between Poitiers and Tours, Charles Martel defeated Mohamedan forces.
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"The serpent's attempt is to make people believe that God must disappear so that man can grow. God is resisting the freedom of man, and we have to get rid of God. Today, he indicates a form of even more subtle atheism, to make believe that we do not need God to be happy and to give meaning to life and the world. In reality, the dragon does not just accuse God. The apocalypse also calls him, the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them day and night before God "(Rev 12:10).
"Our Church needs the guidance, support and protection of the Archangel Michael so that she will not be beaten by the winds and storms of spiritual error and confusion in teaching that are prevalent today, even in ecclesial communion."
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Pope Francis warned against historic revisionism and any rebirth of anti-Semitism that fueled the Holocaust as he marked the annual remembrance Sunday for Lithuania's centuries-old Jewish community that was nearly wiped out during World War II.
Francis began his second day in the Baltics in Lithuania's second city, Kaunas, where an estimated 3,000 Jews survived out of a community of 37,000 during the 1941-1944 Nazi occupation. He ended it back in the capital, Vilnius, to pay his respects to Lithuanians who were deported to Siberian gulags or were tortured and killed at home during five decades of Soviet occupation.
Francis honored freedom fighters at the former KGB headquarters [Imagine if he visited Gestapo HQ] where anti-Soviet partisans were detained and executed, solemnly touring the underground chambers that have now been turned into a haunting museum of occupation atrocities.
"Always attentive to the theme of immigrants, representatives of a church that accepts and does not discriminate".
"We can say today that the restoration of the liturgy begun by Summorum Pontificum in the Church is irreversible."
"The progressives, who ultimately represent a deadly liberalism, saw an opportunity in the resignation of Benedict XVI. "
"Benedict XVI. has alluded to his exhaustion. One speaks of a worrying condition of his heart. In fact, one can also say that he did not succeed, did not understand, perhaps did not want to find a strong help in the exercise of his office. Knowing he was an intellectual of the highest order, but not a man of governance, he could have sought the assistance of a Secretary of State who steadfastly directed the Curia, a man of sound doctrine for the Congregation of the Faith, cardinals as dicastery leaders, powerful, barons 'are, as was the case in the time of John Paul II, but this time with the difference that they would have been Ratzingerian barons. Instead, he gave the impression of hesitating as to which line was the real 'Ratzinger line': that of the council theologian, who had contributed to the overthrow of the curia of Pius XII., or that of the author of 'The State of Faith', who for almost 25 years as Prefect of the Congregation of the Faith has sought to stem the raging torrent of the Council and developing intellectually, the restoration process begun by John Paul II."
"We can say today that the restoration of the liturgy begun by Summorum Pontificum in the Church is irreversible."
"The progressives, who ultimately represent a deadly liberalism, got a breath of fresh morning air at the resignation of Benedict XVI.”
When Benedict XVI resigned, Abbé Barthe responded with the following words in the aforementioned interview on 16 February 2013:
"Benedict XVI. has alluded to his exhaustion. One speaks of a worrying condition of his heart. In fact, one can also say that he did not succeed, did not understand, perhaps did not want to find a strong help in the exercise of his office. Knowing he was an intellectual of the highest order, but not a man of governance, he could have sought the assistance of a Secretary of State who steadfastly directed the Curia, a man of sound doctrine for the Congregation of the Faith, cardinals as dicastery leaders, powerful, barons 'are, as was the case in the time of John Paul II, but this time with the difference that they are Ratzingerian barons. Instead, he gave the impression of hesitating which line was the real 'Ratzinger line': that of the counciliar theologian, who had contributed to the overthrow of the curia of Pius XII., or that of the author of 'The State of Faith', who for almost 25 years as Prefect of the Congregation of the Faith has sought to stem the raging torrent of the Council and, intellectually developed the restoration process begun by John Paul II has developed."
"This is particularly evident in the spread of repugnant sins that are followed by media-appropriate guilty confessions rather than a true ascetic and spiritual renewal?”