JERUSALEM (ChurchMilitant.com) - The former patriarchal vicar of Jerusalem is condemning Israel for bombing nuns and Christian families.
Bishop Emeritus Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo of the patriarchate of Jerusalem for Palestine and the Holy City on Friday beat back some mainstream media claims that Israel is properly handling its bombing runs on the Gaza Strip.
Marcuzzo outlined, "The Israeli raids take place after the launching of missiles by Hamas on the territory of Israel, but according to what we see, the considerations of those who, in the United States, described the military reaction of the Jewish state as 'proportionate' are completely unfounded. They bomb from afar."
AMDG
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"Until the causes that are at the root of the conflict are addressed and resolved, it will only take a spark for everything to explode again." quoted from the cited article in Agenzia Fides.
I sure wish the Bishop had done so. He's caught 'in the weeds' as far as I can tell.
How can you divide a country unless everyone agrees? You need look no further than Ireland where the partition has led to atrocities from both sides &, regardless of what everyone says, the troubles still bubble beneath the service. Other such examples are India & Pakistan, North & South Korea etc
Sorry should read "beneath the SURFACE"
"F" the Bishop. I support Israel.
Damian M. Malliapalli
I support Israel, a 21st century democratic country which upholds moral values. The Palestinians (99.9% Muslim) live like the 13th century (as do most people is Islamic countries...especially in villages that don't even have toilets or running water....and it's not poverty. THey 'CHOOSE" TO STAY THAT WAY. They have a barbaric "legal"system (Sharia), and in some countries still import slaves for their noble classes (from sub-Sahara Africa and the Phillipines).
Damian M. Malliapalli
Israel: a small distant, socialist, ethnocracy, run by racists who
don’t believe in G-d but are convinced He gave them the land.
Why do we even give
a $hit?
Nate:
BINGO!
Or is that too Catholic?
Mazel Tov 🥳!
🎉
"Israel: a small distant, socialist, ethnocracy, run by racists who
don’t believe in G-d but are convinced He gave them the land."
Israel began as a "ethnocracy" in 1948, after nearly 60% of all Jews in the world were exterminated by the Nazi's. Also, Jews in Arab countries were treated like garbage and discriminated against in Egypt,Morocco,Libya,Tunesia ,India, etc. so that most immigrated to Israel. Before the Jews came to Israel (which was before WWII still known as Palestine), the land was about 85% Arab-Muslim, (with some Jews and Greek Orthodox Christians, and a tiny group of Catholics). The Arab Muslims lived in villages made of mud-bricks, and they all lives like the times of the Roman Empire. If Roman Legions walked thru in 1940, they would see Arab villages the same as 30 A.D.....or 300 B.C.
The Jews came and founded Israel, partitioned the land, and developed a thriving modern country. They made it a Jewish State, because after WWII and the Holocaust, they wanted a land to be safe, where they could feel that something like the Holocaust would never happen again.
The Jews have lived peacefully with the small totals of Christians. The only people that cause trouble are the Muslim Arabs and Palestinians.
All the Wars in the Middle East that started after Israel was founded was because the Arab Muslims who had been there were jealous of the development and success the Jews had made of the land these Muslims had sat on for 1,500 years and done nothing with it.
It's true, much of Israel today is entirely secular, and many Jews don't bother with their religion, except for perhaps the High Holidays. Many don't believe in God. But the Orthodox Jews do....and the small group of Samara tins who live there around Mt. Gerizim (spelling), which they consider sacred.
I was in Israel for a photo shoot in 2017, and saw Muslim Palestinians in Bethlehem spit on Catholic nuns who wore beautiful colored purple habits and white veils. There were about 12 nuns harrassed by the band of 3-4 Muslims, and most were young (which was a surprise). I found out they came from Italy.
So don't think bad of the Jews, and hold up the Muslim Palestinians up as great people or victims. They're not.
I know some hate the Jews, but believe me, the others are much worse. And just a hint....the Muslims don't appreciate and gestures of solidarity or friendship for their "cause". Especially if your an American.
Damian M. Malliapalli
The Yids don't think much better of crypto-Hindoos like Mowgli than they do Muzzies. His obsequious prattling for the people of the shekel is revolting.
@Damian M. Malliapalli
Did you enjoy the trip to Israel with your megachurch? I'm sure after the trip you called The Fellowship of Christians and Jews to give $500 to help a Shoah Survivor from Russia make aliyah to Israel. Could I borrow your copy of Left Behind, I really need to read that book. God really does bless those who bless Israel. The Afrikaners were big into blessing Israel, and look what it got them.
It's hard for me to believe your so far from reality Damian.
I will join the revolted ones here!
Just read a good start for you to get aware of the real situation over at Forge and Anvil.
I don't know the link policy here but the articles entitled;
JUDAIZED WEST
America’s Cuckold With Israel
https://forge-and-anvil.com/2021/05/17/americas-cuckold-with-israel/
Our Lord warned us about them over and over again and nothings changed.
Three key facts that will forever end questions over the holocaust:
1. Translation of operative phrase in Hitler’s order to exterminate,
& name of institution that has the document.
2. Details on gas chambers
(What were doors made of, what methods did Germans use to seal them?)
3. World Almanac data on change in population of European Jewry
from 1938 to 1948.
Damian, brother, Zionists are not ultraOrthodox Jews. They are FreeMason Jews, such as B'nai Brith. Traditionalist Orthodox Jews state that,God punished them and that only God can restore the original rule of Israel. What did they get punished for? Well their nation and priesthood and Temple was destroyed 70 AD. They say many Jews joined the Christian heresy. Christians say, many Jews obstinately refused to recognize the Messiah.
But Israelis are neither Jews nor Christian, and hate them both. Now that the AlAqsa Mosque and the Palestinians may be in danger of being thrown out and replaced by a Third Temple, the Zionist State would be ready to welcome the False Messiah, the AntiChrist.
Constantine views are a conflation of half truths, untruths, unfounded opinions, hearsay and lunatic fringe free association. The author has obviously had experience as a speech writer for Trump.
Back to the sand pit, Constantine.
Anywhere Britain was there's big trouble and still is that way
While we're shooting messengers don't miss St Bernadine of Siena.
Today happens to be his feast day.
For a safe measured biography just read what's on Wikipedia.
He had some opinions on the once chosen people that wouldn't be considered kosher.
Then read Belloc's book on the subject.
Plenty of sources.
"Mike Slater" obvious likes to say things without proof. If "Mikey" talks about truths and half-truths, he is obviously giving me credit as an experienced "speech writer" for a slightly less extreme leftist President Trump. The Social Reign of Christ the King is Infallible Dogma, and is not fringe or lunatic.Nor are the Church's teachings on Israel and Masonry.
"Anonymous Anonymous said...
The Yids don't think much better of crypto-Hindoos like Mowgli than they do Muzzies. His obsequious prattling for the people of the shekel is revolting.
May 20, 2021 at 7:15 AM"
Hey Buddy Man Anon. at 5/20/2021 7:15 am----
Taking a page outta the BLM book, that's alittle racist your comment above-don't you think?
Anyway, better to support a real country despite its faults like Israel, than a bunch of Bedouins and Palestinians who have not progressed past the 10th century A.D.
I've seen their villages.....they still live it mud brick huts, no running water, no bathrooms. And they don't want to improve!!!! Saladin would be right at home in their villages. Retro time warp. If you ever want to see what village life was like at the time of the Crusades....go there. And they eat camel!!! Tastes like a mouthful of grease and fat.
Damian M. Malliapalli :)
Damien has it right. Ferguson is here in St. Louis where it all started when Michael Brown, 6 ft 5, 290, was "picked on" by Darren Wilson who weighed in at 6 ft 2, 200. Within the last few days, it was documented that one of the prime movers of the Ferguson riots was a Palestinian by the name of Bassem Mosri. The issues in Palestine are not an isolated set of circumstances. They are tied into a world wide phenomenon targeting the overthrow of Western Civilization and the installment of the devil and his world kingdom.---I lived in South St. Louis and had to move (Illinois) when my house was shot up by organized juveniles. There is a string of Palestinian owned shops with back rooms (witnessed to by my Eastern European uncle now deceased) which passes on guns and drugs for distribution to these same little "gang bangers". They are so bold that they have infiltrated the St. Louis Police Department. I know this from three years of working in a juvenile prison with visits from high ranking police officials in accompaniment with Farrakhan recruiters.---Let's give Damien credit. These are not innocent little picked on Muslim teens. These are radical little revolutionaries in service to the new world order and Israel has a right to knock them off their "parrot" perch.
The Palestinians are both Christian and Muslim. The AntiChrist is predicted by early Church Fathers until today, and he will be a "Jew". He will be acknowledged by the vast (nonpracticing "Jewry") as the Messiah, and will establish the 3rd Temple at the spot of the original 1st two ( where now stands the Al-Aqsa mosque). Read the great book History if AntiChrist by Father Huchede
Thank you, JBQ !
You got it right to!! For all their faults, I would trust Israel and Jews in general, before I would ever trust MUslims/Palestinians etc.
Just a question....what good things of note(besides architecture) for world civilization have Muslims (including Palestinians) done? I'll bet no one can think of even 3 !
Damian M. Malliapalli
Ever try doing math with Roman numerals ? Thank an Arab
I knew about all that.........Yeah yeah, Arabic numbers. That's one down. Two to go. Betcha there ain't any more.
Damian M. Malliapalli
Try Algebra then go off to read Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Euripides etc, etc.
Thank the Arabs for preserving almost all of the greats in Greek literature from the Classic period when the library of Alexandria and others elsewhere were burnt to the ground by bands of lawless 'Christian' thugs.
Islam is a cult, just as much as Mormonism. Doug Flutie is an Arab as are Marlo Thomas and her deceased father Danny. Lebanon is a leveling ground for Islam being influenced by Christianity. That is where the Maronites come in. Sicily is pretty much the same story.----The attitude of Mohammed toward women should be a tip off. Having a six year old bride among four is not conducive to civilization. Even God came humbly to a woman to bear His only begotten Son.---Arabs did not build the Alexandria library which was a wonder of the world. Euripedes etc were not Arabs. Part of the library had been burned when Caesar invaded and took Alexandria.---Doing research, there was a Caliph Umar who oversaw the library after an invasion. It is alleged that he saw the books and believed that they preached heresy. Allegedly, he then ordered the library burned. --- A strong motive was that Islam conquered the sea port. He took it from the Byzantines. The city had been the capital of an important province. The library was seen as part of Byzantium wrongly it seems.
"Try Algebra then go off to read Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Euripides etc, etc.
Thank the Arabs for preserving almost all of the greats in Greek literature from the Classic period when the library of Alexandria and others elsewhere were burnt to the ground by bands of lawless 'Christian' thugs"
Algebra I knew about.Sorry, that Falls under the same numbers game as the Arabic numbers. As for the classics, the "Dark Ages" Christian(Catholic) monks copied all the old Greek and Roman (as well as Old and New Testaments, etc.) from the original Greek or Hebrew into LAtin, and copied them in monastic scriptoriums (usually done by either Benedictine or Cistercian monks), but also other less well known Orders around the same time the Arabs were ransacking and stealing the documents from Alexandria and other places after forcing the population to convert to Islam. The Christiand had copies of Plato, Sophoclese, etc. as well, from what was left of ancient Rome.
Reluctantly, I agree that early Islamic architecture is beautiful and a unique contribution to the world of art ( but not to religion ... even though that's what most of it was built for). But ASIDE FROM ART--
So Algebra and Arabic numbers and their math/science developments is #1 unique contribution.(ALL SAME AREA)
(Copying/saving the classis by Arabs doesn't count, because the monks were doing it as well, at around the same times. (in Rome and elsewhere).
I hope nobody brings up their cuisine, because I've been to 5 basically Islamic countries and had it and for the most part is sucks.
Their music all sounds the same if you've been to those countries too. Funny thing about their "call to prayer" though. I was in Tangiers, and the muezzin was screaming his head off thru a microphone calling people to prayer...and everyone was ignoring him. They just kept walking or doing what they were doing, laughing, talking, eating... Naïve that I was, I thought they'd all stop whatever they were doing and drop to their knees. WRONG big time!
Damian M. Malliapalli
(So we're still at #1 ) :)
Arabic numerals aren't Arabic. They're actually from India.
Even I didn't know that.....duh. Thank you. Now we're back to a big 0 for the contributions of Islam to the world. (Unless you'd like to include military tactics designed to overrun/conquer/slaughter the enemy and the innocent population or cower them into converting to your beliefs. As a terror organization, I would have to rank Islam as #1
So maybe that's their 1st contribution to world history.
Where's #2 or 3?
Damian M. Malliapalli
(Ya know, I've studied religion a good deal, and I think of all the present world religions, only Buddhism/Taoism have the outstanding reputation in all its history for NOT waging wars or starting wars in the name of religion, or for religion. Going that route, you can also add Judaism to that list.....because I don't think Jews have ever (from ancient times till now), ever engaged in a war or wars specifically in the name of religion.
Christianity has, Hinduism has, and of course, Islam is the biggest practitioner of wars and terror in the name of religion.
(I don't include smaller religions which have not started wars in their name...like Zoroastrianism, Yazidism, ....but believe it or not, Mormonism did (in the very beginning, fighting and attacks in the name of their religion when they were trying to settle in an area to pracice their faith.
Damian M. Malliapalli
Regicide and Deicide
Regicide is always revolution reified;
Deicide was Satan by Jews glorified
It is possible for a country (France) to suffer a revolution and commit Regicide and yet still be able to recover much of its tradition at some point in its future but a country (Israel) which commits Deicide has committed national suicide and can never recover even the tiniest portion of its tradition; it's only hope is to corporately confess its sins and convert to Catholicism (the new Israel).
While France will restore its glory by restoring its Catholic Monarchy, Israel will perpetually serve only Satan since it has committed Deicide; no matter what it does, it is forever a dead nation; sure, ghosts of its past will haunt humanity in the Middle East and in these last days its political establishment was a necessary precondition before the first signs the Eschatological Events we are promised begin to be experienced while also signaling, to those who have eyes that can see, that the Advent of the Anti Christ is nigh, but Faux Israel can offer the Jews only delusion, destruction, and death.
Only a Christian who is a fool supports Israel.
And for those trying to make some argument about whether Israeli or Arab civilization is more developed, and on "level of civilization" decides the Israelis were better, let me remind you that its not the level of civilization that makes for a holier or more justified person. The Turks never taxed the Churches. But the Israelis tax the Church buildings. And all Israeli science, math and knowledge comes from the Europeans.
Has the Day Star channel assumed editorial control of the blog?
)ews fought side by side with arabs AGAINST Spanish Catholics during the Reconquista,provided funds for arch heretic Oliver Cromwell,
and actively fought with Communists against Catholics during the Spanish Civil War + Russian Revolution.
These are but a few examples.
Have you any knowledge of the Catholic and Christian churches being attacked and arsoned in Israel?
They aren't babes in the woods being innocently led to destruction.
The Palestinian Catholics are a persecuted minority who have been ignored for decades by our "media."
-God bless-Andrew
Their technology and infrastructure is top to bottom invented by Europeans,you're exactly right.
According to Brendan O'Connell,they're in the process of taking Global control over all Internet and hi tech software.
Check him out on DLive.
-Andrew
Michael Brown would have died from congestive heart failure if not for a cop with a steady hand.
And many of the books that Greeks preserved through the ages were burned by the Turk in 1453 although some of them were preserved by Besarion and John Argyropolous, Ficino and the Paleologues. The vulgar Muslims didn’t have that much to do with it, if the story were told by someone who wasn’t an English Labour poof with an axe to grind.
Those literary treasures were preserved in-spite of the Mohammedan and the accursed Pharisees.
What are the market futures for straws for the drowning?
GREAT POST MAN
I gotta admit, some of these anti-Semitic comments I read here on this post are really scary. Sounds like stuff the Nazi's would say about Jews. I'm glad I am not an anti-Semite. I like and have a good relationship with most of the Jews I work with/worked with. When I left the modeling field for 18 months and taught at my local public HS, there was one Jewish woman I have to admit I hated....not because she was a Jew, but because she reported me because I refused to state in class, in front of my classes, that it was perfectly normal to feel and be transsexual, and that if a girl or boy felt like they were actually the opposite sex, that was normal too. I was not fired, but bluntly told to conform. I didn't. Fortunately I got right back into my old job. Then shortly afterward, COVID-19 hit.
But I don't have a pathalogical hatred of Jews, or all things Jewish like I suspect some do here (and in other places). I've studied Judaism, and the contributions to civilization Jews have made is astonishingly good. The greatest accomplishment of all was Our Lord Jesus Christ, and His Mother, and St. Joseph....and by extension St. Anna and Joachim. Even in biblical times, there were Jews who everyone recognizes made outstanding contributions to the Bible and other historical writings (Josephus for example).
I think too many people dwell on the old stereotypes of Jews (however true or false they are), and blanket the whole race as that. It's not justified for Jews. That's what contributed to the Holocaust....one of (if not the biggest) example of hatred towards a people there was in history. The Armenian geocide by the Ottoman Turks during WWI is another.
Someone on this post wrote about the Jews who supported Oliver Cromwell, and the Jews who supported Communists etc. The Dutch Protestants of that time supported Cromwell more than anyone. Jews supported the Communists because they thought (wrongly), that the Communists would protect them against the unending waves of pogroms then suffered under Czarist rule. Jews fought against the Reconquista in Spain (some Jews), because they had lived well under Islamic rule, and knew that the Catholic monarchs would throw them out of the country....which they did.
There is more reason to hate Muslims tan there are to hate Jews. The Palestinian CAtholics are persecuted mostly by the Palestinian Muslims. Believe it or not. I have a special reason for disliking/hating Muslims. My father is Indian. He looks Indian. My Mom is Irish American. I am both. I don't look especially Indian like my Dad and his family...I have been mistaken for Puerto Rican, Italian, Armenian,Jewish/Israeli, Greek, Fillipino, and also unfortunatly, Arab/Muslim. In highschool I had many big fights, record 7 wins, 0 loses, because a kid called me an Arab, or "dirty Muslim". Also I've been to 5 Muslim/Arab countries and they live pre-Industrial Revolution times in most places (except the big cities). They hate foreigners, especially Americans.
I'm not trying to lecture here....just to say to look beyond the historic steriotypes of Jews. Constant hate of a people who don't deserve that is sick. They're not a perfect people without fault.....but no group is.
Damian M. Malliapalli
The anti-Christian and concern trolling comments by the untrustworthy eastern and decadent elements aren’t so scary as laughable and cute.
I wonder how many Catholic Dalits get to marry Syro Malabar people.
Most of the posts published by Zuhlsdorf the clericus vagus grifter are Dorothy Dixers. These are just fabricated set ups so he can link as many books, Amazon wish list items, and drivel by fellow entrepreneurial ideologs.
Zuhlsdorf is a cheerleader for Vatican II. He'd never condemn it or question it like most authentic Catholic traditional commentators do.
As for the Dalits in INdia, it is still not acceptable according to the present norms of society for them as general practice to marry outside their "caste". Just as in the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was unspeakable for an upper class "WASP" to marry a Catholic (they could be ostracized from society and even disowned by their families), that's the practice in India today for the most part, although it is slowly declining. The caste system there has been around for 5,000 years, so it won't disappear overnight. It's observed less in the cities, but there's a stigma still in the suburbs/countryside. The Dalits have made some news in recent years, in that hundreds of thousands have converted not to Christianity or Islam, but to Buddhism, where they are all accepted as equals regardless of caste or social status. This has given birth to a renewal of Buddhism in India proper (subcontinent), and not concentrated only in the NOrthern provinces anymore (Kashmir), and the areas close to Nepal, and what once were the kingdoms of Sikkim and Mustang. Buddhist monasteries are established in the INdian subcontinent again, which have not been seen in 1,000+ years. (Except in areas where the majority are Muslims). The resurgence of Buddhism in some areas has lead to conflict with Hindus, which is ridiculous in that Buddhists still constitute less than 2% of the population, while Hindus comprise close to 74% (a number which has been declining over the last 30 years). Catholics account for about 2-3% of the population.....declining thanks to VAtican II/Pope Francis/radical liberals. Mass attendance is down too....even here. No surprise, right.
Damian M. Malliapalli
Just because one hates Naziism, does not mean one hates Germans. There were Germans who gave their lives fighting Nazism.
In the same way a person who hates the Naxi State of Israel, fors mot mean that person hates Jews. THERE ARE ULTRAORTHODOX JEWS THAT HATE ISRAEL.
But Jews are basically Nazis.
"But I don't have a pathalogical hatred of Jews, or all things Jewish like I suspect some do here (and in other places). I've studied Judaism, and the contributions to civilization Jews have made is astonishingly good. The greatest accomplishment of all was Our Lord Jesus Christ, and His Mother, and St. Joseph....and by extension St. Anna and Joachim."
See guys: it's all been a big misunderstanding. The rabbis gave us Our Saviour, and Catholicism comes from the Babylonian Talmud! So don't criticize Jews, ever! Just because they control things like banks, governments and media, doesn't mean that they want to silence all criticism. And just because Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 57a-b and 58 a-b explicitly condone the murder of gentiles, and Kethuboth 11b/Sanhedrin 54b condone the rape of children, doesn't mean anything at all. So let's lay off all the anti-semitism.
"and the contributions to civilization Jews have made is astonishingly good"
This statement is absolutely amazing. Here is one astonishingly good Jewish contribution to civilization: PORNOGRAPHY
Let's hear from Jew and pornography pioneer Al Goldstein, the late founder of SCREW Magazine:
"He {Goldstein} once discussed his motivation for making pornography. 'The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We Jews don’t believe in authoritarianism,' he said."
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/porn-pioneer-al-goldstein-who-went-from-millionaire-to-homeless-dies-at-age
He also said the following, but LifeSiteNews left it out:
"Pornography thus becomes a way of defiling Christian culture and, as it penetrates to the very heart of the American mainstream (and is no doubt consumed by those very same WASPs), its subversive character becomes more charged..."
Using porn to make shekels while subverting Christian society, and destroying the lives of young women is quite a Jewish contribution.
Al Goldstein was definitely not a Christ-hating Jew.
Once again, anti-semites, Jews gave the world porn, so there!
I'm so glad Damian has the courage to speak up.
"Jews gave the world porn, so there!"
I've learned a lesson here, that so many hate Jews here that it's not worth discussing or countering it.
But the above comment is actually funny. "POrn", or what we would think as porn, is about 5,000+ years old. There are papyrus scrolls from Ancient Egypt that were discovered that were filled with porn...men and women having sex, drawings of men masturbating, even depictions of group sexual orgies. A Jew didn't draw them.
There is porn all over the walls in what were called "brothels" (old Medieval term), or Houses of prostitution in Pompeii that I saw as a tourist when I visited Italy. There were over 20 "brothels" in Pompeii, all with porn. Stores in Pompeii sold wind chimes with hanging figures of naked men holding their crotch. Roman villas had scores of frescos with naked men and women engaged in sex, as did bathhouses. Did Jews paint them all?
Anyway, I'm not gonna discuss Jews or defend them anymore here....pointless. But to say Jews gave the world porn is humerous. Maybe sixty or so years ago they were behind it, yeah. I'll grant that. But 5,000+ years ago? C'mon.
Damian M. Malliapalli
While concupiscence of the eyes is endemic to the nature of fallen man, Damien seems to be up against facts that run contrary to his Judeo-philic assertions.
Modern, mass produced pornography is a Jewish operation undertaken with the intent to destroy whatever remains of once Catholic societies.
It's a really odd thing, Damien: when a Jew says the following, is he an anti-semite? Because I'm simply taking the same position that this Jewish Professor takes. Why is a non-Jew anti-semitic simply for repeating the exact same thing said by a Jew?
"Jewish professor of American history at Aberdeen University in the United Kingdom Nathan Abrams claims that Jews are the driving force behind the modern pornographic industry and that their motivation is in part to destroy Gentile morals.
'Jewish involvement in porn, by this argument, is the result of an atavistic hatred of Christian authority: they are trying to weaken the dominant culture in America by moral subversion. Astyr remembers having “to run or fight for it in grammar school because I was a Jew. It could very well be that part of my porn career is an ‘up yours’ to these people,' says Abrams."
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4404498638452030181&postID=9152285748304464049
None of this mishmash of speculation, opinion, assertion or allegation would stand a dog's chance in a court of Law.
Do get some help, Gladys.
Gaybrielle:
You are a reprobate priest who will be condemned to Hell forever, lest you repent.
"Bellarmine tells us that, having gone to assist a dying person, and having exhorted him to make one act of contrition, the dying one answered that he did not understand what contrition meant. Bellarmine tried to explain to him, but the sick one said, 'I do not understand you, father; I am not capable of these things.' And thus he died, 'leaving clear signs of his condemnation.'"
excerpt from Preparation for Death by St. Alphonsus Ligouri p.44
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