Wednesday, July 15, 2020

“Turkish Mosque in Cologne to be Rededicated to Lutheran Church”



"Turkish mosque in Cologne was rededicated by the federal government to the Evangelical Church"

 Freiburg Islamist Abdel-Hakim Ourghi satirically reacts to the rededication of the status of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

 Freiburg (kath.net) “I had a dream tonight.  The Turkish government has rededicated the Turkish mosque in Cologne to the Evangelical Church. ”The reform-oriented Muslim and Freiburg Islamic scholar Abdel-Hakim Ourghi wrote on his Facebook page.  With his satirical contribution, he responded to the change in the status of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.  As a result, everyone was outraged, he continues.  “Jews, Christians, Muslims, atheists and Buddhists demonstrated on the streets.  The two speeches by the President of the Council of the Evangelical Church of Germany Bedford-Strohm  and Cardinal Marx were particularly moving.  They want more tolerance for Islam and the Muslims.”
 
 Background: Hagia Sophia in Istanbul will be restored to the status of an active mosque, it may be the Turkish President Erdogan himself who is driving the conversion into a mosque.  Previously, the cathedral in old Constantinople, which was once the “Vatican of the Eastern Church” was once of immense importance to the world Church and also of architectural and historical importance, had been designated as a museum to avoid tensions between religions.  Hagia Sophia was the coronation church of the Byzantine emperor (since 641), the cathedral of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the site of important historical events.  After the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1453, it lost its importance, but the structure remained largely unchanged.  It was a mosque for a long time before it was converted into a museum under Ataturk.  It is still considered a landmark of Istanbul today.


Inescapable Connection Between Antifa and Pedophilia


https://twitter.com/KeithWoodsYT/status/1282399745336643586


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Cardinal Brandmüller Responds to Viganò



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Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Bizarre

Viganò Calls Francis An "Argentinian Liquidator”

[Gloria.tv] Already before Vatican II, the Faith was weak, Archbishop Viganò wrote on June 24 to Italian Father Alfredo Morselli (MarcoTosatti.com, July 14).

Viganò explains that many bishops at Vatican II were intellectually corrupt, since the solid preparatory documents could so easily be replaced with cheap innovation texts.

For Viganò, Vatican II was a "dishonest operation" and a "scam carried out against the faithful and the clergy.”

Since Vatican II, he explains, the Church went on a "slippery, unfortunate and destructive path” that finally reached "the bankruptcy of the company at the hands of its Argentinian liquidator" who is "ready to deliver the Church of Mercy Co. into the hands of the New World Order.”

Viganò suspects that Francis is confident to be given "some sort of managerial role" in this new structure "if only out of recognition for the work of destruction he has accomplished."

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Pope Shea Wants Austin Ruse Fired for Ridiculing Holy Pandemic Inquisition


Edit: there's a thing called Contact Tracing which involves an entire department of hall monitors at the Center for Disease Control. Not surprisingly, Archgay Wilton Gregory is helping CDC monitor American citizens. Now Shea and a large number of other Antifa are raiding Austin Ruse's page for showing blatant contempt for "legitimate authority". It might be going out on a limb here, but it seems like Shea does't just want to cancel Ruse, but really cancel him for good. Shea wants to do this on behalf of something which doesnt exist.








Even Black Lives Matter supporter, Schoolmarm Pox Clamantis wanted to take a piece of Austin Ruse, and get in on all the gay rage. So Holy!



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Sunday, July 12, 2020

Destruction of Hagia Sophia's Mosaics Feared

Edit: so much for Lumen Gentium. (Can we at last admit that Vatican II is dead letter?)

Vienna (kath.net/KAP) The Austrian aid organization "Christians in Need" (CiN; formerly "Christian Solidarity International"/CSI) now fears the destruction of the 1,300-year-old mosaics in Hagia Sophia. "It is to be feared that the Christian mosaics in the dome of Hagia Sophia will now be destroyed once and for all. If Sultan Mehmed II had covered the Christian mosaics with plaster after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, it is now to be feared that the mosaics themselves will now be destroyed, following the example of the assault on images by the 'IS'. Under no circumstances can these remain visible, because otherwise the regulations of the pictureless mosque - at the latest from the 8th century. If the ban on images is unreservedly enshrined in Islam - it is not enough to do so," CiN Secretary General Elmar Kuhn said in a statement on Sunday. The background is the decided conversion of the former Constantinople Cathedral, which in Ottoman times was a mosque and then a museum for 86 years, into an Isamian place of prayer.

With the fall of "ISIS" (Islamic State), the world had hoped that politics would return to reason. This also includes the fact that politics ceases to use religion as a tool. With the reassignment of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul to a mosque, it is to be feared that the image-storm mentality of ISIS will become acceptable, the statement continued.

World expects the peaceful contribution of religions

Overall, a great opportunity has been lost to find a way of dialogue and mutual respect. Then the reassignment from a museum to a house of prayer could have been a constructive sign. Hagia Sophia, also because of its great history, would be a true and unifying World Heritage Site. For the world rightly expects the contribution of religions to peace, justice and the preservation of creation, rather than to new violations and conflicts.

Although around 75 percent of the Turkish population would welcome the current re-Islamization of the originally Christian Hagia Sophia, this shows that the gap between the people, who rely on a respectful dialogue between religions and a religiously nationalist instrumentalized population in Turkey, goes deep. "This makes the development of a modern Turkey and its treatment of religious minorities worse. It is also clear that Kemal Atatürk's separation of state and religion is also clear, but as the situation in Europe shows, it certainly allows and can even promote cooperation for the benefit of the people," Kuhn emphasizes.

In the dedication of Hagia Sophia as a museum, a modus vivendi had been found since 1934, which also showed respect for the religious feelings of Orthodox Christians - and many Western Christians. "The fact that this respect is now deliberately being trampled underfoot is unfortunately an affront of the first kind. The impact on the Sunni-Christian dialogue, which has so far been so positive, is not yet foreseeable. A wave of fundamentalization is now to be feared on both sides, both with Christians and Muslims." But - Kuhn continues: "We hope and pray that the reconciliation projects of "Christians In Need" in Muslim countries will not be affected by this cultural vandalism."  [In many respects CiN sounds like just another NGO]

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Early morning fire destroys much of 249-year-old San Gabriel Mission church

Early morning fire destroys much of 249-year-old San Gabriel Mission church:



A fire broke out at the San Gabriel Mission early Saturday and burned the roof and much of the church’s interior, officials said.




Authorities have not determined what caused the blaze at the 249-year-old church on 428 S. Mission Drive.




The San Gabriel Fire Department received a call about the fire at around 4:30 a.m. and arrived at the scene to find flames through the roof, Capt. Antonio Negrete told KTLA.



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A little different perspective

Saturday, July 11, 2020

David Cole's Interview With Hutton Gibson is Forthcoming

Edit: David Cole was one of the only people that Hutton Gibson trusted to be fair to him and do this interview to discuss his life's work.  The former seminarian and father of Mel Gibson is an interesting man, whatever you may have been told or believe.  Cole has hit the target for his expenses and we await the release of the finished product.



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30 years from now, Thug Gordon won't be skateboarding

He'll be riding public transit (Über is too expensive) and still fighting BLM. Watch out! Tim has weed and he'll punch you in the head. Bring Amberlamps!

Friday, July 10, 2020

In defense of a good priest

7th Century Fore Abbey

An email I sent to the Bishop of Columbus, Ohio:

June 30, 2020

Dear Bishop Brennan, I am a former resident in the Columbus diocese, and am a retired writer and editor currently residing in Hungary. I have met Fr. Klee a number of times and hold him in high esteem. His anti-abortion work is very commendable. In castigating this good and holy priest, Fr. Klee, you write that, "The Catholic Church proposes a beautiful, life-giving and liberating vision to the world based on the truths about the human person, human sexuality, marriage and the family. We proclaim with one breath the Splendor of Truth and the Joy of the Gospel. The fundamental truth is that every human person is created in the image and likeness of God and as such, must be treated with dignity and respect."

If that is so, dear Bishop Brennan, then why... continue reading




More on Fr. Joseph Klee
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Newsom Abetting China in Planned Takeover of America

By David Martin

Late breaking news is confirming long-standing suspicions that Governor Newsom of California is a Communist agent who is abetting Red China’s plan to subdue America under Communism. COVID-19, known also as the "China Flu," has merely been his tool.

According to NewsomWatch.com, Governor Newsom has been funneling hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to Communist China in exchange for political favors. These include keeping California artificially afloat in the face of bankruptcy as well as keeping him in office. 

His Communist collusion coincides with his role in instigating civil violence last month when he told Black Lives Matter protesters, "I want you to know that you matter. To those who want to express themselves [riotously]...keep doing it. Your rage is real."  

Newson's impassioned support for Antifa and BLM directly coincides with China's support of these terrorist groups in their work to destroy property, tear down statues, burn entire city blocks, and shoot innocent people. 

The destabilization and fear mongering advanced by these terrorists come in anticipation of a planned Communist takeover of America. According to Natural News, China is providing full-auto weapons upgrade parts to Black Lives Matter through a smuggling operation that was intercepted by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP).

Race War Planned

What Newsom has done is to turn California into a port of entry for China to smuggle in weapons and other gear for the anticipated race-war that is planned for America. The worst of it is that this criminal collusion has been done under the pretext of "public health and safety." 

According to The Health Ranger Report, nearly a billion dollars was sent by Newsom to China to supposedly purchase face masks for Californians – face masks that never actually arrived! 

“That’s because this isn’t a billion dollars for ‘masks,'” writes Health Ranger's Mike Adams, in an exposé on Newsom’s treasonous acts. "It’s part of a massive money laundering operation to funnel money to China, so that China can funnel money and weapons back to Newsom in preparation for the civil war that they’re launching.”

Newsom is facilitating the transfer of weapons and ammunition from China to the United States, where much of it is being stored at the Easy End Complex in Sacramento. Pallets upon pallets of Chinese munitions are being stockpiled right under our nose, thanks to Newsom and his global cronies who are working feverishly to subdue America under a communistic one-world government. 

“Essentially, Gov. Newsom has been stockpiling weapons and ammo in preparation for a civil war that he’s been helping to make reality,” notes the Health Ranger, who further points out how this coincides with Barack Obama’s infamous vision concerning the future of America:

“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set … We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”  Barack Obama

Was it not a national security force that aided Hitler in terrorizing Germany?    

What we have witnessed in the wake of the orchestrated George Floyd killing is the framing and defunding of our police and military in favor of this new red ‘security force’ that has wrought havoc across America. Yea, we have seen revolution in the making.  

And so, Newsom is quietly paving the way for revolution by working directly with China to stockpile weapons and by fomenting the violent division that is tearing our nation asunder in the advent of what could turn out to be a historic blood-bath on American soil. 

Unfortunately, many have yet to wake up to the fact that Russia has master-minded this plan for America's takeovera takeover that will eventually materialize with an invasion of the U.S.  Russia will utilize the manpower of China as they make their thrust forward, but first comes revolution. 

United Prayer will Conquer Satan

This is why it is imperative that Americans ignore governors like Newsom, Inslee, and Whitmer and that they keep their allegiance to God and country, and in that order. Newsom has no intention of allowing Catholic Churches to operate in full capacity again but plans a complete lock-down on the Church, so the bishops should take courage and open the churches without restrictions that the faithful might flock to the churches and make public reparation to hold back this terrible time of trial that the enemy has planned for us. 

For it doesn't take a learned person to see that this crisis mushroomed when the churches were ordered shut, and who ordered the churches shut in California but Gavin Newsom! 

Fervent public prayer  especially the Mass and Rosary  is our only recourse for victory, which is why the Communists have worked so hard to keep the churches closed. They know they can't succeed with their plan if America is on its knees. This is the positive side to this and one that should be contemplated. It's fail-proof, so America should swing the church doors open and use the churches for public prayer that the doors of peace might remain open to us.  

The saints tell us that the devils must flee at the sound of prayer, so we should take courage in knowing that we can drive these political devils and their satanic Grand Masters from our midst by simply uniting in prayer against the common enemy of God.           

https://www.newsomwatch.com/2020-07-07-newsom-wired-half-billion-communist-china-face-mask-money-laundering.html

Hypocrisy!

End of Secular Turkey: Turkish Court Bulldozes Way to Islamic Services in Hagia Sofia



Edit: in a move that has been developing for some time, Turkey is going to continue to become increasingly Islamic, while the rest of the West becomes more secular. Nature abhors a vacuum but no one is even seriously considering retaking Constantinople.  

Deus Vult!!

A Turkish court has revoked the Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia's status as a museum, paving the way for it to be converted into a mosque as desired by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The building was once a cathedral.

A top Turkish court ruled Friday that the 1934 conversion of the Hagia Sophia into a museum was unlawful.

It canceled a 1934 cabinet decision and ruled that the UNESCO World Heritage site should be reopened to Muslim worship. The decision was in line with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s calls to turn the site into a mosque despite international criticism. The United States and Orthodox Christian leaders are among those that have not approved of the decision.

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Italians Refuse to Wear Stupid Masks — It’s a Hoax!

[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.

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Psst!



Hey bishops:

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.  

More here

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Francis Self-Censors Himself on Hong Kong

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 BadillaIts 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)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com


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Benedikt Egli: "The Faith is Evaporated, Vaporized, Dissipated" Especially in Catholic Schools


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".

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

You can order the book in German online, here.

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Emanuele Ferrario Founder of Radio Maria Has Died


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." 

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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