The inquiry into sex abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland has disclosed that the Vatican ignored formal requests for information.

The Cardinals are old wicked men. The list of sexual crimes within this priesthood is a never ending story.

The inquiry asked for details of reports on abuse sent to the Vatican by the Dublin archdiocese in 2006. The Vatican did not reply but told the Irish Foreign Affairs department the request «had not gone through appropriate diplomatic channels». The inquiry condemned church leaders for covering-up abuse for decades.

The Report of the Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin, which was published on Thursday, covered a period from 1975 to 2004. The commission said it was independent of the government and therefore did not regard it as appropriate to use diplomatic channels when seeking information.

A request for information from the Papal Nuncio also was ignored. In February 2007, the commission wrote to the Dublin-based Papal Nuncio asking him to forward all relevant documents in his possession. It also requested that he confirm whether he had any such documents but the Papal Nuncio did not reply.

Earlier this year, the commission again failed to receive a reply after sending the Papal Nuncio extracts from its draft report which referred to him and his office, as it was required to do.

A senior Vatican spokesman said diplomatic practice required that outside requests made to the governance of the Vatican pass through diplomatic channels, in this case the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin and the Irish Embassy to the Holy See in Rome.

The leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland has said he is deeply sorry and ashamed by the child abuse the report had revealed. Cardinal Sean Brady also apologized for the way the Church covered-up the crimes.

The report also found that on occasions senior police officers colluded in the cover-up. The commissioner of the Irish police, Fachtna Murphy, apologised for the police failure to protect victims.

Victims groups are now calling for a similar inquiry to take place in every diocese in Ireland. However, the Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin Eamonn Walsh has said he does not believe that should happen. He said it would be better for the Church to use its «time, energy and money» to improve child protection measures.

Source: BBC.

My comment:

When the Pope denies the Roman Catholic priests to marry, he do not only go against the Word of God. He also creates a priesthood of men that behind closed doors will burn with passion for each other.

Many Catholic priest looks after children, in school and Catholic institutions. The list of child abuse and sexual crimes against minors are as long and wide as the road that leads to death and destruction. And the Pope and the Vatican always to their best to cover up the crimes of the priesthood.

In many Catholic parishes, there are priest who have secret lovers. Either men or women. The Roman Catholics knows this is the truth, but they are to ashamed to talk about the tragic affairs of a Church that has created a priesthood that serves Satan.

Atheists can try converting people into their school of thought.This is nothing new.This has been happening since 5000 years, as Indian Philosophy states.There is no harm in in it. It makes life interesting and a chance to note the fact that with out knowing that they are limited, human beings are arrogant enough to unravel the Universe which , as far as knowledge goes,is one a billion years old and Nature is yet to give up all Her secrets.
If religious belief makes the world drab and dull by its attempt by imposing its doctrines, what exactly are the Atheists trying to do by converting Theists into Atheists?
It is old wine under new label.
Yes, what is said about Christianity id true,in terms of trying to convert and imposing nonsensical religious edicts that do not agree with our basic moral sense, especially the sanctions of Papacy and intolerance.Also the concept that you are not responsible for your actions ;it is Satan that makes you to do so;that your salvation is through one individual and others are doomed to Hell.
Christianity is not the only Religion.
Hinduism calls for introspection and analysis of oneself and self inquiry.
It has included theism as school of Philosophical thought.
By systematic logic it proves that the world and the senses we have are illusory and goes on to guide one to realize oneself.
Religion ,according to Hinduism, is intensely personal and no dogma is allowed.
What is Reality/Too big a topic.Please refer to some of my blogs under Religion/philosophy/Indian Philosophy)

Story:
Do atheists hate diversity?

Is the very act of atheist activism (trying to persuade people that atheism is correct and working to change the world into one without religion) an act of attempted conformity? Are atheists trying to create a drab, gray, uniform world, where everyone else is just like them?

It’s probably pretty obvious that I think the answer is a big fat “No!” (Probably said in the Ted Stevens voice.) But it certainly is the case that many atheist activists, myself among them, are working very hard to persuade religious believers out of their beliefs. Not all atheists do this, of course; many have the more modest goals of separation of church and state and religious tolerance, including tolerance of atheists and recognition of us as equal citizens. But a good number of atheists are, in fact, trying to convince religious believers to become atheists. I’m one of them.

And since many believers see this as an intolerant attempt to enforce conformity — particularly believers of the progressive, ecumenical, “all religions perceive God in their own way and we have to respect them all” stripe — I want to take a moment to address it.
http://www.alternet.org/story/144199/atheism_and_diversity:_is_it_wrong_for_atheists_to_convert_believers?page=entire

Article by Nick Pisa from The Telegraph

“Pope John Paul II regularly whipped himself in a sign of “remorse for his sins”, a nun has claimed.

The Pope, who died five years ago, is being considered for sainthood by the Catholic Church.

As part of the Vatican’s investigation thousands of documents have been collected and examined by officials from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

Among them is the testimony of Tobiana Sobodka, a Polish nun of the Sacred Heart of Jesus order, who worked for Pope John Paul in his private Vatican apartments and at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo near Rome.

Sister Sobodka said: “Several times he (Pope John Paul) would put himself through bodily penance.

“We would hear it – we were in the next room at Castel Gandolfo. You could hear the sound of the blows when he flagellate himself. He did it when he was still capable of moving on his own.”

The flagellation is also confirmed by another bishop who has given testimony. Emery Kabongo was a secretary for Pope John Paul.

“He would punish himself and in particular just before he ordained bishops and priests,” he said.

“I never actually saw it myself but several people told me about it.”

Self flagellation is sometimes used by devoted Catholics as it reminds them of the whipping endured by Christ at the hands of the Romans before he was crucified.

It is still common in the Philippines and Latin America, some members of strict monastic orders and some members of the lay organisation Opus Dei – who feature in the Dan Brown blockbuster The Da Vinci Code.

In the film – which was condemned by the Vatican – murderous Albino monk Silas, who is a member of Opus Dei is seen in a brutal scene whipping his back and drawing blood as he prays on his knees.

A Vatican spokesman said: “The investigation and documentation is still secret and as such we can make no comment on it until the final report is published.

“I know that the nun in question has returned to Poland and she would have spoken with the Congregation as she was with an order that worked in the apartments of Pope John Paul.”

The Congregation for the Causes of Saints has been investigating the case for Pope John Paul since he died and has approved the late pope’s “heroic virtues” and the paperwork has been sent to his German successor.

The late Polish pope’s beatification is expected to take place sometime next year, perhaps in April, to coincide with the fifth anniversary of his death or in October to coincide with his election in 1978. “

“One who seeks the Church seeks Christ.” Saint Ambrose of Milan wrote and it has a profound impact on me in my journey to seek Christ within his One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.  I always, from my youth sought Christ but I never searched for the Church until I was in my teenage years. It is then that I started off on the journey for what in my mind was the abstract idea of the “Church”.

One of the many things that I became disillusioned with in Protestantism was all division and separation between different denominations. One can look in any size town and find at least two different protestant churches and both (and for that matter all protestant churches) claim to be the “church”. So my idea of what the “church” was shapped on the division of Protestantism. So when I started searching for the Church of Christ I had this idea in mind; the Church was divided and I needed to find a Church that was as close as possible to the origonal idea of the Church was. Of course I had no idea what the original idea of the Church was.

I found in Anglicanism a Church that claimed to be part of this new idea for me. It claimed to be one of the original Churches and it was part of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church (along with the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches)This idea was the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church was new to me and in it I found the original idea of the Church of Christ. It is within the Anglican Church that I learned what a was sacrament, how to pray to saints and what tradition meant. Yet, within Anglicanism I found all sorts of division. Who my parish was in communion with, who we were in impaired communion with.  I started to see that to be in the Church meant the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and that this Church couldn’t be divided. So I searched out this unified Church.

I read Saint Cyprian of Carthage, “There is no Salvation outside the Church.”So I needed to be in the Church for the eternal salvation of my immortal sou. I came into the Orthodox Church. I was drawn to the Eastern Liturgy, Spirituality, and ethos. So I thought I had found the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church that I was looking for. I had also prayed about the Roman Catholic Church but felt more at home in the Eastern Church. Yet, my search for unity within the Church again hit some of the same stumbling blocks that I had found in Anglicanism. Old Calendar, New Calendar, ecumenism and the divisions that this has caused within the Orthodox Church lead me to rethink the Catholic Church.

I found that in the Pope, as Universal Head and Shepard, that the Unity of the One, Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church was intact and encompassed all of the Liturgical rites of the ancient Church. I could in fact practice my Eastern Orthodoxy and be in communion with the Holy See and at the same time Latin Catholics could be in communion with me.  So I had to become a Catholic, I needed the unity that only can be found in the Catholic Communion. I needed to proclaim with Saint Clemet of Alexandria,

O wondrous mystery! One is the Father of all, one also the Word of all, and the Holy Spirit is one and the same everywhere. And there is only one Virgin Mother; I love to call her the Church.

Christ built His Church and we must seek Unity within the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. For me that Unity can be found under the Pope of Rome, and in the Communion of Churches in the Catholic Communion! Glory to God for all things!

The catholic church is a crime against humanity.. so is religion… saying sorry over and over again and again is siply adding insult to injury.
All gods are fake, they are like some imaginary carrots in front of stupid humans… stop following it, it only leads to horror, terror, injustice, ignorance, war… and death, there is no life after death, don’t be a fools tool.

I don’t guess this is a good time to give thanks to the Christian God for much of anything.  Especially since He watched as hundreds, if not thousands of children were molested.  The Christian God heard their cries for help and did NOTHING to stop it for decades!  It seems we can’t trust the Christian God to watch over our children and keep them safe.  He can’t even do it in his own house with his own servants. Just in time for Thanksgiving and Christmas, no wonder they now prefer to say “happy holidays”.  Not much Merry in the Christmas for those kids.

The full list of reports can be found at the following link:

http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/PB09000504

The summary of the report is provided below:

The Roman Catholic Church is said to have covered up DECADES of child abuse by priest in an attempt to protect the church’s reputation.  This was discovered after a three year investigation into the matter.

Several government investigations into chronic child rape, beatings and other cruelty in Catholic-run schools, children’s workhouses and orphanages in 1975-2004 were conducted.

The government indicated their investigations “shows clearly that a systemic, calculated perversion of power and trust was visited on helpless and innocent children in the archdiocese.”

With respect to the abuse cases the government stated: “The perpetrators must continue to be brought to justice, and the people of Ireland must know that this can never happen again,”

The 720-page report – delivered to the government in July but released Thursday – analyzes the cases of 46 priests against whom 320 complaints were filed. The 46 were selected from more than 150 Dublin priests implicated in molesting or raping boys and girls since 1940. Eleven priests convicted of child abuse are named in the report, but 33 are referred to by aliases and two have their names blacked out because they have yet to face justice.

The report also rejected past bishops’ key claim that they were ignorant of both the scale and criminality of priests’ abuse of children, showing that the Dublin Archdiocese negotiated a 1987 insurance policy for future legal costs of defending lawsuits and compensation claims.

The report states that  ”the taking out of insurance was an act proving knowledge of child sexual abuse as a potential major cost to the archdiocese.”

Investigators spent three years poring over 60,000 previously secret Dublin church files. Among the files were more than 5,500 that Martin’s predecessor, retired Cardinal Desmond Connell, had tried to keep locked in the archbishop’s private vault.

“One priest admitted to sexually abusing over 100 children, while another accepted that he had abused on a fortnightly basis during the currency of his ministry which lasted for over 25 years.”

“A few (priests) were courageous and brought complaints to the attention of their superiors. The vast majority simply chose to turn a blind eye,” the report said.

In May, the government published a report on decades of child abuse in Catholic-run schools, workhouses and orphanages. More than 12,000 victims of rape, beatings and mental abuse have received compensation payments from a government panel exceeding euro800 million ($1.2 billion).

I am surprised that anyone can feel it moral to follow this Christian belief after what has already been exposed.  It is likely this is not all we will come .

Yet, fools (dumb sheep) will still look to the Church for answers on “morals”.   We have Christians of all types now making excuses for child abuse, child rape, child labor, and in America we have Christians supporting the re-election of a Christian President that sent American troops to die for his war based on lies of WMD and ties to 9/11.  A President that used God as an excuse for it all, to include torture.  Christians in overwhelming numbers supported and re-elected Bush and thus approved, supported and condoned his immoral acts.  Yes, they are just as accountable for those acts.

Just because these people follow some superstition that millions respect doesn’t mean they are above the law or that they can commit any immoral act and get away with it.  Ted Haggard, Jimmy Baker, Jimmy Swaggert, Mark Sanford, Larry Craig, Vittner, John Ensign to name a few high profile Christians, seems to slide past any real accountability.

Imagine how many low profile individuals are getting through the cracks.  If the most “moral” of the “moral” are doing such sick acts, then the Christian idiots that come here and leave comments like “fuck off you piece of shit” are likely hiding many other vile acts while they claim to follow a “moral” God.

What happened Christians?  You attempt to tell us that we have no morals without religion and it appears the opposite is true.  With religion, we discover how to be immoral and claim it is moral, hide it with money and power and praise God while we tell others how they should live!

Pathetic!!

It is time for the world to wake up to these superstitious claims, stop believe the lies that are spread because threats are made of terrible harm that will come if you don’t follow.  Grow up, stand up and be honest to the children.  Stop threatening them with your God’s great punishment and torture for eternity.  Let them have a chance at life and escape the lies you are forced to live with.

Rod Dreher makes several salient points about converts to Rome and Orthodoxy:

Yes, but in my personal experience, the Catholic Church in America has only a facade of unity. Every Catholic parish I’ve been a part of has been basically Protestant, insofar as most of the people seemed to believe that they had a right to believe whatever they wanted. The unity was fairly superficial. Mind you, I’m in no position to say to what extent the Orthodox Church in this country is any different, because my experience is relatively short and limited almost entirely to my own parish. But I would be surprised to learn that we Orthodox on the whole were much different in that regard.

I’ve said the same thing myself: Catholicism in the USA is just Protestantism with a different name. You have gay Jesuits, hardcore Trad Opus Dei types, the First Things crowd, EWTN, liberals like the Kennedys, and on and on. There is no unified, glorious Church. It’s an illusion in the mind of the convert who lives in the world of ideas. Dreher continues:

I keep telling Protestants I know who want to convert to Catholicism that I don’t want to get in the way of their decision — though I would like them to consider Orthodoxy — but that they should realize that they’re probably not going to find an escape from modernism in their local parish. The church of Pope Benedict and First Things magazine, and your favorite conservative Catholic bloggers, is not the church you’re likely to encounter down the street. If you’re convinced of the case for Catholicism, then you almost certainly have to become Catholic — but go in with your eyes open. Similarly with Orthodoxy, we have, like Catholicism, the institutional and historical tools for resisting modernism, but if the pastors and the people remain indifferent or hostile to them, Protestants searching for solid ground to stand on may be unpleasantly surprised.

Again, this is not an argument against becoming Catholic or Orthodox. But it is a warning that it’s impossible to escape modernity and its challenges to tradition and traditional faith. When Father Dwight says that the fissiparous nature of individualist modernist faith will eventually give way to disbelief, because it’s not anchored in communal experience, I agree with him in principle, but would ask him what his prediction is for Catholic parishes that are populated by individualists in religion? (N.B., Father Dwight recognizes in his post that modernist Catholic priests shouldn’t be surprised when people quit coming to mass.) Similarly, I am aware of several Protestant congregations who are far, far more unified in belief than any Catholic parish I’ve been a part of, no doubt because those Protestants who don’t share the core convictions of that congregation found another congregation to attend. Mind you, without a Magisterium (Catholic) or a high view of the authority of Tradition (Orthodox) to hold on to, I don’t know how those congregations over time will remain grounded in their particular judgments. But having the theological mechanism for stability, as the Catholics and the Orthodox do, is no guarantee either.

This makes lots of sense. Because Protestant churches in our day are usually based on shared convictions such as worship style or theology, we have much more unity (at the micro level) than Catholics do.

I have a friend who left the Greek Orthodox church to which he belonged, because he was desperate for a spiritual encounter with the living God, as opposed to the empty formalism of his home parish, which, as he puts it, was more interested in worshiping Greekness than in worshiping God. He became a born-again Evangelical. Despite all the legitimate criticism that can be leveled at American Evangelicalism re: its lack of stability and susceptibility to cultural trends, is it really the case that children raised in a traditional church that has valid sacraments but is spiritually dead are going to have a better chance of living as Christians there than they would in an Evangelical church that has all the trappings of modernity, and an essentially modernist, individualist theology, but that for whatever reason has chosen a theologically traditional set of principles around which to organize, and lives it out in a vigorous, vibrant way?

This is the rub. Tradition and liturgy are life to me and those like me who seek to escape the modern church wasteland, but they were death to my Mom who wanted relationship with God and wasn’t taught that in the Lutheran Church of her day (though she could have had it, had they rightly understood their own past). We can’t re-pristinate the past and create some perfect model that never existed. We can meld the best liturgy and tradition with our modern condition, all the while being bathed in the Scripture as the ultimate norm.

«I wanted to destroy Mecca, I have to admit. But my co-writer Harald said – I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie’. And he was right».

Actor John Cusack Director Roland Emmerich and attend '2012' photocall at Hotel de Rome on September 28, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.

This is the words of movie director Roland Emmerich. He cites «fatwa fear» for not «destroying» Mecca.

In his latest offering the director again gets to indulge his passion for destroying famous landmarks, this time including religious ones, on a biblical scale. In the movie 2012, Emmerich destroys the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, and see the toppling of the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro.

In his previous flicks, Emmerich’s destroyed the Empire State Building and the White House (Independence Day), sent a giant monster into the middle of Manhattan (Godzilla), blew away the famous Hollywood sign and the Capitol Records building in Los Angeles (The Day After Tomorrow) and savaged New York – again – by flooding and then freezing it (also The Day After Tomorrow).

But if you’re expecting to see an Islamic icon take a hit: Dream on. The Kaaba, which is housing the black stone in Mecca, was the only one that got away.

True, Emmerich is  «against organised religion». He wanted to trash the Kaaba, the cube-shaped building with the black stone inside, at the heart of Mecca, but bottled out. The director said:

« Well, I wanted to do that, I have to admit. But my co-writer Harald said ‘I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie’. And he was right.»

«We have to all … in the Western world … think about this. You can actually … let … Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have … a fatwa, and that sounds a little bit like what the state of this world is. So it’s just something which I kind of didn’t [think] was [an] important element, anyway, in the film, so I kind of left it out».

Source: Multiple media.

My comment:

Very few people know that the Muslims worship a black stone in Mecca as «Allah». The black stone is hidden inside The Kaaba.

That the free and liberated World fear Islam is not so strange. Islam is promoted by many priests who demand their faithful to kill in the name of religion, as explained in the Jihad verses in the Koran.

The tragedy is not that the Western based civilized society fear Islam.  The tragedy is that people who have been freed from the yoke of paganism in various forms give up their faith in Jesus.

We mock and ridicule Him, and bow down and defend wicked religions like Islam. Those who bows down to the black stone in Mecca will have to pay a heavy price when the Messiah returns.

Even among the wise there is confusion. Even among the learned there is dismay. Even among the pious there is greed. Why is it we hold others to a standard we ourselves cannot keep? Why is it we would trust those who cannot trust themselves? Why is it we would hold the word of one person above all others? Surely if God is God, He would make Himself known to us in a way each and every individual could understand. Cannot the foolish know love? Cannot the uneducated know love? Cannot even the wicked know love? None comes before another for we are all in this together. Listen not to me, for even I can be confused. Listen to the wisdom of your heart.

When the mysteries are taken for reality, we get things like this..

Avro Manhattan

Avro Manhattan was the world’s foremost authority on Roman Catholicism in politics. A resident of London, during WW II he operated a radio station called “Radio Freedom” broadcasting to occupied Europe. He was the author of over 20 books including the best-seller The Vatican in World Politics, twice Book-of-the-Month and going through 57 editions. He was a Great Briton who risked his life daily to expose some of the darkest secrets of the Papacy.

Available online, free to read for all, is his sensational account of the most horrifying religious massacre of the 20th century. Including pictures, names, dates and evidence. Startling revelations of forced conversions, mass murder of non-Catholics, Catholic extermination camps, disclosures of Catholic clergy as commanders of concentration camps; documented with names, dates, places, pictures and eyewitness testimony.

In the camp of Jasenovic and Stara Gradiska about 8000 children died. By caustic soda in their water..

His books were #1 on the Forbidden Index for the past 50 years. Indeed, by the fruits shall ye know the tree. Read the whole book here:

• http://www.reformation.org/holocaus.html

Also online for the world to read and see, the book that was #1 on the Vatican “forbidden books” list:

• The Vatican in the world of politics, by Avro Manhattan

My mother has been yelling obscenities at me all week, she considers it a sacrosanct ritual to remind me of how I am going to die an old, spinister hag. I could have trumped her with a crushing repartee along the lines of “I think you have me confused with yourself” but deflected from doing so since I am not particularly fond of having my nostrils sliced by a schizophrenic 50 year old.  Ever since the onset of menopause, she has taken to feeding pigeons and verbally insulting me on a regular basis. Both those activities are extremely unpleasant given the demise of my optimissism about life and the pigeons in the vicinity.
Nevertheless, a mother she has been to me all my adult life and in order to please at least once before she turns completely lunatic and goes around defrosting the neighbor’s kittens, I decided to actually go out on a date.

The date hasn’t been going very well, something about live-blogging your mother’s idiosyncracies marring the romantic outflow. So, I am going to resume my pretend interest in this guy’s awful tales about hedge funds.
In the meantime, you can entertain yourself by reading the famous vampire actor, Robert Pattinson’s views on the issue of self flagellation. In a stunning surprise his opinion on the subject clearly establishes that drinking the blood of under-age girls is possibly not the only issue where he stands in sharp disagreement with the Vatican.

Terminally ill priest Luigi Squarcia came to Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday and offered his «sufferings for the good of the Church»

The pope presents sickness as something divine and good, an offer for the Church. The Pope and his priests are blinded by Lucifer, the dead Messiah on the cross.

Father Luigi Squarcia, a pastor in the Italian town of Acquapendente who has suffered from Lou Gehrig’s disease for the last four years, met with Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday and offered his «sufferings for the good of the Church».

After the meeting with the Holy Father in Paul VI Hall, Father Squarcia said:

«I came to offer the Pope my sufferings for the good of the Church. I am here, for the first time, after years of working with the parishioners and the children at our school».

Now, he told L’Osservatore Romano,

«I can no longer move my arms or legs and I know I will lose my speech and later maybe the ability to breathe». He noted that more people than ever are coming to him for the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Lou Gehrig’s disease is a serious neuromuscular disorder that causes muscle weakness, disability and eventually death.

Source: Catholic News agency (CNA)

My comment:

This Catholic priest has replaced Jesus. Just change this line, and you will see this

The priest said:

«I came to offer the Pope my sufferings for the good of the Church»

With this kind of attitude, praying for healing will become the absolute non-sense. Why pray for healing, when physical terminal sickness is presented as something divine and good?

The truth is:

«Jesus came to offer the Pope His sufferings for the good of the Church».

Isaiah: 53:4
Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.

When we suffer and are persecuted, it will be a divine fruit of telling people the truth about sins like idol worship, sins like doctrine of Papal infallibility, sins like adoration, veneration and worship of saints and madonnas. Banned by the 2nd commandment it self.

2 Timothy 1:8
So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord, or ashamed of me his prisoner. But join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God.

It will forever be strange to me, that the prince of this World has blinded the Catholics, so they can not see, will always hear, but never being able to understand.

Why is there terminal physical sufferings in this World?

When we suffer sickness and pain, we do not suffer for the Church. Most of human sufferings is a result of the work of Satan. He has made men pollute God`s`perfect creation beyond repair.

The rest of the human sufferings is a result of our own free will. We suffer as a products of our own foolishness

When Jesus the Messiah walked on Earth, He healed everyone who came to Him in Faith. Only when Jesus returns, He will restore everything.

1 Corinthians 1:18
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

This is part 2 of a video posted on YouTube by Nodoubt257, and it goes deeper into the subject of the Roman Catholic Church being Babylon, the Great Whore of the book of Revelations. In this video, the subject of Mariolatry (the worship of Mary, the mother of Jesus) is analyzed in depth, and the connection between Mary and the Queen of Heaven spoken of by the prophet Jeremiah is well established. Come out of her, My people, says the Lord!

As we are in the Year of the Priest, the USCCB website has some great resources as we spend this year with greater prayer and focus on Priesthood.  This icon is a beautiful symbol for priesthood.  More info on the iconographer and opportunity to buy an 18″ x 24″ poster here.

This icon (egg tempera and gold leaf on wood panel, 28” x 22”) is “based on a fifteenth century Greek prototype; here Christ is shown in Latin Rite vestments with a gold pelican over His heart, the ancient symbol of self-sacrifice. The borders contain a winding grapevine and altar prepared for the celebration of the liturgy of the Mass; in the borders are smaller icons of Melchizedek and St. Jean-Baptiste Vianney.”  Incidentally, it is St. John Vianney whom Pope Benedict XVI, with the announcement of this special year, has declared the Universal Patron of Priests.

A nun has told the Causes of Saints that Pope John Paul II practiced self flagellation and ‘whipped himself in remorse for sins’.

The Telegraph (UK) has more:

Pope John Paul II regularly whipped himself in a sign of “remorse for his sins”, a nun has claimed…

The Pope, who died five years ago, is being considered for sainthood by the Catholic Church.

As part of the Vatican’s investigation thousands of documents have been collected and examined by officials from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

Among them is the testimony of Tobiana Sobodka, a Polish nun of the Sacred Heart of Jesus order, who worked for Pope John Paul in his private Vatican apartments and at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo near Rome.

Sister Sobodka said: “Several times he (Pope John Paul) would put himself through bodily penance.

“We would hear it – we were in the next room at Castel Gandolfo. You could hear the sound of the blows when he flagellate himself. He did it when he was still capable of moving on his own.”

The flagellation is also confirmed by another bishop who has given testimony. Emery Kabongo was a secretary for Pope John Paul.

“He would punish himself and in particular just before he ordained bishops and priests,” he said.

“I never actually saw it myself but several people told me about it.”

Self flagellation is sometimes used by devoted Catholics as it reminds them of the whipping endured by Christ at the hands of the Romans before he was crucified…

A Vatican spokesman said: “The investigation and documentation is still secret and as such we can make no comment on it until the final report is published…

There is more here.

Another unilateral declaration of independence won’t mean an Arab Palestinian Statehood.

Many have declared Islamic terrorisms victory over Israel. Here Vatican envoy to Israel, French Cardinal Roger Etchegaray.

The Palestinian Authority is reportedly seeking international support for issuing another unilateral declaration of independence (UDI). This would not be the first declaration of «independence» the Palestinians have issued.

In 1948, the Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini declared the independence of Palestine. In 1988, the Palestinian National Council issued a declaration of a state of Palestine. The Palestinians did not attain independence in 1948 or in 1988 and are unlikely to attain independence now if the PA goes ahead with another UDI.

Over 100 states recognized «Palestine» in 1988. However, it lacks some of the most essential elements of statehood including effective control over its territory. The EU and the U.S. have cautioned Abbas from prematurely issuing a UDI. And their support is crucial.

Source: The Guardian,UK. Letter to the editor by Victor Kattan.

My comment:

You can not declare a statehood of a state that do not exist. There is no other statehood that the state of Israel on Jewish soil.

The Arab Palestinian statehood is a Islamic fiction, a political ploy. The true motive behind the political rhetoric of a Islamic statehood in the district of Judea and Samaria, is the total destruction of the Jewish homeland.

From 1948 to 1967, Egypt was occupying Gaza. Syria had the control over the Golan Hights, and the kingdom of Jordan had annexed the so-called West Bank, and was occupying East Jerusalem.

When the PLO was formed in 1964, what land was the Islamic forced controlled by Yasser Arafat going to liberate?

Were the PLO formed to liberate land already controlled by the Arabs?

Its obvious for everyone that is above the age of seven, that the PLO was formed to achieve the final and total destruction of the state of Israel.

The Satanic inspired struggle goes on.