The Detour–A Review of ‘The Tourist’

The Detour–A Review of ‘The Tourist’

Tucson Shooting Reveals Return to 1990s Mindset in America: Evil Liberals Are Blaming the Victims

Editor:  The liberal media is more likely to blame in its valorization of a cult of violence and death in major motion pictures, academia, medicine and politics in general, which have far more cultural impact than do "conservative" talk shows.

The last time liberals had unrivaled political power, they ended up slaughtering millions of people after usurping the Russian Throne. So, in this case, conservatives like the Czar and his family were the victims of a liberal wealth confiscation scheme.  Too impatient to rely on inflation, the liberals killed the Czar and his family in a remote place under cover of darkness.

Now they're blaming "conservatives" for something they've definitely influenced by their cancerous presence in motion pictures and music.

America has been going through something of a political time-warp in the aftermath of the Tucson massacre.
The public discussion again and again harkens back to the mid-1990s when the Oklahoma City bombing spurred the American elite to a lengthy discussion about the rise of radicals on the right. Reporters and analysts this week have endlessly reprised the arguments of 15 years ago.
Will President Obama's memorial speech at the University of Arizona evoke Bill Clinton's mix of sympathy and political accusation in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing? Is a toxic political climate to blame for setting off a madman? Are conservative opinion mongers to blame? [They're asking the wrong questions.  Look within.]

Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/01/11/tucson-shooting-reveals-return-1990s-mindset-america#ixzz1AmILfB1Q

Bishop Fellay's First Comments on Assisi III

Remarks on the Feast of the Epiphany during a sermon given at St. Nicolas du Chardonnet on the Solemnity of the Epiphany, January 9, 2011 After explaining the arrival of the Three Magi who traveled from the farthest ends of the pagan world to adore Our Lord Jesus Christ, Bishop Fellay contrasts this example of the Faith of the Magi with the unbelief of Herod and of the priests and the announcement of the World Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi in October 2011.

In theory they know, in theory they believe. But in reality, do they believe? Do they really believe that Our Lord is God? Do they really believe that peace among men, among nations, is in His hand? Do they really believe in all the immediate, direct consequences of His divinity? …Are they all going, like the Magi, the Three Kings, to adore the true God and to look to Him for that peace and to ask Him for it? Are they going to the King of Peace: Rex Pacificus? Oh, how history repeats itself, alas! Link to SSPX site, here.

Saintly Bishop Bids His People Goodbye at End of Mass and Dies Shortly After

Brazil.  [kreuz.net]  This Saturday the emeritus Bishop Maneul Pestana Filho (82) of Anápolis died shortly after the celebration of Holy Mass.  According to data from 'kathnews.de' he said at the end of Mass:  "This is my last Holy Mass on Earth, the next will be in Heaven."   The Bishop was ordained in 1952.  In 1978 John Paul II named him the Bishop of Anápolis.  In 2004 he retired for reasons of age.  Bishop Pestana has shown himself to be right believing and supported Germany's Persecuted "Engelwerk".


Photo stolen from, here, Blogovikus.

Saarland in Germany Closes Two Schools of the SSPX

The Society of Pius X identifies the measures of Education Minister Klaus Kessler (Grüne) as "politically ideological" and will challenge them legally.

Saarbrücken (kath.net) The Education Ministry of Saarland has concluded that with the end of the current half of the school year, two Saarland schools, which are operated by the Society of Pius X, must conclude their operation.  It falls upon the grade school in St. Arnual in Fechingen, according to SR-Online.  The back ground for this is, according to Education Minister Kessler (Grüne),  the long conflct related to the dormitory of the Heart of Jesus Realschule, which the Dom Bosco School Society must close in 2010.

The Dom Bosco School Society, both boards of the schools had declared during a press conference,  it said "all of us are committed to exhaust all legal steps". The decision of the Education Ministry is being described as "ideologically political".  The School Society explained in a statement on this that the Education Minister Kessler has already, as GEW-President, attempted "an illegal revocation of financial support and even the alteration of the Private School Laws" , "only so that he could close our schools.  He slandered us in February 2009 as 'extremists in the area of education' and mischaracterized our manner of education with a description of St. Dom Bosco as a 'cane pedagogue', although these reproaches concerning this matter had shown themselves to be a slander campaign in 2007.


As predicted, the school will probably be closed by Green party radicals who have no business running a hat shop, much less a school system.

\Link to kath.net...

Police Pay: Anti-Homosexual Opinion was Legally Allowed

Great Britain:  The representation of Biblical teachings on homosexuality as a sin are not grounds for arrest -- British police to pay 10,000 pounds in damages.

London [kath.net]  The Baptist street preacher Dale McAlpine from Workington in Northwest England has received 10,000 pounds for his imprisonment by the police after his public declarations of the biblical teachings on homosexuality.  This was according to Church News Notes this Friday.

McAlpine had explain that the Bible counts homosexuality as a sin to a passerby who asked him the question during his Evangelical demonstration, according to kath.net previously.  A police official then arrested the preaching on the grounds of racially motivated offense, therefore an offense against the Public Order Act .(.
corresponds to the German anti-Discrimination Law)

McAlpine proceeded legally against the police and received support for that from other christians, who fear the restriction of freedom of expression.  It did not go to trial.  The police authorities conceded that the arrest and seven hour incarceration of the preacher was a violation of the preacher's human rights and agreed to pay the 10,000 pounds in damages.

From link to kath.net...

Pope donates $50,000 to help victims of Australian flooding

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ZENIT - Order Helps Descendants of Bethlehem Shepherds

ZENIT - Order Helps Descendants of Bethlehem Shepherds

Pope Wears Glorious Baroqe Vestments for New Year

Link to Fisheaters.

Papal Nuncio Killed in Ambush

BURUNDI: Tributes for papal nuncio killed in ambush

This happened on 29 December 2003. 

Tributes have been pouring in for Michael Courtney, the apostolic nuncio to Burundi who was killed on Monday in an ambush south of the capital, Bujumbura.Pope John Paul II, in a telegram to the president of the Bishops' Conference of Burundi, Archbishop Simon Ntamwana, said he was "deeply saddened by the painful news", the Catholic news agency Misna reported on Tuesday. Speaking in Bujumbura on Tuesday, the apostolic nuncio to Uganda, Archbishop Christophe Pierre said the Catholic church would continue its contribution to the peace process.
"The killing of Courtney created an extreme sorrow among the Catholic church community, but I don't think relations between the Vatican and Burundi will stop at all; on the contrary, it is an opportunity to make more efforts in favour of peace in this country, as Michael Courtney did," he said.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportID=47849
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US Diplomat Beaten For Visiting Priest

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Protests After Diplomat Is Beaten Up by Vietnamese CopsVietnamese police beat up an American diplomat and repeatedly slammed his legs in a car door after he tried to visit a high-profile dissident, according to U.S. officials.

Washington has made a strong protest over the treatment of Christian Marchant, a political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi. Marchant was roughed up on Wednesday outside a home for retired priests in the central Vietnamese city of Hue, where Catholic priest Rev. Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly, 63, is being held under house arrest.

Pro-democracy campaigner Ly, who has served almost 15 years in jail for his activism, told Radio Free Asia that police wrestled Marchant to the ground as he approached the retirement home and then hustled him into a squad car. The Associated Press quoted an anonymous Washington official saying that officers repeatedly shut a car door on his legs
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He Resisted the Nazi Mainstream

"With his fight against National Socialism and Communism, Conrad Cardinal von Preysing was 'an example in faith and in struggle against dehumanizing ideologies even for today',  said the Eichstaetter Bishop Gregor Maria Hanke at a ceremony for the book presentation in the upper-Bavarian Episcopal city:  'He had the courage not to trust the mainstream,  but rather to obey God's will and to walk along a path straight to God.'"
 
From a report of the online-eduction of the 'Landshut News" on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the death of Conrad Cardinal von Preysing of Berlin.

From kreuz.net...

77 percent of Flemish people think Archbishop Léonard is unsuitable

Alongside reports of a Convent where the nuns allegedly abused children is this story about Archbishop Primate of Belgium.  It will be interesting to see if he resigns, but really, what are people objecting to?  Once again, the sex-abuse hoax pollutes any clear understanding of what's going on here and the role that liberalism plays in this evil.

77 percent of Flemish people think Archbishop Léonard is unsuitable

Bishop responds to 39% abortion rate

Last month the New York city health department released statistics that reported 39% of pregnancies were deliberately terminated. This week NY Archbishop Timothy Dolan held a press conference calling religious leaders to do something about it.

For his part Dolan rededicated Catholic commitment to providing alternatives to abortion.

“I re-affirm Cardinal John O’Connor’s promise of a quarter-century ago that every woman facing a difficult pregnancy will be provided with free, confidential help of the highest quality from the Archdiocese of New York,” said Archbishop Dolan.
“We are prepared to do everything in our power to help you and your unborn baby to make absolutely certain that you need never feel that you have no choice but an abortion.”

The Chiaroscuro Foundation, a non-profit organization, pledged $1 million in 2011 to promote alternatives to abortion in New York City.

Read more:

http://www.examiner.com/roman-catholic-in-anaheim/ny-bishop-responds-to-nyc-39-abortion-rate

WikiLeaks: US demanding our Twitter account info

By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press

LONDON – U.S. officials have issued a subpoena to demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account, according to court documents obtained Saturday. WikiLeaks says other American Internet companies may also have been ordered to hand over information about its activities.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ordered San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. to hand over private messages, billing addresses and connection records of WikiLeaks founder JulianAssange and other alleged associates — including the U.S. Army intelligence analyst suspected of handing classified information to the site and a high-profile Icelandic parliamentarian.

Assange blasted the order, saying it amounted to harassment.

"If the Iranian government was to attempt to coercively obtain this information from journalists and activists of foreign nations, human rights groups around the world would speak out," he said in a statement.

Read More: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110108/ap_on_hi_te/wikileaks

Anglicans begin search for new bishop

Posted at 04:42 PM on Friday, Jan. 07, 2011

By Ron Orozco / The Fresno Bee

The area's Anglican community is taking steps to find a new bishop for the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin. The current bishop, John-David Schofield, announced in 2009 that he plans to retire in October this year.

Schofield, who was elected bishop in 1988, helped lead a secession movement out of the U.S. Episcopal Church in 2007 amid debate over same-sex blessings; the consecration of a partnered gay priest, the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, as a bishop; and how to interpret the Bible over such issues. Schofield led the former Episcopal diocese into the new Anglican Church in North America in 2009.

A Bishop Search Committee, with 17 members, was formed according to diocesan canons after Schofield announced his intention to retire. According to the diocese's website, key dates for the election, consecration and enthronem

Read more: http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/01/07/2224151/anglicans-begin-search-for-new.html#ixzz1ASc8RbTm

Catholic Bishop Tobin lashes out at R.I. leaders for pushing gay marriage | Politics | projo.com | The Providence Journal

If only more Bishops would do these sorts of things...

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Anglicans Ablaze: Do We Really Need Bishops?

A legitimate question if your religion is a purely human construct, which it is in this case.

Anglicans Ablaze: Do We Really Need Bishops?: "By Robin G. Jordan “Do we really need bishops?” is a question that I hear from time to time. I have generally been reluctant to write an a..."

Elizabeth Anscombe wrote of birth control and morality.

Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, the Catholic philosopher whose work on subjects from Aristotelian ethics to the perils of birth control is enjoying a renaissance, died 10 years ago this week in England, at 81. And obituary writers remembered what she wore.

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Elizabeth Anscombe wrote of birth control and morality.

The Telegraph wrote, “Clad in leopard-skin trousers and a leather jacket, she might sit in silence for minutes on end, puffing on a cigar, after one of her students had finished reading out an essay.”

And The Guardian : “For a time she sported a monocle, and had a trick of raising her eyebrows and letting it fall on her ample bosom, which somehow made her yet more daunting.”

Read remainder at NYTs, here...

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