It was supposed to be a conspiracy theory concerning the Podesta brothers. I read a deal on it at the time on here from various sources. Those two brothers were alleged to be in Portugal about the time little Maddy went missing. The lamestream media poo pooed the idea as conspiracy. My reading left me wondering as to the photo fit of people the police were looking for at the time. Regards.
I think we'll have to agree to disagree on that then. You don't agree with Pope Francis, which is your undeniable right, but Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict were also against the death penalty, and since the Holy Spirit guided our Cardinals in selecting all of them, I think I'll follow their lead.
After the debate in which Trump took Clinton to task over abortion the Priest at the Parish I attended was not coy in who he encouraged us to support. I was surprised by this because Trump is such a deeply flawed man. Then again, we are not electing Saints, but the person who has the best possible chance of turning things around. Our elections are a nightmare of course, and voting is something akin to being a soothsayer and trying to read the mind of the candidate to understand what they truly support and will work towards.
Below was posted by Brian on the thread the Vatican has fallen! I think it demonstrates that there is more to pizzagate than being fake news or a hoax. BrianK, post: 197922, member: 4748"]https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2281283 Catholic exorcist, Fr. Chad Ripperger, warns about Pizzagate and occult activities of the elite (pizzagate) submitted 1 month ago by Gilderoy RELEVANCE TO PIZZAGATE The fact that a well known Catholic priest in good standing is publicly confirming in a series of videos the existence of elite pedophile in high levels of government and in the Church, is an extraordinary event and vindicates our struggle to bring this information to the public. As a Catholic I can attest that it is unprecedented for a Catholic priest to speak publicly about issues like this. There is no other priest I know who would be brave enough, and maybe even informed enough to talk about US politicians engaging in pedophilia and occult activities. FR. RIPPERGER DISCUSSES PEDOPHILIA IN THE GOVERNMENT AND THE CHURCH Last week, Fr. Chad Ripperger, a well known exorcist and traditional Catholic priest, gave a series of (very well illustrated) video lectures on the prophecies of Our Lady regarding our times. In Part I, he discusses the Podesta emails. His experiences as an exorcist have led him to do his own research on the subject of the globalist pedophile elite. His consultations with other exorcists have confirmed his conclusions that we are in the midst of a cosmic battle between good and evil, and the Satanic forces are extraordinarily strong and resistant to the Church's rite of exorcism and prayers. Some of the subjects he mentions: Draining the Swamp: ( -10:34) "You talk about draining the swamp---what does that even mean? When you drain a swamp, it gets to stinking real bad when you first start the draining process, and we're in that phase right now." 37:01 "If you were paying attention, not to the news media, but to what was going on during the election, Comey's declaration that we have to investigate Hillary was a smokescreen, and it was a smokescreen to keep people off of the last stage of the Wikileaks, because in the last stage of the Wikileaks, two things come out which we already know. The first is that the worldwide elite, whom we already know, the Clintons and John Podesta, who was Hillary's campaign manager, were involved in pedophilia. It's right in the emails. You can read it right out of the emails yourself. I'm not making this stuff up." "Second of all, Hillary Clinton was involved in the occult, and that's what they didn't want coming out." He goes on to mention the growing trend of pedophilia in the US govt, as detailed in The Franklin Scandal by Nick Bryant YouTubewhich describes the presence of call boys at the Bush White House and how heads of state went to the Epstein's Island in the Caribbean. Fr. Chad talks about how many politicians and heads of state are involved in occult worship at Bohemian's Grove which is overt Moloch worship. This was revealed for the whole world to see at the Gotthard Tunnel opening ceremony in Switzerland last summer. Fr. Chad said he has to deal with this stuff because he is an exorcist and gets "all this garbage coming at him all the time so he's had to make some sense of it. Other exorcists have helped him to get a sense of it. PEDOPHILE CLERGY IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Fr. Chad then discusses the problem of pedophile clergy. The percentage of pedophiles in the clergy (from three different university studies, all of which concur) is about 1.25% of the clergy. He says the real mistake and scandal wasn't the fact that some priests are pedophiles, even though the damage they did was incalculable---the problem is how the bishops handled it. That was where the real scandal was. There was one diocese---which he doesn't name---which has never been sued. (Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska) because there were two instances of pedophilia that the bishop found out about, and he immediately laicized the priests when he found out the allegations were in fact true, and he went to the families and said, "Let's make this right. We'll do whatever we can to make this right." (I can confirm that I've heard the same claims many times from many multiple sources. Bishop Bruskewitz reportedly kept a shotgun in his pickup truck which he said he wouldn't hesitate to use on a child molester priest if he ever caught one in his diocese.) The reason the Church was being sued was because the bishops were shuffling these guys around and not taking responsibility and dealing with the problem. The next statistic is that of the general population which is that 2.75% of the general population are pedophiles so the number of priests who are pedophiles is less than half of the general population. Of professionals, such as doctors, lawyers, 8% have a problem with pedophilia---6X the percentage of Catholic priests. Of high school teachers, the percentage is 10%. RISE OF SATANISM At -14:22 Father Chad starts talking about the rise in Satanism and the unprecedented resilience of the demons to the rite of exorcism and the prayers. Older exorcists have told him that up until the mid-1960's the cases of demonic possession would be resolved in about a day to two days. The average case now takes between 10 months and 2 years to break. Our Lady of La Salette (-4:47) prophesied in 1846 that "all the civil govts would have a plan which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, occultism and vices of all kinds." Our Lady of Akita in Japanpredicted in 1973 a great chastisement on mankind. Today we pooh-pooh this, but if you act badly, God has to punish you because He loves you and wants you to get your act together. Our Lady of Akita said the chastisement will be greater than the Deluge, and fire will fall from the sky. A great part of humanity will perish and the living will envy the dead. Fr. Chad: "What this all means in the political sphere is that there is a gargantuan battle for the truth. Some say this is just a battle of ideas, but what it really is, is this: for the longest time we were being told that by people that it was really a difference in ideas and an intellectual fight. I think that may be true for some people, but I've come to the conclusion that was just the facade for the evil people to push the process in the battle between good and evil. We're in the midst---politically, in the Church, in families---if we're not in the middle of a battle between good and evil. This is not a battle between ideas anymore. What the outcome will be is largely dependent upon us and our prayers and sacrifices to turn things around." CONCLUSION Take it for whatever it's worth to you, but this is sign that the Pizzagate claims are going mainstream, and it is a promising sign that we have reputable Catholic exorcists verifying our research.
With regard to taxes “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” With regard to wealth Love your neighbour as yourself. But we cannot force people to love their neighbour as in the case of the rich man (and Lazarus). With regard to government I believe in 'small government'. The problems in the world are primarily spiritual and moral. We are in a spiritual recession. Man has turned from God and has created a society divorced from the creator. Unless man turns back to God we face increasing darkness, apostasy and ultimately chastisement. But conversion first starts with me.
So creepy. It’s spooky enough that your TV watches you. (The new ones) I can’t imagine inviting BigBrother right in to make his job easier!
Understandable. That’s a common mistake of modern ultramontanism. http://m.ncregister.com/blog/jimmy-akin/the-next-pope-will-be-gods-choice-.-.-.-right#.WmpeWitOnYU Except: Pope Benedict XVI frankly acknowledged the fact that cardinals can elect sub-optimal popes in an interview with German television back in 1997. When asked whether the Holy Spirit is responsible for the election of a pope, he said: I would not say so, in the sense that the Holy Spirit picks out the Pope. . . . I would say that the Spirit does not exactly take control of the affair, but rather like a good educator, as it were, leaves us much space, much freedom, without entirely abandoning us. Thus the Spirit's role should be understood in a much more elastic sense, not that he dictates the candidate for whom one must vote. Probably the only assurance he offers is that the thing cannot be totally ruined. He continued: There are too many contrary instances of popes the Holy Spirit obviously would not have picked!
You make a very valid point - some of the Popes of the Middle Ages were real rotters, but we have to be careful with that line of logic, lest we wake up one fine morning to find that we have all become Lutherans! For me, the fact that every Pope for the last half century has worked to get nations to abolish or at least reduce the use of the death penalty tells me that this is a movement of the Holy Spirit, whose attribute is Mercy; and I will continue to trust God to select His Popes and lead His Church and in the direction of love, mercy, and forgiveness. Your mileage may differ, and that is your right, as well.
Quite the post I must say so kudos to you for putting this so sicintly. (Did I spell that right). Made me think as I read on government in all of our countries. I think they are all compromised to some extent. We don't get governance elswise lest they are controllable. I often wondered as to just why our voting was to aught as we never seem to get a majority government in Europe anymore. Accident, coincidence, I think not as there has been such as little georgie sorrows at the helm even if we knew not of just who that horror was. Alas I pray for such as him and his cohorts, a change of heart one has to hope. On the subject of hearts, one of the rottenchildren had I think seven heart transplants. Just where one has to wonder of those donors may have come from. So many missing people in our world. I did a study on that subject one time, mind blowing to say the least. Thankfully we are living in times of revelation. All things will be revealed. Revelation cares not as to how you interpret this revealing. We are bit players in some grand design methinks.......... Rehearsal is all. Learn the lines well and act accordingly.........
Hmm... you learn something new every day, it seems. I learned about Montanism years ago in Father Matthew Habinger's theology class at Benedictine College, but I wasn't sure what "modern ultramontanism" is, so I looked it up at New Advent, and I'm glad I did. Turns out that it's a pretty good thing to be, after all ! Here's what New Advent has to say about ultramontanism...the article is long, so I'll post it in two parts. ULTRA MONTANISM A term used to denote integral and active Catholicism, because it recognizes as its spiritual head the pope, who, for the greater part of Europe, is a dweller beyond the mountains (ultra montes), that is, beyond the Alps. The term "ultramontane", indeed, is relative: from the Roman, or Italian, point of view, the French, the Germans, and all the other peoples north of the Alps are ultramontanes, and technical ecclesiasticallanguage actually applies the word in precisely this sense. In the Middle Ages, when a non-Italian pope was elected he was said to be a papa ultramontano. In this sense the word occurs very frequently in documents of the thirteenth century; after the migration to Avignon, however, it dropped out of the language of the Curia. In a very different sense, the word once more came into use after the Protestant Reformation, which was, among other things, a triumph of that ecclesiastical particularism, based on political principles, which was formulated in the maxim: Cujus regio, ejus religio. Among the Catholic governments and peoples there gradually developed an analogous tendency to regard the papacy as a foreign power; Gallicanism and all forms of French and German regalism affected to look upon the Holy See as an alien power because it was beyond the Alpine boundaries of both the French kingdom and the German empire. This name of Ultramontane the Gallicans applied to the supporters of the Roman doctrines--whether that of the monarchical character of the pope in the government of the Church or of the infallible pontifical magisterium--inasmuch as the latter were supposed to renounce "Gallican liberties" in favour of the head of the Church who resided ultra montes. This use of the word was not altogether novel; as early as the time of Gregory VII the opponents of Henry IV in Germany had been called Ultramontanes (ultramontani). In both cases the term was intended to be opprobrious, or at least to convey the imputation of a failing in attachment to the Ultramontane's own prince, or his country, or his national Church. In the eighteenth century the word passed from France back to Germany, where it was adopted by the Febronians, Josephinists, and Rationalists, who called themselves Catholics, to designate the theologians and the faithful who were attached to the Holy See. Thus it acquired a much wider signification, being applicable to all Roman Catholics worthy of the name. The Revolution adopted this polemical term from the old regime: the "Divine State", formerly personified in the prince, now found its personification in the people, becoming more "Divine" than ever as the State became more and more laic and irreligious, and, both in principle and in fact, denied any other God but itself. In presence of this new form of the old state-worship, the "Ultramontane" is the antagonist of the atheists as much as the non-Catholic believers, if not more--witness the Bismarckian Kulturkampf, of which the National Liberals rather than the orthodox Protestants were the soul. Thus the word came to be applied more especially in Germany from the earliest decades of the nineteenth century. In the frequent conflicts between Church and State the supporters of the Church'sliberty and independence as against the State are called Ultramontanes. The Vatican Council naturally called forth numerous written attacks upon Ultramontanism. When the Centre was formed as a political party it was called by preference the Ultramontane party. In a few years the "Anti-Ultramontane Reichsverband" came into existence to combat the Centre and, at the same time, Catholicism as a whole.
Part 2 As our present purpose is to state what Ultramontanism is, it is beside our scope to expound the Catholic doctrine on the power of the Church and, in particular, of the pope, whether in spiritual or temporal matters, these subjects being treated elsewhere under their respective titles. It is sufficient here to indicate what our adversaries mean by Ultramontanism. For Catholics it would be superfluous to ask whether Ultramontanism and Catholicism are the same thing: assuredly, those who combat Ultramontanis are in fact combating Catholicism, even when they disclaim the desire to oppose it. One of the recent adversaries of Ultramontanism among Catholics was a priest, Professor Franz Xaver Kraus, who says ("Spektatorbrief", II, quoted in the article Ultramontanismusin "Realencycl. für prot. Theol. u. Kirche", ed. 1908): "1. An Ultramontane is one who sets the idea of the Church above that of religion; 2. ...who substitutes the pope for the Church; 3. ...who believes that the kingdom of God is of this world and that, as medieval curialism asserted, the power of the keys, given to Peter, included temporal jurisdiction also; 4. ...who believes that religious conviction can be imposed or broken with material force; 5. ...who is ever ready to sacrifice to an extraneous authority the plain teaching of his own conscience." According to the definition given in Leichtenberger, "Encycl. des sciences religieuses" (ed. 1882): "The character of Ultramontanism is manifested chiefly in the ardour with which it combats every movement of independence in the national Churches, the condemnation which it visits upon works written to defend that independence, its denial of the rights of the State in matters of government, of ecclesiastical administration and ecclesiastical control, the tenacity with which it has prosecuted the declaration of the dogma of the pope's infallibility and with which it incessantly advocates the restoration of his temporal power as a necessary guarantee of his spiritual sovereignty." The war against Ultramontanism is accounted for not merely by its adversaries' denial of the genuine Catholic doctrine of the Church's power and that of her supreme ruler, but also, and even more, by the consequences of that doctrine. It is altogether falseto attribute to the Church either political aims of temporal dominion among the nations or the pretence that the pope can at his own pleasure depose sovereigns that the Catholic must, even in purely civil matters, subordinate his obedience towards his own sovereign to that which he owes to the pope, that the true fatherland of the Catholic is Rome, and so forth. These are either pure inventions or malicious travesties. It is neither scientific nor honest to attribute to "Ultramontanism" the particular teaching of some theologian or some school of times past; or to invoke certain facts in medieval history, which may be explained by the peculiar conditions, or by the rights which the popes possessed in the Middle Ages (for example, their rights in conferring the imperial crown). For the rest, it is sufficient to follow attentively, one by one, the struggle kept up in their journals and books to be convinced that this warfare by the Rationalist-Protestant-Modernist coalition against "Clericalism" or "Ultramontanism" is, fundamentally, directed against integral Catholicism--that is, against papal, anti-Liberal, and counter-Revolutionary Catholicism. (See also STATE AND CHURCH; FEBRONIANISM; SYLLABUS.)
Had it been God's will for the death penalty not to have existed, mankind could not have been saved. The Church has always allowed the death penalty, with qualifications. It was administered most prominently to One who was Innocent. The Church teaches that it is unjust to administer capital punishment to those who are guilty of no crime. Yet this is by far the most common reason for its administration, via countless abortions. It is being joined by euthanasia. Liberals are people who will campaign for the lives of those who have committed the most vile murders and rapes, but murder millions of babies without a thought. Man is no more or less evil now than he has ever been, nor is he any wiser. These are constants, truths. Truth doesn't change. The theological definition of the Being who Is Truth is of One Who is unchanging. The Holy Spirit is one of the Three Persons of this Being and shares an identical Divine Nature. The Spirit is not going to induce alteration of Truth. The Spirit would have provided guidance to cardinals at conclaves and to popes during their reigns, but He would not have deprived them of their free will, which they are entitled to the same as any human being. I wouldn't be so certain as you that following Popes that themselves paid too much attention, in this instance, to the zeitgeist is to necessarily be following a Holy Spirit who pays no heed to these transient human whims. These Popes are entitled to their personal opinions, but they have neither the right nor authority to change settled doctrine. That includes the doctrine of capital punishment. Capital punishment has almost certainly saved multitudes of souls. Was it Doctor Johnson who said, and I paraphrase, that nothing so concentrates the mind as the prospect of execution in the morning. Nothing could be truly more compassionate than that. This life is only for a few short years, the remainder of being is for eternity.
It isn't against the death penalty now, no more than it is for adultery or sodomy. The Catholic Church exists as an unchanging continuum going back to Christ and the Apostles and extending, as the Church Triumphant into Heaven itself. What was true for the Church all through the ages is as true now as it always has been and will ever be. Time is simply a sequence of events. Events continually change, the numbers of people and things continually varies, but two plus two remains four. The underlying constants remain unchanged, despite the flux. If the Church is not careful, too many 'changes' of Truth will not mean a change in Truth, but a change of the Church to non-Church.
Ah, such a Zeitgeist! [1] And Jesus went unto mount Olivet. [2] And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him, and sitting down he taught them. [3]And the scribes and the Pharisees bring unto him a woman taken in adultery: and they set her in the midst, [4] And said to him: Master, this woman was even now taken in adultery. [5] Now Moses in the law commanded us to stone such a one. But what sayest thou? [6] And this they said tempting him, that they might accuse him. But Jesus bowing himself down, wrote with his finger on the ground. [7] When therefore they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said to them: He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. (John 8) And as you say, Jesus did die under the death penalty of His day, but, as He said, [7] And if you knew what this meaneth: I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: you would never have condemned the innocent. (Matthew 12:7) "And when he hath let out his own sheep, he goeth before them: and the sheepfollow him, because they know his voice." [John 10:4]
"And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." [Matthew 16:18]
Patriotism, the last refuge of the scoundrel. How very apt I do believe as this man lived in the 1700's. A gentleman of course who no doubt had the time to study. All the while of course it was a different world in this parish.. Let me think now on this patriot in our modern world. We import foreign people to an alien world, after of course we as westerner nobility have ruined their world. Another subject on has to suppose. Meanwhile as Mr Johnston penned his ink it was quite illegal to speak the Gaelic. Nay as I think I could but walk but three mile to a townsland going by the name of "Gallows Hill". Quite the common name here really as we walk about. The Mass rock, Hedge school, wearing of the colour green may well be severely punished. All men loose their bowels on hanging I have been told. Mr Johnston of course neglected to add this fact to his prose. About that time also it was quite illegal to be catholic. That of course was not problem as protestant churches were built within a few mile of each other so the faithful could attend service. Little know facts really as I was raised in a provincial town. Signs on the door which no catholic need apply for a job as late as the 60's. Signs in old London town in the 70's where no blacks, no dogs, no Irish need apply for lodging. No offence intended I do hope to assure you.................Thou shalt not kill.
