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14 December 2022: King Abdullah II stressed that safeguarding and protecting Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem is a religious and historical duty.
At a meeting with heads of Churches in Jerusalem and Jordan, Christian figures, and Jerusalem awqaf representatives on the occasion of Christmas, King Abdullah expressed Jordan’s condemnation of the violations against worshippers in Jerusalem and other holy sites in the Palestinian Territories.
His Majesty reaffirmed ongoing cooperation between Jordan and the Palestinians in countering violations against Islamic and Christian holy sites and properties, noting the Kingdom’s keenness to highlight the concerns of Jerusalemites and difficulties facing them to the international community.
At the meeting—attended by Crown Prince Hussein and Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad—the King extended Christmas greetings to Christians in Jordan, Palestine, and around the world. (Source: Petra)
Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, and Head of Jerusalem Council of Churches Patriarch Theophilos III expressed appreciation of His Majesty’s steadfast position towards promoting peace and harmony, defending Islamic and Christian holy sites, and supporting the Christian presence in the Holy Land.
“As the heads of the churches and Christian communities of the Holy Land, we want to assure you once again of our full support of you in your essential role as the Custodian of the Christian and Islamic holy places in the Holy Land,” Patriarch Theophilos III said.
The Patriarch lauded His Majesty’s role in promoting interfaith harmony and coexistence, which represent hope and security to all peoples in the region, noting that Jordan will always remain a beacon of stability, mutual respect, and tolerance.
For his part, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, addressed the King, saying “we join our voice with Your Majesty’s voice, in defence of truth and justice, as an advocate for preserving the status quo, and we strive with Your Majesty to work for peace and to reach a just solution that guarantees protection for people and holy places in Jerusalem.”
Jordan has the respect of Arab countries and the international community due to the King’s wisdom, the Archbishop added, commending His Majesty’s efforts to maintain security, create opportunities for youth, and launch political, social and economic initiatives.
Patriarch Pizzaballa pointed to the importance of the King’s latest visit to the Vatican and his meeting with Pope Francis, adding that the visit highlighted bilateral relations and Jordan’s role in promoting religious dialogue and humanitarian values.
For his part, Mustafa Abu Sway, a member of the Jerusalem Awqaf Council and a Professor of Ghazali Chair, commended His Majesty’s position and his efforts to enhance coexistence, safeguard Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, as well as protect the Baptism Site of Jesus Christ in Jordan.
He added that Muslims are proud of the Christian support they and Al Aqsa Mosque receive whenever threats are at hand, pledging that Muslims will protect the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the same way they protect Al Aqsa Mosque and reaffirming steadfast support for the Hashemite Custodianship.
Royal Hashemite Court Chief Yousef Issawi, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, Director of the Office of His Majesty Jafar Hassan, and Awqaf Minister Mohammad Khalaileh attended the meeting.
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seashellsoldier · 1 year
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The Devil’s Death: Your Satanic Companion for Grief and Dying by Shiva Honey (2022)
Now before all the bible-thumpers (who are all-too-often completely ignorant of their own history) throw fits of condemnation at their ancient, xenophobic, propagandized enemies, you should really understand the context of The Satantic Temple (https://thesatanictemple.com/) and its fundamental tenets:
I: One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
II: The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
III: One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
IV: The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.
V: Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.
VI: People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
VII: Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
This is a nontheistic group highlighting the hypocrisy of Christianity and its enmeshment with politics, and use the symbolism of Baphomet to illustrate the ideal balance of social order (and make the small-brained tremble in fear, like they’ve done for almost 2,000 years). While I fail to subscribe to any ritual-based practice, I am a card-carrying member and support them in solidarity for true freedom, absolute bodily autonomy, the fair treatment of all people, and a secular worshiping of the Earth and its fragile biology. I wish I could go to their ten-year anniversary in April of 2023, but sadly I cannot wing it (https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/satancon-home). I can’t think of a more fascinating group of people to hang out with.
Shiva Honey is an ordained minister and a ritual practitioner of The Satanic Temple. This book looks to prepare us for our inevitable death by being prepared, proactive, and advocating for our personal wishes against industries that may not accept one’s personal desires. Honey does a wonderful job explaining the potential obstacles in one’s way. Health care in general, end-of-life care more specifically, the huckster funeral industry, and yes, Catholic institutions gobbling up hospital networks to bend them to the Vatican’s edicts (the very same organism that declared Harry Potter books “devilry”). I have my end-of-life plans ironed out thanks to the VA and the Neptune Society, but the funeral industry in Nevada will be facing some serious criminal changes soon, due to its nepotism, greed, and grift. I’ll have to monitor and edit my plans accordingly. I had never heard of aquamation before, but I’m completely intrigued now. Ultimately, my ashes will be cast into a brick and placed in a memorial reef off the coast of Florida. From the sea all life came; to the sea I shall return.
We all subscribe to rituals in some way. Whether it’s gearing up for football Sunday with foam fingers and beer helmets, kneeling before your deaf gods at the church/temple/mosque, going into credit-card debt for Mammon and feeding the voracious machines of Capitalism, gifting sun-salutations and king pigeon poses to the yawning dawn, living “off the grid” alongside others and preparing for Helter Skelter, or wearing a pristine white t-shirt to a GWAR show, we all embrace rituals in some way. This is the nature of controlling humanity and finding identity, through organized religions and militaries, cults and clubs, office spaces and social circles. The Satanic Temple is no different. Rituals unite the like-minded under a shared mindset and give participants a sense of fellowship and collectivism, which nurtures strength and confidence, leading to purposeful actions (hopefully like feeding the hungry, advocating for the disenfranchised, or eliminating hate and suffering in the world).
I recently made a joke to a friend about how too many people seem like “cave-dwelling sun-worshipers” these days, and he corrected me, showing me that the “cave-dwelling sun-worshipers” were actually much smarter than most people today, able to hunt, travel long distances with light packs, and support their social group through shared responsibilities. The fact that the sun is actually the bringer of light and heat made more sense to the troglodytes; now it’s just a giant nuclear ball ready to cook the Earth due to humankind’s actual willful ignorance as we destructively erode our protective layers of atmosphere. Hail Science!
So on the one hand, this book is a great way to take a step back and see your ultimate death with calmness and clarity; it can also be a nice way to start or reinforce your own private rituals within a satanic framework. For anyone with a budding interest in this dynamic organization, visit their website, sign up for their newsletter, join the conversation, and enter the ranks of those who “publicly confront hate groups, fight for the abolition of corporal punishment in public schools, apply for equal representation when religious installations are placed on public property, provide religious exemption and legal protection against laws that unscientifically restrict people's reproductive autonomy, expose harmful pseudo-scientific practitioners in mental health care, organize clubs alongside other religious after-school clubs in schools besieged by proselytizing organizations, and engage in other advocacy in accordance with our tenets”.
Otherwise, I challenge you to do better.
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Pope Francis orders inquiry of Vatican's social justice office
Pope Francis orders inquiry of Vatican’s social justice office
Pope Francis is expected to launch an “apostolic visitation” – or investigation – of the Vatican’s mega-office that deals with social justice issues, La Croix has learned. According to several sources, a three-person team of visitators will be dispatched to the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development in the coming weeks. This will be the fourth Vatican office to be subject of an…
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Father Charles Coughlin, 1930s
On January 14 1940, the FBI arrested 18 men in New York City accused of plotting the overthrow of the U.S. government. Fourteen were snatched up in their homes in Brooklyn, the others in The Bronx and Queens. Searches yielded more than a dozen Springfield rifles, a shotgun, some handguns, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and the materials for homemade bombs. J. Edgar Hoover said they were plotting a terrorist campaign targeting transportation, power, and communications facilities; their goal was to rouse the military into staging a coup, placing a strong dictator like Hitler or Mussolini in power, and cleansing the country of Jews.  
The men were mostly of German or Irish descent, and ranged in age from 18 to 38. If employed (a few weren’t), they held low-end jobs, including an elevator mechanic, a telephone lineman, a chauffeur, a couple of salesmen, a couple of office clerks. The 18-year-old was a student. Most troubling was the fact that six of them were National Guardsmen.
They were all followers of a Father Coughlin-inspired movement called the Christian Front. In his mid-1930s heyday, Coughlin was arguably the most powerful pro-Fascist voice in America. An Irish Catholic originally from Canada, he had first turned to radio in the 1920s simply as a way to expand his ministry beyond his tiny congregation in Royal Oaks. He had a strong radio voice, and when CBS started syndicating his weekly sermons in 1929 it was an instant success. The crash and start of the Depression politicized him. His condemnations of Wall Street and President Hoover brought him tens of thousands of fan letters a week, and his high praises for Hoover’s opponent FDR surely had an impact on the 1932 elections. Then, when the invitation he craved to sit among President Roosevelt’s circle of advisors didn’t come, he turned bitter as a jilted lover. He began denouncing Roosevelt, his New Deal, his Jew York advisors, and his friends in the labor movement as all facets of an international Jewish-Communist conspiracy to destroy Christianity and democracy. He also praised Franco, Mussolini, and Hitler for defending their people against this spreading evil.
Coughlin’s call for a “Christian Front” to combat the Communists’ mid-1930s Popular Front coalition with other groups on the left resonated with the Depression-driven anger and paranoia of many Americans, especially in cities like Boston and New York with large communities of lower- and lower-middle class Irish Catholics, who tended to be shut out of other right-wing movements precisely because they were Irish and Catholic. At his peak, Coughlin had tens of millions of listeners to his Sunday radio sermons, a million readers of his weekly magazine Social Justice, and received millions of dollars in small donations.
By 1938, rabid anti-Semitism had become the centerpiece of Coughlin’s message. That year, at a Christian Front rally in The Bronx, he allegedly gave the Nazi salute and declared, “When we get through with the Jews in America, they’ll think the treatment they received in Germany was nothing.” In Social Justice he reprinted the anti-Semitic hoax The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which also topped Henry Ford’s list of favorite reading. In the autumn of 1938, when Coughlin said the Jews had brought Kristallnacht on themselves, radio stations, including WMCA in New York, dropped him. Several thousand Fronters “picketed the station, its advertisers, and Jewish-owned stores throughout the city,” historian Robert A. Rosenbaum writes. “The pickets returned every Sunday afternoon for many months. In the meantime, gangs of Christian Fronters roamed the streets and subways, peddling copies of Social Justice, distributing anti-Semitic leaflets, and orating on street corners, while harassing and assaulting people they took to be Jewish.” The city’s police force, which was nearly two-thirds Irish, turned a blind eye; some number of them were Christian Frontiers themselves.
The Front thrived in parishes in all of New York City’s boroughs. Some of the first Front meetings took place in a church hall near Columbus Circle, and some of the most frequent and well-attended were in The Bronx. In Brooklyn, Father Francis Joseph Healy, the pastor of the St. Joseph’s parish in Prospect Heights, was also the editor of the Brooklyn diocese’s weekly paper, The Tablet, which he made a platform for extremely anti-Communist, pro-Fascist, and pro-Coughlin thought. After Father Healy’s death in 1940, his managing editor Patrick Scanlan continued the paper’s reactionary slant. Scanlan ran Coughlin’s rants on the front page. Healy’s successor at St. Joseph’s, Father Edward Curran, was also a major supporter of Father Coughlin and other pro-Fascist and isolationist groups. During the war in Spain Father Curran wrote dozens of pro-Franco columns for arch-conservative publications around the country.
By 1939 small cells of Fronters in Manhattan and Brooklyn were calling themselves “sports clubs,” though the only sport they practiced was target shooting at rifle ranges. The Guardsmen in the group evidently pilfered the rifles and ammo from their posts, and trained other Frontiers in how to use them. 

Along with the cops and Guardsmen, the Front cells were also peppered with spies. The FBI had informants keeping tabs on them. Two independent investigators would write very successful books in which they claimed to have infiltrated the Front as well, and dozens of other underground hate groups. Richard Rollins’ I Find Treason would be published by William Morrow in 1941; John Roy Carlson’s similar Under Cover would be a runaway bestseller for E. P. Dutton two years later, galloping through 16 printings in its first six months. Both writers used pseudonyms. Carlson was actually Arthur Derounian, an Armenian immigrant. Rollins was apparently Isidore Rothberg, an investigator for Congressman Samuel Dickstein of the House Special Committee on Un-American Activities. Partly because the writers used pseudonyms while naming scores of individuals they claimed were pro-Hitler and pro-Fascist, both books were widely denounced on the right as fabrications and smear campaigns.

Derounian wrote that he was riding the subway one day in 1938 when he picked up a leaflet of “bitterly anti-Semitic quotations” published by something called the Nationalist Press Association on East 116th Street in Italian East Harlem. He decided to research, and found himself exploring a vast underground world of wannabe Hitlers and Mussolinis, society matron super-patriots, racists, Anglophobes, White Russians, and assorted conspiracy theorists and kooks.
 Born in 1909, Derounian had grown up in another world of hate. After struggling to stay alive as Armenians in Greece at a time of chaos and slaughter in the Balkans, his family fled to New York in 1921. Arthur learned English and earned a degree in journalism at NYU in 1926. In 1933 he learned that the turmoil in the Balkans had followed him across the ocean, when the archbishop of New York’s Armenian Orthodox Catholics, while serving Christmas Mass in his Washington Heights church, was stabbed to death by radical Armenian nationalists opposed to his politics.
So when Derounian read that hate sheet on the subway in 1938, he was primed to follow up. The 116th Street address was an old tenement with a barber shop on the ground floor. The Nationalist Press “office” was a dingy back room stacked to the stained ceiling with right-wing books, newspapers and pamphlets. Poking around in the gloom were a few Italian men and Peter Stahrenberg, a tall blond Aryan type “with blunt features and a coarse-lipped, brutal mouth,” who wore a khaki shirt and a black tie with a pearl-studded swastika tie tack. Stahrenberg was the publisher of the National American, a pro-Hitler newspaper whose striking logo was an American Indian giving the Nazi salute before a large swastika. He was also the head of the American National-Socialist Party. Derounian, calling himself George Pagnanelli and expressing interest in the “patriotic movement,” wormed his way into Stahrenberg’s confidence.
As he explored Stahrenberg’s twilight world, Derounian claimed, he found pro-Nazis and pro-Fascists all over New York City, holding meetings and rallies in every borough. It was a topsy-turvy world where street thugs from the city’s poorest neighborhoods mingled with wealthy Park Avenue crackpots, and Irish Catholic Fronters convinced that Communism was an international Jewish plot sat in the same meetings with Protestant zealots convinced that the Vatican was a Jewish front. He met rabidly anti-Communist D.A.R. socialites, and retired military officers who were certain that FDR and the Jew Dealers were leading the nation to ruin. He met the prominent conservative organizer Catherine Curtis, introducing himself as George Pagnanelli; she kept calling him Mr. Pagliacci. He even found black pro-Nazis in Harlem. Some were attracted by Hitler’s anti-Semitism; others simply cheered the idea of a white man making trouble for other whites.
When the Christian Front clique was arraigned in Brooklyn’s federal courthouse in February, they all pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and theft of government property. The lawyer for 12 of them was Leo Healy – Father Healy’s brother. A crowd jeered and booed as they were perp-walked into the courthouse. Winchell and La Guardia both derided them as “bums,” La Guardia adding that if they were the best the enemies of democracy could muster, no one need lose any sleep. But the defendants also had their sympathizers. Father Curran was the keynote speaker at a large rally in Prospect Hall to express support for them.  
Fourteen defendants were left when the trial began in April; one of the original 18 had committed suicide, and charges against three others were dropped. As the trial sputtered along through May, it began to appear that the FBI and prosecutors hadn’t built a very strong case. When the proceedings stumbled to a close on Monday June 24, the jury acquitted nine of the defendants and pronounced themselves hung on the other five.

It was a major embarrassment for Hoover. The Front and their supporters cheered it as a great victory, and would continue to spread hate and violence well into the war years. Through 1942 and 1943 there would be numerous reports in the press of roving gangs of young men, mostly identified as Irish and affiliated with the Front, beating and sometimes even knifing Jews in neighborhoods like Flatbush, Washington Heights and the South Bronx, where Irish and Jewish communities abutted. Many shops, synagogues and cemeteries were vandalized. Jewish leaders pleaded with Mayor La Guardia and Police Commissioner Valentine, but they took little action.
Coughlin would rant on into 1942, when the federal government shut down Social Justice as a seditious publication, and the Archbishop of Detroit finally ordered him to stop all political activity. Father Curran, however, continued undeterred, making anti-Semitic, anti-war speeches to Frontiers and others through the entire war.
by John Strausbaugh
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spiritualdirections · 3 years
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I missed this because it came out just before Christmas, but the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (i.e. the Vatican) has come to the same conclusion as the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (and pretty much everyone else who knows the doctrine of cooperation with evil): it’s morally licit (allowed) to take the existing Covid vaccines, despite their use of aborted cells at various points, so long as we choose the least ethically compromised option that’s reasonably available to us. They also point out, more forcefully than others (I’m talking to you, America magazine), that it is not required that anyone take a vaccine; however, if you decide not to, you have the obligation in justice to wear masks, wash your hands, and otherwise consider the common good by reducing the danger that you might pass the disease to others.
A standard part of the cooperation in evil analysis is that one should also avoid giving the impression that the evil act is somehow good. That would suggest that all of us have the obligation to indicate in some way our objections to the use of cell-lines from aborted fetuses. The CDF doesn’t emphasize this as an obligation for all, although Dignitatis Personae 35 (cited in n. 1) strongly argues that those who work in pharmaceutical companies and especially those working on vaccines have a duty to advocate for ethical practices, which “require[] every doctor to commit himself to absolute respect for human life and its sacredness.”
Full text (it’s short) below the break.
Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines 
 The question of the use of vaccines, in general, is often at the center of controversy in the forum of public opinion. In recent months, this Congregation has received several requests for guidance regarding the use of vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19, which, in the course of research and production, employed cell lines drawn from tissue obtained from two abortions that occurred in the last century. At the same time, diverse and sometimes conflicting pronouncements in the mass media by bishops, Catholic associations, and experts have raised questions about the morality of the use of these vaccines.
There is already an important pronouncement of the Pontifical Academy for Life on this issue, entitled “Moral reflections on vaccines prepared from cells derived from aborted human fetuses” (5 June 2005). Further, this Congregation expressed itself on the matter with the Instruction Dignitas Personae (September 8, 2008, cf. nn. 34 and 35). In 2017, the Pontifical Academy for Life returned to the topic with a Note. These documents already offer some general directive criteria.
Since the first vaccines against Covid-19 are already available for distribution and administration in various countries, this Congregation desires to offer some indications for clarification of this matter. We do not intend to judge the safety and efficacy of these vaccines, although ethically relevant and necessary, as this evaluation is the responsibility of biomedical researchers and drug agencies. Here, our objective is only to consider the moral aspects of the use of the vaccines against Covid-19 that have been developed from cell lines derived from tissues obtained from two fetuses that were not spontaneously aborted.
1. As the Instruction Dignitas Personae states, in cases where cells from aborted fetuses are employed to create cell lines for use in scientific research, “there exist differing degrees of responsibility”[1] of cooperation in evil. For example, “in organizations where cell lines of illicit origin are being utilized, the responsibility of those who make the decision to use them is not the same as that of those who have no voice in such a decision”.[2]
2. In this sense, when ethically irreproachable Covid-19 vaccines are not available (e.g. in countries where vaccines without ethical problems are not made available to physicians and patients, or where their distribution is more difficult due to special storage and transport conditions, or when various types of vaccines are distributed in the same country but health authorities do not allow citizens to choose the vaccine with which to be inoculated) it is morally acceptable to receive Covid-19 vaccines that have used cell lines from aborted fetuses in their research and production process.
3. The fundamental reason for considering the use of these vaccines morally licit is that the kind of cooperation in evil (passive material cooperation) in the procured abortion from which these cell lines originate is, on the part of those making use of the resulting vaccines, remote. The moral duty to avoid such passive material cooperation is not obligatory if there is a grave danger, such as the otherwise uncontainable spread of a serious pathological agent[3]--in this case, the pandemic spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19. It must therefore be considered that, in such a case, all vaccinations recognized as clinically safe and effective can be used in good conscience with the certain knowledge that the use of such vaccines does not constitute formal cooperation with the abortion from which the cells used in production of the vaccines derive. It should be emphasized, however, that the morally licit use of these types of vaccines, in the particular conditions that make it so, does not in itself constitute a legitimation, even indirect, of the practice of abortion, and necessarily assumes the opposition to this practice by those who make use of these vaccines.
4. In fact, the licit use of such vaccines does not and should not in any way imply that there is a moral endorsement of the use of cell lines proceeding from aborted fetuses.[4] Both pharmaceutical companies and governmental health agencies are therefore encouraged to produce, approve, distribute and offer ethically acceptable vaccines that do not create problems of conscience for either health care providers or the people to be vaccinated.
5. At the same time, practical reason makes evident that vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation and that, therefore, it must be voluntary. In any case, from the ethical point of view, the morality of vaccination depends not only on the duty to protect one's own health, but also on the duty to pursue the common good. In the absence of other means to stop or even prevent the epidemic, the common good may recommend vaccination, especially to protect the weakest and most exposed. Those who, however, for reasons of conscience, refuse vaccines produced with cell lines from aborted fetuses, must do their utmost to avoid, by other prophylactic means and appropriate behavior, becoming vehicles for the transmission of the infectious agent. In particular, they must avoid any risk to the health of those who cannot be vaccinated for medical or other reasons, and who are the most vulnerable.
6. Finally, there is also a moral imperative for the pharmaceutical industry, governments and international organizations to ensure that vaccines, which are effective and safe from a medical point of view, as well as ethically acceptable, are also accessible to the poorest countries in a manner that is not costly for them. The lack of access to vaccines, otherwise, would become another sign of discrimination and injustice that condemns poor countries to continue living in health, economic and social poverty.[5]
The Sovereign Pontiff Francis, at the Audience granted to the undersigned Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, on 17 December 2020, examined the present Note and ordered its publication.
Rome, from the Offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, on 21 December 2020, Liturgical Memorial of Saint Peter Canisius.
Luis F. Card. Ladaria, S.I.,   Prefect                                     
+ S.E. Mons. Giacomo Morandi, Titular Archbishop of Cerveteri
[1] Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Instruction Dignitas Personae (8th December 2008), n. 35; AAS (100), 884.
[2] Ibid, 885.
[3] Cfr. Pontifical Academy for Life, “Moral reflections on vaccines prepared from cells derived from aborted human foetuses”, 5th June 2005.
[4] Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Instruct. Dignitas Personae, n. 35: “When the illicit action is endorsed by the laws which regulate healthcare and scientific research, it is necessary to distance oneself from the evil aspects of that system in order not to give the impression of a certain toleration or tacit acceptance of actions which are gravely unjust. Any appearance of acceptance would in fact contribute to the growing indifference to, if not the approval of, such actions in certain medical and political circles”.
[5] Cfr. Francis, Address to the members of the "Banco Farmaceutico" foundation, 19 September 2020.
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Earlier this morning, 6th March 2021 (21st Rajab 1442 H), a historic meeting took place between Pope Francis and His Eminence, Sayyid al Sistani.
Statement released from the office of His Eminence (Grand Ayatullah) Sayyid ‘Ali Sistani regarding his meeting with the Supreme Pontiff, the Pope of the Vatican.
This morning, His Eminence Sayyid al-Sistani met with the Supreme Pontiff, Pope Francis, Head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State.
During the meeting, the focus of discussion was the great challenges, which humanity is facing in this age, and the role of belief in Allah SWT, His messages and adherence to high moral principles in overcoming them.
His Eminence talked about the oppression, subjugation, poverty, religious and intellectual persecution, suppression of basic freedoms and absence of social justice, especially considering the wars, acts of violence, economic sanctions, displacement and other such injustices that many peoples in our region are suffering, especially the Palestinian people in the occupied territories.
His Eminence also stressed on the importance of the rôle that the supreme religious and spiritual leaderships need to play in curbing these tragedies, whilst highlighting that what is hoped from them is to urge the concerned parties – especially the great powers – to allow logic and wisdom to prevail, reject the language of war, and not to expand at the expense of the rights of other nations to live in freedom and dignity, whilst seeking their own self-interests.
In addition, His Eminence emphasized on the importance of combined efforts to consolidate the values of harmony, peaceful coexistence, and human solidarity in all societies, based on observing rights and mutual respect between followers of different religions and intellectual backgrounds.
His Eminence praised the status of Iraq, its glorious history and the honourable qualities of its noble people, from all different affiliations, expressing his hope for it to overcome its current ordeal soon.
He also stressed his interest in Christian citizens being able to live safely, peacefully and enjoy their full constitutional rights like all other Iraqis.
On this note, he referred to the role played by the Marjaiyyah in protecting them and all those who faced injustice and suffering in the events of the previous years, especially during the period in which the terrorists seized vast areas in several Iraqi provinces, carrying out shocking criminal acts.
His Eminence wished the Supreme Pontiff, followers of the Catholic Church and the whole of humanity, prosperity and happiness, and thanked him for taking the trouble to travel to the holy city of Najaf al-Ashraf, to carry out this visit.
21 / Rajab / 1442 H – 06/03/2021
The Office of (Ayatullah) Sayyid al-Sistani – Najaf al-Ashraf
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Saint of the Day – 19 October – Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko (1947-1984) Priest and Martyr, Worker for Social Justice – born on 14 September 1947 in Okopy, Podlaskie, Poland, was kidnapped on 19 October 1984 by the Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa (Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs), the Communist Polish secret police and beaten to death from 19 to 20 October 1984 near Wloclawek, Pomorskie, Poland.   Patronage – Solidarity.
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Fr Jerzy was born on 14 September 1947 in Okopy near Suchowola.   After finishing school, he attended the priests’ seminary at Warsaw.   He served his army duties in a special force, aimed to keep young men from becoming priests.   This treatment had no effect on Popiełuszko, as, after finishing his army service, he continued his studies.   As a young priest he served in parishes in Warsaw, which consisted of the common people as well as students.   In 1981, Jerzy Popiełuszko joined the workers, taking part in strikes in the Warsaw Steelworks.   Thereafter, he was associated with workers and trade unionists from the Solidarity movement who opposed the Communist regime in Poland.
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He was a staunch anti-communist and in his sermons, interwove spiritual exhortations with political messages, criticising the Communist system and motivating people to protest. During the period of martial law the Catholic Church was the only force that could voice protest comparatively openly, with the regular celebration of Mass presenting opportunities for public gatherings in churches.
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Popiełuszko’s sermons were routinely broadcast by Radio Free Europe, and thus became famous throughout Poland for their uncompromising stance against the regime.   The swecret police tried to silence or intimidate him.   When those techniques did not work, they fabricated evidence against him, he was arrested in 1983 but soon released on intervention of the clergy and pardoned by an amnesty.
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A car accident was set up to kill Jerzy Popiełuszko on 13 October 1984 but he evaded it. The alternative plan was to kidnap him, it was carried out on 19 October 1984.   The priest was beaten to death by three Security Police officers – Captain Grzegorz Piotrowski, Leszek Pękala, and Waldemar Chmielewski.   They pretended to have problems with their car and flagged down Fr Jerzy’s car for help.   They proceeded to attack him – he was severely beaten – to death, tied up and put in the trunk of the car.  The officers bound a stone to his feet and dropped him into the Vistula Water Reservoir near Włocławek from where his body was recovered on 30 October 1984.
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Blessed Jerzy’s almost unrecognisable battered body
News of the political murder caused an uproar throughout Poland and the murderers and one of their superiors, Colonel Adam Pietruszka, were convicted of the crime.   More than 250,000 people, including Lech Wałęsa, attended his funeral on 3 November 1984. Despite the murder and its repercussions, the Communist regime remained in power until 1989.  Fr Jerzy’s murderers – Captain Grzegorz Piotrowski, Leszek Pękala, Waldemar Chmielewski and Colonel Adam Pietruszka, responsible for giving the order to kill – were jailed but released later as part of an amnesty.
Popiełuszko was posthumously awarded the Order of the White Eagle, Poland’s highest decoration, in 2009.   After death, he was buried in St Stanislaus Kostka Church, Warsaw where millions of visitors had paid tribute at his tomb.
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He was Beatified by Archbishop Angelo Amato as the representative of Pope Bernedict XVI on 6 June 2010 in Warsaw’s Piłsudski Square.   His mother, Marianna Popiełuszko was present at the event.   More than 1 000,000 people attended the open-air mass in the Polish capital Warsaw to beatify Father Jerzy Popieluszko.   Poland Post issued a set of stamps on that same day to mark the beatification.
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Blessed Jerzy’s Mother
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In October 2013, Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz – the Archbishop of Warsaw, the diocese where Popiełuszko was killed – announced that a miracle attributed to the intercession of the Polish priest has been identified and confirmed in France.   Thus Cardinal Nycz predicts that Popiełuszko will likely be canonised soon based on the credibility of the case presented.   A miracle was investigated in a diocesan process in France and the results of that investigation turned over to the Vatican for assessment.
At his funeral, an estimated one million people surrounded his church in Warsaw and as one, they promised to continue his struggle for freedom through non-violence thus living his motto “overcome evil with good” and we know that they won!
“Rest in peace, Father Jerzy.   Solidarity is alive because you gave your life for it.”
Lech Wałęsa
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      Saint of the Day – 19 October – Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko (1947-1984) Priest and Martyr Saint of the Day - 19 October - Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko (1947-1984) Priest and Martyr, Worker for Social Justice - born on 14 September 1947 in Okopy, Podlaskie, Poland, was kidnapped on 19 October 1984 by the Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa (Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs), the Communist Polish secret police and beaten to death from 19 to 20 October 1984 near Wloclawek, Pomorskie, Poland.   
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ITALY’S COMMUNIST RECIPE FOR DISASTER
Published March 24, 2020 |  By Giacomino Nicolazzo
Montecalvo, Lombardy, Italy. 
As I sit here in my involuntary isolation, it was just reported that overnight 743 more people died and 5.249 new cases have been reported. This brings the total cases of infection to 69,176 and the body count to 6,820. We take relief in knowing that 8,326 people have recovered so far. ( Numbers as of 3/24, 8:30pm in Italy.)
Most towns here in Italy, from the upper reaches of the Alps to the ancient shores of Sicilia and Sardenia, while not deserted, are closer to being ghost towns than the bustling centers of tourism, business and daily life they were just a few weeks ago.Stores and shops have been shuttered. Restaurants and coffee shops no longer serve customers. Schools, universities, sporting arenas…even our museums and theaters…all closed. Even the Vatican City has closed its gates and armed patrols monitor the 20 foot tall walls that protect it!
Streets and roads are now empty for as far as the eye can see. Normally they would be filled with crazed Italian drivers in tiny cars and scooters (the ones that sound like demonic insects) darting here and there, reaching the limits of centrifugal force on our roundabouts. In the piazze of our towns and cities, there are now officially more pigeons than people.Many of us know someone who has been infected and recovered. Some of us know someone who did not recover…now they are dead. But everyone knows someone who has been affected by this microscopic monster in one way or another.
Sixty million of us are in lock-down…it is like a war zone here. We are being held prisoner in our own homes by an unseen enemy that sneaked in unnoticed…by most of us. As you will read in just a few more minutes, there were those who knew something like this was coming…or at least they should have.So who is to blame? With all this craziness swirling like a whirlpool at our feet, I just had to find the blame answer. And so I have spent my free time (of which I have a lot in these days) digging and researching. I was literally shocked to discover how this has come to be.I am not going to bore you with talk of Patient ‘0’ who spread it to Patient ‘1’ and how mathematics efficiently explains the rapid expansion of infection. No…I am going to tell you how (as I see it) the virus came to Italy.It has everything to do with communists. Allow me to explain.Beginning in about 2014, Matteo Renzi, the imbecile ex-mayor of Firenze (Florence) acting as the leader of the Partito Democratico (synonymous with the Italian Communist party), somehow managed to get himself elected as Italy’s Prime Minister. To give you a proper frame of reference, Matteo Renzi was so far left, he would make Barack Obama look like Barry Goldwater!
At the same time that Renzi was leading Italy into oblivion, strange things were happening in Italy’s economy. Banks were failing…but not closing. Retirement ages were being extended…for some reason the pension funds were dwindling or disappearing. The national sales tax we call IVA (Value Added Tax) rose from 18% to 20%, then to 21% and again to 22%.And in the midst of all this financial chicanery, the Chinese began furiously buying up Italian real estate and businesses in the North.Now the reason I mention Renzi and the Chinese together is that strange things were also going on between the governments of Italy and China. A blind eye was being turned to the way the Chinese were buying businesses in the financial, telecommunication, industrial and fashion sectors of Italy’s economy, all of which take place in Milano.
To be brief…China was getting away with purchases and acquisitions in violation of Italian law and EU Trade Agreements with the US and the UK…and no one in either of those countries (not Obama in the US or Cameron in the UK) said a thing in their country’s defense. As a matter of fact, much of it was hidden from the public in all three countries.In 2014, China infused the Italian economy with €5 billion through purchases of companies costing less than €100 million each. 
By the time Renzi left office (in disgrace) in 2016, Chinese acquisitions had exceeded €52 billion. When the dust settled, China owned more than 300 companies…representing 27% of the major Italian corporations.The Bank of China now owns five major banks in Italy…all of which had been secretly (and illegally) propped up by Renzi using pilfered pension funds! Soon after, the China Milano Equity Exchange was opened and much of Italy’s wealth was being funneled back to the Chinese mainland.
Chinese state entities own Italy’s major telecommunication corporation (Telecom) as well as its major utilities (ENI and ENEL). Upon entry into the telecommunication market, Huawei established a facility in Segrate, a suburb of Milano. It launched is first research center there and worked on the study of microwaves which has resulted in the possibly-dangerous technology we call 5G.China also now owns controlling interest in Fiat-Chrysler, Prysmian and Terna. You will be surprised to know that when you put a set of Pirelli tires on your car, the profits are going to China. 
Yep…the Chinese colossus of ChemChina, a chemical industry titan, bought that company too!Last but not least is Ferretti yachts…the most prestigious yacht builder in Europe. Incredibly, it is no longer owned by the Ferretti family.
But the sector in which Chinese companies invested most was Italy’s profitable fashion industry. The Pinco Pallino, Miss Sixty, Sergio Tacchini, Roberta di Camerino and Mariella Burani brands have been acquired by 100%.Designer Salvatore Ferragamo sold 16% and Caruso sold 35%. The most famous case is Krizia, purchased in 2014 by Shenzhen Marisfrolg Fashion Company, one of the leaders of high-priced, ready-to-wear fashions in Asia.
Throughout all of these purchases and acquisitions, Renzi’s government afforded the Chinese unrestricted and unfettered access to Italy and its financial markets, many coming through without customs inspections.
Quite literally, tens of thousands of Chinese came in through Milano (illegally) and went back out carrying money, technology and corporate secrets.
Thousands more were allowed to enter and disappeared into shadows of Milano and other manufacturing cities of Lombardy, only to surface in illegal sewing shops, producing knock-off designer clothes and slapping ‘Made In Italy’ labels on them. All with the tacit approval of the Renzi government.It was not until there was a change in the governing party in Italy that the sweatshops and the illegal entry and departure of Chinese nationals was stopped. Matteo Salvini, representing the Lega Nord party, closed Italy’s ports to immigrants and systematically began disassembling the sweatshops and deporting those in Italy illegally.
But his rise to power was short-lived. Italy is a communist country…socialism is in the national DNA. Ways were found to remove Salvini, after which the communist party, under the direction of Giuseppe Conte, reopened the ports. Immediately, thousands of unvetted, undocumented refugees from the Middle East and East Africa began pouring in again.
Access was again provided to the Chinese, under the old terms, and as a consequence thousands of Chinese, the majority from Wuhan, began arriving in Milano.
In December of last year, the first inklings of a coronavirus were noticed in Lombardy…in the Chinese neighborhoods. There is no doubt amongst senior medical officials that the virus was brought here from China.
By the end of January 2020 cases were being reported left and right. By mid-February the virus was beginning to seriously overload the Lombardy hospitals and medical clinics. They are now in a state of collapse.
The Far-Left politicians sold out and betrayed the Italian people with open border policies and social justice programs. One of the reasons the health care system collapsed so quickly is because the Renzi government (and now continued under the Conte government) redirected funds meant to sustain the medical system, to pay for the tens of thousands of immigrants brought in to Italy against the will of the Italian people.
If you remember the horrible earthquake that decimated the villages around Amatricia, in the mountains east of Rome in 2015, you would also remember how the world responded by sending millions of dollars to help those affected.
But there is a law in Italy that prevents private donations to charitable Italian organizations. All money and donations received must be turned over to a government agency, who in turn is to appropriate the funds as needed. But that agency is corrupt just as are all the others.Most of the money never reached a single victim in the mountains. The Renzi government redirected the vast majority of those funds to pay for the growing immigrant and refugee costs.
As the economy worsened under the burden of illegal immigration, compounded by gross government spending and incompetence, unemployment rose quickly…especially among young people. The unemployment rate for men and women under age 35 is close to 40%.
So more money was diverted from the health care system and used to pay what is known here as guaranteed income. Whether you work or not you are paid here, especially if you belong to the PD! The government simply raises taxes on those who do work
.Let me give you a quick example of the height of insanity to which Italian taxation has risen.
If you live in a building that has a balcony or balconies…and any of those balconies cast a shadow on the ground, you must pay a public shadow tax! I will say no more!
The point I am trying to make here is that not only did the Chinese bring the virus to Italy (and the rest of the world) it was far-Left politics and policies that facilitated it.
This should hopefully be a warning to Americans that while they work to rid themselves of the China Virus, they should just as vehemently endeavor to rid their government of any politician that circumvents the Constitution and ignores the laws of the land…plain and simple.
Giacomino Nicolazzo  is one of Italy’s most beloved writers.  Born and raised in Central Pennsylvania, he lives in a small village in Lombardy where he writes his books.
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“Beatitudes of the Politician” (Vietnamese church leader)
In his 2019 message, Pope Francis stressed that politics must be used as a means of fighting violence and injustice by protecting a nation’s citizens and pursuing the common good, rather than private interests.
“Political office and political responsibility constantly challenge those called to the service of their country to make every effort to protect those who live there and to create the conditions for a worthy and just future,” he said, adding that if exercised “with basic respect for the life, freedom and dignity of persons, political life can become an outstanding form of charity.”
Referring to the late Vietnamese Cardinal François-Xavier Nguyễn Vãn Thuận, who spent 13 years in a Communist prison, 9 of them in solitary confinement, and whose cause for beatification is currently open in the Vatican, Francis pointed to the “Beatitudes of the Politician” proposed by Vãn Thuận in his writings.
Offering eight beatitudes for good politicians, Vãn Thuận defined them as such:
Blessed be the politician with a lofty sense and deep understanding of their role.
Blessed be the politician who personally exemplifies credibility.
Blessed be the politician who works for the common good and not his or her own interest.
Blessed be the politician who remains consistent.
Blessed be the politician who works for unity.
Blessed be the politician who works to accomplish radical change.
Blessed be the politician who is capable of listening.
Blessed be the politician who is without fear.
[These are the short forms, see below]
In political life, “every election and re-election, and every stage of public life, is an opportunity to return to the original points of reference that inspire justice and law,” Francis said in his message, referring to Vãn Thuận’s beatitudes ...
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Read more here, which is the source for everything above: https://frjustinbelitzteachings.wordpress.com/2019/02/17/sunday-readings-17-february-2019-with-pope-francis-new-set-of-beatitudes-for-the-21st-century/
For the expanded 8 Beatitudes, see http://www.iustitiaetpax.va/content/dam/giustiziaepace/Vanthuan/ottobeatitudini/Eight%20beatitudes_ENG.pdf
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Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan was born on April 17, 1928 in the central part of Vietnam, in Phu Cam parish, a suburb of Hue. He was the eldest of 8 children. Thuan was born into a family with a long Catholic tradition, his relatives were among the martyrs since 1698.
In 1975 he was arrested and imprisoned for 13 years, nine of which were spent in solitary confinement.  In 1991 he was allowed to travel to Rome but was not allowed to return. Ever since that time he lived in exile, though his heart was always with the Church in Vietnam and his homeland. He spared no efforts to assist social services in Vietnam. For example, leprosarium, charitable organizations, research programs to promote the culture of Vietnam and of the Catholic Church in Vietnam, reconstruction of churches, and the training of seminarians as conditions allowed. In spite of the persecutions imposed on the Church and on himself personally, he always lived and preached forgiveness and reconciliation.  God called Cardinal Thuan home on September 16, 2002 in Rome. http://www.card-fxthuan.org/about-cardinal/bio-english.php
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/post/170127287928/sniper-at-the-gates-of-heaven-wild-how-some I found this post of yours really interesting; where do you see this undercurrent manifesting?
Hey, I left this question unanswered for a while because I wanted to give it the attention it deserves. I am currently on holiday, so I finally have the time to address it.
For everyone else reading: the original post was about the influence of Nazi ideology after 1945 and I voiced the opinion that you still encounter a lot of it, often masked differently. Most of the sources I will link are in German because this is obviously not something that is being dealt with outside of Germany a lot, and many are quite recent because it has taken this long for the public media to address this part of our cultural history. Critical voices were often silenced and are almost forgotten now. In fact, critical voices are still silenced if they dare to say that this recent history is still present our views today. I will translate passages that I quote or paraphrase.
To understand the real effects of Nazi ideology after 1945, we first have to look at the influence Nazis still had in the 50s and 60s. Here is a list of former NSDAP members who went on to have a political career in the FGR (Federal German Republic). Please note that membership in the NSDAP was never a legal requirement and that you only “had” to join if you had any political or economic ambitions in the Nazi state, which meant supporting the ideology at worst and accepting it for your own gain at best. There were absolutely no guilt-free NSDAP members. All of them were Nazis, either because they believed in it or because they considered it to be ok if it benefited them.
In 1951, the Bundestag decided that all civil servants had a right to re-employment. Over 90% of former Nazi civil servants made it back into civil service: as politicians, jurists, teachers, public officials. “Not a single judge and not a single state attorney has been legally convicted for their crimes as part of the NS justice system.”
After the occupation, the old jurisprudence was simply reactivated, with the same staff that had served in the Third Reich. Most of this staff had been members of the NSDAP, all of them had carried out their will. “The young, terribly capable NS jurists experiences the peak of their careers in the sixties. They shaped the young Republic.” They received promotions and political influence. Hans Globke, who wrote an annotation that put the Nuremberg Laws on legal ground, became Secretary of State. Hans Puvogel, whose dissertation advocated for racist cleansing and eugenics, became Minister of Justice in Lower Saxony. Edmund de Chapeaurouge, former judge for race defilement charges, and Rudolf Weber-Lortsch, former SS leader, resided at the Federal Administrative Court until the mid-seventies. Former Nazi judge Willi Geiger served as president of the Federal Court of Justice and associate in the Federal Constitutional Court until 1977.
Germany’s first Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, was literally a Nazi sympathizer. While he had shown contempt for Hitler and the NSDAP as a politician of the Weimar Republic, and openly denounced them (in favour of monarchism, I might add), he later had no qualms putting a lot of former Nazis in his cabinet, and called SS soldiers “decent people”. Notable Nazis and former Waffen-SS in Adenauer’s/Kiesinger’s cabinet:
Karl Carstens, member of the NSDAP and SA, who used his later position as President to give political positions to other former Nazis, such as Bernhard Hinrichs
Hans Filbinger, a former NS judge
Hans Globke, see above
Kurt Georg Kiesinger, NSDAP member and propaganda liaison of the Foreign Office’s broadcasting department, who went on to become Chancellor in 1966
Theodor Oberländer, SA-Obersturmbandführer, assistant to Erich Koch, strong supporter of the ethnic cleansing of Slavic countries
Franz Josef Strauß, Oberleutnant of the Werhmacht, Nazi educator and “Offizier für wehrgeistige Führung”
Ernst von Weizsäcker, served as Secretary of the Foreign Office and Ambassador to the Vatican in the Third Reich
Maybe the most sinister way Nazi ideology continued to fester was through education. In the 1950s, a large majority former Nazi teachers and professors were allowed back into schools. “Everybody had to fill in a “de-Nazification form”, then everyone who had joined the NSDAP before 1933 was dismissed from service. However, a majority would later be reinstated into schools. That was in part because about 95% of people were somehow conntected to National Socialism, and “you can’t make a state with only five percent”, as contemporary mayor [of Hamburg] Max Brauer once said. Of course many tried to wash their hands of it and denied their involvement in the Nazi system, or claimed they had been acting under duress. If you didn’t have a chance to re-enter teaching [in one Bundesland], you could often do so in one of the others, sometimes under a false identity.”
These teachers continued to work and influence children, often using Nazi disciplinary measures such as excessive violence, putting great emphasis on physical fitness, openly spouting racist, antisemitic and eugenicist ideology, harassing and abusing Jewish, non-white, disabled and leftist children under their “care”. Famous authors Ralph Giordano (Jewish) and Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi (mixed Black) who both had Nazi teachers later reported this made them suicidal, incited violence against them from other children, and affected them for their whole life. On the other hand, as part of the rising interest in pedagogy in the 1960s and 70s, there was also a revival of the teachings of Peter Petersen. The reform educationalist had created the “Jenaplan” which was now the basis for a school reform -- but he had also written about Hitler as the “educator of the people”, sung the highest praise to the SS and SA, vocally supported eugenics and biological racism.
Now I am not saying that every concept is tainted because of its inventor, and there are definitely good ideas in the Jenaplan, but the problem is that Petersen’s Nazi history was conveniently ignored and swept under the rug instead of openly discussed. This behaviour is a constant in the way we have dealt with our living history, and it is the breeding ground for Nazi ideology to go unnoticed, to weasel itself into our minds undetected, to make itself look harmless and totally detached from its violent history.
That is what I mean when I speak of an undercurrent of Nazi ideology in Germany today. Because as long as we do not confront where our ideas and teachings and cultural norms come from, and what might lie behind them, we will always repeat things that have been brought into the world by the Nazis. It was them who introduced Mother’s Day and built our autobahn and we have to be aware of why that is and what purpose that served in order not to romanticize their actions and accept their ideas. It was former Nazis and Nazi sympathizers who told us that our history doesn’t mean we cannot be patriotic, and that we should be patriotic, and if you do not question why that rhetoric came from people who openly served Hitler and murdered Jewish people and was eaten up by all those “good and innocent Germans”, you’re really not using your head to think. We still use Nazi terminology like “Endsieg”, “Endlösung”, “Anschluss”, “ausmerzen”, “ausrotten”, “entartet”, “Untermensch”, “Sonderbehandlung”, “Umsiedlung”, “Schutzhaft”, “Führer” and we should really question why we don’t feel sick every time we hear these phrases, why we don’t change our language, what mindset this reflects.
There is a reason why the AfD is in our Bundestag now and why people have no qualms blaming the foreigners and refugees for everything that goes wrong. There is a reason why I hear customers at work openly proclaim that Hitler wasn’t all that wrong, that he did good things for Germans, and that we need a strong leader. There’s a reason why a client who is a Social Democrat is talking about how the immigrants are all criminals. There’s a reason why every week my boss reads news headlines to me about how immigrant men rape German women and how foreigners bleed the German state dry. There’s a reason why they feel perfectly safe doing that. Germany hasn’t changed all that much. Nazis, racists, antisemites, fascists have always been in our midst. And we have covered for them.
The only way to truly oppose Nazism is to be vigilant about the ways in which it still informs our society. To never let anyone forget. Always bring up our history, our crimes. Don’t let the people feel safe in their complacency. Everybody is all too comfortable pretending that this is “over” and we don’t have to care about it anymore. But we do have to care! We have to be critical of ourselves and others! These people were our grandparents, our politicians, our parents’ teachers. These people are still in part alive and those who aren’t made sure to pass on their legacy to the next generation. And we are only one generation removed from that. We are part of it, and that is why we need to confront it.
Further sources (also German):
A collection of news articles from Der Spiegel about Nazis after 1945
Baby rearing methods from the Third Reich are still common
About the recent history of pedagogy
The Nazi jargon of AfD members
German authors returning from exile were shocked that there was “no reaction to what had happened”
Feel free to add if you have any good reads!
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18th May >> (@zenitenglish) All Chilean Bishops Offer Their Resignation to Pope Francis ‘We have placed our positions in the hands of the Holy Father’ (Rosa Die Alcolea @zenitenglish) “We have placed our positions in the hands of the Holy Father so that he may freely decide with respect to each one of us”, said the bishops of Chile. In an unprecedented move, the bishops of Chile have presented their resignation, this Friday, May 18, 2018, in the Holy See, at the end of the meetings held with the Holy Father in these days. Presentation of the resignation of the bishops of Chile in Rome © Deborah Lubov The 34 Chilean bishops have been meeting with Pope Francis in Rome from May 15 to 17 to “examine in depth their causes and consequences, as well as the mechanisms that have led in some cases to their cover-up and serious omissions towards the victims” , reported the Holy See in a statement , published on May 12. Monsignor Juan Ignacio González, Bishop of San Bernardo and Member of the Permanent Committee of the Episcopal Conference of Chile, and Bishop Fernando Ramos, Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago, and Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Chile, have presented the resignation declaration , today, at 12:30 in the Vatican. Forgive the victims, the Pope, the People of God and the country In the declaration, the Chilean prelates ask for forgiveness “for the pain caused to the victims, to the Pope, to the People of God and to the country for our grave errors and omissions” and thank Pope Francis “for his fatherly listening and fraternal correction ” Likewise, the bishops thank the victims “for their perseverance and courage, despite the enormous personal, spiritual, social and family difficulties they have had to face, so many times in the midst of incomprehension and attacks by the ecclesial community itself” . Finally, the bishops of Chile have communicated: “All the bishops present in Rome have placed our positions in the hands of the Holy Father so that he freely decides with respect to each one of us”. Determination of the Pope © Deborah Lubov Nevertheless, Bishop Juan Ignacio González, Bishop of San Bernardo, has specified that placing his pastoral offices at the Pope’s complete disposition “implies that as long as the Holy Father does not make a determination, each one of the bishops members of the Episcopal Conference of Chile, continues in its pastoral works and in full functions.” On the other hand, within the clarifications that the two bishops have added to the statement, Bishop Ramos, Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Chile, has narrated how the meetings with the Holy Father, which began with a first meeting, have been developed. in which the Pope read a document where he expressed his conclusions and reflections on the report of Archbishop Scicluna regarding his visit to Chile,” and continued with three other meetings, where “each bishop was able to express his reaction, opinion and vision, on what was pointed out by the Pope,” noted Bishop Ramos. “It was right to declare our absolute availability to put our pastoral offices in the hands of the Pope,” the auxiliary bishop of Santiago explained, “to be in greater harmony with the will of the Holy Father.” Changes and resolutions Meeting of the Pope with 34 Chilean bishops, May 17 2018 © Vatican Media Yesterday, Thursday, May 17, Pope Francis wrote a letter to the 34 bishops, after having four meetings with them in three days, to make a “frank discernment in the face of the grave events that have damaged the ecclesial communion and weakened the work of the Church of Chile in recent years, “explains the Holy Father. The Chilean bishops have shown “full availability,” noted Francis in the letter, to adhere and collaborate in “all those changes and resolutions that we will have to implement in the short, medium and long term, necessary to restore justice and ecclesial communion “ Thus, the Pope sent the bishops “to continue building a prophetic Church, which knows how to put in the center what is important: the service to its Lord in the hungry, in the prisoner, in the migrant, in the abused.” 18th MAY 2018 16:17POPE AND HOLY SEE
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Catholic Prophecy - Part 11
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De Mediatate Lunae ("From the Midst of the Moon," often translated, "From the Half of the Moon"). The biblical symbolism of the "moon" is "the worldly kingdom" or the "temporal order." This Pope may therefore be elected from the midst of cardinals who are mainly influenced by worldly ideas (social gospel, etc.), or he may be elected at a time when the forces of Satan (the "Prince of this World") have virtual control of the entire earth via their secret government, possibly even influencing the papal election, so that an agent of the world antichrist government is elected Pope. Still another explanation is that he will be a bad Pope, himself influenced and dominated by worldly ideas, and thus do great havoc to the Church. Finally, this enigmatic formula may indicate that during his reign, the Moslem world (the crescent or "half moon") will gain ascendancy and possibly even attack Europe, as Monk Hilarion's prophecy, below, would indicate.
De Lahore Soils ("Of the Labour of the Sun"). This is the same symbol as that of Apocalype 12: 1-5, of a woman clothed with the sun in labor to give birth to a son, who subsequently rules the earth with "a rod of iron." H. B. Kramer, interpreting the Apocalypse in his Book of Destiny, maintains this figure represents a highly disputed papal election (dispute = labor; woman = Church; sun = the light of divine truth).
De Gloria Olivae ("Of the Glory of the Olive Tree"). May refer to the glorious period of peace under the Great King (wherein the Church is consoled and succored as with the balm of the olive), but it may also refer to the rising power of Israel (the Olive).
Petrus Romanus ("Peter the Roman"). The last Pope, whose name will probably be Peter II. This motto is accompanied by a description referring to the last persecutions and to the last judgment.
|j 19. Monk Hilarion (15th century). "Before the Christian churches are reunited and renovated, God will send the Eagle who will travel to Rome and bring much happiness and good.
The Holy Man will bring peace between the clergy and the Eagle, and his reign will last for four years. After his death God will send three men who are rich in wisdom and virtue. They will spread Christianity everywhere. There will be one flock, one shepherd, one faith, one law, one life, and one baptism throughout the world.
"The people of the peninsula of Europe will suffer by needless wars until the Holy Man comes. The Lion will come from
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a high mountain in the enlightened nation. Then will the people of the half-moon of the tribe of Agar overrun many nations towards midnight and commit many atrocities. They will stay three years destroying everything. Yet, in the third year, will one of the unconquerable Eagles who reigns over the enlightened nation between the Rhine and the North sea, with a great army meet them by the mouth of the River Rhine and, in a fearful battle, almost entirely annihilate them."
Comment: This prophecy contains much symbolism and is anything but clear. A few details, however, stand out, and with correlations drawn from other prophecies, it is possible to suggest a tentative explanation: the Eagle, who is also often called the Lion, is the Great King, at first disliked by the Clergy, but who will be supported by the Pope. Of this Pope it is said elsewhere that he will be very holy (hence: "Holy Man"), yet very firm (will rule with u a rod of iron"). He will restore the former disciplines (apparently abolished by a previous Pope), and he will censure the bishops who refuse to submit to his rule. It is under his leadership that the Church will be reborn. He will reign only four years, and three more Popes are to follow him. Then, the scriptural prophecy "one flock, one pope, one faith" will be fulfilled.
Before the reign of the Holy Man, however, Europe — and Italy in particular — will suffer greatly through wars. The Mohammedans will take advantage of the complete anarchy in Europe and invade the land (a great many prophecies say so). But they will eventually be thrown back into the sea by the Great King who comes from the Ardennes, in Belgium (The Ardennes is the cradle of the Capetian Royal family).
|f 20.1 Old English Prophecy (On a tombstone at the Kirby cemetery, Essex).
When pictures look alive, with movements free,
(T.V. and movies)
When ships like fish swim beneath the sea,
(Submarines)
When men outstripping birds can soar the sky,
(Jets and rockets)
Then half the world deep drenched in blood shall die.
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In Germany begins a dance,
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Which passeth through Italy, Spain and France.
But England shall pay the piper.
(A 20th-century German prophecy says exactly the same thing: strife will start in Germany, spread to Italy, France and Spain, but England will suffer most.)
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When Our Lady shall lie on Our Lord's lap,
Then England will meet with a strange mishap.
(This seems to refer to a Feast of Our Lady occurring between two Feasts of Our Lord, perhaps a Feast of Mary on Easter Saturday by opposition to Good Friday when Our Lord rested on Mary's lap after the Crucifixion)
|f 21. St. Pius X (20th century). "I saw one of my successors taking to flight over the bodies of his brethren. He will take refuge in disguise somewhere; and after a short retirement he will die a cruel death. The present wickedness of the world is only the beginning of the sorrows which must take place before the end of the world."
|f 22. Pius XII (20th century). u We believe that the present hour is a dread phase of the events foretold by Christ. It seems that darkness is about to fall on the world. Humanity is in the grip of a supreme crisis."
Comment: After quoting St. Pius X and Pius XII, however, it is of some interest to contrast what John XXIII said at the opening of the Second Council of the Vatican:
"We feel we must disagree with those prophets of gloom, who are always forecasting disaster, as though the end of the world was at hand.
'in the present order of things, Divine Providence is leading us to a new order of human relations which, by men's own efforts and even beyond their very expectations, are directed towards the fulfilment of God's superior and inscrutable designs. And everything, even human differences, leads to the greater good of the Church."
Comment: On the strength of this declaration we cannot but observe that John XXIII disagreed with St. Pius X and Pius XII, as well as with all the holy souls who have been granted
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private revelations. Further, we are now to believe that men's efforts will, automatically so to speak, bring about the fulfilment of God's designs, even though men's efforts today are not conspicuously directed to the greater glory of God. I cannot help recalling one of the pet theses of Teilhard de Chardin (whose books were condemned by the Holy Office) which equated human progress (technological or otherwise) with spiritual development. The last sentence of the above passage further aggravates this piece of Teilhardian humanism by claiming that even differences lead to the greater good of the Church. May I suggest that since 1962, when this address was given, the growing differences within the Catholic Church do not appear to have done a lot of good! Karl Marx, to be sure, taught that conflicts and differences always work for the good of the cause concerned, but we were not quite prepared to hear this from the mouth of a Pope. In justice to good Pope John, however, I must add that this opening address was written for him by the then Cardinal Montini.
Let us go back to the safer ground of our prophecies. As you will see in due course, many tell us that men's present efforts will lead the world to chaos and destruction. Biblical  prophecies, too, warn us that the end will be close when men worship the work of their own hands — which is precisely the case today when machines and motor-cars are more important than children, when higher production targets are boldly promoted along with abortion laws.
|| 23. Bishop Christianos Ageda ( 12th century). "In the 20th century there will be wars and fury which will last a long time; whole provinces shall be emptied of their inhabitants, and kingdoms shall be thrown into confusion. In many places the land shall be left untilled, and there shall be great slaughters of the upper class. The right hand of the world shall fear the left, and the north shall prevail over the south/'
jj 24. St. John of the Cleft Rock (14th century). "It is said that twenty centuries after the Incarnation of the Word, the Beast in its turn shall become man. About the year 2000 A.D., Antichrist will reveal himself to the world."
1f 25. Sister Bouquillion (19th century). "The beginning of the end shall not come in the 19th century, but in the 20th for sure."
|j 26. Old Saxon Prophecy. "The seven-headed city, now
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more admirable than Jerusalem, shall be a place more desolate than Jerusalem. The Dog shall enter Germany but shall afterwards forsake his master and choose for himself a new man, whereby Scripture shall be fulfilled. This Dog shall signify the Turk which shall forsake his Mohammed and choose unto him the name Christian, which is a sign the day of doom is at hand, when all the earth is subject unto God, or that all people acknowledge one only God. The Fleur-de-Lys (lily) and France shall live long at variance, but at last agree. Then shall the clear Word spring forth and flourish throughout the world.
"But after all these things the end of the world shall approach, and there shall be heavy and pitiful days."
Comment: The seven-headed city is probably Rome (septicolis — seven hills). Other prophecies predict that it will be looted and destroyed by the Mohammedans, who will go as far as Germany where, as we have seen, they will be defeated by the Great King. The King will cross the seas and carry the war into Arab lands, which will eventually bring about the conversion of the Mohammedans. France will be without a monarchy for a long time, but it will be finally restored and, as a result, French thinkers will spread words of truth and wisdom (instead of errors and follies). All these things will take place during the reign of the Great European and Christian King, shortly before the coming of Antichrist and the end of the world (See previous prophecies in this respect).
|| 27. Old German Prophecy. "When the world becomes godless, revolutions will break out against kings. Fathers will fight their sons, and the sons their fathers. The doctrine will be perverted, and they will try to overthrow the Catholic Church.
Men will be pleasure-loving. A terrible war will find the North fighting the South. The South will be led by a Prince wearing a white coat with a cross on the front; he will be lame afoot.
He will gather his forces at Bremen for Mass. Then he will lead them into battle beyond Woerl near the birch-tree country (Westphalia). After a terrible battle at a brook running eastwards near Berdberg and Sondern, the South will be victorious.
Comment: This prophecy does not contradict Bishop Ageda's quoted earlier. For the North will be victorious at first (See St. Methodius and Pius IX above). Note, too, the
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prediction about the perversion of doctrine in the Catholic Church, which is the case today, especially since the introduction of the New Order of the Mass (Novus Ordo Missae) which has given official status to earlier anti-Catholic trends.
Again, the overthrow of the Catholic Church has now become a very real threat with the existence of IDO-C to which many priests belong.
This prophecy mentions also the Prince who will be "lame afoot." He is none other than the Great King to-be. His lameness is also referred to by Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich in a 19th-century prophecy which we shall see later. This Prince, or King, whose arrival is foretold in a large number of prophecies, will engage the enemy although his forces will be greatly outnumbered. He will first take his troops to Mass and, with the help of God, he will throw back the enemy. The battle described above is that of the "Birch-tree," well known by all students of private prophecies and described in many prophecies. It will be fought mainly against Russian and East German troops. The King's troops will be mainly made up of Spanish, Italian, Austrian and French soldiers. All these precisions may well seem incredible, but that is what the prophecies say. The reader may not believe it all (but, please, spare me the disgrace of thinking that I am making up stories, for I am only relating what I have read).
The American reader may wonder why American troops have nowhere been mentioned so far. Indeed, except for a few prophecies mentioning rather vaguely some overseas soldiers who may or may not be Americans, the presence of the U.S.A. in Western Europe is nowhere clearly indicated in the hagiographical prophecies that I know of. There is some reason to believe that the U.S.A. will have its hands full in the Far-East, and will also have to deal with serious civil strife at home. This may explain why the U.S.A. will not intervene in Western Europe at the beginning. It must also be borne in mind that the coming disaster (which I purposely do not call World War III) is not likely to start with a conventional  foreign invasion, but rather internally through civil war and revolution. In this case, American intervention would be very unlikely indeed.
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California Church Puts Up Black Lives Matter-Themed Nativity
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Just when we thought the Vatican would take home the prize for 2020’s worst Nativity scene, along comes the perennially-offensive Claremont United Methodist Church to prove us wrong once again. Claremont, which seems to view the Christmas Nativity scene as little more than a hanger to be adorned with the social justice message of the year, outdid themselves this time around by surrounding the Holy Family with Black Lives Matter protesters (who are, of course, wearing face masks).
The L.A. Times, which generously called Claremont’s annual displays “eye-catching” instead of, say, “nauseating,” reports that the scene depicts protesters surrounding Mary, Joseph, and the baby Jesus while holding signs like “I Can’t Breathe!”
“We couldn’t think of any other issue that we wanted to keep under the light of the Bethlehem star than the need to address racism,” Rev. Karen Clark Ristine, the church’s senior minister, told the paper.
Certainly, the call to eternal salvation is a subject of little importance when compared to the plight of George Floyd. That’s a given!
“Against the mural backdrop, a statue of Joseph kneels beside the babe in a manger,” reports the L.A. Times. “Mary stands, her arms lifted with the protesters in the painting, alluding to the protests that erupted this summer after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd. Above their heads, a banner lists the names of more than 30 Black people who have been killed, including Emmett Till, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery.”
The paper spoke to churchmember Genaro Cordova, who said that racism is more important to highlight than the ongoing struggle of the pandemic.
“We thought that racism was really worse, the worst epidemic that maybe we had around the world,” he said. “COVID is going to pass, but the struggle of our brothers and sisters, Black Americans, is going to continue for a long time. Even our Nativity scene, like Mary and Joseph and Jesus, they are not really white, but we tried to make it like brown, between all the races.”
We’re not even going to try and parse that last sentence; make of it what you will.
As the Times notes, this is not the first time the church has used the Nativity to MAKE A STATEMENT.
“A few years ago, Mary was huddled in a sleeping bag, sitting at a bus stop beside her shopping cart and holding a baby – a modern depiction of Jesus’ family as homeless,” they report. “Another year, a hooded and bloody re-creation of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old shot and killed by George Zimmerman in 2012, knelt beside a silhouette of the virgin mother. Last year, the church placed each member of the Holy Family in cages, to represent families separated and detained behind fences at the U.S.-Mexico border.”
Frankly, we’re not even offended. It’s just embarrassing for everyone involved, even if they don’t have the sense to be ashamed of it themselves.
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