Vaccine Death Explosion in 2021, This Chart Says It All
The VAERS reporting system was set up in 1990 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to monitor adverse events that occur after administration of vaccines.https://googleads.g.doubleclick.
These include the fact that only a small proportion of adverse events are reported, VAERS forms are not generally available at the time of vaccination and doctors may be unaware of VAERS or do not recognize an event as being vaccine-related.
The VAERS system has received much attention since it was created in 1990 and now receives over 60,000 reports annually; described as serious (causing disability, hospitalization, life-threatening illness or death)
Deaths from vaccines are underreported. VAERS data show a yearly average of 1,400 deaths following vaccination between 1990 and 2013; a 25-fold underreporting of deaths based on a VAERS report must be assumed because VAERS captures only 1%-10% of vaccine-related adverse events.
From the time that the COVID vaccines came into the population, there have been 14,701 deaths reported from the vaccine according to VAERS. Many of those have come from within the last month and a half with around 3,300 deaths. That’s about 70 per day!
The big thing that people who are the hardcore pro-vaccine folk who think that they can do no wrong will typically offer the objection that anyone can report something to VAERS. My response to that is, so what? That’s supposed to be a bad thing?
They want to try and discredit the deaths from vaccines by saying this. But they don’t want to put the shoe on the other foot. On the other side of the coin, people can say that they’re manipulating the data on the side of those who die from COVID. It’s a two-sided coin here.
Garland Smears Pro-Life Activists September 15, 2021 Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a remark recently made by Attorney General Merrick Garland: The controversy over a Texas pro-life law has led some to make irresponsible remarks, and no one has topped Attorney General Merrick Garland. The law, which forbids doctors from performing an abortion on a mother carrying a baby whose heartbeat can be detected, provoked Garland to make totally unfounded claims of violence on the part of pro-life activists. On September 6, Garland said, “We will not tolerate violence against those seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services, physical obstruction or property damage in violation of the FACE Act.” This indictment of pro-life activists is without merit. Indeed, it is a despicable smear against them. If pro-life Americans are so violent, Garland should be able to rattle off the names of abortionists whom they have killed. In the 21st century, there have been four such killings: one in 2009 and three in 2015. Two men, both ex-cons, were responsible, and neither was assisted or associated with a pro-life group. They acted alone. In 2009, Dr. George Tiller was killed by Scott Roeder. When it happened, I condemned it. “We have to get the message out that life means we have to respect all life,” I told CBS Evening News, “including somebody as bad as Dr. Tiller was.” Tiller, by his own admission, performed over 60,000 abortions. His specialty was killing babies in utero who were nearly born, or were partially born. Hence his nickname, George “The Killer” Tiller. Roeder was a deranged man who was hardly representative of pro-life activists. He had been diagnosed as schizophrenic, and got into trouble when he stopped taking his medication. His wife testified that she thought he was bipolar, and his brother also spoke about his mental problems. He had previously been arrested for carrying explosives, and he spent time in prison for other violations. In 2015, Robert Lewis Dear Jr. killed three people in a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He had previously been arrested and convicted for carrying a “long blade knife” and illegal possession of a loaded gun. His mental state was worse than that of Roeder’s. A judge ordered him to undergo a mental competency exam to see if he was sufficiently competent to represent himself. After fielding the results, the judge ruled that Dear was not mentally fit to stand trial: he cited findings that he suffered from a “delusional disorder.” Dear was sentenced indefinitely to a Colorado state mental hospital. It makes no sense for anyone who champions the abortion-rights cause to worry about being killed because of the Texas law. Roeder and Dear were lone wolfs, both of whom had a criminal record and mental problems. Garland, being a pro-abortion proponent who works for our “devout Catholic” pro-abortion president, has been noticeably silent on threats to pro-life activists. Yet just this summer innocent pro-life Catholic demonstrators were harassed by pro-abortion militants in Brooklyn, New York, and a Catholic church in Louisville, Colorado was defaced with pro-abortion slogans. On September 13, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who dismissed a challenge to the Texas law, was subjected to intimidation when his home was descended upon by pro-abortion activists. This came following a threat by extremists from ShutDownDC to “directly” confront Kavanaugh and his family. If Garland were even-handed, he would know that pro-life Americans have been violently attacked and been subjected to death threats for many years. There have been bomb threats against Catholic churches, firebombings of Catholic school busses with pro-life signs, calls for violence against pro-lifers on college campuses, and widespread acts of church vandalism. And lest we forget, while the killing of unborn babies is legal, the fact remains that abortion clinics are a much more deadly place for children than they are for those who do the killing. Think about that, Mssrs. Garland and Biden.
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Breaking Chris Ferrara Talk & News Release – Along With Over 50 Developing Vaccine News and Mandates News Links In The Great Reset And Traditional News
Templar Crusader Chant ~ Crucem Sanctam Subiit ~ Latin & English lyrics – The Call For Good Men To Die If Necessary On The Frontlines For The Kingship of Christ – YouTube
Largest Catholic parish in US being built in ‘heart of California’s dairy industry’ -Whether It Turns Out To Be A Modernist Architectural Nightmare Or Not No One Knows – On Religion News
Scandinavian Bishops Question “Traditionis Custodes” – On FSSPX.News The bishops of the Scandinavian countries are cautious about the possibility of implementing Pope Francis’ motu proprio Traditionis custodes in their dioceses.
Paris: The Die Is Cast – The TLM Is In Trouble In France -On FSSPX.News The Archdiocese of Paris has just set the rules for the application of the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes concerning the celebration of the traditional Mass. Limitation of the number of places, prior authorization for each celebrant: these new standards do not bode well for the future for those who remain attached to the celebration of the eternal Mass in the diocesan context
Disturbing Revelations From Francis on the 2013 Pre-conclave – On FSSPX.News This is the first time that the Pope has mentioned, in such a precise way, the future apostolic constitution on the reform of the Church, which should be promulgated at the end of 2021.
CALL TO FIGHT COMMUNISTSSouth American bishop calls for fight against a Marxist uprising as the real issue of continually funded guerillas – On Catholic Cutlrue.org
POPE FRANCIS REPEATS ‘RIGIDITY’ SPIEL Pontiff advocates for ‘freedom, creativity and dialogue. Calls for creativity of the Gospel vs defensive Catholicism – On CNA
CAUGHT ON HOT MIC: Top Israeli Health Minister Admits Vaccine Passports “Only Intended to Pressure Unvaccinated to Get Vaccinated” (VIDEO) – On The Gateway Pundit
WATCH: West Virginia University Employee Speaks Out About Her Horrible Pain and Suffering After Getting Vaxxed at Employee Meeting Against Mandatory Vaccine Mandate – On The Gateway Pundit
VAXSSASSINATION: How globalists convinced BILLIONS of people to exterminate themselves with biological weapons presented as “vaccines” – NaturalNews.com
Crazed CNN doctor and baby killer Leanna Wen says Americans only have the “right” to travel if the federal government ALLOWS them to… and the unvaxxed, she says, have no such right! – NaturalNews.com
Daughter of British royal DIES with “severe headache” months after covid vaccine… family in denial over spike proteins building up over time – NaturalNews.com
The Holocaust in Israel Exposed in Leaked Zoom Call with Pfizer Scientist Admitting that Israelis are Laboratory for Pfizer COVID Shot – Vaccine Impact
New study shows that vaccinated people routinely discriminate against their own friends, “breaking up” with those who refuse to take deadly covid jabs – NaturalNews.com
Vaccinations -By Moynihan On Inside The VaticanThe human race is being spun on a roulette wheel, supported by a chorus of non-scientific voices — the roulette wheel of the vaccinationists.
Bannon says CA Establishment “Republicans… “Snatch[ed] Defeat from the Jaws of Victory” & Accurate Pollster Trafalgar got it right about Biden Steal & Elder loss
What happened in the California recall vote was predictable.
Yesterday, Steve Bannon put it best saying that Larry Elder and the establishment “Republicans…”snatch[ed] defeat from the jaws of victory.” A few weeks ago, the possibility of kicking out Newsom was a toss up then Elder entered the race big time and as Bannon said made it a contest between himself and Newsom.
Raw Story summarized Bannon’s explanation of what happened in California:
Bannon made the remarks on his Real America’s Voice program moments after California polls opened on Tuesday.
“The mainstream media, the conservative media and Fox News all piled into the Larry Elder,” Bannon said. “I love Larry Elder. He’s a great guy. He’s terrific. But this race is not about Larry Elder and everybody made it about Larry Elder.”
“And the shift in the numbers over the last weeks are because the mainstream Republican conservative [establishment] got suckered into the Larry Elder train,” he continued. “The only thing that is relevant is 50% plus one vote to remove Gavin Newsom from office.”
Bannon accused [Elder and] Republicans of “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.”
“And Larry Elder… said Joe Biden won the election and Trump didn’t win.”[https://www.rawstory.com/steve-bannon-larry-elder/]
Today, the liberal Guardian agreed with Bannon:
In the end, the threat of Elder in the governor’s mansion galvanized Democrats. To put things in context, Elder, who is black, has argued for reparations for slave owners. Let that sink in. [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/15/california-recall-republicans-larry-elder]
Also, don’t waste your time pushing the recall election was a Biden Steal-like narrative as happened in the more conservative swing states with the Donald Trump/Biden vote. California is an extremely liberal state. Democrats don’t have to cheat much to win in it.
The accurate Trafalgar Group pollster had said it was 53% to 43% for Newsom with 4% undecided. The end result is basically going to be around 57% to 43% for Newsom as Trafalgar predicted because the Republicans and Elder took the focus off the Newsom failures.
The media will attempt to use those claiming a California Biden Steal-like narrative as a means to discredit the real Biden Steal in the swing states.
Trafalgar got it right about the real Biden Steal and the Elder/establishment Republican loss.
The AMAC Newsline showed that Trafalgar Group “Keeps Getting It Right”:
There is, however, one pollster who has consistently outperformed the others during the Trump era. That is the Trafalgar Group.
In 2016, the Trafalgar Group’s polling data did not just show that Trump would win the presidency, it accurately showed that Trump would get 306 electoral votes and that he would win Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Florida, and Wisconsin, something virtually no one else was predicting.
In 2018, the Trafalgar Group released a poll showing Ron DeSantis winning the Florida Governor’s race. By contrast, the New York Times poll for that race showed Democrat Andrew Gillum up by 5 points and an NBC News poll showed Gillum winning by 4 points. DeSantis won the race on election day as the Trafalgar poll had predicted.
In 2020, polling from the Trafalgar Group had the lowest average error of virtually any other polling group in the nation, beating out polls from the New York Times, ABC News, the Washington Post, and even Rasmussen. Trafalgar Group polling correctly showed Trump winning North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Florida and accurately showed that the Wisconsin race would be decided within a 1-point margin.
AMAC Newsline recently interviewed the CEO of the Trafalgar Group, Robert Cahaly, to discuss why his polls often get it right when the media and even Republican pollsters keep getting it wrong…
… When asked whether media polling with an overwhelming statistical bias toward Democrats amounts to “suppression” polling, as Trump alleges, Cahaly said: “It’s either done on purpose or its incompetence. So many so-called political pollsters also continue to get it wrong who poll for the Republican Party.”
One major example of polling failures in both the 2016 and 2020 elections was in gauging minority support for Republicans. Cahaly notes that Hispanics especially supported Republicans and President Trump, and not just in Florida and Texas. “It was all across the country, in Massachusetts and Wisconsin and California. When you talk to the polling establishment, they said the exit polls don’t indicate that. But you have to ask, how are they doing the exit polling? People are going to be less honest with you in person in exit polls when someone has a clipboard or an iPad.”
Cahaly thinks Trump’s true gains with minorities have been underreported. “I will tell you that across the country Trump did better than 35% with Hispanics as an average and he did better than 25% with African-Americans,” he said. [https://min.amac.us/trafalgar-the-pollster-that-keeps-getting-it-right/]
Wikipedia claimed that Biden Steal was a “win” and reported that the accurate Trafalgar showed Trump won:
Before the 2020 United States presidential election, Trafalgar Group said that Trump would win the election easily, estimating that he would win Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.[13] Joe Biden won the election with 306 electoral votes and succeeded in winning Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania.[14] According to FiveThirtyEight, Trafalgar was the second most accurate pollster in terms of the margins compared to the final results.[15][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafalgar_Group]
Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia.
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.
Francis Notes:
– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:
“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.” (The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
– LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”
– On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”
– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
Vigano: A Jesuit on the Throne of Peter “in violation of the rule established by St. Ignatius of Loyola”by Steven O’ReillySeptember 15, 2021 (Steven O’Reilly) – Beginning earlier this week, vaticanista Robert Moynihan of Inside the Vatican has begun to release the “Viganò Tapes“, videos of Viganò’s responses to various questions. As I understand it, one tape will be released each day over the course of 18 days. So far, one can see the following three “Viganò Tapes:” “The Current Situation“”The New Alliance“”The Price of the Alliance“These are bound to be of great interest, so I encourage folks to follow Mr. Moynihan’s siteto find each new release, as well as to read news and his insightful analysis of events in the Vatican.In the latest video, tape 3, my attention was draw especially to Viganò’s closing comment. At the very end of the video, speaking of the role of the Deep State and the Deep Church, Archbishop Viganò says: “It seems to me that in this conspiracy, the role of the Jesuit has been decisive, it is no coincidence that for the first time in history, a religious of the Society of Jesus is seated on the throne of Peter in violation of the rule established by Saint Ignatius of Loyola.”Tape 3 ends on that note. Whether tape 4 expands on that comment or not, I do not know. However, for some context as to the rule “violation” spoken of above; each fully professed Jesuit — thus including Jorge Bergoglio, SJ — has taken the following vow:“I also promise that I will never strive for or ambition any prelacy or dignity outside the Society; and I will to the best of my ability never consent to my electionunless I am forced to do so by obedience to him who can order me under penalty of sin.” (see here)Now, it may very well be the case that Viganò’s reference to the violation of the rule of St. Ignatius above was simply a casual aside. However, it is still an interesting question. Roma Locuta Est has taken a detailed look into the question of this Jesuit vow, and its potential implications for the validity of Cardinal Bergoglio’s acceptance of his election to the papacy. For those interesting, that article and a link to a subsequent one may be found here:Curiouser and Curiouser: Who Dispensed Jorge Bergoglio SJ from his vows?Steven O’Reilly is a graduate of the University of Dallas and the Georgia Institute of Technology. A former intelligence officer, he and his wife, Margaret, live near Atlanta with their family. He has written apologetic articles and is author of Book I of the Pia Fidelis trilogy, The Two Kingdoms. (Follow on twitter at @fidelispia for updates). He asks for your prayers for his intentions. He can be contacted at StevenOReilly@AOL.com or StevenOReilly@ProtonMail.com (or follow on Twitter: @S_OReilly_USA or on Parler or Gab: @StevenOReilly).Steven O’Reilly | September 15, 2021 at 8:23 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: https://wp.me/p7YMML-6YD
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Letter #108, 2021, Wed, Sept 15: Pope Francis today on his flight back from Slovakia to Rome made some very strong remarks about the issue of abortion and communion. The issue is well handled by The Pillar so I have included excerpts from that article below as well as a link to the original article.
Pope Francis on the airplane today, answering reporters’ questions. Abortion and the Eucharist: What did the Pope just say? (link) A Pillar Explainer During the return flight from his recent trip to Hungary and Slovakia, Pope Francis on Wednesday fielded press questions on the issue of holy communion for Catholic politicians who promote legal protection for abortion. (…) What Pope Francis said “Those who are not in the community, cannot receive communion,” Francis told reporters on Wednesday. “Out of the community: excommunicated. It’s a harsh word, but they don’t belong in the community, because they were not baptized, or because they are estranged from it.” The Pope made the comments while discussing the Church’s absolute prohibition of abortion, which, Francis said, is always the taking of an innocent human life. Abortion is “more than a ‘problem.’” said Francis: “It’s a homicide. No middle terms. Whomever does an abortion, kills.” The pope went on to say that for the Church to countenance legal abortion as morally acceptable would be for the Church to accept “daily homicide.” Catholic politicians who champion legal protections for abortion do not present a theological problem to be addressed, the pope explained, because the theology of the issue is “simple.” Instead, he said, the question is how to deal in a pastoral context with such politicians. “The problem is pastoral, how do we, as bishops, manage this principle,” he said. “If we look at the history of the Church, we will see that every time the bishops acted not as pastors in a problem, they became politicians.” Francis stressed that his answers were meant to address general principles, and should not be applied to specific politicians in the United States because, he said, he didn’t know the details of individual cases. But, he said, pastoral action does not mean ignoring the problem of abortion, or those Catholics who support it. “And what should the pastor do? He shouldn’t go around condemning. And he must also be a pastor with those who are excommunicated, and be so with God’s style, which is closeness, compassion and tenderness.” “Those people who are not in the community cannot take communion, because they are out of the community,” the pope continued. “It is not a punishment: Communion is linked to the community.” The focus, he said, should not be on labeling individuals as “excommunicated,” but instead considering them to be people “temporarily outside of the community” who remain “children of God and need our pastoral action and they want, and need, our pastoral closeness. Then the pastors work things out by the Spirit of God.” The Pope said that he had not personally denied the Eucharist to a politician supportive of abortion protections, but that he was not aware that any had presented themselves to him for holy communion. What does the Church’s law say? Canon 915 of the Code of Canon Law says that “those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.” (…) In 2004, Cardinal Joseph Ratzingerexplained to U.S. bishops that: Regarding the grave sin of abortion or euthanasia, when a person’s formal cooperation becomes manifest (understood, in the case of a Catholic politician, as his consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws), his Pastor should meet with him, instructing him about the Church’s teaching, informing him that he is not to present himself for Holy Communion until he brings to an end the objective situation of sin, and warning him that he will otherwise be denied the Eucharist. “When ‘these precautionary measures have not had their effect or in which they were not possible,’ and the person in question, with obstinate persistence, still presents himself to receive the Holy Eucharist, ‘the minister of Holy Communion must refuse to distribute it’.” This decision, properly speaking, is not a sanction or a penalty. Nor is the minister of Holy Communion passing judgement on the person’s subjective guilt, but rather is reacting to the person’s public unworthiness to receive Holy Communion due to an objective situation of sin. That advice seems to be consistent with the pope’s remarks on Wednesday — namely, that the issue should be addressed between a pastor — which can include a diocesan bishop, the chief pastor of his diocese — and a particular Catholic. The pope’s Wednesday remarks also seem consistent with a 2007 document from South American bishops, which was mostly written by Pope Francis. That document explains that: ”We hope that legislators, heads of government, and health professionals, conscious of the dignity of human life and of the rootedness of the family in our peoples, will defend and protect it from the abominable crimes of abortion and euthanasia… We must adhere to ‘Eucharistic coherence,’ that is, be conscious that they cannot receive holy communion and at the same time act with deeds or words against the commandments, particularly when abortion, euthanasia, and other grave crimes against life and family are encouraged. This responsibility weighs particularly over legislators, heads of governments, and health professionals.” What’s the context of the Pope’s remarks? Francis was responding to questions from the English-speaking press, which came in reference to ongoing debate among U.S. Church leaders over the situation of President Joe Biden, who is Catholic. For decades, Biden maintained that he personally accepted the Church’s teaching on the dignity of human life from the moment of conception, and on abortion, but said he did not believe in imposing his “personal” beliefs on others through public policy. During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden adopted a more stridently pro-abortion stance, promising to enshrine the full scope of the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade into federal law, and to allow federal funding for abortion. In recent weeks, the president has expressed even more concrete support for abortion, and reversed his long-standing affirmation that life begins at conception. Responding to a state law in Texas banning abortion from the point at which a fetal heartbeat can be detected, Biden said he does not agree with those who believe that life begins at conception. The president has directed a “whole-of-government response” to oppose the Texas law and enshrine legal protections for abortion. Biden’s bishop in Washington, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, told a press event last week that the president’s approach to the issue was not “demonstrating Catholic teaching.” (…)
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With the ‘new Taliban’ now in power, can we expect anything different?By Hassan AbbasThe dramatic return of the Taliban to Kabul has consequences beyond the borders of Afghanistan. The Taliban are not the most popular group in Afghanistan but they certainly are the most feared, with enough force at their disposal to impose their dogmatic version of Islam over the country. It is yet to be seen how much they have changed since they last ruled Kabul two decades ago. While little has likely changed in terms of ideological worldview, their tactics and strategy have surely evolved. How they perform in their second iteration could impact politics as well as religious practices in many of the Muslim majority states. One thing is for sure. The revival of the Taliban is echoing dangerous sirens across South and Central Asia, once again elevating fears about terrorism. Legitimate concerns and questions exist about Taliban cohesion, their inability to control their international border, and the audacity of their new rivals, such as terrorist Islamic State Khorasan (ISK). So far, the Taliban are admittedly not sounding as harsh as before, especially in regard to their treatment of Muslim and non-Muslim minorities and their support of women’s education. This has inspired some observers to argue that the “new Taliban” are a relatively reformed version of their old selves. Some Taliban foot soldiers who tried to act brutally were admonished (if not punished) and a Taliban spokesperson went to the extent of apologizing for their earlier excesses. While saying they aspire to convince people to follow Islamic practices (such as dress code for women), they have also said they will not enforce anything through harsh measures. This could very well be an attempt to assuage international opinion while they attempt to establish control and gain some legitimacy. Of course, authoritarianism and religious rigidity doesn’t disqualify them from earning international recognition, as so many other nations seem to survive (and even thrive) with such peculiar credentials, especially in Middle East. To fully understand the impact of Taliban, it is crucial to be cognizant of the varieties of Taliban and even their extremist rivals, such as al-Qaeda and ISK. Next door in Pakistan, Taliban’s sister organization, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), is already showing signs of resurgence. It is a terror conglomerate with various shades of extremism, ranging from anti-Shia and anti-Sufi sectarian thugs to Kashmir-focused militants. TTP was largely dismantled from Pakistan through a sustained military campaign since 2014, but the success of the Afghan Taliban is a gift that has offered TTP a new lease of life. It is ironic that Pakistan has facilitated the return of the Taliban to Kabul, and in more ways than one. But religious extremists in Pakistan are now feeling more empowered and are bound to advocate that Pakistan follows the Afghan Taliban model. Given its pro-democracy leanings, Pakistan society is unlikely to take this demand very seriously, but the radicalization of society will be a logical outcome.The puzzle of ISK poses another major challenge. As an ideological extension of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, it draws from the most extremist cadres of the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban. It is worth remembering that ISK has conducted some of the most devastating attacks in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, surviving in the face of U.S. airstrikes, counterterrorism operations by Pakistan, and ideological rivalry with the Afghan Taliban. The Taliban are likely to push back hard against ISK, but as they know well, ISK is capable of conducting their own terror operations, as evident from their recent suicide attack at the Kabul airport entrance. ISK can pursue targeted killings of Taliban leaders and disrupt the Taliban project. To push ISK back, the Taliban have to be cognizant of their ideological base, and may return to their more radical activities to dampen attraction for ISK. By extension, if Taliban leaders start sounding too “moderate” in their approach, it is the hardcore fighters who will start defecting and boosting ISK cadres. Taliban’s primary claim to legitimacy is its ideological outlook, and last time they ruled Afghanistan, they earned political capital from being seen as deliverers of swift justice – crude justice! Difference of opinion was interpreted as a sin and minorities were brutally crushed. Music was banned and historical monuments were destroyed. Can they disown their past without categorically distancing themselves from those policies? It also comes down to governance capabilities and living up to people’s expectations about their basic needs. Let’s admit a hard fact: The international community failed Afghanistan time and again. In the case of U.S. tax dollars alone, what exactly do we have to show for our one trillion dollars? Yes, al-Qaeda was dismantled from Afghanistan, a new military was raised (hard to locate today) and, to an extent, a new generation of Afghans with hopes of a bright and peaceful future were empowered (mostly those living in urban centers). But building sustainable and accountable institutions requires much more. Can the Taliban do it differently and more efficiently? Can they govern Afghanistan better? It’s quite unlikely. How will they tell their rank and file that now that they are in government they plan to “moderate” their views about religious ideals and values? It will be a daunting task, but for many in the region and globally, it will be the Taliban’s defiance and rigidity that will be seen as inspiring and worth emulating. For the Taliban to be successful, they will have to give up being the Taliban. That’s a very hard ask! We must also recognize that shifting the lens from guns and graveyards to potential and peace is a burning desire of the people of the region. In the land of poets, mystics, and melodies, peace is not – and cannot – be impossible.
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Lay Catholics on Latin Mass: ‘We will not let anyone deprive the faithful of this treasure’
Lay Catholics from all over the world asked the Pope ‘to reverse his decision, by abrogating Traditionis Custodes and restoring full freedom to celebrate the Tridentine Mass, for the glory of God and the good of the faithful.’Traditional Latin MassChristopher Sanchez
(LifeSiteNews) — An international group of lay scholars and Catholic organizations on Tuesday launched a website and published a list of prominent Catholics in support of a recent September 8 statement declaring they will not accept Pope Francis’ motu proprio Traditionis Custodes which is essentially trying to abolish the Traditional Latin Mass.
Among the 91 signatories are Phil Lawler, Maureen Mullarkey, George Neumayr, Martin Mosebach, Eric Sammons, and Michael Matt, as well as political analyst Jack Maxey. Catholic media outlets such as Crisis Magazine, OnePeterFive, Catholic Family News, and The Remnant, are represented (see full text and list of signatories below).
Together, they request that the Pope “reverse his decision, by abrogating Traditionis Custodes and restoring full freedom to celebrate the Tridentine Mass, for the glory of God and the good of the faithful.”
“We will not let anyone deprive the faithful of this treasure which is first of all that of the Church,” the statement said. “We will not remain inactive in the face of the spiritual suffocation of vocations laid forth in the Motu proprio Traditionis Custodes. We will not deprive our children of this privileged means of transmitting the faith which is faithfulness to the traditional liturgy.”
The statement had been originally published on September 8 by several French Catholic organizations, prominently among them Notre Dame de Chrétienté, the group organizing the yearly pilgrimage to Chartres. Among the original signatories at the time were well-known authors and activists, such as Henry Sire and Peter Kwasniewski. Philippe de Villiers, a French former minister, LifeSite’s Paris correspondent Jeanne Smits, as well as numerous other French personalities and outlets had signed. My husband and I were honored to have been able to sign, as well.
The traditional Catholic newspaper The Remnant then published the text in English with the full list of the 43 original signatories, as did other outlets, such as OnePeterFive.com and Rorate Caeli, expressing their public support of it.
On Tuesday, the initiative launched a website for others to sign, as well. Signatories now come from many different countries, including Canada and the U.S., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, South America, and elsewhere.
The intention of this statement is very clear. It tells Pope Francis that he will face disobedience and strong resistance should he try to take away the source and foundation, the very center of the traditional Catholic Faith, the Traditional Latin Mass. Catholics worldwide will not obey this false order.
On the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, July 16, Pope Francis had published his motu proprio Traditionis Custodes and its accompanying letter, in which he claims that many members of Latin Mass communities worldwide sow “disunity” by rejecting the Second Vatican Council and by believing that they are the “true” Church. Pope Francis claims that a recent questionnaire among the bishops in the world has confirmed the existence of such attitudes among the traditional Catholic communities.
However, many are questioning that those were the results of the questionnaire, and Pope Francis so far has not shown himself to be willing to provide evidence for his claim. As Rome-based journalist Diane Montagna reported in June of this year concerning the results of the Vatican questionnaire: “Approximately thirty percent of the world’s bishops responded to the questionnaire, and more than half of those who responded had a favorable or neutral response, multiple sources confirmed.”
Based on the alleged results of his questionnaire, the Pope concluded that the Traditional Latin Mass has to disappear. He told the bishops in his July 16 letter: “Responding to your requests, I take the firm decision to abrogate all the norms, instructions, permissions and customs that precede the present Motu proprio, and declare that the liturgical books promulgated by the saintly Pontiffs Paul VI and John Paul II, in conformity with the decrees of Vatican Council II, constitute the unique expression of the lex orandiof the Roman Rite.” In the end, according to Pope Francis, traditional Catholics “need to return in due time to the Roman Rite promulgated by Saints Paul VI and John Paul II,” that is, the Novus Ordo Mass.
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It is clear that Pope Francis does not wish for traditional Catholic communities to flourish, but the September 8 statement — now endorsed by dozens of new signatories — makes a firm stance in defense of the traditional Mass. We will not let it be taken away from us and our children.
“The explicit will of Pope Francis, stated in the Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes, of July 16, 2021, is to see the celebration of the Mass of the Tradition of the Church disappear,” the September 8 statement reads. “This decision drives us to great dismay.”
Marco Tosatti, one of the signatories, told LifeSite “I think that it is really important to try and defend the right of the Catholic people to worship according to a rite which has been performed for many centuries, and in which they find a way of spiritual enrichment.”
“The Church should be, must be, a place of freedom,” he added. “Not of irrational, whimsical despotism.”
“I signed the statement for two reasons,” said Catholic author, podcast host, and teacher Taylor Marshall. “Firstly, the Traditional Latin Mass was never abrogated. Because of this historical fact, the Catholics priests of the Roman Rite can and should celebrate the ancient Mass of the Ages as guaranteed by Pope Benedict XVI. Secondly, the draconian measures of Traditionis Custodes essentially sideline the former Ecclesia Dei bodies (FSSP, ICKSP, etc.). These good priests and religious have grown in size and influence and must continue to grow. The motu proprio appears to freeze them as well.”
See here the full statement:
Letter of the Faithful Attached to the Traditional Mass to the Catholics of the Whole World
What father, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? (Mt 7, 9)
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
It is with great sadness that we learned of Pope Francis’ decision to abrogate the main provisions of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, promulgated by Pope Benedict XVI on July 7, 2007. After decades of divisions and quarrels, that Motu Proprio was, for all the Catholic faithful, a work of peace and reconciliation.
Rome violates the word given by Pope Benedict XVI with brutality and intransigence, far from the much vaunted fraternal welcoming.
The explicit will of Pope Francis, stated in the Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes, of July 16, 2021, is to see the celebration of the Mass of the Tradition of the Church disappear. This decision drives us to great dismay. How can we understand this rupture with the traditional Missal, a “venerable and ancient” actualization of the “law of faith,” which has bore fruit through so many nations, so many missionaries, and so many saints? What harm is done by the faithful who simply want to pray as their ancestors had done for centuries? Can we be unaware that the Tridentine Mass converts many souls, that it attracts young and fervent assemblies, that it arouses many vocations, that it has given rise to seminaries, religious communities, monasteries, that it is the backbone of many schools, youth groups, catechism activities, spiritual retreats, and pilgrimages?
Many of you, Catholic brothers and sisters, priests, and bishops, have shared with us your failure to understand this and your deep sorrow: thank you for your many testimonies of support.
To promote peace within the Church, in order to build unity in charity, and also to lead Catholics to reconnect with their own heritage by making as many people as possible discover the riches of liturgical tradition, the treasure of the Church: those were the goals pursued by Summorum Pontificum. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI witnesses his work for reconciliation destroyed during his own lifetime.
In a time steeped in materialism and torn by social and cultural divisions, liturgical peace appears to us as an absolute necessity for the Faith and for the spiritual life of Catholics in a world that is dying of thirst. The drastic restriction of the authorization to celebrate Mass in its traditional form will bring back mistrust, doubt, and it heralds the return of an agonizing liturgical war for the Christian people.
We solemnly affirm, before God and before men:
We will not let anyone deprive the faithful of this treasure which is first of all that of the Church.
We will not remain inactive in the face of the spiritual suffocation of vocations laid forth in the Motu proprio Traditionis Custodes.
We will not deprive our children of this privileged means of transmitting the faith which is faithfulness to the traditional liturgy.
As children to their father, we request Pope Francis to reverse his decision, by abrogating Traditionis Custodes and restoring full freedom to celebrate the Tridentine Mass, for the glory of God and the good of the faithful.
Bread rather than stones.
September 8, 2021,
on the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
List of signatories:
• Bernard Antony, Président AGRIF • Xavier Arnaud, Président, Forum catholique • Victor Aubert, Président Academia Christiana • Patrick Banken, Président, Una Voce France • Alex Barbas, Publisher • Donna Bethell, Board member Collegium Sanctorum Angelorum & The Paulus Institute • Moh-Christophe Bilek, Fondateur, ND de Kabylie • François Billot de Lochner, Président Fondation de Service politique • Benjamin Blanchard, DG de SOS Chrétiens d’Orient • Anne Brassié, Journaliste et écrivain • Patrick Buisson, Historien et conseiller politique • Georges Buscemi, Président Québec-Vie • Stuart Chessman, President, Society of St. Hugh of Cluny • Jacques Charles-Gaffiot, Historien d’art • Thibaud Collin, Professeur agrégé de philosophie • Edgardo J. Cruz Ramos, President, Una Voce Puerto Rico • Laurent Dandrieu, Journaliste • Yves Daoudal, Journaliste – Directeur de Blog • Michel De Jaeghere, Journaliste et essayiste • Pierre de Lauzun, Haut fonctionnaire Ecrivain • Massimo de Leonardis, President International Commission of Military History • Roberto de Mattei, Ancien pdt du CNR (CNRS italien) • Charles de Meyer, Président de SOS Chrétiens d’Orient • Jean de Tauriers, Président de ND de Chrétienté • Guillaume de Thieulloy, Editeur de presse • Philippe de Villiers, Ancien ministre, écrivain • Marie-Pauline Deswarte, Docteur en Droit • Stéphane Deswarte, Docteur en Chimie • Cyrille Dounot, Docteur en droit, licencié en droit canonique • Christian & Fabienne Drouhot, Présidents, Domus Christiani • Alvino-Mario Fantini, Editor-in-Chief of The European Conservative • Timothy Flanders, Editor, OnePeterFive • Rémi Fontaine, Journaliste et écrivain • François Foucart, Journaliste • Matt Gaspers, Managing Editor of Catholic Family News • Jean Goyard, Chargé de communication • Claude Goyard, Professeur des universités • Max Guazzini, Ancien président de groupe de presse • Michael Hageböck, Summorum Pontificum Freiburg • Joël Hautebert, Professur de droit, université d’Angers • Maike Hickson, Founder net • Robert Hickson, Ecrivain • Marek Jurek, Ancien pdt de la Diète de Pologne • Paul N. King, President, The Paulus Institute for the Propagation of Sacred Liturgy • Peter Kwasniewski, Ecrivain, compositeur, chercheur • Philippe Lauvaux, Professeur de droit public ULB Paris & Assas • Philip Lawler, Editor, Catholic World News • Leila Lawler, Auhtor, Blog • Anne Le Pape, Journaliste • Maria Madise, Director of Voice of the Family • Bronwen McShea, Ph.D., Historian • Christian Marquant, Président de Paix Liturgique • Taylor Marshall, YouTube commentator & writer • Michael Matt, Editor, The Remnant • Jean-Pierre Maugendre, Président, Renaissance Catholique • Philippe Maxence, Rédacteur en Chef de L’Homme Nouveau • Jack Maxey, journalist and political analyst • Brian McCall, Chair in Law University of Oklahoma Editor-in-Chief Catholic Family News • Paweł Milcarek, Fondateur et Editeur en chef Christianitas • Dominique Millet-Girard, Professur à la Sorbonne • Jean-Marie Molitor, Journaliste • Martin Mosebach, Ecrivain • Maureen Mullarkey, Writer • Georges Neumayr, Book author • Hugh Owen, Director Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation • Hugues Petit, Docteur en Droit • Philippe Pichot-Bravard, Docteur en Droit • Claudio Pierantoni, PhD History of Christianity & PhD Philosophy • Jean-Baptiste Pierchon, Docteur en Droit • Enrico Maria Radaelli, Research Director and Professor ICSA • Carlo Regazzoni, Philosopher of Culture • Christophe Réveillard, Docteur en Histoire, Universitaire • Monika Rheinschmitt, President Pro Missa Tridentina • Hervé Rolland, Vice-Président de ND de Chrétienté • Eric Sammons, Editor-in-Chief of Crisis Magazine • Edward Schaefer, President Collegium sanctorum angelorum • Wolfram Schrems, Mag. theol., Mag. phil., catechist • Reynald Secher, Historien • Jean Sévillia, Journaliste, Historien, Ecrivain • Henri Sire, Ecrivain, compositeur, chercheur • Michael Sirilla, PhD, Steubenville, Ohio • John Smeaton, Past SPUC CEO • Jeanne Smits, Journaliste – Directrice de Blog • Christian Spaemann, MD, psychiatrist and psychotherapist • Peter Stephan, Professor for Art History and Theory of Architecture, Postdam Univ. • Marco Tosatti, Blog Editor, Stilum Curiae • Jérôme Triomphe, Avocat • Inge M. Thürkauf, katholische Publizistin • John-Henry Westen, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of LifeSiteNews • Elizabeth Yore, Attorney, Founder YoreChilden • Alberto Luiz Zucchi, Presidente Associação cultural montfort
Dr. Maike Hickson was born and raised in Germany. She holds a PhD from the University of Hannover, Germany, after having written in Switzerland her doctoral dissertation on the history of Swiss intellectuals before and during World War II. She now lives in the U.S. and is married to Dr. Robert Hickson, and they have been blessed with two beautiful children. She is a happy housewife who likes to write articles when time permits.
Dr. Hickson published in 2014 a Festschrift, a collection of some thirty essays written by thoughtful authors in honor of her husband upon his 70th birthday, which is entitled A Catholic Witness in Our Time.
Hickson has closely followed the papacy of Pope Francis and the developments in the Catholic Church in Germany, and she has been writing articles on religion and politics for U.S. and European publications and websites such as LifeSiteNews, OnePeterFive, The Wanderer, Rorate Caeli, Catholicism.org, Catholic Family News, Christian Order, Notizie Pro-Vita, Corrispondenza Romana, Katholisches.info, Der Dreizehnte, Zeit-Fragen, and Westfalen-Blatt.
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Letter #107, 2021, Tues, Sept 14: Hilarion In this email we have the second of our 18 Viganò tapes (link here or below). Please subscribe to our YouTube channel so that you will be notified immediately when we post the rest of these tapes and all future YouTube content. We also include several reports from the Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, Hungary in recent days, and where Pope Francis celebrated the concluding Mass on Sunday, two days ago (Pope Francis is now carrying out a pastoral visit to nearby Slovakia, where today he celebrated a liturgy in the Byzantine rite according to the liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, link.) One of the high points of the Congress was the address at the Congress opening by Metropolitan Hilarion of Moscow. He spoke on the common belief shared by Catholics and Orthodox in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. At a time of tension between Russia and the United States and of great hope for closer relations between Catholics and Orthodox, his intervention is of great interest. Link to EWTN Interview with Hilarion (link) Metropolitan Hilarion: Catholics, Eastern Orthodox are united in belief in Christ’s Real Presence (link) By CNA Staff Budapest, Hungary, Sep 6, 2021 / 04:25 am A Russian Orthodox leader said on Monday that belief in Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist unites Catholics and Eastern Orthodox believers despite their divisions. Delivering the opening catechesis at the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, Hungary, on Sept. 6, Metropolitan Hilarion outlined the Eastern Orthodox understanding of the Eucharist. “The Catholics and the Orthodox are not united in the Eucharist, but they are united in the conviction that in the Eucharistic bread and wine after their consecration we have not just the symbolic presence of Christ, but his full and real presence,” said the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate. “We believe that the bread and wine of the Eucharist are the true body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Eucharistic celebration is not only a commemoration of the Last Supper, but also its actualization for each believer who participates in it.” “And the celebrant does not act in the Eucharist on his own behalf. It is on behalf of Jesus Christ himself that he pronounces the words originally uttered by Christ at his Last Supper. And it is Christ himself who administers the sacrament for his followers, not a priest or a bishop.” The 52nd International Eucharistic Congress opened on Sept. 5 with a 1,000-strong choir and a Mass featuring First Communions. The live-streamed Mass was celebrated by Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, the retired archbishop of Genoa and president of the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE). Preaching at the Mass in Heroes’ Square, Bagnasco said: “I bid you a warm welcome, those who represent Christian peoples, in this historically important square. I owe a debt of great thanks to the Church in Hungary, who, led by their bishops, are the hosts of the International Eucharistic Congress.” “In this hour, the tolling of the bells of the nation and the city resound like a choir and proclaim their embrace of all of humanity. From this pulpit, the words of pastors, the voices of this stirring and enormous congregation humbly and happily strive to speak to the heart of Europe’s peoples, and beyond that everyone, to the very edges of the Earth.” He continued: “Our voices are weak, but in them echoes the voices of millennia and the blood of martyrs enlivens them. We proclaim to everyone who is listening to us that our joy is greater than all, Jesus Christ Himself! Humanity desires for the Eternal God. It wanders towards the Light! With today’s Holy Mass, we say that despite our weakness and sins, the light of Christ shines forth in the Church.” Cardinal Péter Erdő, the archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest and Primate of Hungary, also spoke at the Mass. In an introductory message, he said: “May God grant that in these days we especially sense that Christ is with us in the Eucharist, that he does not abandon His Church, His people, humanity. All our strength and hope flows from Him!” “The Eucharist is the source from which the mission and our Christian life is nourished. Lord Christ, be with Us! Grant us strength and light for our mission in the modern world! Grant that we may live with you here on Earth and later in eternity!” The congress was originally scheduled to take place in 2020 but was postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The week-long event will culminate on Sept. 12 with a closing Mass celebrated by Pope Francis in Heroes’ Square. In his catechesis at the Hungexpo Budapest Congress and Exhibition Center, the main congress venue, Metropolitan Hilarion used Eastern Christian iconography to explain Orthodox teaching on the Eucharist. “I suppose many of you had a chance to visit ancient Byzantine churches in whose walls you could see frescoes or mosaics. Very often figures of the saints are arranged in rows, one row below another,” the 55-year-old theologian said. “You might see prophets in the highest row, below them the apostles, then the martyrs, then the holy bishops and monks. But there are no figures in the bottom row. The idea is, in fact, that this row is reserved for those who are present in the church, that is, for the parishioners. Together with the saints, they participate in the heavenly mystery of the Holy Eucharist.” “And when the priest goes out of the altar with a censer, he first censes the icons of the saints, but then the parishioners, and he bows to the parishioners in the same way as he does to the saints. By doing so, he shows that the parishioners are of no less importance for him, or for the Church, or for Christ himself, than the saints who already share with Christ his heavenly glory.” He continued: “They have achieved the goal, while we are on the way. But the way to salvation is unthinkable without the Eucharist. There is no salvation without the Church: this is the conviction that we all share, both the Catholics and the Orthodox, even though we locate the Church in a somewhat different way.” “But the Church is inconceivable without the Eucharist. Therefore, the very notions of the Church, and of the Eucharist, and of salvation are linked inseparably in our theology.” The Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church are respectively the world’s largest and second-largest Christian communions. There are around 1.3 billion Catholics worldwide and 220 million Orthodox Christians, including 110 million members of the Russian Orthodox Church. The split between Western and Eastern Christianity can be traced back to the Great Schism of 1054, the result of both political and theological differences between the Latin West and Greek East. Hilarion, who is also a Church historian and composer, explained that the Greek Church Fathers used the term “theosis” when they spoke about salvation. This word, he said, means “deification” and refers to the process by which a human being is fully united to God. “For the Orthodox Church, the Eucharist is the most powerful means to achieve this goal of the Christian life which is called deification,” he said. “In what way? When we receive the Holy Communion, Christ’s body penetrates our body, and his blood begins to flow in our veins. And it is not only in our mind and in our heart that we are united with Christ, but also in our body. Like in Christ himself the entire human nature — body, soul, and spirit — was united with God, so also our entire humanity participates in the process of deification.” “For the Orthodox Church, the Eucharist is the most powerful means to achieve this goal of the Christian life which is called deification,” he said. “In what way? When we receive the Holy Communion, Christ’s body penetrates our body, and his blood begins to flow in our veins. And it is not only in our mind and in our heart that we are united with Christ, but also in our body. Like in Christ himself the entire human nature — body, soul, and spirit — was united with God, so also our entire humanity participates in the process of deification.” Other speakers on Monday included the Brazilian Cardinal Orani João Tempesta. The 71-year-old archbishop of Rio de Janeiro was originally expected to offer a catechesis in person, but instead delivered a reflection via video after he was diagnosed with pneumonia. The morning also featured a testimony by Fr. Konstantin Szabó, a Greek Catholic priest who undertook his seminary studies in secret in the Soviet Union. In his catechesis, Metropolitan Hilarion said that Christians did not reach the goal of “deification” simply by receiving the Eucharist. “If this were the case, all the partakers of the body and blood of Christ would have become saints,” he reflected. “The paradox is that while Christ is fully united with us when his body and blood enter our body and blood, we are not always able to be united with him. He is inside us, but we are often outside him.” “Why is this? Either because in our daily life we do not follow his commandments, or because while our body is standing in the church our mind and heart are elsewhere, or because our sins stand as an impenetrable wall between us and God, or for all sorts of other reasons.” He suggested that Orthodox liturgies were lengthy — lasting for two or three hours — to help Christians acclimate to the kingdom of God. “But there is a huge distance between who we are and who we are called to be. And in fact, it is not many people who achieve the state of deification. The goal is too sublime, and much spiritual effort is needed to achieve it,” he said. Hilarion drew on the writings of the Byzantine monk Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022) to illustrate how “conscious” reception of Holy Communion can help Christians in their quest for “deification.” “What I tried to give you was just a glimpse into the Orthodox understanding of the Eucharist as it is expressed in the liturgy, in visual art, in liturgical hymns, and in theological writings of the fathers,” he said. “I do not claim that everybody in the Orthodox Church is deified and becomes a saint. Not at all! We are just unworthy keepers of the rich tradition which came down to us from Christ himself and from the early fathers of the Church.” “Some of these riches I wanted to share with you, and I am most grateful to the organizers of the congress for giving me such opportunity.” The morning ended with a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Piero Marini, president of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses, at the Hungexpo center. In his homily, the 79-year-old Italian archbishop, who served as Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations from 1987 to 2007, reflected on the nature of the Mass. He said: “The Eucharistic Congress is an occasion offered to all believers: the Eucharist is waiting to be lived on the path of daily life. To live by the liturgy that is celebrated means to live by what the liturgy brings to life: the forgiveness invoked and given, the word of God heard, the thanksgiving raised, the Eucharist received as communion.” “From the celebration of the Eucharist we must learn that the future of our life of faith depends not only on how we celebrate the liturgy but rather on how we know how to live from the liturgy we celebrate.” He concluded: “May this Eucharistic Congress teach us that celebrating the Eucharist is always for us to bring to fulfillment the law of love that we receive from the Lord and that the Lord wants us to transmit to others.” DECR Chairman spoke at the International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest (link) On September 6th, 2021, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, who is currently in Hungary with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, opened the International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, presenting a report on the Orthodox understanding of the Eucharist. The event took place at one of the largest exhibition centers in Hungary, Hungexpo. During his speech, Metropolitan Hilarion noted that although the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church are not in Eucharistic communion, they are united by faith in the real presence of Christ in the Sacrament of Eucharist. This faith has found a special expression in the liturgical and theological tradition of the Orthodox Church which understands the Divine Liturgy as the pinnacle of liturgical life – a Divine service that overcomes spatial and temporal limitations. Speaking about the representation of the Eucharist in the Orthodox art, the Hierarch especially emphasized the traditional iconography of the Communion of the Apostles, describing it as a vivid expression of faith in the Eucharist as a force that creates the unity of the Church. Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk presented the patristic understanding of the communion of the Holy Mysteries of Christ as the main means of achieving deification, which is the goal of Christian life. Particular attention in the speech of the DECR Chairman was paid to the liturgical features of the celebration of the Eucharist in the Orthodox Church, allowing believers to become familiar with the reality of the Kingdom of Heaven while still on earth. At the end of his speech, Vladyka Hilarion emphasized that the Orthodox Church is the guardian of a rich tradition dating back to the Lord Jesus Christ and the early Fathers of the Church, and expressed gratitude to the organizers of the event for the opportunity to present this tradition to its participants. On the sidelines of the Congress, the DECR Chairman spoke with Archbishop of Esztergom and Budapest Cardinal Peter Erdö and other hierarchs of the Roman Catholic Church. He also gave interviews to a number of media outlets. DECR Communication Service Cardinal Erdö: Our world today is in burning need of a united Christianity (link) By Courtney Mares Rome Newsroom, Sep 11, 2021 / 12:00 pm Cardinal Péter Erdö said Saturday at the International Eucharistic Congress that the world is in “burning need” of the witness of a united Christianity. The archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest and primate of Hungary offered Mass in the main square in front of the grand Hungarian Parliament Building on the penultimate day of the congress as the country awaits the arrival of Pope Francis. “It is a special providential gift of God that before the conclusion of the Eucharistic Congress, we can celebrate here in the central square of the nation,” Erdö said in his homily on Sept. 11. ”Present in the parliament now are the Holy Crown and our most cherished relic, the Holy Right Hand of St. Stephen.” The Catholic cardinal noted that Bartholomew I, who was present at the Mass, had presided over the Orthodox canonization of St. Stephen, the first King of Hungary, “This reminds us that when our first king died in 1038, Eastern and Western Christianity were still in union,” Erdo said. “This unity is the will of Christ Himself, who prayed that His disciples may be one, that the world may believe that the Father has sent Him. Our world today is in burning need of the testimony of a united Christianity.” Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, addressed the International Eucharistic Congress immediately before the Mass. “We pray to the merciful God to strengthen and bless our endeavors to advance on the path to unity,” the Eastern Orthodox leader said. “Despite their specificities, East and West organically belong together in the unity of Christendom,” he said. Earlier this week at the International Eucharistic Congress, Metropolitan Hilarion, the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, also spoke of unity. He said that belief in Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist unites Catholics and Eastern Orthodox believers despite their divisions. The evening Mass in the center of Budapest concluded with a candlelight procession and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. In his homily, Erdö underlined how the Eucharist unites believers across space and time. “What we experienced this evening happened because our fathers, our ancestors there in Jerusalem were together with Jesus of Nazareth,” the cardinal said. “And He, on the last evening, before he was captured, condemned and crucified, ate together with His disciples. He took the bread and said, ‘Take and eat. This is My body.'” “And the disciples sensed that something inexplicable had happened. Something greater than what we are. Something that had to be repeated again and again, for this event to be present among us, this singular unrepeatable event, radiating power. The body of the Master was pierced, His blood shed, but on the third day He rose for the dead,” he said. “This is why the candles burn, this is why these words are spoken again and again in family homes, in brilliant churches, in prisons, in labor camps, in secret and in the open. This is what we priests are for.” “This is why following this Holy Mass we will set forth in candlelit procession with the Blessed Sacrament, to proclaim to the city and the world the miracle of Jesus’ presence and ask for His blessing upon us all.” Join me on pilgrimage at the end of October in the United States in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley. Click below for more information or email our U.S. Office at Pilgrimages@InsideTheVaticanPilgrimages.comDonate Now to Support The Moynihan Letters Nonprofits like our own Urbi et Orbi Communications need help weathering the current storms. We do this work in partnership with you: we want you to be informed, to have a sense of the current climate of the Church, and to know both where there is hope for the future and where there is danger of losing sight of Truth. 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“Treason”: In June, “Trump call[ed] for Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley to be Fire” who we now know is a Benedict Arnold according to New Bob Woodward Book
In June, Donald Trump “call[ed] for Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley to be Fire” who we now know is a Benedict Arnold “according to an excerpt published Tuesday from a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward and national political reporter Robert Costa titled ‘Peril.’” [https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/06/30/trump-calls-for-joint-chiefs-chairman-milley-to-be-fired/]
Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made secret calls to his Chinese counterpart in the final days of the Trump administration out of hysteria that President Donald Trump might order an attack. Benedict Arnold
Milley made two phone calls to Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army, according to an excerpt published Tuesday from a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward and national political reporter Robert Costa titled “Peril.” One call occurred on Oct. 30, 2020 — four days before the November election — and one on Jan. 8 of this year, two days after the Capitol riot by a mob of Trump supporters. In each, Milley assured the Chinese the United States was not preparing to strike.
“General Li, I want to assure you that the American government is stable and everything is going to be okay,” Milley reportedly told Zuocheng in October. “We are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you.”
According to Woodward and Acosta, Milley even pledged to alert the Chinese in advance of an impending strike.
Lavern Spicer, who is a Republican candidate for #FL24 who is “fighting to expose the lies of the left and end the Democrats’ destruction of Black America,” said “Milley committed treason”:Lavern Spicer@lavern_spicer Milley committed treason and needs to be removed from his position at once. [https://twitter.com/lavern_spicer/status/1437833936378470401]
Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia.
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.
Francis Notes:
– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:
“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.” (The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
– LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”
– On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”
– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
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