Imagine the Nun was Heretical

Since she was on École Biblique, which has pushed Framework Theory, it is not impossible.

But even a heretical nun should not be treated like that.

Here is the news story:

Nun Viciously Attacked In Jerusalem
Return To Tradition | 2.V.2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIDaZPrjI7Y

Écoutez les Haredim

Je n'en fais pas partie, je suis Catholique. Parfois, les ultra-orthodoxes ne sont pas trop géniaux avec nous les Catholiques, je le note.

Mais ils ont quelque chose à dire.

Tension en Israël : les juifs ultra-orthodoxes réprimés violemment
Le Monde | 18 oct. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEYQX4E5A7k

Regardez aussi les images. Je ne peux pas espérer que ma compatriote, Greta Thunberg, ait été mieux traitée que certains qu'on a vus poussés ou trainés par terre, pendant ces jours à Ketziot.

Il y a des gens qui disent qu'Israël est nécessaire pour la survie des Juifs. Le "7 octobre" (2023), plus de Juifs meurent en un jour que depuis 1945. Est-ce que Hamas a cessé de détruire la Palestine après quelque jours, ou Gaza est encore à feu et à sang ? /HGL

Hostile Architecture = Ticket to Hell

Hostile Architecture = Ticket to Hell · "Rev." Lauren Van Ham Made Some Bad Points

NYC is Building Anti-Homeless Streets…
Cash Jordan, 12 Nov. 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnqUoAEg6f4

31 And when the Son of man shall come in his majesty, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his majesty. 32 And all nations shall be gathered together before him, and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats [Matthew 25:32] 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left. 34 Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35 For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in:

36 Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me. 37 Then shall the just answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry, and fed thee; thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38 And when did we see thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and covered thee? 39 Or when did we see thee sick or in prison, and came to thee? 40 And the king answering, shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.

41 Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry, and you gave me not to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me not to drink. 43 I was a stranger, and you took me not in: naked, and you covered me not: sick and in prison, and you did not visit me. 44 Then they also shall answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to thee? 45 Then he shall answer them, saying: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it not to one of these least, neither did you do it to me.

46 And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.

Gospel According to St Matthew, Chapter 25
https://drbo.org/chapter/47025.htm

Relevant:
You don't love God if you don't love your neighbor |Cotton Pickin Kids
Cotton Pickin Kids, 21 Aug. 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cgp_l399cE

Sharing ...

Does the Talmud agree with the Apostle Paul's interpretation of Hosea 2?? - The Case of Messiah.
ONE FOR ISRAEL Ministry, 5 Sept. 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk1h3SEeYY8

Si vous voyiez un avis de recherche "fugué, idées délirantes" - vous feriez quoi ?

Je veux dire si vous rencontriez la personne.

Moi, d'abord, je ne donnerais pas un coup de file s'il semblait composé, et pas non plus, si sa nervosité semblait uniquement liée à la perspective de retourner en psychiatrie.

Une idée délirante pourrait être quelque chose de vraiment obviement nuisible, comme "je suis Superman, je dois voler par l'air, invulnérable, envers des bandits" mais ça peut être, apparemment, des désaccords idéologiques aussi. Si personne n'avait tamponné mes idées comme délirantes, pourquoi n'ai-je pas encore un éditeur (après 14 ans d'écriture, non "sur un livre" mais sur des blogs permettant une publication en forme de collection d'essais, par exemple) ?

Ou les gens qui nuisent les libertés de quelqu'un pourraient tamponner comme délirant l'idée que les libertés sont piétinés. Dans les derniers temps, ne vont pas des faux Chrétiens tamponner le vrai Christianisme comme un délire ? Ce serait une manière d'empêcher à ceux qui refusent le marque de la bête de faire des affaires./HGL

Is Trent 24, canon 10 a warrant for arranging someone else's celibacy?

Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: Yes, Homosexual People Already Had the Right to Marry · New blog on the kid: Has Introibo Discredited the Orthodoxy of Fr De Pauw? · Is Trent 24, canon 10 a warrant for arranging someone else's celibacy? · Correspondence of Hans Georg Lundahl: Will This be Answered?

I mean, arranging it against his will?

No.

1810 Dz 980 Can. 10. If anyone says that the married state is to be preferred to the state of virginity or celibacy, and that it is not better and happier to remain in virginity or celibacy than to be united in matrimony (cf. Mt 19,11 f.; 1Co 7,25 f.; 1Co 7,28-40): let him be anathema.

Please note:

1 Co 7,25 says:
Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give counsel, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.

Note, St. Paul said counsel, and specifically he said it was not a command.

Praying and acting for someone who tries to get a wife to fail is, still, acting as if the counsel were a command, and forgetting the lesson of 1 Tim 4,3.

Acting for it by depriving him of opportunities of livelihood is even more reprehensible, as is wanton calumny by repeated allusions to supposed faults in the past involving an obvious condition of the present, which could be explained otherwise than by those supposed faults.

There is a reason why Stabunt iusti and Apocalypse agree it is a form of persecution to deprive someone of business opportunities.

Stabunt iusti passage is Wisdom 5,1 to 5, here is the very first verse :
Then shall the just stand with great constancy against those that have afflicted them, and taken away their labours.

Here is Apocalypse 13,17:
And that no man might buy or sell, but he that hath the character, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

This kind of state of affairs will not last to the very end, it will be replaced by actual direct killing, but it is the first stage of the end times final persecution. Obviously, it is likely to also continue in places where there is no possibility to round up and kill people, it may still be possible to destroy quite a lot of business opportunities for the remaining faithful.

One result of this would be stopping people from getting married. Because the man is the breadwinner.

And one of the fine excuses for still promoting this kind of persecution would be to "help" someone chose the better path, even if he is not bound to celibacy.

It is obvious that there are lots of Commies who would not want Heliocentrism to be audaciously questioned, any more than millions or billions of years. There are lots of Commies to which a man who believes that God turns the universe around Earth each day, and an angel turns the Sun around the Zodiac each year, is simply ignorant. But there are Christians who make themselves prostitutes of such Commies.

There are lots of Commies who would agree with C. P. Snow on what it means to be instructed.

See thereon in French:
C'est quoi, être instruit ?

There are lots of Commies who think I would be better off reading Asimov or D. H. Lawrence or Proust than J. R. R. Tolkien, as to literary taste too. But there are Christians who make themselves prostitutes of such Commies.

For, given the number of years in which it is known to people that I write - just this blog having 616 545 page views over all periods, and other ones are big as well - and in which, time after time, I have requested people to get going to take a look at what they could re-edit on paper, re-publish as a book, and I have had evasive or no responses, it cannot be alleged they simply didn't know my business plan. Telling me I am right is of little avail, if they refuse to get it rolling. Telling me I'm wrong, and why and on what matter, directly, would be far better than telling me nothing and hoping God forgives me because of folly, since attributing to me that state is directly a social obstacle against my getting anything done./HGL

Un jour, Luther décida qu'il y avait trop de clergé

Un jour, Luther décida qu'il y avait trop de clergé · Un jour, deux ou six femmes étaient sur le quai d'une ville portière de la Suède

Un autre jour, une décennie ou deux après, des femmes en Sigtuna sortent de chez elles pour braver les ordres du roi Suédois.

Comment "trop de clergé" ...? En plus des évêques, il y avait le clergé à Rome. En plus des curés, il y avait des chapelains, des aumôniers, des clercs qui avaient pour tâche unique de célébrer les messes pour tel ou tel bienfaiteur du monastère ou des chanoînes, il y avait les chanoînes, il y avait des prêtres en monastères, il y avait des prêtres qui offraient des indulgences avec des prêches et les absolutions et communions, donc aussi souvent messes qu'il fallait pour les gagner et encore certaines indulgences étaient donnés pour un don à l'Église pour un but pieux, comme de rebâtir la Basilique de St. Pierre. Ce dernier type n'existe plus dans l'Église catholique, et ses adversaires l'appellaient "vendeurs d'indulgences" ... ceux-là et les prêtres des ordres mendiants étaient ce que Luther détestait le plus. Pour les régions en Royaume Germanique (grosso modo Allemagne, Autriche, parties de la Suisse et Liechtenstein) et les royaumes (deux) dans le Nord qui adoptaient la Réforme luthérienne, le clergé allait être réduit.

Ces deux royaumes, c'étaient la Suède (dont à l'époque la Finlande était un duché) et le Danemark (dont Norvège était l'autre couronne restante, après la perte de le Suède).

Et Sigtuna, c'est en Suède. Entre Stockholm, déjà notre capitale depuis quelques siècles, hormis les temps sous Danemark quand Stockholm n'était que capitale régionale, et Sigtuna, la distance c'est 47 km - de nos jours environ une heure en "RER" et bus, à l'époque une journée à cheval.

Sigtuna avait au Moyen âge plusieurs églises. Les deux plus notables étaient peut-être l'église des Dominicains, "Mariakyrkan" ou Notre Dame, et Sankt Olof ou St. Olave, qui était l'église paroissiale. Le plan des hommes du roi - mercenaires de Lubeck - c'était de chasser les Dominicains et donner leur église, la plus spatieuse, au curé, et de démolir la vieille église paroissiale. Chose faite, quand j'étais à Sigtuna, St. Olave était une ruine, et la Notre Dame était l'église paroissiale, pour "l'Église" lutherienne qu'on appelle l'Église suédoise. Mais, comme dit, pas sans protestes.

Les femmes de la ville, probablement plus ou moins toutes les femmes de la ville, sortaient de chez elles et entouraient l'église de St. Olave. Les mercenaires les citaient d'obéir aux ordres du roi. Elle répondaient :

"Il faut obéir davantage à Dieu qu'aux hommes."

Elles furent écartés, les mercenaires n'avaient pas d'états d'âme et les femmes n'étaient pas soutenues par d'hommes prêts à une chouannerie - bien qu'il en eût d'autres.

De nos jours l'Église suédoise est souvent très œcuménique, et on avait dans la salle paroissiale un icône de l'événement. Je l'ai vue avant même d'être baptisé, et ce m'était une indication que la Réforme n'était pas toujours jo jo ... quelques années plus tard, je me covertis en Catholique.

Réflêchissons. Il y a d'autres occasions pour se poser la question directe sur les raisons pour le Catholicisme ou contre la Réforme en tant que vérités sociales. Aujourd'hui, je vais réfléchir sur l'impact social. D'abord, les Réformes de Luther trouvent une résistance armée, en Royaume Germanique par l'Empereur, tout le siècle entre Réforme et Guerre de Trente Ans on était en guerre, par exemple la Guerre de Schmalkalde; très autrement en Suède (moins au Danemark, hormis Islande ?) par des insurrectionnistes, un peu comme la Réforme anglicane trouve une résistance en des insurrectionnistes surtout en Yorkshire et en Irlande. La société devient plus violente, et les crispations entre peuple et pouvoir vont se solder dans une augmentation de la Repression, du pouvoir repressif de l'état.

Ensuite, les écoles dans les villes étaient surtout gérés par les prêtres notamment ceux qui n'étaient pas curés. Les écoles élémentaires ont persisté, mais les lycées en Suède étaient en berne entre la Réforme et les réformes scolaires de la reine Christine (qui a dû noter ça, ce sera entre autre pour ça qu'elle se convertit au Catholicisme, j'ai visité son tombeau à Rome, dans la Basilique de St. Pierre, vers Pentecôte 1986, déjà en décalage avec l'Église suédoise, et environ deux ans avant ma conversion. J'y étais avec la classe de latin.

Mais, il y a une autre conséquence, peu notée.

Moins de clergé veut dire, en même temps deux choses :

• moins d'argent demandé aux fidèles
• plus d'argent pour chaque clerc restant.

Et une troisième :

• une salle plus pleine en service de dimanche.

Or, la première chose était justement ce que visait Luther ouvertement. La deuxième il l'abordait avec plus de discrétion, mais ça se voyait dans son mépris pour les ordres mendiants. Par contre, il convient de noter que les grands jets de Pat Robertson ou d'autres sont dans cette ligne. Et avec 10 000 en culte de dimanche, chaque fidèle lui paie moins que les fidèles dans les temps avant Luther - et quand même il s'en sort mieux, financièrement. Là où 5000 tsiganes sont assemblés,

Ceci veut bien entendu dire des salles de culte beaucoup plus bondés. Une conséquence de ça a été vue au début de la pandémie en France, en Alsace et Lorraine.

Pour se rallier les puissants, Luther flattait l'idée que les gens, par la piété catholique, devenaient trop paresseux. Les pèlerinages, il était contre - parce que c'étaient des vacances. La Réforme a donc favorisé des structures où davantage de gens travaillent avec plus intense cadence. Les deux phénomènes sont liés. Plus les ouvriers sont nombreux, plus ils deviennent replaçables, et plus ils deviennent remplaçables, plus on peut leur imposer des cadences encore plus intenses.

Or, un autre très grand cluster de la première vague, il était une grande usine de viande. Même si ça avait été une aussi grande usine de légumes, elle aurait fait un cluster, puisque des gens devaient se côtoyer de manière assez nombreux en contacts. Un supermarché grande surface a aussi été touché. Et, le pauvre Luther, aurait-il même rêvé de tout ça? Bon, quand il voyait le diable qui le reclamait comme le sien, ou le Christ qui l'encourageait de retourner et qu'il qualifia du diable, il avait peut-être des présentiments que quelque chose n'allait pas très bien clocher. Mais il bravait ce genre d'inspirations. Il les prenait, toutes, comme des tentations du diable.
/HGL

Prophecy of St Malachy, Against TektonTV, Part I

Prophecy of St Malachy, Against TektonTV, Part I · Prophecy of St Malachy, etc, Part II

J. P. Holding, of the protestant self described "ministry" Tekton TV, which is a youtube channel (as a Catholic, I am also an Apologist, but I don't dare describe it as a "ministry"!), is sometimes doing some good stuff. Yesterday, I saw some of his less good stuff, when he considers the alarm about end times in connection with St Malachy's prophecy as "quackery".

He went through ten Popes, I'll go a bit further back. He criticised some descriptions by St Malachy as unfulfilled, as fulfilled no better than next or previous Pope, as vague. Here we will go through an extension of his list:

252 Pius VI (1775-1799) 96 Peregrinus Apostolicus

Apostolic Pilgrim - or Apostolic stranger. As an "Apostle" - i e Pope - he was taken to where he was a stranger, by Napoleon Buonaparte taking him captive.

253 Pius VII (1800-1823) 97 Aquila rapax

Rapacious eagle is a good description of Napoleon. Few would deny he was rapacious, and as he claimed the title Emperor, he carried the Roman Eagle. Pius VII - whom some Catholics have counted as an Antipope - made peace with him, the so called Concordate.

So, his papacy started "under the auspices of" a rapacious eagle, the same which had carried his predecessor into places where he was a peregrinus. Hey, this starts to sound like the inspiration for Gwaihir taking Gandalf in his claws ... Tolkien of course knew this fairly well, at some point. And it can have simmered in his imagination for some time.

Note that while Pius VI could also have been considered as a reasonable fulfilment of Aquila Rapax, obviously, since Pius VII stayed in Rome on good terms with Napoleon (too good terms for the taste of some Catholics) could not have been a fulfilment of the peregrinus part of his predecessor.

No successor of Pius VII could have been considered as fulfilling Aquila rapax up to those confronting Hitler, so far. Lenin was rapax, but in his case Hammer and Sickle replaced Russian Eagle. Savoy was rapax enough, but its ensigns is a Cross, not an eagle.

No predecessor of either for quite a long time back could have fitted Aquila rapax (you might want to consider Sacco di Roma by a German Emperor, Charles V. (The Pope in question also same year suffered Swedish Reformation leading to some more sacking : #221 Clement VII (1523-1534) #65 Flos pilæi ægri, flower of ... sorry, this one is beyond my Latin skills), and I don't know many peregrini either, except if some hade made pilgrimages before papacy, which would have meant they were not yet apostolic while being pilgrims, no longer actively on pilgrimage once apostolic. No successor of Pius VI could have been considered as pilgrim up to recent very travel happy Popes or Antipopes starting with "John Paul II".

254 Leo XII (1823-1829) 98 Canis et coluber

Dog and snake ... His condemnations of Freemasonry (with Carbonarism) and of Protestantism make him a watchdog biting these snakes. I can imagine Tom Horn having some problem with that ...

This would of course fit more than one Pope in the following, up to St Pius X, but he could be seen as initiating the list. He also took this as the theme of his first encyclical, hence its name, Ubi Primum, as soon as. Here are some other words from it:

11. Who can reflect without weeping on the fierce and mighty conflicts which have raged in Our times and continue to rage almost daily against the Catholic religion? Listen to St. Jerome: “It is no small spark, no small spark, l say, which is scarcely seen in being observed; it is not a little leaven which is obviously a small thing. It is rather a flame which attempts to devastate almost the entire world and to burn up walls, cities, broad pastures and districts; and a leaven which mixes with the flour and tries to destroy its whole substance.”[8] With this reason for fear, We would lose all heart for Our apostolic service were it not that the Guardian of Israel does not slumber or sleep, and says to His disciples: “Behold I am with you all days even to the end of the world,” and condescends to be shepherd of shepherds as well as guardian of the sheep.[9]

12. But at what are these remarks aimed? A certain sect, which you surely know, has unjustly arrogated to itself the name of philosophy, and has aroused from the ashes the disorderly ranks of practically every error. Under the gentle appearance of piety and liberality this sect professes what they call tolerance or indifferentism. It preaches that not only in civil affairs, which is not Our concern here, but also in religion, God has given every individual a wide freedom to embrace and adopt without danger to his salvation whatever sect or opinion appeals to him on the basis of his private judgement. The apostle Paul warns us against the impiety of these madmen. “I beseech you, brethren, to behold those who create dissensions and scandals beyond the teaching which you have learned. Keep away from such men. They do not serve Christ Our Lord but their own belly, and by sweet speeches and blessings they seduce the hearts of the innocent.”[10]

Ubi Primum
On His Assuming the Pontificate
Pope Leo XII - May 5, 1824
http://www.papalencyclicals.net/leo12/l12ubipr.htm

Whether he wanted to show watchdog mentality to fulfil the prophecy or not, he sure has this watchdog mentality and in his book it is the masonic sect which stands for the serpent.

By contrast, Pius VI was more concerned with condemning Catholics who were wayward about Catholic matters, like the Pistoia Synod (in which some have seen a prequel to Vatican II) or the French Oathtaking Clergy, who took oaths on a constitution of the Church very similar to that of Chinese patriotic Catholics - a national constitution incompatible with Catholic teaching. Napoleon had to rescind that in order to get peace with Pius VII - whose early steps as a Pontiff were of course about this Napoleonic Wars thing. Neither of them would have fitted the Canis et coluber as much as he did.

255 Pius VIII (1829-1830) 99 Vir religiosus

This one fits very many Popes. It is a little non-descript. Well, the papacy of Pius VIII is also a little non-descript, because it is very short. He had no time to make a real impact - but since he is following in the footsteps of his predecessor, he is religiously obedient to the example of him. The two encyclicals are reiterating a theme from the Canis et coluber papacy.

If he reflected in the papal motto given by St Malachy, he would have said perhaps he didn't need to do very much to fulfil it - and he didn't do very much, in a way not quite foreseeable.

256 Gregory XVI (1831-1846) 100 De balneis hetruriæ

(bath of Etruria)

Hist.: prior to his election he was member of an order founded by Saint Romuald, at Balneo, in Etruria, present day Toscany.

So, the election of a Camaldulensian to cardinal by some previous pope, and the election of this cardinal at this conclave could have been there to fulfil the prophecy. But it certainly didn't contradict it.

257 Pius IX (1846-1878) 101 Crux de cruce

(Cross of Crosses - mistranslated, no plural!)

Hist.:Pius XI was the last Pope to reign over the Papal States (the middle third of what is today Italy). He ended up being a prisoner of the Vatican, never venturing outside Vatican City. A much heavier burden than his predecessors.

What the history doesn't mention, which clinches it, is that this came from the house of Savoy, who have a cross on their escutcheon, since centuries earlier : so his cross came from a cross, that of Savoy.

258 Leo XIII (1878-1903) 102 Lumen in cælo

(Light in the Heavens)

Hist.: Leo XIII wrote encyclicals on Catholic social teaching that were still being digested 100 years later. He added considerably to theology.

I disagree on last sentence of "Hist."

He didn't add to revelation what wasn't there. I'll be back on that one, but now more on the words, commented on in TektonTV video:

There was the comet during his reign in 1882:

Greatest Comet of the 19th Century: The Great September Comet of 1882
https://www.space.com/24069-greatest-comets-of-past-centuries.html

This comet is perhaps the brightest comet that has ever been seen and was a gigantic member of the Kreutz Sungrazing Group of Comets. First spotted as a bright zero-magnitude object by a group of Italian sailors in the Southern Hemisphere on Sept. 1, this comet brightened dramatically as it approached its rendezvous with the sun.

By Sept. 14, it became visible in broad daylight, and when it arrived at perihelion on Dec. 17, it passed at a distance of only 264,000 miles (4

25,000 km) from the sun's surface. On that day, some observers described the comet's silvery radiance as scarcely fainter than the limb of the Sun, suggesting a magnitude somewhere between -15 and -20 (the latter magnitude would register nearly 1,000 times brighter than the full moon!). The following day, observers in Cordoba, Argentina, described the comet as a "blazing star" near the sun.

The nucleus also broke into at least four separate parts. In the days and weeks that followed, the comet became visible in the morning sky as an immense object sporting a brilliant tail. Today, some comet historians consider it a "Super Comet," far above the run of even great comets. [See Amazing Stargazer Photos of Comets from 2013]

In 1590 it was impossible to foresee that Pope 102 on St Malachy's list would have a brighter comet than the Popes 97 - 101. And actually possibly even than predecessors back to pope 93 Animal rurale (ruling in 1744, during the- whose own theology was not really a comet. He was a humdrum Pope). A list of 9 brightest comets ever lists 1744, 1843 (Gregory XVI) and 1882, which was brighter than that of 1843.

Perhaps these comets show some of the value of the theology of the Popes : Now, Gregory XVI condemned slave hunt, enslaving free men (Catholic bishops in Southron states assured he did not mean to condemn keeping slaves already such), if these men have committed no crimes, for reasons like skin colour or so. Leo XIII condemned the Industrial Capitalism. Saying that the conditions of poor workers were even worse than those of slaves.

He also tried to re-enact Scholastic theology, and arguably failed. Neo-Thomism which sees his reign as a starting point, is simply not the same thing as Thomism. He recommended studying carefully St Thomas Aquinas and not omitting to study St Bonaventura and John Duns Scotus. This came in a century where theology had the habit of proving God by Idealism - a most perfect concept from which no perfection is lacking is of course more really such if not lacking the perfection of actual existence, but the fact that it can be thought doesn't prove it is a concept of sth actually existing - or exhort to accepting God by Pascal's wager (not bad in some pastoral cases, but insufficient as a general proof for studies). St Thomas' first way involved movement, including that of place (the one he actually thought most noble, the one which is also most visible) as visible indicator of a first mover. He meant at least the daily movement of the Heavens - around Earth.

In Providentissimus Deus, he never actually mentions the heliocentric verses geocentric controversy by name. But he gives what is in some ways and for some Bible passages, a kind of back door to taking them as phenomenal language. Only, he gives a quote - already quoted by St Thomas - about the phenomenal language, according to some Church Father, which left out the crystalline spheres of Aristotelic astronomy, and ... well, the leaving out of Aristotelic spheres was of course phenomenally correct, but according to modern astronomers it was also correct as to physical fact behind the appearances. This is the quote in which he says such and such - in the case of leaving out crystalline spheres I think it was Moses in Genesis 1 - describes what appears to the senses, in which there is no falsehood. Well, if heliocentrism is true, there is actually daily falsehood in our sense of seeing, since we are each day seeing the inverse of what actually happens.

This great opportunity has by and large been missed. For Thomas' real positions, Leo XIII was a light in the sky, but as fleeting as the comet.

259 St. Pius X (1903-1914) 103 Ignis ardens

(ardent fire)

Hist.: The Pope had great personal piety and achieved a number of important reforms in the devotional and liturgical life of priests and laypeople.

In other words, he made daily Communion and communion at an early age accessible. Before his time, you usually got confirmed at 12 (perhaps 14 for boys) and went to Communion after that, and if very pious, perhaps once a month. He deemed, if you can already discern Communion from the bread which satisfies the stomach, if you know it is Our Lord, you can go to Communion (if you fulfil the other conditions). Since St Maria Goretti had achieved great holiness from the five Communions she had received before 12 - she was martyred before her 12th birthday - this may have contributed to his decision.

He personally gave communion to a four year old boy whose mother had taken him to the Pope, after he had found the boy knew the difference.

He was also an ardent fire in another way. You condemn a heretical book, in earlier centuries than his, you burn it publically, whether it is a bad translation of the Bible or a book against the Bible. You condemn a heretic who refuses to recant, in some of the centuries prior than his, you burn him.

His condemnation of certain modern errors makes him a great and well remembered proponent of the Canis at Coluber line. Arguably greater than any successor in the line leading up to and in the ensuing line of modern Antipopes.

He is the man who banned Alfred Loisy. Here is some of his history, in wiki:

In 1902, he started to pay attention to Adolf von Harnack's Das Wesen des Christentum. Harnack believed that the essence of Christianity was the relationship between individual and God, making an organized church a largely unnecessary creation. Loisy disagreed with the idea that the organized church was unnecessary, but the nature of his disagreement brought him controversy. From 1901 to 1903 he wrote several works that would be condemned by the Church. These include La Religion d'Israël, Études évangéliques, L'Évangile et L'Église, Autour d'un petit livre, and Le quatrième Évangile. His 1908 Les Évangiles Synoptiques would cause his excommunication. In his works he argued against Harnack, trying to show that it was necessary and inevitable for the Catholic Church to form as it did. He also argued that God intended this and compared his own ideas on this to those of Cardinal Newman. Although L'Évangile et L'Église in particular was condemned by Cardinal Richard, Pope Leo consistently refused to interfere directly.[6] It was his successor, Pope Pius X who would later condemn these works.

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Cardinal Sarto became Pope Pius X on 4 August 1903. On 1 October, Loisy published three new books, Autour d'un petit livre, Le Quatrième Évangile and Le Discours sur la Montagne (a fragment of a proposed enlarged commentary on the Synoptic Gospels). Autour consists of seven letters on different topics addressed to church leaders and friends. On 23 December the pope ordered the publication of a decree of the Index of prohibited books, incorporating a decree of the Inquisition, condemning Loisy's Religion d'Israël, L'Évangile et l'Église, Études évangéliques, Autour d'un petit livre and Le Quatrième Évangile. On 12 January 1904 Loisy wrote to the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Merry del Val, that he received the condemnation with respect, and condemned whatever might be reprehensible in his books, whilst reserving the rights of his conscience and his opinions as an historian. Since the Holy See was not satisfied, Loisy sent three further declarations to Rome; the last, dispatched on 17 March, was addressed to the pope himself, and remained unanswered. At the end of March Loisy gave up his lectureship, as he declared, on his own initiative. In April 1907 he returned to his native Lorraine, to Ceffonds (near Montier-en-Der), and to his relatives there.[6]

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In July 1907 the Holy Office (after Vatican II renamed as Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) issued a decree, signed by Pius X, entitled Lamentabili sane exitu[8] (or "A Lamentable Departure Indeed"), which formally condemned sixty-five modernist or relativist propositions concerning the nature of the Church, revelation, biblical exegesis, the sacraments, and the divinity of Christ. This was followed by the encyclical Pascendi dominici gregis (or "Feeding the Lord's Flock"), which characterized Modernism as the "synthesis of all heresies". The documents made Loisy realise that there was no hope for reconciliation of his views with the official doctrine of the Church.

If Loisy and Pope St Pius X had lived 3 centuries earlier, probably Loisy would have burned under the Pope as Giordano Bruno burned under St Robert Bellarmine, in 1600. I say this with the main sympathy for the inquisitors who were defending the true religion against blasphemy. And had the unenviable task to deal with men unwilling to see and recant their errors.

In that sense too, Pope St Pius X was a burning fire.

260 Benedict XV (1914-1922) 104 Religio depopulata

(Religion laid waste)

Hist.: This Pope reigned during the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia which store the establishment of Communism.

J. P. Holding has argued against this interpretation, since more Christians were killed later than directly under Benedict XV's time. He has argued that Shoa which happened way later was at least as good an interpretation. Well, how about a comparison with Judaism?

If Judaism had been the right religion (which it is not since when it means rejecting Our Lord), and if a Jewish prophet had prophecied in Latin "religio depopulata", for which year would it have been most appropriate?

For 68 or 70 when Titus destroyed the Temple or for Shoa? Now, some of you might wonder why I am taking up the year 68. The reason is, the latest divergence between Jewish and Christian chronology I know of is that we differ by two years on how many years have passed since that taking of Jerusalem. OK, back to the question : it would have referred to destruction of the Temple.

And arguably, more monasteries and church buildings were destroyed in the time of Lenin and Trotski than later. Supposing that the destruction continued and intensified during the last years of Lenin - I'll check in a moment - at least the process started before Benedict XV died.

Some might argue that certain novelties in his code of canon law (also 1917), like raising minimal marital age from 14/12 to 16/14, like modifying so as to eliminate the banning of taking interest, laid waste religion in another sense, closer home. He also stopped the inquisitorial procedures initiated by his predecessor St Pius X, even while keeping remnants, such as requiring an Oath of Antimodernism (still there up to Vatican II, I presume) of all priests (meaning every Council Father who was a modernist was also an oath breaker).

BBL

Back from a coffee pause, and I just brushed up some of previous. One comment on why the "religio" which is "laid waste" is more like monasteries and churches than about lives of faithful : religion means public worship, basically. Yes, Catholic faith is described as "true religion", comprison both public worship and inner personal faith part, as opposed to "false religions" - which are mainly described as false in their public capacity. OK, if you believe one of them and it is your fault, it is false in capacity of your inner belief too. Some of them who converted obviusly did have a beginning of the right faith while publically showing forth a false religion - since they came to the conclusion they had made a mistake therein. A member of them not yet converted may be converting tomorrow for all you know or the Church on earth knows. So, the Catholic Church especially teaches it is false in the public capacity, having some reticence to judge the inner life of each and every individual member of one of them.

But the more prominent sense of "religion" is not from this distinction, it is more about canonic and monastic lives being such consistent acts of religion as to merit the definition of public worship and as to therefore be described as "religion". A Russian monk may have survived 1922, but his monastery may no longer have been there for him to live a normal monastic life in after that date. Now you may begin to fathom why "religio depopulata" fits Benedict XV better than succeeding papacies or papacy.

I will give a link to the video I am incriminating below my signature, and then go on to part II when I am a bit less exhausted. I woke up first time 4:55 this morning. I will also link to the Catholic site where I have taken descriptions from.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St Moses
4.IX.2017

Links:

• End Times Quackery 1C: The Petrus Romanus Prophecies of St. Malachy
  tektontv
  Ajoutée le 10 oct. 2012
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns5SpYrvmR0
  
  
• Prophecy of St Malachy
  http://www.catholic-pages.com/grabbag/malachy.asp

If you are Named after Saint hmmm Vladimir of Kiev ... is that the Number of the Beast?

I think the saint who converted himself with the real Sviataya Rus' might prefer the spelling Volodymyr by now:

V 86 80 6
o 79 150 15 (719
l 76 220 21 256
o 73 290 24 975 counting minuscules)
d 68 350 32
y 89 430 41
m 77 500 48
y 89 580 57
r 82 660 59 719

I am not saying Volodymyr Yelchenko is a good politician. I think the Poles are lots better. But numerology does NOT make him the beast. And he is perfectly right to be angry about the idiocy of Ban Ki-moon.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
CCLX Holy Martyrs of Via Salaria
17.VI.2016

When Christ and His Cavalry Set Out for Battle of Harmageddon, They Hate the Guts of Herods

Like, but not limited to only, abortionists.

However, as for their setting out, I had a scenario, I just asked someone about technical details of it involving speed of light and computer animation of the approach, supposing:

• stars are one light day away, and that is where they start riding
• they ride at half light speed
• light travels at normal speed
• they go in Cross formation
• they circle Earth with the aether.

The guy might not agree with this Geocentric that stars are that close, but he might be curious as how it would look. So am I, after seeing I had made some naïve assumptions about it./HGL

Disagreeing with 2 articles on Pravoslavie

My comments were posted on the site under the articles on 16-X-2015, Feast of St Hedwig of Silesia.

Yes, I am a RC, and for more general disagreements with their theology, see here:

Trento - Philaret (Catechisms) : Filioque far older than III Council of Toledo
http://trentophilaret.blogspot.com/p/filioque-far-older-than-iii-council-of.html

But now to two specific disagreements, those I alluded to in title of this post, and in each case I link:

If Satan is Alive, Why Not Millennialism? by Fr. John Whiteford, republished on Pravoslavie after his blog http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/86556.htm

1) The seven canons of Constantinople I mention heretical sects by name, but are not precise about what is wrong with each. 2) Apollinarianism has a ghastly Christology, and therefore is heretical, whether its premillennarian positions be so or not. 3) The "cuius regni non eriot finis" (yes, I am a Latin, a RC) does not quite mean that premillenarianism is heretical. The "end of the thousand years" EITHER WAY is not the "end of the Kingdom" (never such a thing). 4) That said, the thousand years reign is Christ's reign in the Church as it is in the world, living side to side with unbelievers. 5) The "end of the thousand years" does not mean the end of the Church (Matthew 28:18-20), but it is on the normal view the end of its way of functioning side by side with sinners and unbelievers and including repentant sinners, and of waiting for their penance, and this end includes apostasies and persecutions. 6) Being interested in the question whether this end is at hand is not premillenarianism even if it were condemned. Apocalypse 13:18 warned us to count the numeric values of the letters of the name of a man. And in Eusebius' Church History we are told that this is according to St Irenaeus the meaning of this verse. NOte that ASCII Code gives a number value to each Latin letter of the English alphabet, with 32 added to it if using a lower case letter, 65-90, 97-122, and there are number values for accented letters and for Greek and Cyrillic too, but the main news is the Latin alphabet is now with numers. A space also is 32. 7) Being interested in Young Earth Creationism is NOT the same as being interested in premillennarian errors, if such. Probably they are, as per consensus of common magisterium after early Church Fathers. Hans Georg Lundahl

Scottish monk arrested for distributing leaflets promoting sexual morality from LifeSiteNews on Pravoslavie http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/75938.htm

"Homosexuality, as well as being a sin and a vice, is essentially a neurosis, a pathological condition" So, would you consider "kleptomania" a neurosis and a pathological condition as well as theft being against the commandments? I am not saying either condition is very sane. I am saying human society should judge acts, not "mental conditions". For one thing because judges want proofs of guilt before punishing, while psychiatrists tend to the obverse, they want proofs of sanity before releasing. Which is as backward in the order of the repression of evil, as sodomy is in the order of sexuality and procreation. Hans Georg Lundahl

Ваше сообщение успешно отправлено! I think this means my comments were posted.

Now, were they published?

As to the former combox, I got a slightly different message, and I am not sure what it meant. Perhaps a slight had made it impossible to post it, not sure if it was author blocking comments or me typing a wrong security code. I did not retype it.

Now, if they are not sure what I meant, on the second comment, how about reading this:

Therapy to change 'feminine' boy created a troubled man, family says
By Scott Bronstein and Jessi Joseph, CNN
June 10, 2011 — Updated 1144 GMT (1944 HKT)
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/06/07/sissy.boy.experiment/index.html

Credits to Mark Shea:

National Catholic Register : You Are Created in the Image and Likeness of God and Redeemed by Jesus Christ
by Mark Shea 10/15/2015
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/mark-shea/the-sissy-boy-experiment