Mar 2007
GLUTTONY AND ITS REMEDIES
30/03/07 07:57 Filed in: Christianity
The so called wisdom of the world erroneously concludes that the cause of our obesity epidemic is food--trans fats, fast food and soft drinks. However, Godly wisdom reveals it is our own inordinate love of eating and drinking aka, old fashioned gluttony.
Thomas Aquinas argued that gluttony could include an obsessive anticipation of meals, and Read More...
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CATHOLIC, MUSLIM TURF WARS OVER CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL IN SPAIN
28/03/07 11:44 Filed in: Islam
Hilaire Belloc predicted the resurrection of Islam.
"In Islam there has been no such dissolution of ancestral doctrine --or, at any rate, nothing corresponding to the universal break-up of religion in Europe. The whole spiritual strength of Islam is still present in the masses of Syria and Anatolia, of the East Asian Mountains, of Arabia, Egypt or North Africa.
The final fruit of this tenacity, the second period of Islamic power may be delayed:- but I doubt whether it can be permanently postponed." Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies.
Here we have a battle at ground zero. Excerpts from Los Angeles Times:
"The 1,200-year-old architectural wonder that is one of Spain's most renowned landmarks is at the center of a turf war over religious space, cultural recognition and rivalries that are both ancient and contemporary.
Known as La Mezquita in Spanish and the Great Mosque in English, its spectacular forest of striped arches and jasper-and-marble columns constitutes one of ancient Islam's most iconic legacies. But La Mezquita has served as a consecrated Catholic church for nearly 800 years — ever since Spain's Catholic monarchs ejected Islamic forces that had ruled most of the Iberian Peninsula for more than five centuries.
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AN INFANTICIDE EPIDEMIC
26/03/07 21:29 Filed in:
Abortion, Infanticide --Killing Babies
From Timesonline:
‘Dump your children here’ box to stop mothers from killing their babies:
"Desperate mothers are being urged to drop their unwanted babies through hatches at hospitals in an effort to halt a spate of infanticides that has shocked Germany.
At least 23 babies have been killed so far this year, many of them beaten to death or strangled by their mothers before being dumped on wasteland and in dustbins... Experts believe that the true figure is even higher.
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A VICTIM OF SEXISM OR FEMINISM
26/03/07 11:26 Filed in: Culture/
Death of the West
Yesterday, I attended a different Catholic Church due to a schedule conflict. The gospel was on the woman who was found in adultery. Rather than take the opportunity to speak of the many aspects of hypersexuality in our culture, the priest spoke about discrimination against women by men. He stated that he was certain that all the women in the congregation at one time or another were a victim of sex discrimination.
His premise was fatally flawed. As a women who became a lawyer and practiced law for several years, Read More...
THE CONSEQUENCES OF A SOCIETY WITH A SHORTAGE OF FEMALES
24/03/07 10:50 Filed in:
China -Forced Contraception & Abortion
The deadly combination of a nation's preference for boys over girls, and the modern medical technology to carry out this preference, threatens the future stability of the world at large.
History provides an example of the consequences of a sex imbalanced society. From NZ Herald:
"In the middle of the 19th century, an area the size of Germany located between Beijing and Shanghai in central China was run for more than 15 years by the Nian rebels, a 50,000-strong network of bandit groups who lived by pillage and rape.
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GERMAN JUDGE INVOKES QUR'AN TO DENY ABUSED WIFE A DIVORCE
22/03/07 22:20 Filed in: Islam
Imagine a
Christian being denied a divorce based upon Jesus
clear words in Scripture -- it certainly would not
happen in the West. But a divorce can be denied in
"Eurabia" based upon the Koran. Guardian Unlimited
reports:
A German judge who refused a Moroccan woman a fast-track divorce on the grounds that domestic violence was acceptable according to the Qur'an has been removed from the case following a nationwide outcry.
The judge, Christa Datz-Winter, said the German woman of Moroccan descent would not be granted a divorce because she and her husband came from a "Moroccan cultural environment in which it is not uncommon for a man to exert a right of corporal punishment over his wife," according to a statement she wrote that was issued by a Frankfurt court. "That's what the claimant had to reckon with when she married the defendant."
The 26-year-old mother of two had been repeatedly beaten and threatened with death by her husband. Read More...
A German judge who refused a Moroccan woman a fast-track divorce on the grounds that domestic violence was acceptable according to the Qur'an has been removed from the case following a nationwide outcry.
The judge, Christa Datz-Winter, said the German woman of Moroccan descent would not be granted a divorce because she and her husband came from a "Moroccan cultural environment in which it is not uncommon for a man to exert a right of corporal punishment over his wife," according to a statement she wrote that was issued by a Frankfurt court. "That's what the claimant had to reckon with when she married the defendant."
The 26-year-old mother of two had been repeatedly beaten and threatened with death by her husband. Read More...
GOD'S CONTINENT: CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM, AND EUROPE'S RELIGIOUS CRISIS
22/03/07 14:24 Filed in: Christianity
Here is an excerpt of a recent interview with Phillip Jenkins, a professor of History at Pennsylvania State University, about his new book, God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis, that appeared at Virtue. His book is about the religious future of Europe. Portions of the interview follow:
Explain the "rule of ten."
Jenkins: If you're trying to track the decline of institutional Christianity in Europe, you can take a point in 1960 or 1965 and compare that to today. Whether you are looking at vocations or number of seminarians, we are now at one tenth of where we were, across the continent. People are not going to seminaries. They're not choosing vocations in anything like the number they used to.
How effective was the Soviet Union at stomping out religious belief, in Russia and in its satellite countries? Read More...
NEW LOOK
21/03/07 19:22
A COUNTER CULTURAL PRIEST
21/03/07 15:21 Filed in: Tridentine
Latin Mass
It is precisely because of counter cultural priests like Fr. Johnson that the Tridentine Rite was kept alive and so many are now anxiously awaiting the motu proprio.
Here is Fr. Johnson's obituary from the L.A. Times:
Father Daniel Johnson, a champion of pre-Vatican II Roman Catholic traditions and the centuries-old Tridentine Mass, has died. He was 77.
Johnson died Sunday at a Duarte hospital after a long illness.
"He was a pioneer in reforming liturgical reform," said Michael J. Sundstedt, a longtime parishioner at St. Mary's by the Sea in Huntington Beach, where Johnson served as pastor for 25 years before retiring in 2004.
When Johnson arrived at the tiny wooden church in 1978, it was in danger of closing because membership had dwindled to about 400 people, church administrators recalled.
Johnson began walking door to door in the neighborhood, sometimes in the rain, inviting people to church. He also visited the Huntington Beach Pier every evening, striking up conversations.
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CHRISTIANS MUST PAY PROTECTION TAX TO MUSLIMS
19/03/07 15:17 Filed in: Persecution by
Islam
Asia News
Reports:
Islamic groups impose tax on Christian “subjects”
Islamic militias in Baghdad and Mosul order Christians to pay the jizya, a poll tax which dates back to the period of the Ottoman Empire, which guaranteed non Muslims the right to practise their religion as well as Muslim protection; the groups are ordered “not to reveal their activities” to Iraqi authorities while all contributions are given in alms to the Mosques.
Baghdad (AsiaNews) – “Non Muslim subjects must pay a contribution to the jihad if they wish to be allowed to live and practise their faith in Iraq”. These orders are being imposed on the Christians of Mosul and Baghdad by Islamic militias. Besides these threats of extortion, thousands of non Muslims are also being forced to leave their homes by letters assigning their house to Muslim citizens. The initiative is part of the general campaign to Islamafy the entire country, which begun with the imposition of the veil on all women. The website Ankawa.com was the first to carry news of this latest development; the website has eye witness accounts of Iraqi refugees in Erbil, in the semi autonomous region of Kurdistan.
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Islamic groups impose tax on Christian “subjects”
Islamic militias in Baghdad and Mosul order Christians to pay the jizya, a poll tax which dates back to the period of the Ottoman Empire, which guaranteed non Muslims the right to practise their religion as well as Muslim protection; the groups are ordered “not to reveal their activities” to Iraqi authorities while all contributions are given in alms to the Mosques.
Baghdad (AsiaNews) – “Non Muslim subjects must pay a contribution to the jihad if they wish to be allowed to live and practise their faith in Iraq”. These orders are being imposed on the Christians of Mosul and Baghdad by Islamic militias. Besides these threats of extortion, thousands of non Muslims are also being forced to leave their homes by letters assigning their house to Muslim citizens. The initiative is part of the general campaign to Islamafy the entire country, which begun with the imposition of the veil on all women. The website Ankawa.com was the first to carry news of this latest development; the website has eye witness accounts of Iraqi refugees in Erbil, in the semi autonomous region of Kurdistan.
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CRIMINALIZING HOMOPHOBIA & THE COMING PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS
18/03/07 12:53 Filed in: Radical
Homosexual Agenda
The practice
of genuine Christianity, that is not watered down to
please the world and actually adheres to our Lord's
commands on sexual morality, is totally incompatible
with a culture that reveres, and promotes
homosexuality. Thus all speech that speaks the
truth about the immorality of homosexuality and the
homosexual lifestyle must be silenced. This is
taking place in Brazil, once a Catholic nation, but
now quickly becoming the homosexual capital of South
America.
Zenit reports:
BRASILIA, Brazil, MARCH 18, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Debate continues over so-called homophobia legislation, which seeks to criminalize anything considered a condemnation of homosexuality, including priests who speak against the practice in homilies.
Priests could face two to five years imprisonment for preaching against homosexuality. And a rector of a seminary who refuses admission to a homosexual student could face three to five years. Read More...
Zenit reports:
BRASILIA, Brazil, MARCH 18, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Debate continues over so-called homophobia legislation, which seeks to criminalize anything considered a condemnation of homosexuality, including priests who speak against the practice in homilies.
Priests could face two to five years imprisonment for preaching against homosexuality. And a rector of a seminary who refuses admission to a homosexual student could face three to five years. Read More...
School Bus Terrorism
17/03/07 12:52 Filed in: Islam
I have never
been comfortable with the notion of putting my
children on a school bus, let alone handing
them over to the public school system. Many
would call me an extremist for homeschooling --is it
a coincidence that these are the same people who
can't see the threat that Islam poses to Western
civilization?
Here is another example of genuine extremism.
Fox News reports:
FBI Puts Local Officials on Notice About Extremists Trying to Sign Up to Be School Bus Drivers
The FBI has issued an "informational bulletin" to state and local officials saying to watch out for people tied to extremist groups trying to earn licenses to drive school buses.
The Associated Press reports that members of the unnamed extremist groups have succeeded in gaining the drivers licenses, but a Department of Homeland Security official told FOX News that "at this time there is no evidence that any of these individuals have got these jobs, or got hold of school buses."
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Here is another example of genuine extremism.
Fox News reports:
FBI Puts Local Officials on Notice About Extremists Trying to Sign Up to Be School Bus Drivers
The FBI has issued an "informational bulletin" to state and local officials saying to watch out for people tied to extremist groups trying to earn licenses to drive school buses.
The Associated Press reports that members of the unnamed extremist groups have succeeded in gaining the drivers licenses, but a Department of Homeland Security official told FOX News that "at this time there is no evidence that any of these individuals have got these jobs, or got hold of school buses."
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MUSLIMS IN NIGERIA KIDNAP, CONVERT CHRISTIAN CHILDREN
15/03/07 12:50 Filed in: Persecution by
Islam
My family had
the pleasure of befriending a Nigerian Priest.
He had plenty of stories to tell about the Muslim
militant domination in Nigeria. He always said
that Africa needed to be re-colonized while the West
needed to be re-evangelized. He ended up
returning to Nigeria out of a sense of obligation to
his people who were suffering under muslim
oppression.
Journal Chretian is reporting:
Beginning in November of last year, 13-year-old Victor Udo Usen, a member of the Christ Apostolic Church in this northern Nigeria city, went missing.
On February 20, news that young Victor was spotted in a Muslim neighbor’s house jolted his family. A young Christian girl had raced to the Usens’ home in the Mabera area of Sokoto city with the news.
Victor’s mother, Esther Udo Usen, told Compass that she ran to the house where her son had been seen. She met him, however, even as he was making frantic efforts to escape from the house where he has been held incommunicado for six months.
“I quickly held his hands and dragged him along with me towards our house,” she said. “But within a twinkle of an eye, I heard shouts of ‘Allahu Akbar ! Allahu Akbar ! Allahu Akbar [God is great] !’ I was shocked as I saw a large number of Muslims rushing towards us.” Read More...
Journal Chretian is reporting:
Beginning in November of last year, 13-year-old Victor Udo Usen, a member of the Christ Apostolic Church in this northern Nigeria city, went missing.
On February 20, news that young Victor was spotted in a Muslim neighbor’s house jolted his family. A young Christian girl had raced to the Usens’ home in the Mabera area of Sokoto city with the news.
Victor’s mother, Esther Udo Usen, told Compass that she ran to the house where her son had been seen. She met him, however, even as he was making frantic efforts to escape from the house where he has been held incommunicado for six months.
“I quickly held his hands and dragged him along with me towards our house,” she said. “But within a twinkle of an eye, I heard shouts of ‘Allahu Akbar ! Allahu Akbar ! Allahu Akbar [God is great] !’ I was shocked as I saw a large number of Muslims rushing towards us.” Read More...
ABORTION REGRET & FEEL GOOD E-CARDS
11/03/07 12:50 Filed in:
Abortion, Infanticide --Killing Babies
"I think you're strong, smart, thoughtful and
caring. I believe in you and your ability to
make the best decision. I think you did the
right thing."
From NEWSMAX:
Group Launches Post-Abortion
E-Cards
A nonprofit
organization has unveiled a series of electronic
greeting cards that concerned friends and relatives
can send to a woman after she chooses to have an
abortion.
Like Exhale's confidential talk line for women who
have had abortions, the six e-cards available on the
group's Web site were designed to be nonpartisan and
encompass the range of someone's potential responses
to going through an abortion.
"Women having abortions are calling our line because
often they don't have someone to talk to — it's a
stigmatized issue," said Aspen Baker, founder and
executive director of Oakland-based
Exhale.
One card expresses sympathy, offering the gentle
reminder that, "As you grieve, remember that you are
loved." Another provides encouragement for someone
who "did the right thing." Yet another strikes a
religious tone with the thought that "God will never
leave you or forsake you."
An E-card and a
nonjudgmental hotline is the world's answer to the
pain and torture that comes from abortion and mortal
sin. No amount of confessions via a secular
hotline will relieve these women of the burden of
such a heinous sin. They need divine
intervention. Only Jesus through His Church can
loose these women from their sins.
THOSE WHO ARE MOST TEMPTED & THOSE WHO ARE FRIENDS OF THE DEVIL
10/03/07 12:49 Filed in: Christianity
The folllowing is excerpted from a sermon by the Cure d' Ars, St. John Vianney.
"[T]emptation is necessary for us, because it teaches us to know ourselves.
“Now what does God do to bring us to a knowledge of ourselves, to make us conscious of our unworthiness? He allows the devil to approach us....O my brethren, how little are we, and how wrong it is for us to rely upon our fine resolutions!”
“[T]emptation is necessary to convince our mind of our unworthiness, and to prevent pride from becoming master over us. Now, you may think that the people who are the most tempted, are the drunkards, the slanderers, the unchaste, who wallow in the mire of their shame, or perhaps the misers. No my brethren, these are not the people who are tempted the most. On the contrary, the devil may even try to restrain them, for fear that they may not live long enough to do evil and help cast souls into hell