Sarasota contracted malaria in locally transmitted cases, coming a day after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a similar notice for Florida and Texas.
“All individuals have been treated and have recovered. Malaria is transmitted through infected mosquitoes,” Florida’s Department of Health stated in a release issued June 27.
The agency stated that ground and airborne spraying that targets mosquitos will be carried out around Sarasota, which is near Tampa, to mitigate transmission.
“Effective treatment is readily available through hospitals and other health care providers,” the department stated. “Individuals in this area with symptoms of fever, chills, sweats, nausea/vomiting, and headache should seek immediate medical attention.”
It also advised the public to control the breeding of mosquitoes by eliminating any standing water, which is where mosquitoes lay their eggs.
“Drain water from garbage cans, house gutters, buckets, pool covers, coolers, toys, flowerpots, or any other containers where sprinkler or rainwater has collected,” the alert said.
Locals should also take precautions while outdoors by using bug spray, avoiding infested areas, and wearing long sleeves and pants if possible.
Malaria is caused by a parasite, Plasmodium vivax, that spreads via mosquito bites, with the largest number of deaths occurring in tropical places such as sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria can be transmitted only by infected mosquitoes, not other people.
Symptoms include chills, fever, tiredness, headache, muscle aches, vomiting, diarrhea, and nausea, and anemia and jaundice may also occur. If left untreated, infected individuals could develop more serious complications and die.
According to the World Malaria Report, released by the U.N. World Health Organization, there were about 247 million cases of malaria in 2021, while the estimated death toll for that year was 619,000. The WHO African Region had the highest share, accounting for about 95 percent of cases and 96 percent of deaths, it said.
Malaria was mostly eliminated in the United States in 1951 after officials sprayed the pesticide DDT and drained swamps in rural areas. DDT was ultimately banned in 1972 in the United States but is still used in African countries.
CDC Issues Notice for 2 States
Earlier this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated that the cases in Florida and one in Texas mark the first local spread of malaria in the United States in about 20 years.
Read more here...
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| Archbishop Viganò creates initiative to protect faithful priests from Bergoglian tyranny |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-01-2023, 06:14 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò creates initiative to protect faithful priests from Bergoglian tyranny
The book of the prophet Daniel 11:32 tells us that the man of perdition with flattery causes those who violate the Covenant of God to apostatize, but the People of God will show themselves strong and act.
The “Exsurge Domine” Association is born to help priests and religious Victims of the Bergoglian purges.
Initiative of the Archbishop Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
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| 'France Has Fallen': Dramatic Footage Shows Social Unrest Spreading In Third Night |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-30-2023, 09:56 AM - Forum: Global News
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The headline is a little dramatic but... things are not well in France now:
'France Has Fallen': Dramatic Footage Shows Social Unrest Spreading In Third Night
ZH | JUN 30, 2023
The police killing of a 17-year-old during a traffic stop on Tuesday has unleashed three consecutive days of social unrest across France.
Bloomberg reports more than 600 people were arrested Thursday night into Friday, with a majority of them between the ages of 14 and 18.
Rioters targeted municipal buildings, town halls, and libraries in various major cities, stores were looted, and all hell broke out nationwide as the government deployed 40,000 police officers yesterday afternoon to quell the violence. About 200 officers were injured overnight in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, where the teen was killed.
The unrest is so bad that President Emmanuel Macron left an EU summit in Brussels, where he will hold another emergency security meeting Friday, AFP reported, citing his office.
Video and pictures on social media of the rioting are absolutely shocking.
If Macron wants to get a grip on the violence, he might have to declare an emergency. Fox News said the president has been close to announcing one but has stopped short.
"Nothing justifies the violence that's occurred," said Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne.
Borne is correct. Looting stores and burning buildings isn't a typical response for those grieving over the death of a young man killed by police. France is supposedly a first-world country with a law and judicial system that will ensure justice will be served.
We must ask critical questions, perhaps some that will trigger mainstream journos, of who exactly is sparking these riots. If it's organized crime gangs, migrants, or just teenagers.
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| NY (and Germany): Woman carries Monstrance in Processions |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-30-2023, 08:07 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Again: Lady on the Road with A Monstrance
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gloria.tv | June 29, 2023
At Our Saviour Parish in New York City, a woman carried the monstrance for Corpus Christi (as in Germany) while Monsignor Kevin Sullivan, the parish priest, trotted behind her. On social media locals noted that priests in Cardinal Dolan’s archdiocese get away with “a lot” because Dolan "doesn't care.”
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The Fake Resistance has downplayed the following (and many other similar) statements from Bishop Williamson. But as is illustrated in the new article above - and there are any number of equally disturbing stories coming from the Novus Ordo Conciliar Religion since the 1970's - one SHOULD avoid the Novus Ordo at all costs and NOT make allowances for it! It is a GREAT danger to souls.
A few words from Bishop Williamson, contrary to the sensus fidei:
· The new religion can build your Faith.
· Attending the New Mass can build your Faith.
· Attending the Novus Ordo may do more good than harm spiritually.
· Not every priest needs to leave the Conciliar church or stop saying the Novus Ordo Mass.
· There’s still something Catholic in the Conciliar church, so it’s wrong for us to reject it completely.
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| Fr. Fidelis Moscinski sentenced to six months in prison after blocking access to abortion center |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-30-2023, 07:53 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Father Fidelis sentenced to six months in prison after blocking access to abortion center
The pro-life priest said he locked the gates of the facility because Planned Parenthood ‘is in the business of killing.’
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Father Fidelis Moscinski
LifeSiteNews/Jim Hale
Jun 28, 2023
(LifeSiteNews) — Pro-life priest Fr. Fidelis Moscinski was sentenced to six months in prison for blocking access to a New York abortion facility in attempt to save innocent unborn children.
On Tuesday, the priest was dealt the punishment in a federal court, months after being found guilty of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Moscinski is frequently involved in Red Rose Rescues and “lock and blocks” — forms of pro-life advocacy in which volunteers enter the waiting room of abortion facilities, or block access to said facilities, in a final attempt to dissuade women from killing their babies. The “lock and block” in question took place on July 7, 2022, in Hempstead, New York.
“It is almost surreal in these court rooms to listen to the prosecution and the judges,” pro-lifer Theresa Bonapartis, who was present at the sentencing, wrote in a statement shared with LifeSiteNews. “Father [Moscinski] is made out to be a career criminal while the slaughter of the innocent human life and the destruction of their mothers and families that takes place is never even mentioned or allowed to mentioned.”
The judge reportedly claimed that Moscinski has a “criminal past” and must be given “deterrents from acting like this again.” Bonapartis shared that the judge rejected the prosecuting attorney’s request that the priest have “restrictions … placed on him with pretty much anyone who is pro-life” during his probation but “compar[ed] restrictions of a crime family not being allowed to associate with others in the mafia with pro-lif[ers].”
“The prosecutors asked for the maximum sentence and unsurprisingly that is what he got. He is not in jail yet but will be waiting to hear when and where he needs to surrender,” Bonapartis wrote. “Of course, there is a basic misunderstanding of the reason and the sacrifice on a spiritual level to what Father (and others) do. No matter your views on rescue, please keep him in your prayers as he lays down his life for the moms and babies.”
As previously reported by LifeSiteNews, Moscinski was charged and found guilty after he locked the gates of a Planned Parenthood facility, preventing cars from entering the driveway and the killing center. Federal charges were brought against the priest after local authorities only dealt him an ordinance violation immediately following the incident.
In court on Tuesday, Moscinski told the judge that “my actions on July 7, 2022 were done because Planned Parenthood as an organization is in the business of killing. Every procured abortion that occurs on its premises constitutes the deliberate killing of an innocent human being.”
Moscinski shared that “I was also aware of the evidence compiled by the House Select Panel on Infant Lives that Planned Parenthood, contrary to federal law, profits from the harvesting and selling of the body parts of unborn children. This grisly trade in human tissues and organs is deemed by many as revolting and sickening since it reduces human beings to mere objects that can be bought and sold.”
The priest noted that, despite Roe’s reversal last year, “we are still sadly burdened with the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act,” further arguing that he is “not guilty of violating this law because this law cannot be seen as anything other than null and void since it attempts to give legal protection to actions which are intrinsically evil and unjust.”
“I recognize that this view may not be shared by your Honor,” Moscinski continued. “I would like you to know that I find the pernicious error of legal positivism both logically incoherent and immensely destructive in practice”
“Would it not be much better to acknowledge the truth that there must be a necessary and intrinsic connection between our civil laws and the natural moral law written on the human heart, knowable by human reason, and revealed authoritatively by God Himself in the Ten Commandments?”
Moscinski, along with Red Rose Rescuer Laura Gies, will be in court again in Long Island, New York, on Friday, facing separate misdemeanor charges for which he was convicted on February 10.
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| New York Archdiocese Celebrates "Holy Spirit Of Pride" |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-30-2023, 07:44 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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New York Archdiocese Celebrates "Holy Spirit Of Pride"
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gloria.tv | June 30, 2023
“Let us go out, come out, speak out, stand up, stand by, stand for, celebrate, commemorate, advocate. May all of us – whether we are marching or not [at LGBT parade] - participate in and share the good news of my prayer for us that we can truly take in God’s unconditional love, trust in God’s providential care for us and walk together in God’s Holy Spirit of Pride.”
Sequence of a June 25 homily by Homosexualist James Miracky, a Jesuit, in the church St Francis Xavier, New York City. Archbishop in New York is Cardinal Dolan..
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| WEF: Governments can program CBDC to restrict undesirable purchases, set expiry dates |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-29-2023, 10:11 AM - Forum: Great Reset
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Governments can program CBDC to restrict undesirable purchases, set expiry dates: WEF ‘Summer Davos’ in China
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sociable.co [adapted] | June 28, 2023
Governments can program Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) with expiry dates and to restrict undesirable purchases, according to a discussion at the World Economic Forum (WEF) “Summer Davos” meeting in China.
Today at the WEF’s 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions, aka “Summer Davos,” in Tianjing, China, Cornell University professor Eswar Prasad said that “we are at the cusp of physical currency essentially disappearing,” and that programmable CBDCs could take us to either a better or much darker place.
“If you think about the benefits of digital money, there are huge potential gains,” said Prasad, adding, “It’s not just about digital forms of digital currency; you can have programmability — units of central bank currency with expiry dates.
“You could have […] a potentially better — or some people might say a darker world — where the government decides that units of central bank money can be used to purchase some things, but not other things that it deems less desirable like say ammunition, or drugs, or pornography, or something of the sort, and that is very powerful in terms of the use of a CBDC, and I think also extremely dangerous to central banks.”
“Now we are at the cusp of physical currency essentially disappearing”
The Cornell professor went on to say that “ultimately, if you have different units of central bank money with different characteristics, or if you use central bank money as a conduit for economic policies in a very targeted way, or more broadly for social policies, that could really affect the integrity of central bank money and the integrity and independence of central banks.
“So, there are wonderful notions of things that can be done with digital money, but again I fear the technology could take us to a better place, but equally has the potential to take us to a pretty dark place.”
While Prasad highlighted that programming CBDC for economic or social policies could affect the integrity of central banks, European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde recently explained that programmability would be left to commercial banks.
“For us [central banks], the issuance of a digital currency that would be central bank money would not be programmable […] Those who can associate the use of digital currency with programmability would be the intermediaries — would be the commercial banks” - Christine Lagarde, BIS Innovation Summit, March 2023
Speaking at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Summit in March, Lagarde told her fellow panelists that a central bank would not be in charge of programming a digital currency.
“For us [central banks], the issuance of a digital currency that would be central bank money would not be programmable — would not be associated with any particular limitation, whether it’s in time, in type of use — that to me would be a voucher. It wouldn’t be a digital currency,” said Lagarde.
“Those who can associate the use of digital currency with programmability would be the intermediaries — would be the commercial banks.
“And that’s their business. They know how to do that, but if we are to say that a dollar is a dollar, whether it is cash or digital; or a euro is a euro, cash or digital — then for us [central bank] it cannot be programmable.
“It can be associated with conditionality, which is different, but not programmable,” she added.
“By programming CBDC, those money can be precisely targeted for what kind of people can own and what kind of use this money can be utilized“ Bo Li, IMF, October 2022
Speaking at a high-level roundtable on CBDC in Washington, DC in October 2022, International Monetary Fund (IMF) deputy managing director and former People’s Bank of China (PBoC) deputy governor Bo Li said of CBDC programmability:
“CBDC can allow government agencies and private sector players to program — to create smart contracts — to allow targeted policy functions. For example, welfare payment; for example, consumption coupons; for example, food stamps.”
“By programming CBDC, those money can be precisely targeted for what kind of people can own and what kind of use this money can be utilized,” he added.
So, while Lagarde says that central banks have no interest in programming CBDCs, central banks around the world are indeed exploring programmability, even if the central banks themselves are not the ones doing the actual programming.
For example, the Reserve Bank of India is exploring a programmable CBDC with expiry dates.
And in Nigeria, “The individual and merchant wallets of the eNaira have different caps on daily transaction limits and the amount of eNaira that can be held in them, depending on their customer due diligence tier,” according to the BIS November 2022 report on CBDCs in Africa.
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| Saint John Southworth Enshrined (1930) - Video |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-28-2023, 07:04 AM - Forum: Uncompromising Fighters for the Faith
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Saint John Southworth Enshrined (1930) - Feast Day: June 28
Gloria.tv | June 28, 2023
Saint John Southworth (c. 1592, Lancashire, England - 28 June 1654, Tyburn, London) was an English Catholic martyr. He is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
Father John Southworth came from a Lancashire family who lived at Samlesbury Hall. They chose to pay heavy fines rather than give up the Catholic faith.
He studied at the English College in Douai, now in northern France, (and then moved to Hertfordshire, St Edmunds College) and was ordained priest before he returned to England. Imprisoned and sentenced to death for professing the Catholic faith, he was later deported to France. Once more he returned to England and lived in Clerkenwell, London, during a plague epidemic. He assisted and converted the sick in Westminster and was arrested again.
He was again arrested under the Interregnum and was tried at the Old Bailey under Elizabethan anti-priest legislation. He pleaded guilty to exercising the priesthood and was sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. At his execution at Tyburn, London, he suffered the full pains of his sentence and was hanged, drawn and quartered.
The Spanish ambassador returned his corpse to Douai for burial. His corpse was sewn together and parboiled, to preserve it. Following the French Revolution, his body was buried in an unmarked grave for its protection. The grave was discovered in 1927 and his remains were returned to England. They are now kept in the Chapel of St George and the English Martyrs in Westminster Cathedral in London.
He was beatified in 1929.
In 1970, he was canonized by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
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| China opens its doors to the world by kicking off its first in-person 'Summer Davos' since the pande |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-27-2023, 09:27 AM - Forum: Great Reset
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China opens its doors to the world by kicking off its first in-person 'Summer Davos' since the pandemic
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Impressions from the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China World Economic Forum/PASCAL BITZ
Business Insider | Jun 27, 2023
- The Chinese city of Tianjin is hosting the World Economic Forum's "Summer Davos."
- Chinese Premier Li Qiang opened the conference, acknowledging global challenges and warning about future public health crises.
- Saudi Arabia has sent a top delegation to the event, reflecting the importance of its oil trade relationship with China.
The Chinese city of Tianjin is buzzing with activity. C-suite executives, government officials, and media members from all over the world have made their way to attend the first in-person World Economic Forum, or WEF, event in China since the pandemic began.
The WEF's three-day "Summer Davos" will see over 1,500 participants discuss topics centered around "Entrepreneurship: The driving force of the global economy."
The port city of Tianjin, home to 14 million people, welcomed the participants with big billboards on the main highway. Local Chinese residents welcomed "foreigners" to their neighborhoods, and food stalls were in action selling local delicacies including dumplings, noodles, and bao buns.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang welcomed the delegates and officially opened the conference on Tuesday. "The world is standing at a historical crossroads," Li said, adding that global challenges are escalating and regional conflicts keep coming up.
While Li's speech welcomed the return of in-person meetings, he also said COVID-19 will not be the last public health crisis.
Meanwhile, inside the conference center, the handshakes have begun, deals are being struck, and money has started to move around.
Saudi Arabia has sent a top delegation to China's Summer Davos this year. According to the Financial Times, the 24-member delegation includes six ministers and several vice-ministers.
The presence of Saudi ministers is of particular interest to President Xi Jinping. With oil trade between the two nations standing at $55.5 billion as of 2022, the Kingdom is now China's largest oil supplier.
While the day will be spent discussing everything from the state of the global economy to conflicts to AI, it's the evenings that the delegates are eyeing.
"I can't wait for the wine to start flowing. That's when the real money also starts to flow," a delegate said.
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| Vatican denies Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage permission to say Latin Mass in St. Peter’s |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-27-2023, 09:08 AM - Forum: Pope Francis
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The wisdom of Archbishop Lefebvre, who clearly understood the traps being laid for the Traditionalists:
“It is imperative to know that today Rome is at the service of the revolution and therefore terribly anti-traditional. That is why I refused to put myself in their hands. They only wanted that, by recognizing my mistakes, I help them continue their revolution in the Church – no more, no less. All those who have left us are not aware of the situation and believe in the good will and the rectitude of thought of the bishops or cardinals in Rome. Nothing is further from the truth! ‘It is not possible for them to lead us into the revolution,’ say those who agree with the Pope and his bishops. Well, that is exactly what will happen.” (Interview for Controverses, 1989)
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Vatican denies Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage permission to say Latin Mass in St. Peter’s
Catholics will not be able to attend the traditional Mass in the Vatican, which has marked the annual pilgrimage for over a decade.
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Msgr. Agostini celebrates Mass in the Vatican for the 2022 Ad Petri Sedem pilgrimage.
Michael Haynes/LifeSiteNews
Jun 26, 2023
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) –– For the first time since its inception, the international traditional Mass pilgrimage held in Rome annually will not be granted permission for a traditional Mass inside St. Peter’s Basilica.
Since it began in 2011, the Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage, now known as the Ad Petri Sedem pilgrimage, has drawn thousands of Catholics to Rome from across the globe out of love for the traditional Mass and sacraments. With the exception of disruption caused during the COVID-19 restrictions, the pilgrimage has always included the celebration of a traditional Mass inside St. Peter’s Basilica.
The details of previous celebrations of the pilgrimage’s Masses inside the Vatican are recounted by Fœderatio Internationalis Una Voce (FIUV) president Dr. Joseph Shaw, who detailed the pilgrimage’s gradual progression from using side chapels around the Basilica in 2007 to celebrating Mass at the Altar of the Throne.
Such was the position last year, with an estimated 1,700 people gathering in Rome and worshipping in the Church’s traditional rites at the Altar of the Chair of St. Peter. Monsignor Marco Agostini – part of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State and one of the Papal Masters of Ceremonies – celebrated the Mass for pilgrims in the 2022 event, although prior pilgrimages had been marked by bishops or cardinals offering the Vatican liturgy.
However, in an update provided by the organizers in recent days, news of the cessation of the traditional Mass for the pilgrimage in the Vatican has been provided. Referencing a “a significant and sensitive change” – the pilgrimage runs Friday, October 27 through Sunday, October 29 – the organizers revealed the traditional Mass could not take place.
The statement read:
Quote:since Cardinal (Mauro) Gambetti – certainly due to a superior order – is not authorizing the celebration of a Mass this year (i.e., the directive is only for this year, and even so, subject to a possible last-minute change), our celebration there will consist of:
1. The procession to the tomb of the Prince of the Apostles and the chanting of the Credo
2. The chanting of the office of Sext of the Holy Apostles Simon and Jude at the altar of the Chair
3. The veneration of the relics of the Holy Apostles Simon and Jude (their bodies are in the Vatican Basilica); the blessing; and a final chant.
Cardinal Gambetti is the Archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica, Vicar General of the Pope for the Vatican City and President of the Fabric of Saint Peter’s since February 2021. Shortly after Gambetti began his new role in 2021, private traditional Masses were nearly banned in the basilica, and priests ordered to concelebrate Novus Ordo Masses rather than say such liturgies privately. The restrictions came from the Vatican’s Secretariat of State, though some speculated if Gambetti was ultimately behind the move.
In late June 2021, the cardinal also issued restrictions on the use of Latin in Masses in the Papal Basilica, widely stipulating Italian for the liturgy.
However, with the more recent issuing Pope Francis’ motu proprio Traditionis Custodes and Cardinal Arthur Roche’s subsequent dubia and Rescript, global provision and access to the traditional Mass has been widely restricted.
In a statement issued to LifeSiteNews, Shaw noted that “this is naturally a great disappointment, whether it is a delayed response to Traditionis Custodes or connected with the scheduling of the events of the Synod on Synodality, which concludes the following day.”
Quote:The Traditional Latin Mass has been celebrated publicly for international groups of Traditional Catholics since 2007, thanks to the hospitality of Pope Benedict and Pope Francis, and the success of these events has emphasized Traditionalists’ strong attachment to the See of Rome and the Papacy. The Pilgrimage will still take place this year, and despite everything Traditional Catholics all over the world will continue to venerate the tombs of the Apostles and to pray for the Pope, as we continue to work for the good of the Church as a whole in everything that we do.”
Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, a previous participant and speaker at the pilgrimage and accompanying conference, criticized the Vatican’s move, although he was not entirely surprised.
“For the first time since the Summorum Pontificum pilgrimages in Rome have begun, a Latin Mass in the Basilica of St. Peter’s has been denied to the pilgrims,” he wrote.
Quote:Naturally, one might have been surprised that it continued as long as it did … and it is also possible that the decision could be reversed, by means of continued negotiations.
Frankly, the thought that the immemorial rite of the Church of Rome, offered by countless popes, cardinals, bishops, and pilgrim priests, would be forbidden at the heart of the Vatican is so absurd it can hardly be put into words.
The Ad Petri Sedem pilgrimage takes place on the last weekend of October, beginning with vespers at the Pantheon celebrated by Bishop Athanasius Schneider on Friday evening and ending with solemn Mass at the Chiesa della Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini run by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) on Sunday.
It also coincides with the Pax Liturgica conference on October 27, held at the Augustinianum in the shadows of the Vatican.
Last year’s conference saw addresses from liturgical scholars and distinguished clerics such as Monsignor Nicola Bux, who formerly served as an adviser to the Congregation (now Dicastery) for the Doctrine of the Faith. The 2023 event will see Dr. Shaw deliver one of the addresses alongside Bishop Schneider.
LifeSiteNews has contacted the office of the vicariate of the Vatican, asking why permission for the Mass has not been granted, and will update this report upon receiving a response.
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