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| Archbishop of Milan to Take Part in ‘Historic’ Closed-Door Seminar With Italy’s Freemasons |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-16-2024, 06:14 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Archbishop of Milan to Take Part in ‘Historic’ Closed-Door Seminar With Italy’s Freemasons
For almost 300 years, Catholics have been forbidden from joining the Masons, and the Vatican has issued almost 600 negative pronouncements against the secret society during that time.
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Archbishop of Milan Mario Delpini preaches at Mass June 10, 2023, at the Duomo in Milan. (photo: Gabriel Bouys / AFP via Getty Images)
Edward Pentin/ NCR
February 15, 2024
MILAN — The Archbishop of Milan has surprised many Catholics with the news that he plans to take part in a seminar in the northern Italian city on Friday with the grand masters of Italy’s three Freemasonic lodges, despite the Church’s longstanding censure of Freemasonry.
Archbishop Mario Delpini, Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, president emeritus of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts, and Bishop Antonio Staglianò, president of the Pontifical Academy of Theology, will be among Church representatives attending the closed-door event to discuss The Catholic Church and Freemasonry.
The Freemasons will be represented by Stefano Bisi, grand master of the Grand Orient of Italy, the country’s largest Freemasonic lodge, and leaders of two other national lodges: the Grand Lodge of Italy and the Grand Regular Lodge of Italy.
Bisi has called the meeting “historic.”
Cardinal Coccopalmerio’s participation is of interest as he was an auxiliary bishop of Milan when Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini was archbishop of the diocese. The late Jesuit cardinal was known to be close to the Freemasons, who paid a warm tribute to him as a “man of dialogue” when he died in 2012.
Writing in the Italian Catholic daily La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, editor-in-chief Riccardo Cascioli noted that since Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi wrote a conciliatory letter to Freemasons in 2016, “opportunities for meetings, promoted by Freemasonry or by some dioceses, have multiplied, and are continually growing in stature, as the Milan initiative testifies.”
Since Clement XII’s papal bull In Eminenti Apostolatus Specula of 1738, Catholics have been forbidden from joining the Masons, and the Vatican has issued many negative pronouncements against the secret society — almost 600 magisterial documents in total.
The Catholic Church considers Freemasonry to be, among other grave problems, a corruption of Christianity, that it practices rituals that are inimical to Catholicism, that its principles are irreconcilable with the Catholic faith and that it contains a strong inclination toward anti-Catholicism.
In a 1983 declaration approved by Pope St. John Paul II, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger reasserted that the Church’s “negative judgment” on Masonry remained “unchanged” since Masonic principles “have always been considered irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Church and therefore membership in them remains forbidden.”
“The faithful who enroll in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion,” Cardinal Ratzinger added. However, neither that declaration nor the 1983 Code of Canon Law imposed the penalty of excommunication on Catholics belonging to the Masons — something that had been in force since Clement XII’s papal bull.
Still, joining a lodge continues to be officially banned in the Catholic Church and in November the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released a document reaffirming that Catholics are forbidden from becoming members.
The document, signed by Pope Francis and DDF prefect Cardinal Victor Fernández, was written in response to a bishop from the Philippines who had expressed concern at the growing number of Catholics in his diocese who have been taking part in Freemasonry and asked for suggestions for how to respond pastorally.
The dicastery’s response called on the bishops to devise “a coordinated strategy” to promote catechesis “in all parishes regarding the reasons for the irreconcilability between the Catholic faith and Freemasonry,” according to CNA.
Pope Francis has occasionally been vocally critical of the secret society. Speaking in 2015 on a visit to Turin, a city well known for its ties to Freemasonry, he recalled that at the end of the 19th century “Freemasonry was in full swing,” helping to make it “one of the ugliest times and the ugliest places in the history of Italy.” In 2013, he criticized the presence of “Masonic lobbies” within the Church.
Masonry-Friendly Pontificate?
But this pontificate has also drawn noticeable approval from Italian lodges. This became especially apparent in 2020 when Francis’s Human Fraternity document, co-signed with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University, received a ringing endorsement from Bisi’s Grand Orient Lodge. The document, read an article in its quarterly magazine, was “innovative” and a “slow-release drug” that could herald a “new era” and represent a “turning point for a new civilization.”
Freemasons in other parts of the world have also welcomed other initiatives of this pontificate, such as when Spanish Freemasons congratulated the Pope on his encyclical Fratelli Tutti (Brothers All), saying the Church had finally embraced “universal fraternity, the great principle of modern Freemasonry.” By 2017, this pontificate had reportedly already received some 62 messages of public support from various Freemasonic figures and lodges.
In a Feb. 14 statement posted on the Grand Orient Lodge website, Bisi noted “various ups and downs” in relations with the Catholic Church over the past 50 years. “Tenuous openings were followed by rigid closures,” he said.
Significantly, Bisi said a dialogue between Freemasonry and the Church began in the 1960s, when the then-grand master of his lodge, Giordano Gamberini and his successor Lino Salvini, had exchanges with Pauline Father Rosario Esposito.
“Meetings, discussions ... then stopped,” Bisi said, but now “they can start again,” and he recalled an open letter, penned by Cardinal Ravasi and addressed to “Dear Brother Masons” published on Feb. 14, 2016.
The then-president of the Pontifical Council for Culture said the Church’s declarations underlining Freemasonry’s incompatibility with the faith “do not impede dialogue” with Masonry on areas such as “works of charity, the fight against materialism, human dignity, and knowledge of each other.”
Quoting documents including one from the German bishops’ conference issued in 1980, the cardinal recommended “going beyond reciprocal ‘hostility, insults and prejudices.”
Referring to that letter and dialogue that proceeded since then, Bisi said in his Feb. 14 statement that from a “varied Masonic panorama,” it is possible to “find common values with those of the Catholic world.
“It would be good to start from there,” he said, “from what unites.”
Despite obvious press interest, media will not be allowed at the event which will take place at the Ambrosianeum Cultural Foundation, and attendance will be restricted.
Those invited to attend will be members of the respective lodges and the organizers, the Socio-Religious Research and Information Group (GRIS), a private association of Italian Catholics approved by Italy’s bishops’ conference that conducts research into religions, sects and phenomenology.
The organization has “long been involved with Freemasonry,” wrote Cascioli, adding that it has “already organized several meetings in various parts of Italy with the stated goal of getting to know one another, well before Cardinal Ravasi’s intervention.”
‘They Have Everything to Gain’
GRIS’ national secretary, Giuseppe Ferrari, said he believed Freemasonry’s “rites and rituals” are likely to again emerge as a chief impediment to a “softer relationship” and the lodges will either have to “eliminate these rites or nothing will change.”
But Cascioli said this was already obvious and so he questioned the need to “multiply meetings in which to tell each other how incompatible we are.”
“The truth is,” Cascioli continued, “gestures are worth much more than words, and that is why Masonic lodges, with the Grand Orient Italy in the lead, are very interested in this dialogue: they have everything to gain because the impression given to the public is that after centuries of condemnation, there is not only the possibility of dialogue but also the possibility of sharing some values.” Being invited to such public events, Cascioli added, also serves to “clean up” Freemasonry’s image as a “secret sect.”
As for the Church, he said it has always been open to encounter anyone, but it is Freemasonry that has “always regarded the Church with hostility,” and views any form of dialogue “as an attempt to neutralize that claim to Truth that the Church proclaims.”
“It is therefore not surprising that these possibilities for dialogue are multiplying at a time when relativism has taken root even among many pastors of the Church,” Cascioli concluded. “And it will not be enough to leave journalists outside the door to hide this reality.”
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| Archbishop Viganò: Homily for Ash Wednesday |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-15-2024, 07:10 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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ET NON DABO VOS ULTRA OPPROBRIUM IN GENTIBUS
Homily for Ash Wednesday
Taken from here.
Immutemur habitu, in cinere et cilicio:
jejunemus, et ploremus ante Dominum:
quia multum misericors est dimittere peccata nostra
Deus noster. Joel 2:13
Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris. We heard these words spoken a few moments ago, during the rite of the imposition of ashes: Remember, man, that you are dust, and to dust you shall return. As we prepare to enter the sacred penitential season of Lent in preparation for Passiontide and Most Holy Easter, it is certainly salutary to remind ourselves of where we have come from and what awaits us.
We come from the dust, with which the Creator deigned to shape our bodies in which to infuse an immortal soul, making us in His image and likeness. Destined for eternal bliss, with sin we returned to the dust of exile. Condemned to the loss of immortality, we mixed the sweat of our brow with the dust of the clod. Called in Abraham to the promised land, we crossed the desert in the dust. It was in the dust tha the Forerunner preached, and in the dust of the rocks the Lord was tempted by Satan. Our innumerable sins humbled Our Saviour Jesus Christ amid the dust of Golgotha. Our mortal body will dissolve into dust after burial, awaiting the resurrection of the flesh at the end of time. The world will be consumed in dust, when the eternal Judge will come judicare sæculum per ignem. The ancient monuments are dust, the documents of the sages are dust, and all their precious fabrics are dust.
And for our consolation, the dwellings of the wicked shall one day crumble to dust, and their possessions, their money, and their idols shall be scattered to dust. Like hay they will soon wither, they will fall like grass in the meadow (Ps 36:2); for the wicked shall be cut off, but he that hopeth in the Lord shall possess the earth. A little while longer, and the wicked shall disappear, you shall seek his place and no longer find him (Ps 36:9-10). Their infernal plans, their plans for domination, their agendas, and their “great reset” will dissolve into dust. They too will die, while their dream of immortality and open defiance of Christ will crash before that capital punishment which no child of Adam can escape. The tomb will also open for them, and with it their particular Judgment and their just condemnation.
In the face of this destiny of dust that inexorably awaits everyone, we must carry imprinted in our minds that Cross which for a few hours we will have marked on our foreheads with ashes, causa proferendæ humilitatis (Bened. Cinerum, 2a Oratio); because the Cross alone is our only hope – spes unica – in the dissolution of ephemeral things. Stat Crux dum volvitur orbis. But in order to love the Cross, in order to understand its inevitability and necessity if we want to be saved, it is necessary to understand – within the limits of our human frailty – what an ineffable miracle of Charity moved the Most Holy Trinity – the Triune Supreme God – to decree that the eternal Word of the Father should become incarnate, suffer and die in order to redeem sinful humanity in Adam. Deus caritas est (1 Jn 4:8). The miracle of divine Charity that consumes the sins of men in the flames of the most pure love of the immolated Son, and makes reparation for their infinite offense by sacrificing God to God, sacrificing the Son for the sins of the servant, and even goes so far as to make Himself truly present in the Most August Sacrament of the Altar until the end of time so that the creature may be nourished by the Creator, so that the slave may feed on his own Deliverer. Caritas ejus in nobis consummata est (1 Jn 4:12).
The magnificence of God shines forth in the creative work of the Father, who calls us into existence out of nothing; in the redemptive work of the Son, who restores on the Cross the divine order broken by sin; and in the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit, who pours into souls the infinite merits of Redemption through Grace. And in this divine splendor, every creature is created in a unique and unrepeatable way: there is no vein of a single leaf that is the same as another, and no two human beings are identical. Similarly, each soul is redeemed in an entirely unique way, and in a completely unique way is touched by Grace. The Most Holy Trinity – precisely because Almighty God – has a personal relationship with every soul, from the moment it is thought of and willed and loved. The Father does not create series of things. The Son does not redeem indistinct masses. The Paraclete does not sanctify by chance. It is always a personal, individual relationship, unique for the thousand ways that the Lord chooses to accompany us, admonish us, encourage us, and reward us, or – God forbid! – punish us. Each of us knows well how many infidelities we have to reproach ourselves with, and how many times God’s mercy has lifted us up de stercore and helped us to progress in His love.
But just as the creative, redemptive, and sanctifying action of the Most Holy Trinity is manifested in a different and unique way for each one of us, so also our relationship with God is personal and unique – which obviously does not exclude the mediation of the Church – in responding and corresponding to the Lord’s will.
This means that the good deeds we perform, the sacrifices we accept, the penances and fasts we undertake, and the prayers we recite rise before the Divine Majesty with our name written on them, so to speak. Dirigatur, Domine, oratio mea sicut incensum in conspectu tuo; elevatio manuum mearum sacrificium vespertinum (Ps 140:2). And that name, known only to the Omniscience of God, remains there even when those good works are placed in the Treasury of Graces together with the infinite merits of Our Lord and those of all the Saints from which Providence draws. This is a great consolation, because it makes each of us truly unique in God’s plan. But for the same reason, our faults, our sins, are also individual and unique: “Play the prophet, Christ! Who is it who struck you?” (Mt 26:68). Each one of our sins – let us meditate on it often, especially during this season of Lent – is a spit in the Face of Christ, a blow of a reed that plunges the thorns of the crown into His Head. Each of our sins is a whip that tears His flesh, a blow of the scourge that rips it open, a blow of a hammer in the palms of His hands, a spear that wounds His side. And those blows, those slaps, those spittings have our name written on them, as do the sharp arrows with which we pierce the Immaculate Heart of His Most Holy Mother, mystically united to the Passion of the Son.
But if present events and the infernal attack of the Enemy see us engaged in an exhausting war that too often distracts us from prayer, recollection, and penance, during this sacred season of Lent we are called to exercise the spirit – as in a training of the soul – to strengthen it in the love of God, in union with His Passion and in flight from sin.
Thus, just as a soldier engages in those disciplines in which he will later find himself fighting, so the faithful, who are soldiers of Christ, cannot effectively face the spiritual combat without first having trained themselves in the struggle against the world, the flesh, and the devil. The prayer placed at the end of the imposition of ashes uses a clearly military terminology: Concede nobis, Domine, præsidia militiæ christianæ sanctis inchoare jejuniis: ut, contra spiritales nequitias pugnaturi, continentiæ muniamur auxilio. And if in the daily battle we have to take sides mainly against external enemies, during Lent our first enemy is ourselves, starting with our dominant defect: because the weapons that the Lord puts at our disposal must find us capable of wielding them, while too often we believe that we can enter the battlefield relying on our own strength.
Immutemur habitu, in cinere et cilicio. Let us change our behavior; let us reform our conduct in sackcloth and ashes, that is, keeping our eternal destiny firmly in mind, and with it the transience of the things of this world. Let us change the perspective from which we observe events, considering that all our actions, good and bad, do not remain nameless, nor without reward or punishment. We cannot take society, the Hierarchy, our rulers, the subversives of the New World Order, the traitors, the wicked, or the lukewarm as pretexts for our own indolence, trying to justify our conduct or to escape from the ashes and sackcloth, that is, from the spirit of penance and renunciation of the things of this world which is the only place we can be trained for humility and holiness. Non declines cor meum in verba malitiæ, ad excusandas excusationes in peccatis (Ps 140:4).
Because God’s Judgment is personal, and the merit of our actions is individual: may the iniquities of others therefore spur us on to remedy, repair, and expiate, rather than becoming an alibi we hide behind. Emendemus in melius: let us make reparation for the evil committed in our ignorance so that, when we are suddenly seized by the day of death, we do not look in vain for time to repent when it will not be possible for us to find it. (Impositio Cinerum, Responsorium).
Let us look to the Most Blessed Virgin, chosen by the Most Holy Trinity to be the living tabernacle of God Incarnate: Her blessed Fiat – personal and formulated in the silence of interiority – made our Redemption possible. May it be our daily model of obedience to the Lord’s will – and especially in this propitious time of fasting and penance. And so may it be.
+ Carlo Maria, Archbishop
February 14, 2024
Feria IV Cinerum
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| SSPX-MC YouTube Shorts now available |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-15-2024, 06:37 AM - Forum: The Catacombs: News
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YouTube Shorts are just that, videos that last 60 seconds or less.
SSPX-MC has started providing Shorts of various videos, mostly excerpts from Fr. Hewko's Sermons but also covering other topics as well.
These can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jGH37wA2c6E
These are a great collections of the many little pearls of wisdom of either the saints or from sermons.
A big thank you to the good folks running the SSPX-MC YouTube Channel!
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| Archbishop Lefebvre: On Fasting and Abstinence [1982] |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-14-2024, 06:44 AM - Forum: Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre
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Archbishop Lefebvre: On Fasting and Abstinence
Taken from here.
My dear brethren,
According to an ancient and salutary tradition in the Church, on the occasion of the beginning of Lent, I address these words to you in order to encourage you to enter into this penitential season wholeheartedly, with the dispositions willed by the Church and to accomplish the purpose for which the Church prescribes it.
If I look in books from the early part of this century, I find that they indicate three purposes for which the Church has prescribed this penitential time:
First - in order to curb the concupiscence of the flesh; Then - to facilitate the elevation of our souls toward divine realities; Finally - to make satisfaction for our sins.
Our Lord gave us the example during His life, here on earth: pray and do penance. However, Our Lord, being free from concupiscence and sin, did penance and made satisfaction for our sins, thus showing us that our penance may be beneficial not only for ourselves but also for others.
Pray and do penance
Do penance in order to pray better, in order to draw closer to Almighty God. This is what all the saints have done, and this is that of which all the messages of the Blessed Virgin remind us.
Would we dare to say that this necessity is less important in our day and age than in former times? On the contrary, we can and we must affirm that today, more than ever before, prayer and penance are necessary because everything possible has been done to diminish and denigrate these two fundamental elements of Christian life.
Never before has the world sought to satisfy, without any limit, the disordered instincts of the flesh, even to the point of the murder of millions of innocent, unborn children. One would come to believe that society has no other reason for existence except to give the greatest material standard of living to all men in order that they should not be deprived of material goods.
Thus we can see that such a society would be opposed to what the Church prescribes. In these times, when even Churchmen align themselves with the spirit of this world, we witness the disappearance of prayer and penance, particularly in their character of reparation for sins and obtaining pardon for faults.
Few there are today who love to recite Psalm 50, the Miserere, and who say with the psalmist, Peccatum meum contra me est simper: "My sin is always before me." How can a Christian remove the thought of sin if the image of the crucifix is always before his eyes?
At the Council the bishops requested such a diminution of fast and abstinence that the prescriptions have practically disappeared. We must recognize the fact that this disappearance is a consequence of the ecumenical and Protestant spirit which denies the necessity of our participation for the application of the merits of Our Lord to each one of us for the remission of our sins and the restoration of our divine affiliation [i.e., our character as adoptive sons of God].
In the past the commandments of the Church provided for:
+ An obligatory fast on all days of Lent with the exception of Sundays, for the three Ember Days and for many Vigils.
+ Abstinence was for all Fridays of the year, the Saturdays of Lent and, in numerous dioceses, all the Saturdays of the year.
What remains of these prescriptions? The fast for Ash Wednesday and Good Friday and abstinence for Ash Wednesday and the Fridays of Lent. One wonders at the motives for such a drastic diminution.
Who is obliged to observe the fast?
Adults from ages 21 to 60.
And who is obliged to observe abstinence?
All the faithful from the age of 7 years.
What does fasting mean?
To fast means to take only one (full) meal a day to which one may add two collations (or small meals) one in the morning, one in the evening, which, when combined, do not equal a full meal. [Note: The Archbishop is referring to the European order of meals; in the United States, the full meal is usually the evening meal].
What is meant by abstinence?
By abstinence is meant that one abstains from meat.
The faithful who have a true spirit of faith and who profoundly understand the motives of the Church which have been mentioned above, will wholeheartedly accomplish not only the light prescriptions of today but, entering into the spirit of Our Lord and of the Blessed Virgin Mary, will endeavor to make reparation for the sins which they have committed and for the sins of their family, their neighbors, friends and fellow citizens.
It is for this reason that they will add to the actual prescriptions. These additional penances might be to fast for all Fridays of Lent, abstinence from all alcoholic beverages, abstinence from television, or other similar sacrifices.
They will make an effort to pray more, to assist more frequently at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, to recite the Rosary, and not to miss evening prayers with the family. They will detach themselves from their superfluous material goods in order to aid the seminaries, help establish schools, help their priests adequately furnish the chapels and to help establish novitiates for nuns and brothers.
The prescriptions of the Church do not concern fast and abstinence alone but also of the obligation of the Paschal Communion (Easter Duty). Here is what the Vicar of the Diocese of Sion, in Switzerland, recommended to the faithful of that diocese on February 20, 1919:
+ During Lent, the pastors will have the Stations of the Cross twice a week; one day for the children of the schools and another day for the other parishioners. After the Stations of the Cross, they will recite the Litany of the Sacred Heart.
+ During Passion Week, which is to say, the week before Palm Sunday, there will be a Triduum in all parish churches, Instruction, Litany of the Sacred Heart in the Presence of the Blessed Sacrament, Benediction. In these instructions the pastors will simply and clearly remind their parishioners of the principal conditions to receive the Sacrament of Penance worthily.
+ The time during which one may fulfill the Easter Duty has been set for all parishes from Passion Sunday to the first Sunday after Easter.
Why should these directives no longer be useful today?
Let us profit from this salutary time during the course of which Our Lord is accustomed to dispense grace abundantly. Let us not imitate the foolish virgins who having no oil in their lamps found the door of the bridegroom's house closed and this terrible response: Nescio vos - "I know you not."
Blessed are they who have the spirit of poverty for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. The spirit of poverty means the spirit of detachment from things of this world.
Blessed are they who weep for they shall be consoled. Let us think of Jesus in the Garden of Olives who wept for our sins. It is henceforth for us to weep for our sins and for those of our brethren.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for holiness for they shall be satisfied. Holiness - sanctity is attained by means of the Cross, penance and sacrifice. If we truly seek perfection then we must follow the Way of the Cross.
May we, during this Lenten Season, hear the call of Jesus and Mary and engage ourselves to follow them in this crusade of prayer and penance. May our prayers, our supplications, and our sacrifices obtain from heaven the grace that those in places of responsibility in the Church return to her true and holy traditions, which is the only solution to revive and re-flourish the institutions of the Church again.
Let us love to recite the conclusion of the Te Deum:
In te Doming, speravi; non confundar in aeternum.
"In Thee, O Lord, I have hoped. I will not be confounded in eternity."
+ Marcel Lefebvre
Sexagesima Sunday
February 14, 1982
Rickenbach, Switzerland
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| Francis Pushes for Women's Ordination |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-13-2024, 07:09 AM - Forum: Pope Francis
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Francis Pushes for Women's Ordination
Church Revolution in Pictures
Taken from here. [Slightly adapted]
The latest C9 meeting, composed of Francis and the Council of nine Cardinals he chose to advise him in the direction of the Church, above, took place on February 5 and 6, 2024.
The guest of honor was an Anglican woman bishop Jo Bailey Wells, below first row left, second row, who was invited to report to the Council on the Anglican experience regarding women's ordination to the priesthood and the impact it has made. In an interview she granted on February 9 to Vida Nueva, Wells affirmed: "And I know that on the part of Pope Francis there is a willingness to explore, to take some risks, to exercise the imagination regarding the possibilities of change."
Another woman invited to speak to the C9 was university Professor Sister Linda Pocher of the Maria Auxiliadora Congregation, first row below right. According to Europa Press, transcribed by Secretum mum mihi, she affirmed on February 8: "We know that the Pope is very much in favor of the female deaconate, but it is still something we need to know how to put into practice."
The other woman present was university Professor Giuliva di Berardini, below second from the left, who also spoke at the meeting but her speech was not reported by the press.
On February 7, Francis addressing the members of the Congregation for Divine Worship, third row below, spoke these enigmatic words, certainly preparing them to receive women deacons:
Quote:"Any reform of the Church is always a question of spousal fidelity: The Bride Church will always be more beautiful the more she loves Christ the Bridegroom, to the point of belonging totally to Him, to the point of complete conformity with Him. And about this, I say one thing about women's ministries.
"The Church is a woman and the Church is a mother and the Church is the figure of Mary and the Church-woman, the figure of Mary, is more than Peter, that is, she is something more. Everything cannot be reduced to ministerialism. The woman herself has a very great symbol in the Church as a woman, without reducing her to ministeriality. That is why I have said that any reform of the Church is always a question of spousal fidelity, because she is a woman."
Fourth row, an Anglican "priestess" celebrated a mass; fifth row, Justin Welby, head of the Anglican Sect, surrounded by women "priests."
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| AZ State Senator Supports Satanists during Senate Floor Session |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-13-2024, 06:33 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Democrat State Senator Shows His Support For Worshipping the Devil
and Honors Satanists During Arizona Senate Floor Session
Taken from here.
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Feb. 12, 2024
Democrat State Senator Juan Mendez showed his support for worshipping the devil as he proudly honored and welcomed Satanists to the Arizona Senate last week.
Mendez praised the Satanists for taking ‘noble action’ and said he’s ‘graced’ with their presence.
“Members, I would like to introduce a group of Arizonans – some from my district but they have membership all across the state,” a masked Mendez said during a Senate floor session.
He continued, “They are here to confront the arbitrary, tyrannical authority of religious persecution that’s scheduled for government committee later on today. We are graced with the presence of ministers and members of the Satanic Temple of Arizona. Please stand today. They are at the Capitol today to fight for the rights of their more than 12,000 members of their denomination and the rights of free speech and free exercise of all Arizonans.”
Mendez defended the Satanic Temple and praised them for their noble actions.
“The Temple practices non-theistic Satanism divorced from superstition without any belief in gods or devils. They practice the religious values of compassion, justice, bodily autonomy, free speech, science, humility and noble actions.”
Mendez said the Satanic Temple serves the community with outreach and their goal is to encourage ‘benevolence and empathy among all people.’
WATCH:
The Satanic Temple is also targeting children.
After school Satan clubs at elementary schools and high schools are popping up all over the nation.
The Satanic Temple’s co-founder claimed the Satan Club won’t try to convert children to Satanism or force them to worship the devil.
God help us.
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| Abp. Viganò: Francis signals his intention to ‘ordain’ women |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-08-2024, 08:23 PM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Abp. Viganò: Pope Francis’ invitation of Anglican ‘bishopess’ signals his intention to ‘ordain’ women
‘Bergoglio intends to fundamentally change the concept of Holy Orders, placing alongside the Priesthood (reserved for men) forms of ‘non-ordained’ ministry for women, with a view to their sacramental ordination,’ Archbishop Viganó said.
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
don Elvir Tabaković, Can.Reg
Feb 8, 2024
(LifeSiteNews) — Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has declared that Pope Francis’ invitation to a female Anglican prelate to speak to the Council of Cardinals about “gender equality and the role of women in the Church” signals his intention to eventually “ordain” women.
In a message posted to X on Tuesday, Archbishop Viganò wrote, “Bergoglio intends to fundamentally change the concept of Holy Orders, placing alongside the Priesthood (reserved for men) forms of ‘non-ordained’ ministry for women, with a view to their sacramental ordination.”
The Vatican whistleblower anticipated the objection that Francis “does not want to make women deacons or women priests, much less women bishops, and that these are speculations put out by those who sow division among the faithful.”
“If that is the case, why did Bergoglio invite an Anglican ‘bishopess,’ i.e., a heretical, schismatic, invalidly ordained woman, to the Council of Cardinals meeting to speak about ‘gender equality and the role of women in the Church’?” he questioned.
The archbishop’s assessment is shared by Deacon Nick Donnelly, who wrote regarding Rev. Jo Bailey Wells’ presence before the pope and the C9 that Catholics “couldn’t have a stronger signal that Bergoglio is planning the faux ordination of women deacons, with a trajectory towards the faux ordination of women priests and bishops.”
Wells, a “bishop” of the Church of England who has been described as “a pioneer in the spread of equality between the sexes,” gave a speech to Pope Francis and his Council of Cardinals on Monday.
The C9 – as the group is known – is continuing the examination of the “role of women in the Church,” a subject it began discussing in December 2023. The timing of such discussions is significant, given that the 2023 Synod on Synodality interim report highlighted an “urgent” call for canon law to be changed in order to allow more female governance roles.
A Synod on Synodality voting lay member shared last year that “a large number of bishops” are now “ready to take clear steps” to women’s “ordination” via a discussion on “women deacons.”
Helena Jeppesen-Spuhler, a member of the Swiss delegation to the Synod’s European Assembly, clarified that while she doesn’t think “women priests” are now possible, she sees that the possibility of women’s “ordination” to the diaconate is on the table.
“There are now a large number of bishops who are ready to take clear steps,” said Jeppesen. “The priesthood of women will not be introduced immediately, but the diaconate of women should be seriously discussed at the assembly in Rome.”
Regarding the “role of women” in the Catholic Church in general, Jeppesen said “it became clear in practically all country reports that the church must finally move forward.”
Both clerical and lay Catholics have raised concerns that the Synod on Synodality’s call for increased female governance may signal the Church hierarchy’s intention to “ordain” women. Indeed, the campaign for female “deacons” continues to receive vocal support from leading members of the synod, as evidenced by Cardinal Blase Cupich advocating for recognition of women “pastors” who are already “serving as the head of communities because they don’t have enough priests.”
Pope Francis established a 12-member commission to study the issue of “women deacons” in August 2016, and the commission included a leading advocate of “ordaining” women to the diaconate. With another commission then drawn up in 2020, the 2023 Synod report called for the results of both studies to be presented at the October 2024 Synod meetings.
Theologian and liturgical scholar Dr. Peter Kwasniewski has explained in his book Ministers of Christ that not only “women priests” but “women deacons” are impossible because “all liturgical services within the sanctuary of the church represent Christ, the supreme ‘deacon.’”
Kwasniewski pointed out that minor orders, including the diaconate, cannot be compartmentalized from the priesthood, but “order the soul of the minor cleric gradually toward the eventual reception of the sacred priesthood itself, preparing him not merely at a natural level through the discharging of sacred duties but supernaturally through the spiritual conferral of priestly powers.”
While in Heaven, there is a hierarchy purely of “sanctity,” on earth, “we must walk by the sight of signs of [God] that form and direct our faith,” and “it would be not only misleading but false to set up, in the Church on earth, signs of ecclesial governance…that lacked explicit reference to the God-man,” Kwasniewski explained.
Pope John Paul II affirmed this truth when he condemned attempts at female “ordination” in his 1994 apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, writing: “I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church’s faithful.”
This letter, former CDF prefect Cardinal Gerhard Müller explained, refers to the diaconate as well, and expresses a “dogma” of the Catholic Faith.
He further noted that “the impossibility that a woman validly receives the Sacrament of Holy Orders in each of the three degrees [deacon, priest, bishop] is a truth contained in Revelation and it is thus infallibly confirmed by the Church’s Magisterium and presented as to be believed.”
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| Edmonton [Canada] planning to roll out WEF-style ’15-minute city’ policy this fall |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-08-2024, 08:16 PM - Forum: Global News
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Edmonton planning to roll out WEF-style ’15-minute city’ policy this fall
The 15-minute city model was conceived by professor Carlos Moreno and scientists from Chaire ETI at the Sorbonne Business School. It is now being promoted by globalist groups such as the World Economic Forum and the United Nations
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Edmonton mayor Amarjeet Sohi
City of Edmonton / YouTube
Feb 8, 2024
EDMONTON, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) — The City of Edmonton, Alberta, is seeking to unveil a World Economic Forum-styled “15-minute city” policy this fall as part of its “district planning” initiative.
“District plans are key in bringing The City Plan’s ‘Community of Communities’ vision to life by laying the foundation for 15-minute communities,” reads a city email blast obtained by Rebel News.
“This vision is for new and current residents to enjoy more housing, recreation, education and employment opportunities in all of Edmonton’s districts and to have more travel options within and across districts,” the email continued.
Plans for 15-minute communities in Edmonton were first announced last February, but it looks like coming this fall concrete action will begin.
Under the new plan, Edmonton will divide its 400 neighborhoods into 15-minute “districts.” According to the city, the plan is a “necessary tool” given the growing number of residents.
The city says it is currently considering feedback from residents and that the final “district” policy is scheduled to be published in April.
By May, city officials hope to host “meaningful discussions” with residents, and then, after further review by the Edmonton Metropolitan Region Board over the summer, Edmonton will likely approve the new policy in the fall.
The plan comes despite backlash from Albertans who say they don’t want 15-minutes cities in their province.
During the United Conservative Party (UCP) annual meeting in October, members proposed policies opposed to the World Economic Forum’s 15-minute cities and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s energy regulations set to compromise Alberta’s power grid.
However, Edmonton mayor Amarjeet Sohi is a former Liberal MP, a party known for desiring the implementation of WEF plans and regulations.
According to the city’s District Planning, the plan aims to “move Edmonton towards a city where everyone enjoys access to amenities and services within a 15-minute walk, roll or transit ride from their home. Though, districts are not meant to be self-contained. For some households, 15-minute access could mean visiting nearby districts.”
“District Planning is not about restricting movement, monitoring people or tracking an individual’s carbon emissions, and nothing will be put in place to do so,” it assured residents.
The 15-minute city model was conceived by Professor Carlos Moreno and scientists from Chaire ETI at the Sorbonne Business School. It is now being promoted by both the WEF and the United Nations (UN).
On its website, the UN claims the model “has been adopted by several cities around the world as a blueprint for post-COVID-19 recovery.”
While the plan is proposed as a way for residents to shop local, reduce carbon emissions, and live in community, experts have warned that it could restrict the freedom of movement of those who live in the cities.
Analyzing the 15-minute cities concept, LifeSiteNews contributor Kennedy Hall warned the idea is an inversion of the Christian social order, by centering the focus of society not around God, but around man.
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| Moderna Scientists Warn mRNA Vaccines Carry Toxicity Risks |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-07-2024, 05:48 AM - Forum: COVID Vaccines
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Moderna Scientists Warn mRNA Vaccines Carry Toxicity Risks
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The Moderna campus in Norwood, Mass. on Dec. 2, 2020. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)
ZH | FEB 06, 2024
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
The technology used in Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine carries toxicity risks, scientists with the company said in a new paper.
“A major challenge now is how to efficiently de-risk potential toxicities associated with mRNA technology,” the scientists wrote in the paper, which was published by Nature Reviews Drug Discovery on Jan. 23.
The Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 shots use modified messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) technology. The mRNA is delivered by lipid nanoparticles (LNP).
The toxicity risks include “lipid nanoparticle structural components, production methods, route of administration and proteins produced from complexed mRNAs,” the authors of the paper said.
Authors of the paper include Eric Jacquinet and Dimitrios Bitounis, Moderna employees, and Maximillian Rogers, who was working at Moderna when the paper was being done.
Moderna didn’t respond to a request for comment.
The mRNA vaccines have multiple known side effects, including heart inflammation and severe allergic shock. Those may stem from hypersensitivity reactions, which can be elicited by “any LNP-mRNA component” but are most likely triggered by PEGlyated lipid nanoparticles, which is “the most potentially reactogenic component,” the scientists said.
Polyethylene glycol, or PEG, an ingredient in the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, is known to cause allergic reactions. Outside scientists are divided over the mechanism behind the heart inflammation, while Pfizer has posited that the LNPs are behind the issue.
The new paper drew from prior publications and other data. The authors didn’t carry out any new experiments.
Some of the papers cited included those that have found mRNA and the spike protein delivered by Moderna’s shot in various parts of human beings weeks or months after vaccination, despite health officials claiming when the vaccines were rolled out that such materials would exit the body within days.
The scientists said that Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine is “safe and effective” and hailed the development of an updated shot as “demonstrat[ing] the rapid timeline for modifications with mRNA technology in the clinic.” Due to the “transient nature of mRNA,” though, “repeat administration may be necessary,” they said.
The scientists added later that reducing risks of toxicities with mRNA-based vaccines and drugs is necessary but “complicated.” That can be accomplished through a multi-pronged approach that includes advanced testing in laboratories and adjusts preclinical, animal trials to better account for “differences in human and animal physiology.”
Moderna and other companies are currently testing a number of new mRNA products, including influenza vaccines and cancer treatments.
“Thanks to the mRNA platform we built, we have an exciting pipeline, with up to 15 launches in the next five years,” Stephane Bancel, Moderna’s CEO, told investors in the company’s most recent earnings call.
The paper’s corresponding author, Mansoor Amiji of Northeastern University’s Departments of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemical Engineering, referred a request for comment to Mr. Bitounis, who didn’t provide any answers.
Dr. Malone Reacts
Dr. Robert Malone, who helped invent the mRNA technology, said the paper downplayed the range of risks that have been linked to the mRNA-based vaccines and may be part of a limited hangout, or a propaganda technique.
That technique, a form of misdirection, involves people offering some information to obscure or prevent the discovery of other information.
“My most generous interpretation of the overall intent of the article is that this article summarizes and represents information concerning risks and toxicities of this platform technology which Moderna wishes to have disclosed in a manner which puts the firm, its activities and the underlying platform technology in the best possible light,” Dr. Malone, who wasn’t involved with the paper, wrote in his review.
“A less generous interpretation of intent is that this article represents a subtle form of propaganda strategy commonly referred to as a limited hangout.”
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