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| Canadian church goes up in flames for the third time in a week |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-05-2024, 06:48 AM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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Canadian church goes up in flames for the third time in a week
A Franciscan Catholic church in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, which was sold to a developer, was a near total loss after a fire broke out on Thursday, but police are mum on a possible cause.
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Oct 4, 2024
(LifeSiteNews) – A massive fire reduced a Canadian church to ashes for the third time in less than a week.
Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Allégresses, a century-old Franciscan Catholic church in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, was a near total loss after a fire broke out on Thursday. The church, built in 1914, was not in use. It had been sold to developers, who planned to build 40 small apartments inside with additional units in the back of the building.
Nevertheless, the historic church blaze spread rapidly, and fire crews were not able to fully contain the flames, which resulted in extensive damage to the building, including one of its bell towers that collapsed.
Despite not being an active church, 11 Franciscan brothers were staying in a building connected to the back of the church but were able to get out in time before the blaze went out of control.
According to Father Guylain Prince, who oversees the local Franciscan congregation, the fire forced his 10 brothers from the scene.
“It was the only parish that was active (in the area) for more than 100 years by Franciscans, so it was we who built it. It contained frescoes by St. Francis, stained glass windows. It is a superb church, an extraordinary church,” Prince said, according to local media, which reported that the owner of the church is still “in shock” about what happened.
“We’re gonna sit down with the city authorities to see what we can do. This is not a standard building, it is a very special building,” said Georges Mouradian, the church’s new owner.
The official cause of the blaze is not fully known. Local police are mum on a possible cause.
In the span of a week, Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Allégresses is the third church to go up in flames in Canada. LifeSiteNews reported that one Catholic and Anglican church were destroyed.
Since the spring of 2021, 112 churches, most of them Catholic, have been burned to the ground, vandalized or defiled in Canada.
The church burnings started in 2021 after the mainstream media and the federal government ran with inflammatory and dubious claims that hundreds of children were buried and disregarded by Catholic priests and nuns who ran some of the now-closed residential schools.
Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MP Jamil Jivani has urged support from his political opponents for a bill that would give stiffer penalties to arsonists caught burning churches down, saying the recent rash of destruction is a “very serious issue” that is a direct “attack” on families as well as “religious freedom in Canada.”
LifeSiteNews reported in August that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet said it will expand a multimillion-dollar fund geared toward documenting claims that hundreds of young children died and were clandestinely buried at now-closed residential schools, some of them run by the Catholic Church.
LifeSiteNews reported last week that Leah Gazan, backbencher MP from the New Democratic Party, brought forth a new bill that seeks to criminalize the denial of the unproven claim that the residential school system once operating in Canada was a “genocide.”
Canadian indigenous residential schools, run by the Catholic Church and other Christian churches, were set up by the federal government and were open from the late 19th century until 1996.
While there were indeed some Catholics who committed serious abuses against native children, the unproved “mass graves” narrative has led to widespread anti-Catholic sentiment since 2021.
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| FSSP gets apostolic visitation from the Vatican |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-29-2024, 02:25 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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FSSP gets apostolic visitation from the Vatican
The FSSP is an international community of priests which celebrates the Traditional Latin Mass. Pope Francis’ reign has been marked by a series of disciplinary actions against conservative clergy, and by restrictions of the Latin Mass.
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Sep 28, 2024
(LifeSiteNews) — The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) has been informed that it will receive an apostolic visitation from the Vatican.
The FSSP is an international community of priests, under the authority of the Holy See, which celebrates the Traditional Latin Mass in churches around the world.
Pope Francis’ reign has been marked by a series of disciplinary actions against traditional and conservative clergy, and by introducing significant restrictions of the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass.
In November 2023 Bishop Joseph Strickland was personally removed from his diocese by Pope Francis following an apostolic visitation. Shortly afterwards Strickland revealed that one of the reasons for his removal was his refusal to cancel the Latin Mass in the diocese of Tyler, Texas.
In a communique published earlier this week the FSSP announced the news of their visitation, adding that they have been informed by Vatican authorities that “this visit does not originate in any problems of the Fraternity.”
The visitation will be conducted by the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, which has been in charge of the FSSP and similar priestly institutes for the past three years.
LifeSiteNews Editor in Chief, John-Henry Westen, has called for prayers for the FSSP.
Communiqué of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
Fribourg, September 26, 2024
The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) has recently been informed by the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life of the opening of an apostolic visitation of the Fraternity. As the Prefect of this Dicastery himself made clear to the Superior General and his assistants during a meeting in Rome, this visit does not originate in any problems of the Fraternity, but is intended to enable the Dicastery to know who we are, how we are doing and how we live, so as to provide us with any help we may need.
The last ordinary apostolic visit of the Fraternity was undertaken in 2014 by the Ecclesia Dei Commission. As the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life has been in charge of the FSSP and other former Eccelsia Dei institutes for the past three years, it now the competency of this Dicastery to look after the FSSP.
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| Please Pray for Bishop Tissier de Mallerais |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-29-2024, 02:17 AM - Forum: Appeals for Prayer
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The following is taken from this gloria.tv post:
FSSPX: Bishop Tissier Suffered a Cerebral Haemorrhage
September 30, 2024
According to reports circulating on the Internet, Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, 79, has suffered a brain haemorrhage.
He is one of the three current bishops of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X. Gloria.tv has learned that the headquarters in Menzingen has informed countries that the bishop's situation is not life-threatening.
Monsignor Tissier de Mallerais fell down the stairs at the seminary in Ecône, Switzerland, where he lives, on 28 September.
He has been suffering from age-related illnesses for some time, including difficulty walking.
Born in 1945, he had a master's degree in biology and joined Mgr Marcel Lefebvre in Fribourg in October 1969 to help found the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X.
He has held a number of important positions, including director of the seminary at Ecône.
The faithful are invited to pray for the prelate's recovery.
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| Bishop Schneider: Pope Francis has contradicted ‘the entire Gospel’ |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-27-2024, 11:15 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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NB: While one certainly applauds Bp. Schneider (and those who like him) for speaking out against Francis' errors, however, as is the case with so many Conciliar Catholics, they ignore that these same erroneous principles are found right in the documents of Vatican II and yet are silent on that point.
Bishop Schneider: Pope Francis has contradicted ‘the entire Gospel’
Speaking to Raymond Arroyo, Bishop Athanasius Schneider firmly critiqued and rejected Pope Francis' claim that 'every religion is a way to arrive at God.'
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Bishop Schneider, on EWTN's World Over, September 26, 2024.
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Sep 27, 2024
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Athanasius Schneider has stated that Pope Francis has contradicted “the entire Gospel” with the claim that all religions are a way to God.
Speaking with EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo on The World Over, Kazakhstan’s Bishop Athanasius Schneider responded to the controversial comment made by Pope Francis on his recent trip to Singapore.
“Every religion is a way to arrive at God,” the Pope said. “There are different languages to arrive at God, but God is God for all. And how is God God for all? We are all sons and daughters of God. But my god is more important than your god, is that true? There is only one God and each of us has a language to arrive at God. Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, Christian, they are different paths.”
When asked by Arroyo about this, Schneider was clinical in his critique:
Quote:Such an affirmation of Pope Francis is clearly against the divine revelation, it contradicts directly the first Commandment of God which is ever valid – “You shall not have other gods beside me” – this is so clear, and such a statement contradicts the entire Gospel.
Continuing, Schneider reminded viewers that “Jesus Christ said, ‘No one comes to the Father except through me.’”
Quote:“He is the only way to God, there are no other ways or paths,” said the auxiliary bishop of Astana. “So in this statement sadly, regrettably Pope Francis plainly contradicts the first Commandment of God and the entire Gospel.”
Francis’ comments have caused widespread controversy and confusion among concerned Catholics, and consternation remains high even though he made the remarks now two weeks ago during an inter-religious meeting of young people in Singapore.
When Arroyo raised this issue of how a Pope could say such a statement, Schneider pointed back to the betrayal of Christ by St. Peter in the Gospels.
Quote:God permitted that the first pope, Simon Peter, he renounced [and] denied Christ three times, and he was appointed the vicar of Christ and nevertheless he denied Christ three times. So God permitted it that it could also happen in the future, that a successor of Simon Peter would speak some words which are contrary to the divine truth.
Such a scenario, commented Schneider, “is rare, but it happened with Peter and it happened in very rare cases in history. But Peter repented, and he again defended Christ and confessed Him and gave his life for Christ as a martyr.”
The auxiliary bishop urged Catholics “to simply pray for Pope Francis that he may receive this grace of the Lord as Peter received, to repent and to again clearly, courageously confess that there is no other name given to man in which they can be saved except Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God, the only redeemer of mankind.”
The Catholic Church teaches that “[t]he one true Church established by Christ is the Catholic Church.” {Q. 152}. Additionally, the Church notes that all souls must “belong” to the Church to be saved: “All are obliged to belong to the Catholic Church in order to be saved.” {Baltimore Catechism Q 166.}
This teaching has remained constant, though is currently heard with less regularity or clarity than in previous decades.
Pope Leo XII pronounced it clearly in his 1824 encyclical letter Ubi Primum:
Quote:It is impossible for the most true God, who is Truth Itself, the best, the wisest Provider, and the Rewarder of good men, to approve all sects who profess false teachings which are often inconsistent with one another and contradictory, and to confer eternal rewards on their members. For we have a surer word of the prophet, and in writing to you We speak wisdom among the perfect; not the wisdom of this world but the wisdom of God in a mystery.
By it we are taught, and by divine faith we hold one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and that no other name under heaven is given to men except the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth in which we must be saved. This is why we profess that there is no salvation outside the Church.
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Schneider himself has already critiqued Francis’ 2019 Abu Dhabi declaration, which argued that the “diversity of religions” is “willed by God.” Issuing a public condemnation of the text, Schneider subsequently published another statement warning that “men in the Church today are in fact promoting the neglect of the first Commandment of the Decalogue and the betrayal of the core of the Gospel.”
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| FBI whistleblower urges Americans to vote, pray the Rosary and do First Friday devotions |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-27-2024, 08:49 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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FBI whistleblower urges Americans to vote, pray the Rosary and do First Friday devotions
‘Despite the stress and uncertainty, I’ve never once regretted standing up for truth. Indeed, my family and I persevered due to our strength in faith, God’s grace and the sacraments,’ said FBI whistleblower Marcus Allen.
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FBI whistleblower Marcus Allen
Breitbart / YouTube
Sep 26, 2024
(LifeSiteNews) — An FBI whistleblower who had his security clearance revoked and pay suspended for questioning the official Jan. 6 narrative is now urging Americans to pray the rosary and practice the First Friday devotion, as well as to vote and arm themselves.
Marcus Allen, an FBI staff operations specialist whose security clearance has been restored as part of a settlement with the bureau earlier this year, told the Judiciary Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government on Wednesday how he was severely retaliated against for sharing information with his superiors and others that, as he previously noted, “questioned the official narrative of Jan. 6.”
“The FBI questioned my allegiance to the United States, suspended my security clearance, suspended my pay and refused to allow me to obtain outside employment or even accept charity,” testified Allen, a devout Catholic. He was then forced to take early withdrawals from a retirement account to pay his mortgage.
Allen told how this was punishment for sharing what he believed was not “forthright” testimony by FBI Director Christopher Wray about the Bureau’s use of confidential human sources at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Allen had cited reporting by mainstream media outlets for his criticism of Wray, including RealClearPolitics.
In further support of Allen’s claim, ex-FBI Washington Field Office Assistant Director in Charge Steven D’Antuono testified last year to the full House Judiciary Committee that the FBI had even lost count of the number of confidential informants on the Capitol grounds that day.
The Catholic veteran said the FBI tried to “destroy him financially” so that he “would give up.”
“There are no words strong enough to describe the impact the FBI’s lies about me have had on me and my family,” an emotional Allen said Wednesday. “The stress has taken a toll on our health and our children have suffered, traumatized by the thought of our door getting kicked in or Dad not coming home.”
“Despite the stress and uncertainty, I’ve never once regretted standing up for truth,” the Marine Corps veteran continued. “Indeed, my family and I persevered due to our strength in faith, God’s grace and the sacraments.”
“If you do not worship God, you will worship something else. You can either serve God or you can serve Mammon, but you can’t serve both. This has been a purification when we lost material items we gained more important things. We’ve stored up for ourselves Treasures in Heaven,” Allen said.
“What we have gained spiritually has far outweighed what was lost materially,” said Allen, getting choked up.
He went on to cite James Madison, who “notes the duty to honor God (takes) precedent both in order of time and degree of obligation to the claims of Civil Society. Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the governor of the Universe.”
Later, asked to comment further, Allen added, “It is my opinion that the Bureau used fear and reprisal to control the workforce.”
He further advised the people of the U.S., “As an American citizen, you have the duty to vote, and I strongly urge you to do so … stake your claim, and don’t forfeit it willingly.”
“My other recommendations are in the natural order,” he continued. “Arm yourself and know how to defend yourself. Make three to four friends in your neighborhood and promise to come to each other’s mutual aid in times of hardship.”
“During the Great Depression, people stocked up a pantry, so I think that’s a good practice, especially in our economic times, and make sure you have three to four months of food.”
He then advised Americans to “pray the rosary” and “go to the First Friday devotions,” by which Catholics honor the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
“That’s for everybody, all my brothers and sisters of all faiths,” he added. “And read the gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and live it every day.”
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