"Allahu Akbar", Dolan Embraces Rockettes, Fr. Amorth on Medge & Rome Reinforces Security
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Father Rosica on Islam: 180º from reality
“Allahu akbar” was never a call to violence & destruction.
What is “astonishing” about the statement? Simply that it is so clearly wrong, so blatantly at odds with the facts. Does Father Rosica expect his readers to forget the many times in recent years when we have heard those words, ”Allahu akbar,” invoked precisely as a celebration of violence and destruction?
Father Rosica’s statement is obviously false. And he knows it’s false, because in the blog post from which it is taken, he goes on to talk about the proper response to Islamic extremism. “Muslim leaders and moderate Muslims need to condemn acts of violence and terror,” he says, and on that we can all agree.
The danger confronting our world is Islamic terrorism. It obfuscates the issue to speak of terrorism in generic terms, as the Obama White House does. It muddies the waters to remark, in the context of the deaths in Paris, that all religious faiths have been tainted by violence. (Are you worried about Presbyterian terrorists?) Nor is it helpful to observe that most Muslims are peaceful. Of course the terrorists are a minority, but they are a very dangerous minority, and we cannot ignore their appeal. Why are so many Muslims tempted toward violence?
Even before asking that question, let alone resolving the answer, some people—like Father Rosica, like President Obama—seem determined to believe (or to pretend) that there is no link between Islam and terror. Is it a coincidence, then, that so many terrorists have recruited their troops from the ranks of Islamic zealots (perhaps the same sort of coincidence as the 80 consecutive years of bad weather that resulted in disappointing harvests in Russia under Communism)?
Apparently many people in the West are loath to link Islam with terrorists for fear of offending moderate Muslims. But any peace-loving Muslims should be as worried as we are by the prospect of Islamic terrorism—more worried, indeed, because their faith is being abused and disgraced. Responsible Muslim leaders should be anxious to join in any effort to root out the problem.
The reality is 180º removed from Father Rosica’s statement. “Allahu akbar” has become a call to violence and destruction. That’s a very large problem for the West, but it’s also a problem for moderate Islam. If some Muslims deny the problem—if they take offense when the problem is mentioned—then they’re part of the problem.
Card. Dolan embraces the Rockettes
It has been a more than 30-year custom for Radio City Music Hall in New York to make a "living Nativity" scene in preparation for Christmas. This year four Rockettes – an American version of the French Cancan dancers of the Moulin Rouge cabaret – were present to welcome the animals in the building's lobby.
On November 5, 2015, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, passed by at that exact moment to "bless the animals." So – what a coincidence! – he also met the Rockettes and took advantage of the opportunity to embrace them and have them rub their thighs and buttocks on his cassock.
We all know that what inspired the "conservative" Cardinal was exclusively his ardent zeal for the glory of God and his great care for the salvation of the souls. These concerns were the only thing that led him to bless the three camels, some sheep and a donkey so that New Yorkers might view the show and be spiritually prepared for a holy Christmas...
What a good example! What a grace to have such a chaste and restrained Cardinal following in the moral footsteps of our austere and serious Pope!
VATICAN EXORCIST AMORTH SPEAKS ABOUT MEDJUGORJE ON NATIONAL TV
Fr. Amorth Supports Medge ...not good
Top Vatican diplomat backs use of force in wake of Paris attacks
Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, said military action is justified against an "unjust aggressor" like ISIS. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
ROME — In the wake of ISIS-inspired terrorist attacks in Paris over the weekend, the Vatican’s top diplomat has supported military intervention to disarm “an unjust aggressor” and also acknowledged that the Vatican itself could be a target “because of its religious significance.”Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, made the comments in an interview with the French Catholic newspaper La Croix published on Sunday.
The Catholic Church subscribes to a just war doctrine that holds that military action is justified only when the damage inflicted by the aggressor is lasting, grave, and certain; there is no other way to end the conflict; it is likely to succeed, and the use of arms does not “produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated.”
Parolin was asked about comments by Pope Francis in August 2014, when the pontiff said it’s “licit” to use force to stop an unjust aggressor. Parolin said that position remains valid, because “blind violence is intolerable, whatever its origin may be.”
“The pope cited the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which says, ‘The defense of the common good requires that an unjust aggressor be rendered unable to cause harm,’” Parolin said.
He continued the quote: “For this reason, those who legitimately hold authority also have the right to use arms to repel aggressors against the civil community entrusted to their responsibility,” Parolin said.
Read the whole article here:
http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2015/11/16/top-vatican-diplomat-backs-use-of-force-in-wake-of-paris-attacks/
Vatican Archbishop speaks about Islam as a religion of a "merciful God" ~ but DOES NOT mention Jesus Christ
The President of Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, has opined on the Paris Terror Attacks; without mentioning the Prince of Peace, Our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom Sacred Scripture states clearly: "without me you can do nothing" (John XV, 5). So far the Pope, the Secretary of State and Fr. Lombardi have spoken about the Paris Terror Attacks; not one of them mentioning Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Fisichella, instead of a somber warning that war is a punishment for sin, declares this misleading falsehood, this lie: "...the three monotheistic religions and all three agree about a merciful God...." As
has been pointed out over millennia by saints, and the Church herself:
Islam is a false religion, her "prophet" a precursor of the Antichrist
(c.f. "L'Antechrist" Ch.2. pt iii, by the great Jewish convert, the Abbe Augustin Lemann).
Having
elevated the diabolical religion of the murderous Mohommed to a
"monotheistic religion" with a "merciful God", the Archbishop then
offers a de facto Masonic solution: "...it is the failure of
politics and diplomacy...I hope for stronger action at the UN and all
the institutional realities that take charge of international peace..."
According
to this malefactor, the solution to terror, to evil, lies not with a
return to true religion of the apostate Christians, or the conversion of
Mohommedans and Jews and other men who do not know the sweet yoke of
Christ; but rather, according to this man, to follow the masonic UN to
expand and consolidate "international peace". Is he working for Jesus
Christ, or the coming of the False Prophet and the Antichrist? This is
not rhetoric: evil will abound and hearts will grow cold before the Man
of Perdition will be revealed.
Contrast
the non-solution, indeed evil solution offered by Fisichella with that
offered by Pope Pius XI in the wake of the Great War. The holy Pope
wrote:
Because men have forsaken God and Jesus Christ, they have sunk to the depths of evil. They waste their energies and consume their time and efforts in vain sterile attempts to find a remedy for these ills,
but without even being successful in saving what little remains from
the existing ruin. It was a quite general desire that both our laws and
our governments should exist without recognizing God or Jesus Christ, on the theory that all authority comes from men, not from God.
... Society,
quite logically and inevitably, was shaken to its very depths and even
threatened with destruction, since there was left to it no longer a
stable foundation, everything having been reduced to a series of
conflicts, to the domination of the majority, or to the supremacy of
special interests.
Rome reinforces security measures after Paris attacks
Following the terrorist attack in Paris, the Islamic State announced they would target Washington, London, and Rome. As a result, the Italian government is studying how to further increase security.
For
now, security on roads and airports has been reinforced. An additional
2,500 security agents are patrolling the capital, in addition to 700
soldiers.
Rome is considered one of the most vulnerable cities. The Jubilee of Mercy will begin on December 8th and is expected to attract millions of pilgrims over the coming months.
Controlling such a large number of people presents a major challenge
for security forces. The Vatican is particularly vulnerable because of
its symbolic value.
"Are you scared?”
"Yeah, a little bit. But you can't stop doing things. You got to continue doing what you need to do.”
"We did think about it, but we felt safe enough, I think, coming to Rome.”
Italian and Vatican police are coordinating efforts to protect St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican from any threats.
The
police have also strengthened security in the streets and at key
landmarks in the city, such as its two airports and the Metro.
After the attacks in Paris, the Italian government raised its security alerts to the nearly highest level. Some are particularly concerned about one major target: Pope Francis himself.
Vatican releases list of new synod council members
Rounding out the membership of the
council that will coordinate the follow-up to the Synod of Bishops on the
family and help prepare the next synod assembly, Pope Francis named the
patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, the new archbishop of Madrid and the
archbishop of Brazil's capital city.
The papal nominees join the 12 members of the synod council
elected by members of the Synod of Bishops on the family; the Vatican released
the list of new council members Nov. 14.
Those elected at the end of the Oct. 4-25 synod, included
several cardinals and bishops who had expressed concerns over synod procedures,
as well as members who took strongly divergent positions at the synod,
particularly on the question of a possible process for admitting some divorced
and civilly remarried Catholics to the Eucharist.
Those elected to the synod council included: Cardinal
Wilfrid F. Napier of Durban, South Africa; Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of
the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments; and Archbishop Charles
J. Chaput of Philadelphia.
Pope Francis nominated Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis
Sako of Baghdad; Archbishop Carlos Osoro of Madrid; and Archbishop Sergio Da
Rocha of Brasilia, Brazil.
Other council members elected included: Cardinals Christoph
Schonborn of Vienna; Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa,
Honduras; Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for
Justice and Peace; Cardinal George Pell, prefect of the Secretariat of the Economy;
Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops; Cardinal Oswald
Gracias of Mumbai, India; Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila, Philippines;
Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster, England; and Archbishop Bruno Forte of
Chieti-Vasto, Italy.
