Issue 76: January-February-March 2010 76 "On the blessed Belgium stretch out your hand! "
CONTENTS I. Editorial: Pope Pius XII
the Church and the Jews p. 1
II. Being afraid of the new Archbishop of Malines-Brussels
? p. 2
III. A blank page 5
IV. The parable of the motorist P. 8
V. Diabolically yours p. 9
VI. For the year priestly
the priest and the Church P. 11
VII. Good News P. 12
VIII. Readers' p. 15
IX. Announcements and readings per 15
I. EDITORIAL
POPE PIUS XII, THE CHURCH AND THE JEWS
Born in Rome, March 3, 1876, Eugenio Pacelli was long right arm of Cardinal Gasparri, Vatican Secretary of State. In 1917 during the war world, he was appointed Nuncio to Bavaria, and in 1920, Nuncio of the new German Republic. In 1930, he negotiated a concordat with Germany, but Hitler took power in 1933 was responsible for numerous violations of the concordat.
Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope March 2, 1939 while Hitler continued preparations for the Second World War. At Christmas 1939, when the war was triggered by Hitler in September, Pius XII publishes a document in which he gives five key principles for a peace between nations. In Italy, Mussolini comes to the aid of Hitler June 10, 1940. Pius XII organizes an extensive program relief to prisoners of war. Hitler occupied Rome by the SS September 10, 1943. Pius XII, December 24, 1942 and June 2, 1943 had denounced the atrocities of the Nazi extermination of Jews by Hitler learns that after the protest of the bishops of Holland this monster did pick up the Jews for thousands exterminated in the crematoria of Auschwitz. In 1943, Pope Pius XII gave to the Jesuit Dezza: "They complain that the Pope does not speak. But the Pope can not speak. If he spoke, it would be worse. " Instead of launching a public protest that he was preparing, but which could trigger a new wave of arrests, Pius XII secretly opened the Vatican to the Jews of Rome. Over 500, hidden in the Vatican, he should live, while hundreds more were shipped to the destination and death camp crematoria.
After the war, from 1945, thanks Jews, Jewish dignitaries, heads of government of the State of Israel tributary to the Vatican. Pius XII is seen as a rescuer of the Jewish people. We recall only that it led to the conversion of the Chief Rabbi of Rome and the thanks of Golda Meir. In 1963, Rolf Hochuth up in Berlin, at the instigation of the KGB, a play entitled Der Stellvertreter (Vicar), in which he accuses Pius XII did nothing for the Jews during the war. The media in Europe anticlerical seize this room and make an infernal din against Pius XII and the Church cons. Since then, numerous publications, essential documents relied on, all showed what Pius XII and the Church had done to save thousands of Jews during World War II.
recent media attacks against Benedict XVI have multiplied and have not hesitated to mutilate his lyrics to influence public opinion. This was the case when the Supreme Pontiff proclaimed the heroic virtues of Pius XII. "Lie, lie, Voltaire said: there will always be something."
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II. Being afraid of the new Archbishop of Malines-Brussels?
We will not waste our time here to report suspicious about the sometimes surly, guided and unjust that the appointment of Bishop Leonard as Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels has raised every day, especially among francophones on TV and in a Much of the press. They are unworthy of journalists supposed to objectively inform their readers ... The truth is that his detractors are afraid of him, knowing they will never be able to "put in a box" because of his intelligence, his clarity and a calm reflecting a singular strength of character. It is they who have been "boxed" (cf. RTBF Wednesday 03-02-10).
HERE BUT A FEW SAMPLES OF ATTACKS:
- "Leonardo, the man with phobias" (a member Walloon, Vers l'Avenir, 26/01/10)
- "Bishop Leonard will not do that he wants with the Liegeois' (a priest of the diocese of Liege)
- "It's not a disaster, but almost! (...) We know that he was pleased with the appointment of Benedict XVI. And with it, we may see the return of priests Lefebvrist friendly cassocks and the Mass in Latin. (One. .. dean of the diocese of Namur).
- "If man shines, he is also afraid. Because it never advances masked remember what the doctrine of the Church, might give rise to confusion among the 'people of God. " (O. Rogeau, Vif-The Express, 22/01/10).
- "Benedict XVI dares Monsignor Leonard (Le Soir, 16/01/10).
- "The appointment Leonardo revives the divisions "(Le Soir, 19/01/10).
- "The Church does more than lead the UC Louvain" (La Libre Belgique, 19/01/10)
- "According to our survey, only 17% of Catholics believe that Andre Leonard will do an excellent or good archbishop - "I thought I had more opponents," says Bishop Leonard (Le Soir, 20/01/10).
BUT OTHERS THINK OTHERWISE ...
* Welcome, my lord,
as I know, Christ and his apostles did not invite us to build our faith on a sponge, a soft material that absorbs and erases but on the rock. No offense to adherents of a religion bland, tasteless and colorless, Our Lord is "a cornerstone, not gelatin. Not displease them again, this is not the name of relativism, syncretism, the desire to please the world and tolerance in all directions as Christians died as martyrs, but because true to the Word of God (that they do not read by practicing the "sorting"), they believed in God, crucified and risen for our sins, save us from eternal death. Also, in an era of disorder and confusion, the despair and doubt suffered by humble, how not to rejoice that our Pope Benedict XVI has chosen an apostle clear and strong, conscious of unity in truth and not a pseudo-assembly between the true Catholic faith and doctrines that are otherwise.
A word of Cardinal Luciani (better known under the name John Paul I) comes to my mind. "Faith, he writes, is endangered not only by the assaults of those who attack it, but also by the silence of those who have the duty to speak, that is to say the bishops, servants the Word of God. " Dear Monsignor Leonard, welcome to you who, despite the hostility of many media, dare I am sure, to proclaim that "sound doctrine" which is so dear to St. Paul, has shaped the lives of so many saints. J.-P. Snyers, diocese of Liège
* Interview J.-Ph. NAVEZ, Professor, 31 (Tele Mosquito 26/01/10)
- Do you understand that it is disputed, including by Catholics?
Yes, because it was locked in an image that does not match. It is much more nuanced, more subtle than the caricature that is made. I've seen come into schools where it was awaited for by young people who considered him a bigot. After listening, most Young gave him reason.
- And when he says our TV mosquito that "homosexuals have encountered a blockage in their normal psychological development, which makes them abnormal, you follow it?
- It does not say that homosexuals are abnormal. Like Freud, he explains that there is a differentiation between the sexes and that in the nature of things, man is made to go with the woman. He wants to especially stress that to give birth to a human, it takes a man and a woman.
* (...) He knows what he wants. He wants, including priests for the Church and it is no coincidence that the diocese of Namur has half seminarians from Belgium.
- Who come to many foreign countries?
... And then I do not care that there are Poles and Africans among them. What matters is that new blood is brought into the Church by these young people, who know how to Namur, they receive a solid education.
Player Namur, interviewed by La Libre Belgique, 19/01/10. * All
guilty! "An attacking player, once again, to Bishop Leonard in Towards the Future of 2-1. His latest plan? Extremely serious: guilty, before thousands of viewers, having refrained from condemning Pope Benedict XVI, who himself is guilty of wanting beatify Pius XII, who was guilty, he, sympathy for Nazism ... In short, all guilty, including anyone who dare to defend the bishop, thus revealing his own penchant fascist! Player Vers l'Avenir, 12-1-10.
astonishing interview of Jean-Michel JAVAUX, co-president of Ecolo: he talks about his Catholic faith in Le Soir on 01/30/2010). Excerpts of his remarks to a great franchise have no in-tention policy, and publishing them, we are not trying to "solicit". But our readers deserve to know ...
- You are the surprise of our investigation. The Catholic religion has influence?
J.-M. Javaux: "One of the reasons I'm 'known' already is that I communicate (...). I am a Christian family. Up to 14-15 years, I am looking. There was Patro Ampsin (near Amay) home. Important (...). I am head of Patro and I will lead the leadership team of a group of Pele with people with disabilities. " [However, he was educated at the university] (...).
- And Andrew Leonard, our new Primate?
J. J.: We must not caricature the speech of Andrew Leonard on homosexuals. You can have a debate with him. This is a high spirit, formidable, and not in the negative sense. A pure intelligence. Much more nuanced than we think. " "Ah! if the priests were able to marry, maybe one day I thought about being a priest. "
- A. Leonard, a high spirit?
J.-GM: "You do not meet 50 men like him in his life. I look forward to his performance in 'Responding to a question, next Wednesday at the RTBF [Editor's note: Providing superb, even immediate answers to questions the most treacherous ... Initially, 27% of the recorded responses were supportive of the new archbishop, the end, 62 %!...]. Journalists are advised to prepare well. He canceled an important meeting in Rome to participate in the program. He has a mischievous side hyper. "
- Provocateur, too?
J.-GM: "Yes." [Then, comparing it to another Deputy Prime Minister]: "Same pure intelligences, sometimes victims themselves when they go too far in provocative. But he leaves no one indifferent. It arouses reflection. Cardinal Danneels is idolized rightly but if he was boss of the RTBF and RTL-TVI, he was fired for a long time, because .... his numbers are bad. "
- Laurette Onkelinx [other Deputy Prime Minister], among others, Andrew Leonard as a means dogmatic?
J.-GM: "For underestimate the man. She has 'screwed up' by saying it threatened the Belgian compromise. This compromise is the separation of church and state, which remains ".
[The author does not conceal, however, disagreed with Archbishop Leonardo on several ethical issues].
And the undocumented?
WYD: "Leonard had opened his episcopal palace to undocumented migrants. Is it progressive so far? The function creates man. I do not rule it surprised many people by a more subtle ".
- (...) By the way, are you practicing?
J.-GM: "It's a little more complicated, I feel very Christian, is very close to the Catholic religion, but there are things in the Catholic reading of the texts and the structuring of the clergy in which I do not recognize myself. "
CONVERSATION HASQUIN Herve, president emeritus of the ULB, key figure in the secular world Belgian
I would say three things : The first, which passes the background - and yet in our country we often attaches importance - that it is the first Walloon, since almost a century, is named Primate of the Church of Belgium. This is an example that could be drawn in Belgian politics! Secondly, I think we did a little too quickly disregard intellectual qualities of character. It is a brilliant academic. When one is not Catholic, we must recognize that we are dealing with an intellectually formidable opponent: this is not a poor who is appointed at the head of the Church of Belgium. Third, I recognize another quality - and personally, as secular and agnostic, this is something that comforts me, because it will avoid misunderstandings: Bishop Leonard does not advance masked. By his words and his attitude, he deserves it, for me to recall clearly what the doctrine of the Catholic Church. Because in his remarks that may offend some people - when he says he is against abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality and I forget, no doubt - it only report the substance of Catholic doctrine. I do so want him not: it is here for!
(...) At least with Archbishop Leonardo, you know what to expect. Therefore, the secular Action Center, who needed it, still has a bright future ahead of him ...
H. Hasquin, Le Soir, 19/01/10
* Judging the acts. "Have we no right - and indeed the duty - to judge the appointment of Bishop Leonard on his actions, namely those who are yet to come? . This remark struck the seal of common sense does not come from Bishop's University Club or Jousten Gustave Thibon: Jean-Maurice is DEHOUSSE [former Socialist minister and mayor of Liege] that should, claiming the "presumption of innocence" (in La Libre Belgique 22-1-10). "For my part, I enjoyed the debates in the dialectical sense of the bishop, of course, but also the fact that he is not afraid to express his convictions" (in Toward the Future 23-1-10) .
What is your greatest weakness? asked Le Vif of 22/01/10.
"Do not be so vulnerable, being insufficiently met by the attacks. People then have the unpleasant impression that I am unmoved. The human misery can move me to tears, but I am not emotionally affected by critics, which upsets here and there. I have good memories of good times, but am amnesiac blows carry me. "
* Response Mutien Omer HOUZIAUX, prof. Emeritus at the Univ. Liège, the editorial aggressive La Libre Belgique on 9-1-10 ... "As if to make sure the heat of a blaze that made you so wish, you prophesy: the arrival of Bishop Leonard at the Archbishopric divide the Christian community in Belgium. One can hardly imagine a more execrable villainy (...). For future editorials LLB, engage no more procrastinating some Deputy Prime socialist anticlericalism its atavistic will do wonders in a job otherwise unworthy of you. "
(s) old embryo, the Christian freely subject to 'Vox Romana', La Libre, 19/01/10.
IN BRIEF:
In 18 years, the Bishop of Namur has visited 3 times all the parishes in his diocese, created and supported 8 or 9 new communities of evangelization of youth, created a second seminar in Namur and ordered 85 priests.
"My priorities: the liturgy and the social" (Family Christian, 30/01/10).
On the internet Petition launched there is little in his favor, has already collected 10,098 signatures on Feb. 16: from Belgium, but also all neighboring countries, North America, South Africa, Asia, Indonesia, Lebanon, etc..
(see full list at www.pro-leonard.be and sign).
III. A blank
PERSECUTIONS YESTERDAY AND TODAY
ALGERIA, SAUDI ARABIA, TURKEY, IRAQ ...
"Nobody mentions reciprocity. When will the steeples and churches in Saudi Arabia? When will the free circulation of Algerians in their country? Restitution of their churches to Assyrian and Chaldean Christians in Turkey? The end of unpunished killings and discrimination against Christians in many Muslim countries? Outcry for minarets in Switzerland, but when silence is shaved churches, when Christians are killed or deprived of their basic rights. Why this silence, why this 'double standards'. "
A priest of the diocese of Liège
IRAQ ... (See article Saif Iskander, New Passover in December 2009).
the situation of Christians deteriorates in Muslim countries. They often have
the choice between exile and dhimmitude, which makes them second class citizens. Celebrate Christmas with discretion. That is what has just asked the Chaldean Bishop of Basra to the faithful, and what about to make all Christians from Iraq. On 15 December, two attacks in Mosul in northern Iraq, causing 4 deaths and 40 wounded. A car bomb exploded outside a Syrian Orthodox church. Moments ago, three bombs had exploded in front of the Syriac Catholic Church of the Annunciation. On 26 November, two other vehicles were damaged the premises of the convent of Saint Theresa, home to six nuns, and destroyed the Chaldean Church St. Ephrem. In March 2008, the Chaldean archbishop of Mosul, Mgr Rahho, had paid with his life, his Christian faith. The three deacons who were with him were also murdered. Fabrice Madou (24-12-2009).
THE MARTYR OF THE JEWS (SEE ALSO OUR EDITORIAL).
was wrongly accused Pius XII of complicity with Nazism, but we often forget to mention other accomplices avé well-Rees: "Germany is fighting an enemy who is also ours. Having fully grasped the nature of the Jew, she decided eventual elimination of the Jewish peril to stop the evil it inflicts on the world. " He who speaks German and on the airwaves, November 2, 1943, is another Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Mohammed Amin el Hussein.
is the convergence of its interests with those of Nazis who made him a very zealous ally of Hitler. He spends as part of the war in Germany, was fully aware of the Final Solution and up to assist in the establishment of a Muslim SS division in Bosnia.
The former Secretary for Relations with States of John Paul II (1979-1988) surprised "Facing the Holocaust, the Allies remained silent. But it is only recently that Pius XII to account. "
VARIOUS
Entitled Exit Godfried, a Belgian JACQUES MEURICE, a former priest, al'outre cuidance-signing "priest", as he has defrocked since 1973. Taking advantage of the appointment of Monsignor Leonard, he settles accounts with the Catholic Church, "who is ill, seriously ill, she will die ... In the end, that his dogma that religion will kill by suffocation. " He wonders if she is "really Christian" obviously screwed up the Creed; flays Charismatic communities, etc. .. Well! La Libre Belgium offered a royal page 19-1 to this paper confused which is actually a false signature. What a sham!
Gabriel Ringlet AND FREE-MASONS.
"Gabriel Ringlet was warmly applauded by the general public, secular as masons, early Saturday evening in the large auditorium of the VUB. And the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Belgium regular, Eli Peeters showed him any sympathy by giving a hug dear to Freemasons. Better, in his presentation, he said with humor that he was confident no way that all faiths would welcome the Belgian willingly, except perhaps the Grand Lodge of Women, for reasons we can guess (...). It is obviously in this context that he wrote some years ago his "gospel of a free thinker," where he recalls that the truth can be plural. "
La Libre Belgique, 30/11/2009.
"renaming, a phenomenon RECURRENT.
proselytizing secular not idle, as admitted by Daniel Leclercq, coordinator of the Federation of Friends of secular morality, "the procedures for renaming were initiated in the 70s by the League under the name of humanistic'opération red pencil '. Main reason, the Church's position in family morality (condom, etc.). But why break free of something that we no longer believe? Fortunately for them they will not be threatened with death, a chance also that baptism is not accompanied by circumcision ....
According an article in La Libre Belgique, 11/6/2009.)
YOUTH PLAY WITH COMMUNION WAFERS AFTER COMMUNION.
Recently a Catholic college in Antwerp, during a Mass for young people, some of them threw themselves to each other by way of gaming the holy consecrated hosts. Without the priests or teachers involved!
ETHICS! ETHICS!
NOT THE "KISS OF THE MOON 'IN SCHOOLS.
The "Kiss of the Moon" is an animated film of the sheave-Sebastien USER_GROUP Watel. According to him, it is a poetic animated short to serve as an educational tool to address loving relationships between same sex for children CM1/CM2 (ie 4th and 5th years at primary us). It depicts, in a poetic, different ways to love, including those of two ... "Fish-boys." When broadcasting in the classroom, this film will be accompanied by an "educational booklet" intended "to make students think about the different love relationships" ...
CDF Focus, 4th quarter 2009.
LEAVE OF "AUTHORSHIP" for homosexuals.
In Wallonia, parental leave for lesbians is not yet acquired.
Vers l'Avenir, 26/11/2009.
odious PRIEST Menotti MADE EARTH AND ADOPTED THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME (USA).
This priest carrying a cross, was arrested while singing hymns in tears on her knees, handcuffed, claiming the "Ave Maria" ... His fault? Defend the unborn, pray and preach the message of the Church in the first Catholic university in the United States has decided to honor the proponent of abortion Obama making doctor honoris causa. From 78 cardinals and bishops opposed this decision. Hundreds of supporters have canceled their donations amounting to around $ 14 million. See video: http://belgiqueetchretiente.hautetfort.com
"NO" TO A NEW CENTER OF ABORTION. YES TO A RECEPTION CENTRE.
Mechelen - Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - In the city of Mechelen, 95% of abortions are refused by the local Catholic hospitals of Caritas. That is why the mayor Bart Somers decided to open a center for abortion Malinois are no longer forced to travel to neighboring towns. "We want to offer all women in the city this 'service' to which they are legally entitled." The platform "for life" has sent a letter to the mayor in which it proposes to build a shelter and hope for women and their children instead of a butcher.
Since 1990 (Law decriminalizing abortion), so after 20 years, 300,000 unborn children have been deleted in Belgium, the equivalent of a city like Ghent. In 2007, the report made public in Parliament, 18,000 unborn children have been removed (see Cri du Kot, 2010).
NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN!
Already in 1861, Cardinal Pie, Bishop of Poitiers wrote to Pope Pius IX really prescient letter certifying that the denigration of the appointed Archbishop of Malines-Brussels is the victim is an old method: translate the bishop before the Court of public opinion to be heard "the voice of the people ... . St. Hilaire, his illustrious predecessor had already been called a "sower of discord, disruption of the East and West." "Now the secular courts," wrote Cardinal Pie, have control of the word pastoral (...) and it is for lay judges to ask the priests to their bishop's doctrine (...). Finally, we will form a scaffold of any charges, and we will draw up the batteries with which we want to try eating a great blow and an act refined perversity. " Times have not changed!
IV. THE PARABLE OF THE MOTORIST
In the first stage of the driver, a young man inclined to use the power of its engine 2010 cm3. It is, therefore, not looking too over the speed limit or the priority given to pedestrians in crosswalks. His car, he pampers every week, is equipped with the latest technology. The sound is so pervasive that potential passengers are silenced. It is a bachelor who seeks release because it believes it must take all that modern life has to offer. As he runs to succeed his career, he has no Ie time to take a hitchhiker or helping someone in distress along the way ...
In the forties, our driver enters the second stage of Conduct. He developed the caution after a few accidents and a lot of tickets. He ended up sharing heartily the highway with all other users. Father, he practiced systematically carpooling and Ie often run errands for neighbors in need. But carried away by his social commitment, he wonders at the end of the month, why he has traveled many miles, why its Internet phones and earned her bills so high! If he tries to please all Ie world is, in reality, we appreciate his own person. Yes, he wants to succeed in life, but so far he is not satisfied. His faith in Providence remains theoretical, because he appears worried by the uncertainties of life today, For the future face of his. He even wondered if he's still going in the right direction.
Then he can reach the third stage and approaching the perfect conduct. Around age 60, he realizes that all the short cuts he traveled led him exactly where Providence chose. One day, realizing that his ways are not God's ways, he asks Christ to drive for him to become a passenger who is guided towards God and towards others. He now leaves the care of Jesus to choose his route. Of course, this causes a stir in his entourage. If one day he was arrested on the road by police who detect its "spiritual drunkenness" and condemns his conduct, he will rely on the Savior's words: "Put yourself in the spirit that you do not prepare your defense because I'll give myself a language and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict "(Luke 21, 14 - 15). The man is invited to leave his control in the glove box and put like a little child, his confidence in the Lord's love.
If we respect the "rules of the road universal" given on Mount Sinai, Jesus will take care of all our burdens, our problems. He said: eat, drink, clothing? The heavenly Father knows that you need all that ... "Do not worry about the next day!) (Mt 6: 25-34). It's wonderful to have someone, mindful of our true human potential, on which we can always count! Of course, it takes effort to drain all the noises of the world, to become silent and listening. We will also regularly review all sensitive points of our vehicle. And one day, on the road, will emerge ... praise. Many thanks to God for the daily route he has chosen for us, definitely the best! It's an obstacle course tailored for each of us. In short, God offers us the gift of a life that looks like an exciting rally terrain, sometimes stressful, but what a joy divine, what bridal party on arrival Winners, who dared to lose everything ... Everything to gain!
V. YOUR EVIL
[Excerpts from "36 proofs of the existence of the Devil", by André Frossard, Albin Michel, 1991, 215 pp. Letter 25: is the devil who speaks].
Rome, September 8.
Dear Sir,
I expected that the famous warning from your Pope Paul VI's "smoke of Satan entered the Church! "Provoke the disturbance in your parishes. I imagined your bishops beating the air with their jumpers and the fly opening doors and windows to evacuate at the same time my noxious fumes and smoke priests (...). I was wrong, nothing happened. My smoke had probably suffocated many consciences (...).
(...) I breathed, which had the effect of increasing the sulfur content of your atmosphere, and everything went on as before. Your theologians continued to indulge in the delights of pure research, which involves finding nothing after all called into question, so that the good Christian people abandoned its perplexities do not know what to think, if we believe. As it offers a cure for purifying atheism, another makes it a materialist reading of the Gospel, or return it to Karl Marx. One cried "God is death in Jesus Christ! "Equivocal formula as interpreted by the simple confirmation of doctrinal" God is dead "Nietzsche, more than Father. Over Son either, because for the other is "Jesus that we should forget" a seminary professor steeped in psychoanalysis has just published an excellent work (I'm a personal matter its distribution) advising Christians make early in their Oedipus 'killing' in them the founder of their religion, the tyrannical presence hinders the free nurtured their personality huge severance (...). That said, I do not like the Church, even if it reaches his staff assist in my good works by creating doubt among the faithful and the depredation of the sacraments (...).
evacuation doctrine is nearing completion: the Creator God "to the" resurrection of the flesh "and" eternal life "(you prefer to say:" The life of the world has come, "which surely will) it No is not an article of the creed which is now heard five or six different meanings and some ¬ times contradictory, so that your last synod bishops had seen, without too much emotion from the rest, they don ' catechism had more had they still catechists. Their lacrosse windings ¬ subdivided by a question mark is more than a symbol of perplexity dogmatic, and if Jesus Christ returned to ask the final question of the Gospel, Peter, do you love me? "They would not dare ANSWERS ¬ before consulting Dr. Gregoire.
(...). The successor of Peter is attacked from all sides. Some deny its infallibility, because today everyone is infallible, except the pope, the other increasing the bows, and insult at the same time. The church is crowded with reformers, who claim to reform the other for failing to reform themselves (...).
And if [Christians] find something to criticize in the midst of cries and fury of the world, this is not about being unable to convert, but having tried to do it once. However, in the confusion and anarchy, the great stampede discrete ordinary faithful began, I suppose that statistics do not leave any illusions about that. In human eyes, this can not continue. A diabolical views, even less. I'll be at the end of my sentences.
Religiously yours.
The Devil.
PS I hope this predictable collapse of the Church announces no more rebirth. It made me more than once shot Lazarus: I ran the funeral in the feelings that you know me, and I found her standing, jeering, who offered me his bandages to make me leggings. I hate this kind of joke.
VI. For the year priesthood: the priest and the Church
It said that Georges Bernanos, in Diary of a Country Priest (1936).
PRIEST
Good God did not write that we were the honey of the earth, my boy, but the salt. (...). Salt on a raw skin, it burns. But it also prevents it from rotting. With the idea of exterminating the devil, your other hobby is to be loved, loved for yourself, that is. A true priest is never loved, remember this. And do you want me to say? The Church does not care that you're loved, my boy. Be the first respected, obeyed. The Church needs order. Make an order to day length. Make the order thinking that disorder will win again the next day because it is precisely in order, alas! that plug in night air on the eve of your work - the night belongs to the devil.
(In front of the body to which the Countess, the day before, the village priest had made peace:) "Be at peace," had I said. And she received the Peace knees. Guard it! It is I who gave it to him. What a marvel, and we can do now what we do not have yourself, O sweet miracle of our empty hands! (...).. I removed the veil of muslin, the fingers touched the forehead high and pure, full of silence. And poor little priest that I am, before that so superior to woman me yesterday by age, birth, wealth, mind, I understand - yes, I understood what it was fatherhood.
CHURCH The Church has strong nerves, sin does not scare him, however. She looks across the way, quietly, and even the example of Our Lord, she takes over, she assumes. (...) Well, I'll define a Christian people by its opposite. The opposite of a Christian people, it's a sad people, a people of old. You tell me that the definition is not too theological. Okay. But it has something to think about the gentlemen who are yawning at the Mass on Sunday. "
(...) "I'd like to take one of those who learned to treat me obscurantist, I would say:" It's not my fault if I wear a costume undertaker. After all, the Pope dressed in white though, and cardinal red. I have the right to walk dressed as the Queen of Sheba, because I bring joy. I give you for nothing if you ask me. The Church has the joy of the entire share of joy reserved for this sad world. What you have done against it, you did cons joy. Do I stop you, I calculate the precession of the equinoxes or the atoms disintegrate? But you would to make life even if you lost the meaning of life? You will just make you blow your brains before your retorts. Make life as you want! The image you give of death gradually poisons the minds of the poor, it darkens, it slowly fades their past joys.
And We French (1939), he wrote:
I would not live five minutes outside the Church and if you drove me, I would go back immediately, barefoot, shirt, rope neck, Finally, the conditions that you like to impose on me, whatever. (Georges Bernanos We French).
"The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wonderful universe, including our consciousness, or appeared by accident I think the main argument for the existence of God."
Darwin.
VII. GOOD NEWS
ETHICAL ISSUES
The commercialization of the emergency contraceptive pill in Peru suspended.
"The nature of the potential abortifacient 'morning after pill' makes it incompatible with the protection of the right to life guaranteed by the Peruvian constitution. " So says the Constitutional Court of Peru, which suspended the marketing of the product.
No to free abortion in the United States! An amendment was recently passed by the deputies, "to rule out public funding of abortion. This amendment collected 240 votes against 194. The Democrats were surprised to discover overwhelmingly pro-life. "
"AIDS is not punishment." At their plenary assembly, the bishops of Congo - Kinshasa in February 2007, gave evidence of a church concerned health of everyone. "We assert that AIDS is neither a punishment nor a punishment or a curse from God to sinful humanity. (...) We emphasize the preeminent value of chastity, integrity, self control, abstinence outside marriage and fidelity within marriage. In the words of Pope John Paul II, affection, joy, happiness and peace which Christian marriage and fidelity, and security which chastity gives, must be continuously presented to the faithful, particularly the Youth (...). For couples where one spouse would be in this situation of HIV, total abstinence is not only the only safe option not to contaminate the other, but also the finest expression of mutual love ( 1 Cor 13, 4-7). This love of abstinence could even mean mastery of love, an expression of domestic capacity to love. "
Christmas and unborn children in Lisbon. For its tenth edition
, the initiative "Nativity in the city" in Lisbon had its downbeat, Sunday, December 20, 2009, with the benediction by Bishop Auxiliary pregnant women (30) in the Basilica of the Martyrs. The bishop remarked: "At the ceremony involved more people we did see. And what are those things not seen which are the focus of attention. "
"Nativity in the city aims to make Christmas more visible in the city (...). The blessing for pregnant women is with these words: "Blessed are you among women". Why blessed? Because fertility, the arrival of a new child are blessings, they are always well received throughout the history of Hi.
Today it kills millions of unborn children. And we say nothing. We read in the newspapers the number of them or those who are killed (...), but nobody talks about millions of little creatures that have been designed with the same life as you and me, with God's life .
Mother Teresa on 10/12/1979
ECUMENISM
From Luther's faith to the faith of Peter. In the book Rome Sweet Home by Scott and Kimberly Hah (ed. of Emmanuel). This young couple of Methodist pastors in the USA, by dint of scrutinizing the Bible, found alone, the Catholic Creed and entered the Church of Rome, without denying the best their evangelical tradition. "You, fellow Catholics, we would encourage you to learn about the holy deposit that was entrusted to you as an inheritance. For yourself and for others, study it to see what you believe and why you believe. Take the Scriptures every day and read them. They are the Word of God, inspired and without error (...). Catholic life should be based on the sacraments, especially the Eucharist (...). We share with non-Catholics many truths about Christ of the Scriptures, but what they lack is nothing less than real and substantial presence Christ in the Eucharist. They, somehow, study the menu while we, we eat dinner! (...) "Quoted in the Bulletin parish of Saint-Hubert, 15/07/2007.
VARIOUS
Bernard-Henri Levy defends Benedict XVI after his visit to the Synagogue of Rome: "We should do away with bad faith, bias and, frankly, misinformation when it comes to Benedict XVI. Since his election, was sued his ultra conservatism, repeated constantly by the media (...). It was emphasized with innuendo, if not with jokes heavy on ' German Pope ', the' post-Nazi in cassocks, one on the French TV show 'the Horns' did not hesitate to nickname Adolf II'. " "Pie and Benedict: you can be popes and scapegoats" (in Il Corriere della Sera of 20-1, and again in L'Osservatore Romano, 21-1.
faith in the Belgian royal family.
From childhood, Baldwin has developed a great religion. At 12, he slept with her rosary.. (...) sometimes Baldwin proposed a guest "to say a rosary with him, without necessarily knowing whether it was Catholic . Professor Vincent Dujardin confirms: "He came to offer a prayer to Belgian or foreign political figures." As for Albert and Paola, after years of crisis through, they deepened their faith. They attend prayer groups of the Charismatic Renewal in Brussels, participate in religious holidays and attend a daily mass at the Belvedere.
Le Soir, 11/10/2009.
Canonization of Father Damien (2009).
"Gone to the islands in the traditionalist Catholic list, Damien has been one of the first 'humanitarian'. " What is the dif-ference between a hero and a saint? A hero you look, you admire and try to imitate. A saint, one kneels and prays to intercede. There is a difference in attitude: standing and kneeling.
In the case of Father Damien, we can say that he drew all his heroic strength in his faith. It is not always the case. For example, Dr. Schweitzer, too, cared for lepers, but Damien has gone further. He died, becoming himself a leper. What has not been the case of Dr. Schweitzer. Damien him, went to the end (...)
For once we have a man of international stature, recognized by the world and especially by the Americans. It moreover his bust in the Capitol in Washington. When blessed with a saint of such stature, recognized by believers and non-believers, we must not exaggerate the discretion! "
Cardinal Danneels, in Le Soir, 12/10/2009.
Spiritual Renewal in Russia. Returning in early December 2009, a meeting in Moscow with Patriarch Kyrill, Bishop of Autun (Mgr River) said his surprise to see an amazing spiritual revival in Russia after 70 years of atheist propaganda and fierce persecution. Then we close the churches in France, there, hundreds of churches and monasteries are open and rebuilt. Many trades are well known, with enthusiasm, to restore the beauty of Orthodox buildings. RCF, on 16/12/2009.
Pilgrimages and fre-tion of the sanctuaries. Religious practice decreases, but the phenomenon of pilgrimages and visits to shrines are amplified. 200,000 pilgrims on the roads of St. Jacques de Compostela in 2004. In 2006, 43 million visitors for 120 shrines in France. Ten million pilgrims Lourdes for the Jubilee Year in 2008. Go on pilgrimage to meet a deep need of expression and learning deeply about the faith.
Way of St. Francis, in May 2009.
Rise of the Vietnamese Church. This year the Church of Vietnam celebrates its 450 year history: 10 million Christians present-ing. 2010 has been proclaimed the Holy Year. Despite the latent persecution, the Church is experiencing a spring in priestly vocations. The 7 seminars have allowed more than 1,500 seminarians. Everywhere, people came from the gates of many religious congregations. And now this Church is missionary in its turn: the bishops of Japan just sent to Cardinal Man of Saigon a call to help their church.
Way of St. Francis, in May 2009.
Caravan of vocations in the Diocese of Le Havre. In this year
priestly and Rant-eight months, the caravan of vocations travel from parish to parish. These include "awaken the youth to God's call by going to a public place" .. The bishop hopes to meet with 4,000 young people between 11 and 18.
Cross, 17/11/2009.
The death certificate of Jesus. "Dr. Barbara FRALE, a researcher from the Vatican Secret Archives, would recon-li the death certificate of Jesus, using Greek letters, Latin and Hebrew found on the Shroud of Turin wrapped the body of a dead man crucified. The certificate would then confirm the known historical facts.
We notice that our scientists do not ever fight Islam or Buddhism, or the Brahmam or even fetishism, because there, there is nothing: but they only fight religion, religion Catholic, because here there is faith, divine truth, which they turned their backs. " Ipsi fuerunt rebels Lumina (They themselves become disobedient to the light) "(cf. Job 24, 1).
VIII. READERS
* "Your journal is interesting because it defends our Christian civilization, while others are busy putting Europe on their knees in front of another religion and secularism to indirectly associated with those want to destroy Christianity. That's why I want to continue to support it. " A reader of the Bulge
* "The minarets, taking possession of the territory." You should know that during the expansion of Islam throughout the Christian villages invaded, the newcomers built a mosque. Opposite the church. (...). A few years ago, we had to defend vigorously to prevent the erection of a mosque in front of the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth and what about the rush to build made, unnecessarily, a large mosque in the city Rome? (...) If the minarets resemble perhaps not a declaration of war, they point in any case a form of taking possession of the territory. (...) Islam rejects any teaching that contradicts the Quran and believes that non-Muslims (especially females) has nothing to teach a Muslim, he professes that there is little wrong with lying or to fly if the victim is an infidel, he advocated polygamy. That's a lot of trouble for teachers, police and Social Security (...) ". A reader of the diocese of Liège
* "A Christianity adrift. By definition, what is modern is true. Requires sorting, the Christian faith is reduced to what we deem worthy of acceptance, gauged in the light of our lack of faith. It should be noted that this 'robbery' of the Word of God is always in one direction. Nobody thinks to question the Sermon on the Mount or the story of the adulteress. By cons, even when the Lord warns us against the demon, against the risk of eternal damnation and against the world, strangely, we close our eyes. Mysteriously, his language is considered outdated, 'religiously correct', 'good at throwing away'. "
Snyers JP, Province of Liège
IX. ANNOUNCEMENTS AND READINGS
Walk for Life Sunday, March 28, 2010 in Brussels: demonstration at the starting point by some students against the 20 years since the decriminalization of abortion in Belgium. The chairman of the group, Michel de Keukelaere, student, writes:
"I do not believe in fate. Those who stood against the Soviet bear at the beginning of the Iron Curtain were lucid. They knew they would not get the end of tyranny red immediately. But they had the courage to say no. (...) Twenty years after the events in Berlin, the red menace has gone, but not the oppression of resignation and injustice. We will overcome this culture of death "(in Le Cri du Kot, Namur, November 2009).
We support the March for Life to account number 088-2142578-37.
Encourage generous and courageous as the only student newspaper Catholic Namur, Le Cri du Kot. Each edition (850 copies distributed free at the exit of audiences) costs 153 euros. Account: 068-2493126-59, Cri du Kot, Namur.
News home Saint Joseph (for orphans) in India
"My name is Ramesh. I am 16 years old. In 1997 I lost my parents. Neighbors told me to Father Raju for giving me a future. Now he is like my father! Our Father Guy Moreau [Belgium] is rather our grandfather: 91ans! As Jesus asks us, here in St. Joseph, we live like brothers and sisters with our Hindu and Muslim friends. I realize that I was lucky and I pray for all the children I knew in the past and who, for some, have become street children or to work without being educated. I say a big THANK YOU to all the benefactors of St. Joseph Home. "
Make a donation to support this home: account 000-3256849-74 (Home St. Joseph Konduru), followed by your paper (with tax certificate).
Ideas Reading for Children: The Gospel
for kids comic
The parables of Jesus in comic
Miracles of Jesus in comic
Acts of the Apostles in BD
Through the Mountains: Life St. Jose Maria
Of John Paul II to Benedict XVI
Guy Gilbert: Wolves at Falcon
The book Generation of Father Benedict Spinoza Regis is a charming small (11x13, 1802 pages) form of conversation between a teenager and St. Augustine. Easy reading for deep reflection. Recommended for teens, but also educators. DFR Publishing, price 10 €.
Several readers point out books to learn more about Islam:
- Elena Chudinov, The Mosque of Notre-Dame de Paris, Year 2048. Ed Tatamis.
- René Marchand, France in danger of Islam, Editions du Trident, 2008.
- Mr. Alcalde, The true face of Islam, Ed Kyrollos, 2006.
"How long the modern Catiline, they coated the skin of the media, journalists, thinkers, ideologues, artists of all kinds, they will abuse our patience? How long will they vipers drooling venom and stain the dress of the Church, whenever the Holy Father, or prelate recalled, before a bewildered world, the inalienable rights of God? How long will they grind, distort, choose their words or gestures, for food to throw a horde of evil spirits, to gratify hatred or to sow doubt and fear in the ranks of those who do not know, or who are still loyal?
How long are baptized they still bow down his head, blushing as their Christian and locking in silence? How long they will be content under the pretext of tolerance, let them say and do, or even lend a sympathetic ear to the barking of the pack, without bothering to check, verify, to denounce the lies, forgeries of documents, arrangements perverse? How long the good souls will just do they moan in silence, waiting to be beheaded for the throw then on the ruins of civilization (...)? . Father Julien
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