ISIS beheads American journalist

Does it matter? The man was tortured and beheaded. He was killed for being both ... an infidel (non - Muslim) and an American. If he had converted to Islam -- which they may have tried to get him to do -- he did not do it. Also, from accounts I've read about him, he was devoted to saying the Rosary and did so while in captivity in Libya.

 

I consider him a man of great faith...who was executed. A saint who is killed by evil men is a martyr in my book. May God give me the Grace of his faith and fortitude.

May Gods Will be Done

 

Not unless he claimed he was being persecuted for his religous beliefs.

 

I would say Christian over there right now is at risk of being killed for their faith. Quite frankly it's ridiculous that we are even discussing the merits of Mr. Foley. I'm out if this discussion

 

I am not wondering about his merits, just about what the Church officially considers a martyr.

 

Sorry Heide for sounding cranky. Long week and you didn't deserve it. Peace.

 

For all the martyrs of the past and today; for all who profess Christ and for the future martyrs perhaps in our own communities.

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth;
and in Jesus Christ, His only Son Our Lord,
Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into Hell; the third day He rose again from the dead;
He ascended into Heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and life everlasting.
Amen.

 

That's ok, I didn't mean to sound insensitive toward James Foley.

 

The ancient martyrs in Rome were killed for not worshiping the Roman Gods. This was considering treason, unpatriotic, subversive and atheistic, denying the Gods.

So these saints died for both religious and political reasons. Politics seesm to enter the reasons for everything.

It was the same as well for those who died under the Nazi and the Communists as well. These people would claim they murdered the Christian saints for political rather than religious reasons and politics certainly played its part.

Things are often not straightforward.

 

I tend to believe that those who die in unjust circumstances will be given more mercy just like the Good Thief.

God Bless!

 

Nicely said, Padraig and so true.

Find this on the BBC website today: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-28927568

Foley evidently asked another journalist (who was released) to memorize a letter to his family for him.

 

How selfless! He could have said woe is me, but instead he is praising others in his family and encouraging them. I think he was a man at peace with His God. The more I learn about him, the more convinced I am about his martyrdom .

 

I was fascinated to read the following in my local small town paper. Perhaps part of Mr. Foley's legacy is he is now spurring conversations about faith and death and eternity

http://www.lohud.com/story/money/pe...headed-delivered-evil-column-ending/14586415/

 

Hi Miker, I think you are correct. Foley met his fate with great courage from what I understand (I refused to watch the video of his killing). Perhaps his greatest impact is his faith and how he died.

 

Unfortunately, reports are breaking that these satanists have beheaded another American journalist

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29038217

Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon him; may his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen.

 

MMM, staged video does not mean Foley was not murdered.

 

Eternal rest unto them O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and all the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...-s-battered-wives-are-raped-and-murdered.html

 

By David Gibson Religion News Service

Eight years ago this Friday, Sept. 12, Pope Benedict XVI delivered a lecture at the University of Regensburg in Bavaria in which he seemed to diagnose Islam as a religion inherently flawed by fanaticism.

It was an undiplomatic assertion, to say the least — especially coming a day after the 9/11 anniversary — and it sparked an enormous outcry among Muslims. It came to be seen as one of a series of missteps that would plague Benedict’s papacy until he resigned last year.

Now, with the Islamic State on the march in the Middle East, leaving a trail of horrifying brutality and bloodshed that has shocked the world, some of Benedict’s allies on the Catholic right are saying, in effect, “He told you so.”

“Regensburg was not so much the work of a professor or even a pope,” wrote the Rev. Raymond de Souza in a column for the National Catholic Register. “It was the work of a prophet.”

Eight years later “we have ISIS” — an acronym for the Islamic State — “And beheadings. And persecution. And hatred. And war,” added Elise Hilton in a blog post for the Acton Institute, a libertarian Catholic think tank.

“It appears that the world owes Pope Benedict an apology,” she wrote.

 

.....and Obama says, "the Islamist state is not islam."

 

Sorry to see that these evil people have murdered another innocent victim.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/13/world/meast/isis-haines-family-message/index.html

Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen.