Update from Catholic Online: "Earlier we posted a misquote from our sources. We originally attributed
the statement "a professional well-equipped army" to Pope Francis. This
quote is correctly attributed to the Chaldean Patriarch, Louis Sako.
Pope Francis has joined with Christians facing genocide in Iraq and
Syria, calling upon the world to join him in "Prayer and Action' to
bring peace to the troubled region. Calling for international action, he
has asked the world to "stop these crimes."
By Catholic Online
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Pope Francis, widely appreciated as a practical and realistic man, is calling for an end to the violence in Iraq.
Referring to military action, Archbishop Giorgio Lingua, the Vatican's nuncio to Iraq, told Vatican Radio, "This is something that had to be done, otherwise [the Islamic State] could not be stopped."
Such a call is virtually unprecedented for a papal envoy in modern times, but our age is an extraordinary one and the Islamic State has no interest in a bargaining table. Instead, the Islamic State is bent on genocide and barbarism, ruthlessly exterminating anyone who opposes them.
On Sunday, Pope Francis said he held "dismay and disbelief" over what is happening in Iraq.
"The situation is going from bad to worse," he warned.
Meanwhile, Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad said, "There is a need of international support and a professional, well-equipped army. The situation is going from bad to worse."
Pope Francis and Patriarch Sako are not the only clerics calling for swift and decisive action to end the genocide in Iraq. The Episcopal Vicar of Iraq, Canon Andrew White, managed to visit the town of Qaraqosh under cover and personally assess the situation in that community following Islamic State capture.
His words are chilling. "Today, Qaraqosh stands 90 per cent empty, desecrated by the gunmen of the fanatical Islamic State terror group now in control. The majority of the town's 50,000 people have fled, fearing that, like other Christians in this region, they will be massacred.
"The militants, in a further act of sacrilege, have established their administrative posts in the abandoned churches."
Canon White reported that one woman had her finger hacked off after she could not remove her wedding ring fast enough. A caretaker of one of White's parish churches in the community said his youngest son, aged five, was hacked in half as he watched.
A child, just five years old, hacked in half alive, before his father. The boy happened to be named Andrew, after the vicar himself.
The atrocities are real. The genocide is real. That the press barely reports on them is absolutely baffling. However, even the most religious, peace-loving figures are recognizing that this is not a usual evil. Normally, conflicts arise because of ancient grievances and they can be talked over and hashed out. Warring factions tire of burying their sons and eventually dialogue and other pressures forces peace.
However, the Islamic State has recruited fighters from most of the world's nations and more arrive every day. They are motivated by an aggressive, rabid interpretation of Islamic scriptures. Most notably, they are consumed with bloodlust and willing to commit and publicize every atrocity. This attracts sadistic men from across the Islamic world to their cause who commit even more atrocities.
These men don't have to be told what to do. They murder on their own accord, for pleasure.
Where is the rest of the world? Where are the UN resolutions? Where are the condemnations from the world's Islamic countries? Saudi Arabia? Where's the edict or the fatwa? Why isn't the world combining forces against these terrorists?
This is the purest form of evil the planet has seen in generations. They cannot be reasoned with. As all Christians do have a recognized right to self-defense in the face of an existential threat, the time has come for all Catholics to join with Pope Francis and the Christians of Iraq and Syria in 'Prayer and Action' with the intent of ridding the world of the evil of the Islamic State.
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Monday, August 11, 2014
Monday, October 7, 2013
Guess the Saint
By Ann Barnhardt
Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom
come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day
our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who
trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us
from evil.
Guess the saint:
This saint joined a Crusade to Egypt in the hopes of PROSELYTIZING as many musloids as he could before being killed. This saint was not killed, but was instead received into the court of a sultan. Our saint then offered to engage in a trial by fire – literal fire – with the sultan’s musloid “scholars”. Our saint offered to enter into a fire pit and if he emerged unscathed, the musloid scholars would then have to concede that the CATHOLIC GOD (the word “catholic” means “universal”, so of course God is Catholic, and of course His Church is Catholic) and not the phoney musloid god (our saint, like any intelligent person, knows that the thing called “allah” is a non-existent pagan-Bedouin moon deity concocted by the inventors of the musloid political system, inspired by satan himself) is the One, True God. Naturally, knowing that their non-existent deity could not duplicate such a miracle, and not wanting to be burned to a crisp, the musloids declined the challenge – BUT the sultan granted our saint permission to PROSELYTIZE and win souls for Christ in his territory WHILE THIS VERY SULTAN WAS FIGHTING CRUSADERS.
Who was this saint who knew that not only was PROSELYTIZING not “solemn nonsense”, but was utterly essential and demanded by Our Lord – a direct corollary to the two Great Commandments, to love God and to love our neighbor?
Yep. It was St. Francis of Assisi.
Giotto’s fresco depicting St. Francis’ Trial by Fire. The musloids are
on the left, slinking away. Apparently this was all a terrible mistake
on St. Francis’ part. He should have merely “encountered” the musloids
in a spirit of “dialogue” and listened to their lies and then declared
that they should all engage in good works and “meet each other there”.
Because, you know, there isn’t a “Catholic God”, and the god the
musloids believe in is the same as the Triune Godhead, or something. And
God Himself being Goodness Itself, and good and evil being whatever the
individual “conceives” them as being, “God” is whoever or whatever the
individual says He, She or It is. Thank “god” we have Smart Francis
today to correct all of the errors of Stupid Francis of Assisi.
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Guess the saint:
This saint joined a Crusade to Egypt in the hopes of PROSELYTIZING as many musloids as he could before being killed. This saint was not killed, but was instead received into the court of a sultan. Our saint then offered to engage in a trial by fire – literal fire – with the sultan’s musloid “scholars”. Our saint offered to enter into a fire pit and if he emerged unscathed, the musloid scholars would then have to concede that the CATHOLIC GOD (the word “catholic” means “universal”, so of course God is Catholic, and of course His Church is Catholic) and not the phoney musloid god (our saint, like any intelligent person, knows that the thing called “allah” is a non-existent pagan-Bedouin moon deity concocted by the inventors of the musloid political system, inspired by satan himself) is the One, True God. Naturally, knowing that their non-existent deity could not duplicate such a miracle, and not wanting to be burned to a crisp, the musloids declined the challenge – BUT the sultan granted our saint permission to PROSELYTIZE and win souls for Christ in his territory WHILE THIS VERY SULTAN WAS FIGHTING CRUSADERS.
Who was this saint who knew that not only was PROSELYTIZING not “solemn nonsense”, but was utterly essential and demanded by Our Lord – a direct corollary to the two Great Commandments, to love God and to love our neighbor?
Yep. It was St. Francis of Assisi.
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Sunday, September 30, 2012
Father Rutler: Saint Francis of Assisi was not a garden gnome
By Father George Rutler
On October 4, we give thanks for one of the best known
and least known of all saints. Least known, that is, because Francis of
Assisi was not a garden gnome, or a doe-eyed hippy skipping with animals
and hugging trees. Garden gnomes do not bear the Stigmata of Christ's
wounds. A vegetarian? He berated a friar for wanting to abstain from
meat on a feast day and said that on Christmas he would “smear the wall
with meat.” An iconoclast? He was meticulous in the ceremonials of the
Mass, insisting that every sacred vessel and vestment be the best, and
his Rule dismissed any friar who parted from the Pope on the slightest
article of Faith. A pacifist? He joined the Fifth Crusade, simmering
ever since eleven thousand Muslims had invaded Rome and desecrated the
tombs of Peter and Paul in the year 846. Francis went to North Africa in
1219 to convert the Muslims and confronted Sultan al Malik al-Kamil,
who had just slaughtered five thousand Christians at Damietta. Francis
fearlessly told the Sultan: “It is just that Christians invade the land
you inhabit, for you blaspheme the name of Christ and alienate everyone
you can from His worship.” While counselors called for the beheading of
Francis according to Muslim law, the Sultan was so taken with the
humility of Francis that he only had him beaten, chained and imprisoned,
and then he released him.
We are engaged in similar challenges today. Of course, we are
aware of the crisis in the Middle East, but the strife is worldwide.
Consider Nigeria, whose Catholic population in the last century has
soared to nearly twenty million. Last week, under Muslim pressure, the
government stopped the Eternal Word Television Network from
broadcasting. I have worked with this worldwide Catholic network for
twenty-five years and have many Nigerian friends. Two days after the
Nigerian bishops objected to this censorship, a Catholic church was
destroyed by Muslims, who killed and wounded many worshipers. This seems
to be under the radar of our own government and the mainstream media.
May Saint Francis be our model in how to deal with the threats of our own day: not enfeebled by sentimentality and relativism, but armed with a Franciscan zeal for the conversion of souls. We may not have Francis’ charm, but we have in our hearts and churches the same God. By the way, the popular “Prayer of Saint Francis,” which begins, “Make me a channel of your peace,” was actually the work of an anonymous author who published it in France in 1912. Its vague theology and lack of mention of Christ, express a semi-Pelagian heresy unworthy of the Saint of Assisi. Let the last words of the real Saint of Assisi be our guide: “I have done what was mine to do; may Christ teach you what you are to do. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.”
On October 4, we give thanks for one of the best known
and least known of all saints. Least known, that is, because Francis of
Assisi was not a garden gnome, or a doe-eyed hippy skipping with animals
and hugging trees. Garden gnomes do not bear the Stigmata of Christ's
wounds. A vegetarian? He berated a friar for wanting to abstain from
meat on a feast day and said that on Christmas he would “smear the wall
with meat.” An iconoclast? He was meticulous in the ceremonials of the
Mass, insisting that every sacred vessel and vestment be the best, and
his Rule dismissed any friar who parted from the Pope on the slightest
article of Faith. A pacifist? He joined the Fifth Crusade, simmering
ever since eleven thousand Muslims had invaded Rome and desecrated the
tombs of Peter and Paul in the year 846. Francis went to North Africa in
1219 to convert the Muslims and confronted Sultan al Malik al-Kamil,
who had just slaughtered five thousand Christians at Damietta. Francis
fearlessly told the Sultan: “It is just that Christians invade the land
you inhabit, for you blaspheme the name of Christ and alienate everyone
you can from His worship.” While counselors called for the beheading of
Francis according to Muslim law, the Sultan was so taken with the
humility of Francis that he only had him beaten, chained and imprisoned,
and then he released him.
May Saint Francis be our model in how to deal with the threats of our own day: not enfeebled by sentimentality and relativism, but armed with a Franciscan zeal for the conversion of souls. We may not have Francis’ charm, but we have in our hearts and churches the same God. By the way, the popular “Prayer of Saint Francis,” which begins, “Make me a channel of your peace,” was actually the work of an anonymous author who published it in France in 1912. Its vague theology and lack of mention of Christ, express a semi-Pelagian heresy unworthy of the Saint of Assisi. Let the last words of the real Saint of Assisi be our guide: “I have done what was mine to do; may Christ teach you what you are to do. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.”
Friday, April 20, 2012
Chance to be Ann Barnhardt's Obama "Billboard Neighbor"
Ann Barnhardt at barnhardt.biz needs a new neighbor for her Obama billboard:
Here are some ideas:
"...Well, the billboard right beneath mine was leased by a local community college, and they got their panties in a twist about being so close to my 'extreme rhetoric', which in retrospect is hilarious. Dude, on the Barnhardt scale of rhetoric, 'Obama is a fraud. Demand resignation now' is about a 0.5 on the old volume dial, packing the heat of a glass of warm milk.
So, they demanded that their billboard be moved to another one of the company's locations, and the company, being very sympathetic to my cause and sentiments, gave me the right of first refusal on the now-abandoned billboard just beneath mine. So I grabbed that one, too. By this time, it was clear what Obama was, and so I kicked up the volume and heat...
The billboard company has agreed to let me see if there is anyone out there who would like to be my new 'billboard neighbor...'
So, some ideas might be a Catholic group wanting to put up a pro-life billboard, or a Divine Mercy billboard. Or an 'I WILL NOT COMPLY' billboard would be fantastic, too. Or a picture of Obama and Eric Holder with just the word TRAITORS. Something like that...
If you are interested, shoot me an email with an idea of what you would want to do and I'll put you in contact with my account rep at the billboard company. Communists need not apply! It really is a fun and satisfying way to exercise your First Amendment freedom!
Here's the pic. You would be replacing the TOP billboard." (continued)
Here are some ideas:
Happy 89th birthday Mother Angelica!
Raymond Arroyo: "On 89th, here is one of my favorite Mother quotes: 'I'm sure Our Lord asked a lot of people to build a network. There has to be a reason that He chose a few nuns who didn't know anything, in the wrong state of life, with no money--because it goes against reason. Some people say I am a woman of great faith. I'm really a coward who keeps moving forward."
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