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Ukraine Will Fall in 30 Days
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| President Zelensky as he truly is |
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| Thanks to Canon212 for the Timestamps! |
The following is a status report of what appears to be happening at this time (2022. 02. 27 at 12:00 noon Kiev time) in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [If you don’t want to listen to the above report, here is CRP aka Gonzalo Lira’s written report)
I am trying to be as realistic as possible. I mean no disrespect or animus to either the Ukrainian side or the Russian side. I am not in any sense questioning the bravery of the soldiers of any nation, nor do I mean to give any offense. I live permanently in Ukraine, I love the Ukrainian people, and my children are Ukrainian citizens. In what I am about to say, I am trying to give a realistic, sober assessment of the current state of play.
The Russians have entered the center of Kharkiv, I know this from eyewitness accounts of people that I know there. There is small arms fighting, but generally light resistance. In the south, Kherson has fallen and the Russian army seems to have captured Zaporozhia. It seems clear that Dnipro will be reached within 3 to 5 days. At this time, Kiev is being surrounded by Russian tanks. There is sporadic small arms fire outside the city, but no big battles.
The Russian strategy seems to be to encircle the cities, while destroying military installations. The vast majority of civilian infrastructure in the areas under attack have been untouched and are functioning normally. It also seems very clear that the Russians have used their older equipment and less experienced soldiers in this initial assault. Very few of the high-tech modern weaponry that the Russians possess are being used in this first push. This would lead one to believe that the Russians want to probe and exhaust Ukrainian defenses before bringing out top-tier men and materiel.
The Russians are being incredibly disciplined insofar as their information management is concerned. The only information coming out of the Russians comes directly from the Ministry of Defense or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Their information so far has been 100% accurate, which I think is a deliberate strategy. There has been a great deal of Ukrainian propaganda that turned out to be complete fantasy, but even after these stories have been proven to be false, people cling to them.
At the current pace of operations, the Russians will completely capture Ukraine within 7 to 14 days. They are winning, and winning decisively. Maps comparing the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 to this current mechanized invasion show that the Russians are outpacing the Americans by a substantial margin. And as I said, they are using their second-tier men and weapons, and they did not use air power to soften Ukraine for several weeks, as the Americans did in 2003. Any claims that the Ukrainians are winning or holding back the Russians is complete fantasy.
This is the current state of play as I perceive it at this time.
Gonzalo Lira
Kiev, Ukraine
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Monday, February 28, 2022
Paul VI’s Failed Ostpolitik and Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968
Soviet tanks in Prague's Wenceslas Square.
(Rome) A historical event is still very close in time and yet seems to have disappeared from general consciousness. At the end of August 1968, Pope Paul VI condemned the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, which crushed the "Prague Spring".
Paul VI described the invasion as a "serious blow to the international order" in his condemnation and called for "that insight into every motive for the conflict is preferred and that peace can be ensured in the civil coexistence of the peoples affected". At the same time, the head of the Church made a larger sum available to support Czech and Slovak refugees, as the Osservatore Romano reported.
At the same time, the Pope asked Caritas and the international Catholic charities to help the refugees.
On August 21, when the invasion began, Paul VI was just on the way to Bogotá to attend the World Eucharistic Congress. The Pope announced that he would immediately interrupt his visit to Colombia: "We would be willing to give up our trip at once if we knew that our presence and action could in any way help ameliorate the evil that is already afflicting that nation so dear to us". He also said in that first statement:
"And may the Lord of Peace, to whose honor we make this journey, share His mercy with us and restore 'rest of order' to all."
During his stay in Bogotá and after his return to Castelgandolfo, he repeatedly expressed his concern for the people of Czechoslovakia.
In his September 1 address, Paul VI said that the presence of Warsaw Pact troops in Czechoslovakia meant "imposing an alien will on the life of a people." This is "a serious offense against freedom and national dignity and a threat to the security of other nations".
He reaffirmed his “solidarity with those who are suffering” and “the need to reaffirm with renewed energy the moral principles that must protect the dignity of the human person, on which social and political relations must be based.
"Those who suffer violence and those who look on helplessly," Paul VI. continued, “we often experience a sense of helplessness and despair, and then the resort to prayer, which becomes logical and compelling especially for us Christians.”
“God does not abandon human events to a bad fate. May God, who will one day be the supreme distributor of justice, generously enlighten those responsible for the destiny of nations, comfort the weak and make them a people of prophets and heroes. God can always save us.”
The background
For the Vatican, the events of 1968 burst in the middle of its new "Ostpolitik" launched under John XXIII. and was seen as a "learning process" from communism. What Pope Roncalli had initiated had been systematized and rationalized by Pope Montini. The history of the Catholic Church behind the Iron Curtain is one of heroism and tragedy. The Catholics had against them the state power which the Communists used. From the late 1950s onwards, however, they could no longer be sure of Rome's support.
From the outset, some core concepts of communism, such as "atheism", "revolution", "class struggle" and the "non-recognition of private property", were particularly problematic for the Holy See with Pius IX. in the encyclical Qui pluribus and 1864 in the Syllabus Errorum and by Leo XIII. in Quod apostolici muneris (1878) and Pius XI. in Divini redemptoris (1937).
While the encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge against National Socialism, which was promulgated in the same year, is still known today, hardly anyone remembers the encyclical against Communism. This has to do with the fact that communist propaganda successfully helped focus attention on the first in order to cause the second to be forgotten.
Pius XII, who was Cardinal Secretary of State at the time the encyclical was published, firmly maintained the Vatican's anti-Communist stance, but under his successor John XXIII. since 1958, the foreign policy of the Holy See had changed. Now, under the sign of "peace", a "normalization" of relations was sought in order to enable the approximately 60 million Catholics under Communist rule to lead a religious life. Paul VI it said in 1965, at the end of the Second Vatican Council, why this Church assembly did not comment on Communism, although this had been desired by many bishops beforehand:
"(...) so as not to provoke greater evil. (...) Also ready to look to the present and future and not to the recent painful past, wherever he encounters effective signs of good will”.
Moscow, through its agitprop departments, has supported the Vatican's "learning process" on how to deal with Communism. The sandwich to which he was even steered still awaits processing. This included the 1963 masterpiece, the publication of Rolf Hochhuth's play "The Deputy", with which Pope Pius XII. was basely discredited for failing to defend the Jews from the Nazi "final solution." In reality, it was about shattering the reputation of the most morally upright anti-Communist figure in the world and the anti-Communism he represented.
The realignment
The election of John XXIII. meant a paradigm shift, including a move away from open anti-Communism. The new “Ostpolitik” he started was a huge stage victory for the USSR. The decision not to allow the Second Vatican Council to discuss Communism was strategic and exactly what Moscow wanted. There should no longer be a condemnation of Communism like in 1937. Paul VI, who had ruled since 1963, believed in this ironclad turning away from anti-Communism, and thus enabled a largely unhindered spread of Marxist ideas and more or less intensive attempts to unite socialism and Christianity in the Church. The forces sympathizing with the political left were openly advancing, while the official ecclesiastical line, which had lasted until 1958, was put on the defensive on all fronts.
Soviet reports indicate that in Moscow in 1968 it was very well received, for example by its agents at the fourth plenary session of the World Council of Churches, held in Uppsala, MN that summer, that the Vatican, in the run-up to the invasion of Czechoslovakia, remained diplomatically "passive”. This did not correspond to the attitude of the Catholics behind the Iron Curtain, nor to those in Czechoslovakia, although or precisely because the anti-Church measures there after the Communist seizure of power were particularly harsh. Czech and Slovak Catholics supported the "Prague Spring" while Rome stayed away from it.
Paul VI refrained from sharp protests even after the Soviet troops invaded. He focused on peace appeals and words of support for Czech and Slovak Catholics. He avoided naming the aggressors, above all the USSR and other Warsaw Pact states. The Communist "brother states", including the Central Committee of the SED, observed "attempts at the renaissance of the Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia, which must be countered". Moscow accused the Vatican of inciting the Uniates in Ukraine. The Eastern Bloc was anxious, perhaps also concerned, not to allow the conflict to spread to other Eastern Bloc countries.
While the Vatican hesitated, cardinals like the Uniate Ukrainian Slipyj and the Hungarian Mindszenty spoke out loudly to condemn Communism. That was also the reason why these churchmen were not only kept away from official Vatican foreign policy, but also excluded. Cardinal Slipyj, who had been imprisoned in communist camps for 18 years, lamented that Ukrainian Catholics had "no defenders".
Was the Vatican thanked for this attitude? As the Soviet tanks rolled through Prague, Soviet journalists published a kind of “White Paper” on the Prague Spring. In it, the Vatican was named among the “counter-revolutionary forces of world imperialism.”
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
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Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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+++Schönborn’s Mother Dies at 102
Eleonore Schönborn, mother of Vienna Cardinal
Schönborn, 102, passed away in Montafon, Western Austria. The Cardinal spent the last hours at her side.
Born Freiin von Doblhof, Eleonore had a “wonderful” youth in Moravia, but her father died early. She meets the painter (and Freemason) Hugo-Damian Schönborn at a party around her 22nd birthday. On their third date, he asked her to marry him.
Schönborn became a soldier in Stalingrad and deserted to England. At the end of the war, Eleonore had to leave the family castle within one hour. Her Christoph was born a few months earlier. She came to Austria where her marriage turned into a disaster. The couple divorced in 1958 which left deep scars on her children.
She remade her life, became a secretary, built a house, was involved in the parish. At the end, she went almost completely blind.
Why Bother With NO Fasting Rules?
Edit: Novus Ordo fasting rules seem pointless to me. Why bother? Found this at a site on FB.
I remember reading about how Evelyn Waugh bought scales which were owned by Recusant Catholics for the purpose, to measure his portions during Lent. He must have purchased them at a junk store. No wonder he was so depressed about what was going on at Westminster and worldwide at the time of the Council. It probably brought him to an early death.
Saturday, February 26, 2022
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Cardinal Sandoval’s Censored Video is Back
Cardinal Sandoval spoke a year ago in a video about the pandemic, Corona and plans for world domination. The video was deleted, but now it's back.
(Mexico City) The censorship rage of the operators of the leading social networks does not stop at this cardinal. A year ago, a video message from Cardinal Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, Archbishop Emeritus of Guadalajara in Mexico, fell victim to it. On January 12, 2021, he commented on the so-called pandemic. The video received a warning from Facebook and was deleted from the Cardinal's channel. At that time, Katholisch.de also reported about it, the news portal of the German Bishops' Conference, without taking offense at the censorship. The video is now available elsewhere. How long?
“Professional examiners” had discovered that “untruths” were being spread in the video. The transition of the Internet from a haven of freedom of expression to a desert of censorship began the day after the US presidential elections in 2016, when the ruling establishment was shocked to discover that Donald Trump had unexpectedly won the elections. Since then, censorship has intensified rapidly and is becoming increasingly massive. Unwelcome opinions are suppressed. "Professional examiners" or "fact checkers" are put forward as justification, who usually check little and certainly do not stand up for "the truth", but are only the alibi for the censorship measures. Information was yesterday. Today is propaganda.
Katholisch.de gave the censors to understand that they also have the green light from the Church side, cardinal or not. One must show "attitude", which is why the Church hierarchy, especially that of the German and Santa Marta, constantly reaffirms whose side they are on. Of course, Katholisch.de did not publish the video, nor any link.
After more than a year, Cardinal Sandoval's video is available again, on YouTube. It will not be tolerated there for long. So far, however, it has not been noticed.
Many months before Cardinal Sandoval, in May 2020, a group of cardinals and bishops issued a warning with the appeal Veritas liberabit vos:
"There are powers that want to abuse Corona to seize world domination."
“These gentlemen determine how long the pandemic will last”
Cardinal Sandoval said right at the beginning of his video message that "these gentlemen" will determine how long the so-called pandemic will last, whether "one or two months", or whether "three, four, five, six years". In the ears of Facebook and other BigTech global players, such a statement sounds like a “conspiracy theory”. In reality, it can rely on well-known representatives of the establishment, most recently even on WHO Secretary-General Tedros Ghebreyesus. He tweeted on February 18 from the Munich Security Conference:
“Pleased to join @MunSecConf today. I was asked: when will the #COVID19 pandemic will end? It will end when we choose to end it. Because ultimately, it's not a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice."
In plain language, he said three days ago: "The pandemic will end when we choose to end it".
To clarify who is meant by “we”, Tedros Ghebreyesus sent a photo along with the text that shows him on stage next to Bill Gates at the Munich Security Conference.
WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus with Bill Gates (red circle) last weekend at the Munich Security Conference.
Cardinal Sandoval speaks of a "hard, difficult time such as the history of mankind has never seen". He calls Bill Gates a "threat". This man is known to everyone "because he is a prophet who predicts the future". It is the same with this corona pandemic. What Gates says sounds like "magic," says the cardinal sarcastically, who then reveals that a laboratory in Atlanta, of which Gates is a "benefactor, sponsor," is researching smallpox, a disease that is considered to have long since been overcome. Cardinal Sandoval links Gates' warnings of the next pandemic to his research into the smallpox virus. An unequivocal indication that the cardinal believes the pandemic was artificially and intentionally created.
"What do these gentlemen want?"
The question is what "these gentlemen want," said the cardinal. They are people who have "great power in the financial world", even if it is "very hidden". The cardinal accuses this group of people of having “created this virus” “that is attacking many nations”.
“These gentlemen want world government, a new world order. They only want one government, one army, one currency, one economy and one religion, which will certainly not be Christian. It will be the religion of the earth, of mother earth, of man, of humanity, of universal brotherhood.”
And what are the pandemics for, asks the cardinal.
Tedros tweet of February 18, 2022
"To weaken the nations, impoverish the people, the economy is devastated, to weaken education through the closed educational institutions, to reduce religious practice, to prevent gatherings, etc."
Above all, great fear was spread among the population and "Fear makes you ill, the doctors know that". Fear weakens the immune system and self-defense.
"They want to reduce the population because they say we are too many people on earth."
Therefore "5-6 billion" should be removed. The question is whether they will achieve this:
"Will they make it? Temporarily maybe.”
The struggle currently taking place in the United States is not between Biden and Trump, but "between those who want the new world order and those who stand up for the independence of this great nation". With independence, “the US could do a lot of good to positively influence other nations as well.”
In the US, of course, there are many supporters of the new world order “and in other countries too, many leaders are partisans of the new world order”. They could be "temporarily successful".
According to Cardinal Sandoval, he says this because there are "mysterious words" in divine revelation, in the Old and New Testaments, "that are now beginning to be fulfilled, for example Isaiah, chapter 20".
"And the chip they plan to put in with the vaccine to keep you under control. The mark of the beast spoken of in Apocalypse chapter 13. Anyone who does not have the mark of the beast on their hands and forehead will not be able to buy or sell.”
And further:
"Our Lord Jesus Christ spoke of a great tribulation, a difficult time."
The Lord will then come again and the question will be who he will still find on earth with faith. However, those days would be cut short for the sake of the elect who will not apostatize.
“So there are mysterious statements in the Scriptures. Apocalyptic literature is full of those mysterious things that you don't take seriously or understand until they happen."
The decisive factor is that "they can temporarily enforce the new world order, I cannot rule that out, but they will certainly not win".
“What is definitely certain is that Christ will win. Our God definitely wins. There is a very strong, mysterious, but very strong word of the Lord when he says about the Church:The gates of Hell will not prevail against Her.
“Even if the whole world of these supporters of the new world order, which is anti-Christian, conspires, they will not succeed. Our Lord Jesus Christ who is with us will triumph. He said: I will be with you always, even until the end of time. The Lord sees everything. He looks down from the sky and laughs at the plans of these people, which he can destroy with a breath.”
And finally:
“Dear brothers, dear sisters: do not be intimidated, do not be paralyzed by those who want to make the whole earth one huge flock, where a few shepherds, from very high positions, who are very hidden, but feel very sure that they can tell us what to do and how to live. But much higher than them, much mightier than them is our Lord Jesus Christ, King and Lord of ages, King of kings and Lord of lords. Let's not live in fear of them. We believe in God because we believe in Christ:
Our destiny is in Your hands and You will save us according to Your immeasurable goodness and mercy.
May the Blessed Virgin Our Lady of Guadalupe continue to protect us and we will have nothing to fear.”
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: Youtube (Screenshot)
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
AMDG
Prayer for the Conversion of Russia is Trending
[catholicism.org] The following prayers are excerpted word-for-word from The Raccolta , a manual of indulgences, prayers, and devotions officially authorized by the Holy See. We are using the 1957 Benzinger Brothers edition, which was republished in 2004 by Loreto Publications and Preserving Christian Publications. This edition is a high quality exact photo reproduction of the original, which bore the Imprimatur of Francis Cardinal Spellman.
All the numberings, titles, and notes on indulgences at the end of the prayers, as well as the prayers themselves, are exactly as they appear in this official edition.
These beautiful prayers appear in the section of The Raccoltaentitled, “For the Conversion of Non-Catholics.”
630
To obtain the reunion of the Christians of the East
O Lord, who hast united the various nations in the confession of Thy name, we pray Thee for the Christian peoples of the East. Mindful of the high place they held of old in Thy Church, we beg of Thee to inspire them with an ardent desire to regain that place, in order to form, with us, one only fold under the guidance of one and the same Shepherd. Grant that their hearts may be docile to hear the voice of their holy Doctors, who are likewise our Fathers in the faith. Let a spirit of concord and charity, which is a sign of Thy presence among the faithful, hasten the day when our prayers shall be united to theirs, so that every nation and every tongue may acknowledge and glorify our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
An indulgence of 500 days.
A plenary indulgence once a month, on the usual conditions, for the daily recitation of this prayers (Apostolic Brief, April 15, 1916; S.P. Ap., May 22, 1937) .
631
Invocation for the Conversion of Russia
Saviour of the world, save Russia.
An indulgence of 300 days (S.P. Ap., Nov. 24, 1924)
632
Prayer to Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus for the Conversion of Russia
O loving and compassionate Saint, deign to comfort our Russian brethren, the victims of a long a cruel persecution of the Christian name; obtain for them perseverance in the faith, progress in the love of God and of their neighbor, and in confidence toward the most holy Mother of God; prepare for them holy priests who shall make reparation for the blasphemies and sacrileges committed against the holy Eucharist; grant that angelic purity, especially in the young, and every Christian virtue may once more flourish amongst them, to the end that this noble people, being delivered from all slavery and returning freely to the one fold entrusted by the loving Heart of the Risen Christ to Saint Peter and his successors, may at length taste the joy of glorifying the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit in the fellowship of the holy Catholic Church. Amen.
An indulgence of 300 days.
A plenary indulgence on the usual conditions, if this prayer is said devoutly every day for a month (S.P. Ap., Aug. 19, 1929)
Voris Just Can’t Stop Lying
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Wednesday, February 23, 2022
“Traditiones Custodes Was Not Intended for Ecclesia Dei Communities”
Father Benoît Paul-Joseph was one of the two FSSP Brothers who were received by Pope Francis in early February. In an interview, he reports on the encounter.
On Monday, the Society of St. Peter (FSSP) announced that two of its representatives were received by Pope Francis on February 4 and the Pope granted the Society a special decree on February 11 to mitigate the Motu Propio traditionis custodes for this community of tradition. One of the two representatives who met the Pope in Santa Marta was Father Benoît Paul-Joseph, District Superior of the French District. He gave an interview on the events to the French online daily Présent, conducted by Anne Le Pape.
Présent: Father, what is the background to your recent meeting with the Holy Father?
Father Benoît Paul-Joseph: Together with Father Ribeton, Regent of the European Seminary of our Fraternity, I wrote directly to the Pope on December 28 last year to express our dismay and incomprehension at the publication of Traditionis Custodes and the Responsa in order to express and confidently appeal to his care. He answered us personally the very next day – everything was scanned, but the letter was actually his handwriting – reassuring us and inviting us to come and explain our position. So we contacted his secretariat and February 4, 2022 was set as the date when Father Ribeton and I traveled to Rome.
We were received at the Santa Marta guest house for almost an hour. The Pope was very benevolent throughout the conversation and showed a real caring. He confirmed to us verbally what he had indicated to us in writing, namely that he really distinguishes our situation from that of priests who are not members of the former Ecclesia Dei communities and that in our particular case, since our Institute has the special permission to use the ancient liturgical books, this document was not intended for us.
Présent: So you were immediately reassured?
Father Benoît Paul-Joseph: Yes, indeed. The Pope also reminded us that in the Moto Proprio, when speaking of the former Ecclesia Dei Institutes, it is indicated that in future they will come under the authority of a new Dicastery, namely that for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life and that it was intentional that we were not directly mentioned in this document as we would depend on a new jurisdiction. "You are not affected by these restrictions," he told us, "but you retain your own right, which was granted to you when you were founded in 1988." The Pope was really touched by the history of our Fraternity, by the fact that our founders turned to the Holy Father in 1988 to express their confusion, much as we have done now. He felt that this was an act of faith that deserved to be honored and encouraged. He assured us that we would retain the use of all liturgical books, including the pontificale for ordinations.
Présent: So you now have all the guarantees?
Father Benoît Paul-Joseph: We respectfully asked him if all this could be formalized. We received the letter yesterday, Saturday 19 February, so we did not wish to discuss it publicly before then. It is a decree that revisits the decree of the Ecclesia Dei Commission of September 1988, which confirms the use of the liturgical books of 1962 for our Fraternity, a decree this time signed by the Pope. The 1988 was signed by the Ecclesia Dei Commission.
Présent: So is your position vis-à-vis the bishops confirmed?
Father Benoît Paul-Joseph: The bishops are still free to accept us in their diocese or not, but once we exercise an apostolate in a diocese, we cannot be argued with the argument of obedience to the Successor of Peter or the recent document [Traditionis Custodes] requiring the use of the current liturgical books as our own right is protected by a de facto exception.
Présent: What about the consecrations?
P. Benoît Paul-Joseph: There is still a small gray area here. The bishops are not members of the Society of Peter. Recently it has been said that they no longer have the right to use the traditional pontifical and this may cause some hesitation. But the Pope was delighted to hear us discuss our future ordinations and his position in this regard is clear.
Présent: Do you know whether other institutes will have a similar experience, or was that not an issue during this visit?
Father Benoît Paul-Joseph: Verbally, during the audience, the Pope spoke in the plural of “the Iinstitutes” of Ecclesia Dei. I can't be more categorical, but that's what emerged from the discussion.
Translation: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: Present (screenshot)
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.Com
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Monday, February 21, 2022
Thug Gordon and Patrick Coffin discuss the mess in Rome
Sunday, February 20, 2022
Saturday, February 19, 2022
People of Toronto Stand up to the Corona Tyranny
Edit: still demonstrating after police attempted to tow trucks and cleared the capital.