[Zero Hedge] Hundreds of Italian demonstrators gathered in Rome’s Piazza del Popolo on Tuesday, ditching their masks in a protest against the Italian government’s lockdown restrictions aimed at controlling the spread of COVID-19.
The group, which calls themselves the ‘Orange Vests,’ is led by retired Carabinieri general Antonio Pappalardo, who doesn’t believe children should be made to wear masks, according to TIME.
Refusing to wear a mask himself, Pappalardo said “These lungs mine. I will take care of my lungs. Breathing is sacred.”
Elsewhere in Rome, opposition leaders, including League Party chief Matteo Salvini, marched on Tuesday to demand that the government resign.
You put too much stock in the hope you could live off of the wealthy, comfortable suburbanites who liked coming to Mass once in a while as long as your priests didn't offend them, they didn't talk about sin, and you offered them the opportunity to partake in some dopey liturgical function.
Well, guess what? They aren't coming back. Even Susan has been AWOL. We called the local Jewish and Masonic nursing homes and they haven't received anyone by that name.
Meanwhile, those Latin Mass Catholics that you have marginalized for so many years; they're clamoring to get back in the churches. If Covid-19 was the neutron bomb for the American Church, these survivors are the cockroaches that scurry about the empty church buildings. You have been played for fools. To wit, you facilitated the very thing you feared the most. Die List der Vernunft.
The page with the hastily published words of Francis about the situation in Hong Kong is no longer accessible.
(Rome) The western left stages a “Black Lives Matter” grotesque, but cannot find a word to describe the situation in Hong Kong. And Pope Francis is doing the same.
Il sismografo is a half-official press review, which is located somewhere between the Vaticanistic Press Office and State Secretariat and headed by the Chilean Luis Badilla. Its contacts are correspondingly good. Badilla published Pope Francis' entire address to Angelus yesterday - albeit prematurely. But first, the text as it appears on the side of the sismografo had been published:
“Vatican: After the Angelus, Pope Francis speaks about the situation in Hong Kong. He calls for respect for freedom, dialogue and a consensual search for problem solving.
Text of the Pope's address.
Situation in Hong Kong
In these recent times, I have followed the development of the complex situation in Hong Kong with special attention and not without worry, and above all I wish to express my warm closeness to all residents of that territory. In the current context, the topics covered are undoubtedly delicate and affect everyone's lives; therefore it is understandable if there is a pronounced sensitivity in this regard. I therefore hope that everyone involved will be able to tackle the various problems with the spirit of far-sighted wisdom and authentic dialogue. This requires courage, humility, non-violence and respect for the dignity and rights of all. I also raise my voice that social life, and especially religious life, can express itself in full and genuine freedom, as is otherwise provided for in various international documents. With my constant prayer I accompany the entire Catholic community and the people of good will in Hong Kong so that together they can build a prosperous and harmonious society. ”
The first published page with words from Francis about the situation in Hong Kong
As far as the text of the relevant experts of the Vatican Secretariat of State for the speech after yesterday's Angelus prepared and advance about the embargo had been forwarded to the sismografo, who then published it prematurely. Because everything turned out differently.
In his speech Francis said nothing about Hong Kong. He didn't even mention the former British crown colony. The post on the sismografo was quickly deleted. The eagerness to publish, however, allows a look behind the scenes. It became apparent that Francis was self-censoring against the Communist authorities in the People's Republic of China. The Beijing regime is gradually reducing the special status of Hong Kong. This small zone of freedom in the "Middle Kingdom" is to be removed, which also plays a central role not least for the Catholics. It's no coincidence now that the current Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen, for many years the gray eminence of the Chinese underground Church and raising his dauntless voice against the new Ostpolitik of the Holy See under Francis. Overall, this is characterized by self-censorship.
A statement by the Vatican press office as to why the text was changed has not yet been issued. It coincides with the silence of the global and especially the otherwise hyperactive western left when it comes to the Communist People's Republic of China.
Black Lives Matter distorts a single case into a fictitious race problem, igniting an anti-white racism and an iconoclastic assault on Western history.
Given the viral zeal for which the irrational "Black Lives Matter" - complete with humiliating genuflections- supported fully by Pope Francis - his silence on the real situation in Hong Kong is downright spooky.
In the former case, the global left is against US President Donald Trump, in the latter case a Communist regime is spared embarrassment. The Wall Street Journal has named Pope Francis immediately after the election of Donald Trump as the world left's new leader, while Curia Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, the political arm of the Pope, who praised the Communist regime in Beijing as the world's best exemplar of the Church's social doctrine.
All of this has existed since the Bolshevik October Revolution of 1917. The political left appears to be largely neither willing nor able to learn. What is new is that the Holy See behaves like an integral part of it.
Text: Giuseppe Nardi image: Il sismografo / Vatican.va (screenshots)
Benedikt Egli: “Evaporated, Vaporized, Dissipated. The Change in Religious Formation at Catholic University Preparatory Schools in German-Speaking Switzerland Between 1960 and 1980 ”.
Book tip by Hans Jakob Bürger
Linz (kath.net) Many "Catholic schools" did not survive the Post-Conciliar period. There were various reasons for this: explosively increased costs for schools and University Preparatory, the decline in religious orders and the increase in those leaving religious life, above all the evaporation of the Catholic faith.
The secondary and high school teacher Benedikt Egli, who has several years of experience in school and boarding school, has published a book on the educational history of Catholic boarding schools in German-speaking Switzerland. Under the title "Evaporated, Vaporized, Dissipated," he examines the "change in religious imprint" between 1960 and 1980. His observations are likely to be important for the entire German-speaking world.
Egli documents and analyzes in 160 pages an extremely interesting period in the developmental history of Catholic boarding schools. We all know that the Catholic religion changed [sic] a lot between 1960 and 1980. This is also evident in the area of education. Because the “religious stamp of Catholic boarding schools” has undergone a major change.
Readers can learn themselves of the detailed work and take note of what has happened in known and less well-known boarding schools in Switzerland in the period of just twenty years. To this end, he studied sources intensively and evaluated interviews with eyewitnesses and questionnaires. Information at the end of the book is provided by a comprehensive list of sources and literature as well as an appendix with many tables.
The Faith is "Evaporated, Vaporized, Dissipated". Indicators of Egli's allegations are the signs of dissolution in the Catholic Church, the massive decline in attendance at Sunday Mass with the almost total loss of Mass participants, the disappearance of the confessional, the sharp decline in religious vocations, the increasingly insidious lack of understanding of confessional differences, as well as the loss of the Church's influence in the modern world, especially its loss in terms of sexual morality. All of this is also reflected in the events at University Preparatory Schools. Were educators and teachers witnesses to the faith or were they perhaps not even Catholic? Also admitting the opposite sex, the changes both in religious education and in other areas of school religious education; - Egli tried to fathom all of this and presented it in his book.
Benedikt Egli's conclusion is more than sobering: the religious character has evaporated and dissipated; "The schools went through an internal secularization, a denominationalization and a liberalization".
In a first statement, the Rev. Kocher/Program Director of radio horeb paid tribute to the merits and unique personality of the late founding president.
Balderschwang (kath.net/Radio Horeb) The founding president of Radio Maria, Italy and founding President of the Radio Maria World Family, Emanuele Ferrario, died on Wednesday at the age of 90. For decades, Ferrario has led the fortunes of Radio Maria Italy and the Radio Maria World Family, to which radio horeb belongs. Until recently, Ferrario was the acting President of Radio Maria Italy.
There are now Radio Maria stations in over 80 countries. At the end of the 1980s, Ferrario was encouraged by Pope John Paul II's call to use the modern media for the proclamation of the Christian faith, to found Radio Maria in Erba in northern Italy. In this, laymen and priests set out to spread the Gospel over the radio.
Emanule Ferrario saw this as the recipe for success of Radio Maria, which is heard daily by millions of listeners worldwide, with a particular focus on prayer and catechesis. Ferrario focused in particular on the transmission of Holy Mass.
Program director of radio horeb, the Rev. Dr. Richard Kocher paid tribute in an initial statement in the evening to the merits and unique personality of the late founding president. Kocher: "May the Lord give him eternal rest and recompense him all his merits and his commitment to the work of the Mother of God."
The great and good French novelist and thinker Jean Raspail died on June 13, three weeks short of his 95th birthday. I was deeply saddened by the news, although at his age it was to be expected. It is ironic that he succumbed to the COVID-19 virus, the product and totemic symbol of our age and the globalized world, both of which he loathed with a passion.
His bookcase-lined study felt a tad melancholy when I entered it, for the first and only time, in the summer of 1993, courtesy of General Pierre Gallois. It brightened soon enough with the host’s easy bonhomie, single malt Scotch (that was a surprise, I expected cognac), strong tobacco, and lively conversation. Raspail did not look very French to me. He seemed the embodiment of a Nordic patrician with his military mustache, a regular and austere face, a straight and remarkably slim figure. He was 68 at the time and looked 10 years younger. He evoked the image of ancient warriors whose blond hair turned red in the light of the Hyperborean campfires.
The four Memores Domini, who manage Benedict XVI's household in a 2014 photograph.
(Rome) Pope Francis places the next community under provisional administration. He appointed a Jesuit as Commisar. In Rome, some speak of a "sneaky" move because it concerns Benedict XVI. What happened?
On the same day, however, his nine-year-old predecessor surprisingly traveled to Bavaria. Benedict XVI left his chosen retreat in the Vatican Gardens for the first time in seven years to visit his older brother Georg, whose health had deteriorated. The eighth German Pope returned to the Vatican after four days. Msgr. Georg Ratzinger died on July 1 at the age of 96.On June 18, the incumbent head of the Church announced that he would continue to insulate himself from Corona. Francis doesn't want to engage in any foreign travel. All pastoral visits that were already planned or in preparation were canceled without replacement. It is currently unknown whether and when they will take place.
The Commissar for the Memores Domini
Hardly had he returned to the monastery Mater Ecclesiae, that Benedict XVI. received a surprise that is as unusual as it is unpleasant. The Memores Domini Community, whose sisters live with him in the monastery, manage the household and look after him, was placed under the Provisional Administration by Pope Francis.
Cardinal Barbarin, pictured with Pope Francis, will retire to Brittany.
(Paris) Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, who retired as Archbishop of Lyon and Primate of Gaul despite his acquittal, announced his future role.
In March 2019, he was sentenced to six months in prison in the first instance because he allegedly did not report a sexual abuse offender, the priest Bernard Preynat, to the state law enforcement agency in good time. The cardinal had suffered media prejudice that seriously damaged his reputation. The appeals court then received the sentence in early 2020 and acquitted the cardinal. However, there was no real rehabilitation because Pope Francis considered it "more opportune", as it was said in Rome, that the cardinal resigned as archbishop of Lyon. Following this "wish", Cardinal Barbarin submitted his resignation request, which Pope Francis accepted in March 2020.
It was only on May 29, months after the acquittal and retirement, that Pope Francis received the cardinal for an in- person interview . In the meantime, the purple bearer had retired to the Holy Land for a long spiritual retreat.
In interviews with CFR and Aleteia Cardinal Barbarin said the first time about his future. To Aleteia he said:
“When I came back from the Holy Land in late May, I went to the Holy Father. We talked a lot about the Middle East. He said he would like me to be available for missions in countries that I know well, like Iraq, Lebanon, or Israel. Otherwise, he gave me the opportunity to do what I want. I had already contacted the Archbishop of Rennes and the Superior of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Saint-Pern in Brittany, where Monsignor Marcus, the emeritus Archbishop of Toulouse, lives. From the beginning of July I will be by his side, but I will also be chaplain to the sisters. In addition, Monsignor D'Ornellas [Archbishop of Rennes] asked me to teach at the Rennes seminary. ”
Cardinal Barbarin had after the publication of the Motu proprio Summorum Pontificum aligned birituell training at his seminary in Lyon. The seminarians experience their preparation in both forms of the Roman Rite.
The second cardinal, recently innocent in court, initially convicted but then acquitted, Cardinal George Pell, was also stripped by Pope Francis of all his office. Unlike Cardinal Barbarin, Cardinal Pell has not been received by Pope Francis since his acquittal in April. Sources close to the Pope in Rome speak of a possible ("maybe") appointment in autumn. Francis wanted to let some time pass since the acquittal.
Text: Giuseppe Nardi Image: Vatican.va (screenshot)
[National File] Romania has passed a law banning gender studies and educational institutions from promoting gender identities divorced from biological sex, joining the ranks of Central European countries Hungary and Poland to require a more traditional approach to gender theory.
On Tuesday, Romanian lawmakers passed an amendment to an education law banning educational institutions from “activities propagating theories and opinions on gender identity according to which gender is a separate concept from biological sex,” according to The Swaddle.
The decision elicited widespread condemnation from a variety of activist organizations, with some professors openly intending to defy the law. The amendment was passed without any debate or consultation with teachers or educators. [Many times these laws promoting degeneracy are passed without consultation of parents.]
Heiner Wilmer believes an even more drastic decline in membership in the Catholic Church is possible in 2021 due to the Corona Crisis
Hildesheim (kath.net) Hildesheim Bishop Heiner Wilmer considers an even more drastic decline in membership in the Catholic Church for 2021 because of the Corona crisis is possible. The bishop said to the diocese press office in Osnabrück, "I assume that if the distance regulations and precautionary measures fall, we will have a drastic drop in church visitors again." The increasing number of people leaving the Church is very worrying.
Edit: unlike Thug Gordon who clearly wasn't fired for disparaging Black Lives Matter, since he didn't have any tweets about it till after he was fired... this priest is being suspended by a Bishop eager to please those who will show him no mercy when the time comes.
[WMD] A Catholic priest in Indiana has been suspended by his diocese for condemning the organization Black Lives Matter in his weekly message last Sunday.
Rev. Theodore Rothrock of St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church in Carmel described organizers of the Marxist, gay activist, anti-nuclear family organization as "maggots and parasites."
His bishop, Timothy Doherty of the Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana, ordered the move Wednesday.
Georg Ratzinger is also not to be buried in the family grave, but in the grave of the Regensburger Cathedral Sparrows at the Lower Catholic Cemetery in Regensburg
Regensburg (kath.net) Benedict XVI will not attend Georg Ratzinger's funeral on Wednesday. This has been reported by "Vatican News". Georg Ratzinger is also not to be buried in the family grave, but in the foundation grave of the Regensburger Dom Sparrows in the Lower Catholic Cemetery in Regensburg, before which the solemn requiem takes place in the cathedral. Georg Ratzinger was the last close family member of the pope emeritus.
Edit: I hope it's Mozart at the funeral Mass. I know I know.
