Saturday, January 8, 2022
Proof that Communism Gives You AIDS
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German Government Data for the alleged Omicron variant of Covid-19, suggests that most of the “fully vaccinated” will have full blown Covid-19 vaccine induced acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) by the end of January 2022, after confirming that the immune systems of the fully vaccinated have already degraded to an average of minus 87%.
By a concerned reader
[Daily Expose] The German Government Covid-19 figures are produced by the ‘Robert Koch Institut’ (see here).
Their latest data is available as a downloadable pdf here.
Page 14 has their Weekly COVID-19 management report from December 30, 2021 –
Translation
“Additional information is known to some extent for the Omikron cases in the reporting system. for 6,788 cases were provided with information on the symptoms, mostly none or mild symptoms indicated. It was most common by patients with symptoms
Runny nose (54%), cough (57%) and sore throat (39%) mentioned. 124 patients were hospitalized, four people died. Exposure abroad was reported for 543 (5%) cases. 186 patients were unvaccinated, 4,020 were fully vaccinated, of these, a booster vaccination was reported for 1,137. On the basis of the transmitted data 148 reinfections were found among all transmitted Omicron infections, none of them Previous illnesses were reported to the person affected by reinfection. Figure 9 shows the distribution of the Omikron cases reported so far in Germany. Omicron cases have been detected in all federal states.”
- 186 unvaccinated cases
- 2,883 double vaccinated cases
- 1,137 triple vaccinated cases
- 4,020 fully vaccinated cases
In Germany 70.53% are fully vaxxed, 2.97% are partially vaxxed and 26.5% unvaxxed – https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
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“The Congregation of Divine Worship is Not All Powerful”
The Benedictines of the Immaculate responded to Traditionis Custodes and the Responsa ad dubia with a declaration of loyalty to the Council of Trent and the traditional Rite.
Shortly before Christmas, on December 23, the ancient Benedictines of the Immaculate published a statement on their website on the Motu proprio Traditiones Custodes of Pope Francis of July 16, 2021 and on the Responsa ad dubia of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Order of the Sacraments of July 4. December 2021, which was released on December 18th. It is a strong answer given by the monks. They are sending a clear signal. After an initial paralysis of shock in the Ecclesia Dei communities, an increasingly determined will to persevere and to resist emerges.
The Benedictines of the Immaculate are a Benedictine community of strict observance. This monastic community was founded in 2008 by two monks from the French Abbey Le Barroux in Villatalla in Liguria (Diocese of Albenga-Imperia), where they were accepted by the then diocesan bishop Mario Oliveri. Because of his tradition-friendly attitude, Bishop Oliveri was a victim of the Bergoglian "mercy", systematically dismantled and finally retired by Pope Francis. The Benedictines of the Immaculata moved to the neighboring diocese of Ventimiglia-Sanremo in 2019, where they were welcomed by Bishop Antonio Suetta, who left the abandoned Capuchin monastery of Taggia to them. The Benedictines of the Immaculata maintain the traditional Roman Rite within the order as well as in pastoral care. In the past year 2021, four postulants took on the religious habit and joined the monastic community as novices: on January 1st, 2021, Brother Benedict, on January 6th, Brother Placidus, on February 11th, Brother Gabriel and on September 8th, Brother Julian.
Loyalty
On the Motu proprio Traditiones Custodes of July 16, 2021 and the response of the Congregation for Divine Worship of December 4 to the Dubia:
We, the Benedictine monks of the Immaculata of the Monastery of St. Catherine of Siena in Taggia, founded on August 1st, 2008 by HE Mario Oliveri and established on March 21st, 2017 as an Institute of Consecrated Life of diocesan law and by decree of the Diocesan Bishop HE Antonio Suetta, moved to the Diocese of Ventimiglia-San Remo on November 18, 2020, where we vowed to be faithful to the Constitutions approved by the Holy See, on which we made our sacred monastic vows.
As it says in their prologue, they have committed ourselves especially before God and the whole Church to the liturgy as our own Rite, both inside and outside the monastery, always in the more than millennial and "never abolished" (Motu proprio Summorum Pontifi cum) Form to be celebrated in Latin and with Gregorian chant.
This solemn commitment includes the use of ancient Roman rituals and the pontifical, as our consecration ceremonies have shown since our inception. We do all of this out of fidelity to the theology formulated by the Council of Trent, which, by defining the canons of the rite of Mass, has erected an insurmountable barrier against any heresy that could affect the integrity of the mystery of Holy Mass.
S. E. Antonio Suetta publicly affirmed on television on August 24, 2021 that we:
Are "the guardians and witnesses of the oldest tradition of the Church". Only in this way and not otherwise do we remain loyal, no matter what the cost.
May the Pope, at the intercession of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, be enlightened in his function as Vicar of Christ, so that before the eyes of the world and for the salvation of souls the Catholic faith in all its purity, as well as the traditional liturgy, which guarantee this purity, shine again and let all attacks of error and decay against the Holy Church fail.
At Taggia, on December 21, 2021, on the feast of St. Apostle Thomas
A young Benedictine monastery of strict observance gives a strong answer to Traditionis custodes and the Responsa ad dubia.
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: benedictins-de-immaculee.com
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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Bergoglio Slaps Tradition on Feast of Three Kings
Pope Francis slapped tradition in his sermon on Epiphany and criticized those who criticize his Motu proprio Traditionis Custodes - according to Reuters correspondent Philip Pullella.
(Rome) Hardly has the new year started than Pope Francis has rediscovered his favorite opponents. And court reporters like Philip Pullella, the Vatican correspondent for Reuters, willingly carry the papal criticism around the world. More precisely, Pullella only provides the actual reading of the papal slap in the face that Francis gave yesterday in his sermon on Ephipany. Pullella names the "conservatives" as the addressees, but means tradition.
Pullella was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Pius on November 13th by Pope Francis. This is mainly given to heads of state, heads of government and diplomats. Up to 1939 it was connected with the ennoblement. Pullella is the Vatican correspondent for Reuters, one of the three international press agencies that lead the world. Pullella yesterday sent the following message to the world, which he put in the headline:
"The Pope criticizes the conservatives of the Catholic Church, who are locked in an 'armor'."
And further:
"On Thursday, Pope Francis attacked the Conservatives who oppose change in the Roman Apostolic Catholic Church, complaining that some see religion as self-centered and locked in 'armor'."
Then Pullella becomes clearer:
"On the Feast of Epiphany, the day of the Magi, the Holy Father criticized those who opposed his decision to restrict the traditionalist Latin Mass, saying that the liturgy must not be caught in a 'dead language'."
What Francis said and what he meant
But what did Pope Francis say literally?
“Brothers and sisters, as for the astrologers, this also applies to us: The journey of life and the path of faith require longing, inner drive. Sometimes we live in a 'parking' spirit, we live parked, without that momentum of longing that takes us forward. It is good for us to ask ourselves: where are we on the journey of faith? Have we not stood still for far too long and parked in a conventional, external, formal religion that no longer warms the heart and does not change life? Do our words and customs trigger the desire in people's hearts to move towards God, or are they a 'dead language' that speaks only of and to itself? It is sad when a community of believers no longer feels longing and, weary, drags on with administrative matters instead of being amazed by Jesus, by the overwhelming and stirring joy of the gospel. It is sad when a priest has locked the door of longing; it is sad to succumb to clerical functionalism, it is very sad. "
Neither the Motu proprio Traditionis Custodes nor any other specific references were mentioned by Francis. Pullella is therefore the Pope's interpreter. Does he know more? Apparently, because otherwise such a clear interpretation by a Reuters correspondent would be inconceivable. Pullella was therefore given the reading for the sermon in advance so that he would carry it out into the world. In the past, this task was mainly taken on by Andrea Tornielli before Francis called him directly to the Vatican. Incidentally, Tornielli, chief editor with management and coordination authority for all Vatican media, was received in audience by Francis this morning.
The Latin cult language of the Church is therefore a “dead language” for Francis and the priests who know they are bound and committed to it are “addicted to clerical functionalism”, which is “very sad”, since they are priests who “open the door closed to longing ”.
The rigor of death in the Latin language must, however, relate solely to the traditional rite, because at the papal mass on yesterday's solemn festival it was not only the choir who sang the ordinarium in Latin. Pope Francis also used the liturgical language of the Roman Catholic Church almost exclusively, which is why it is also called the Latin Church. He celebrated the Eucharist exclusively in Latin.
The deep-seated aversion
In his report, Pullella sheds light on another part of the motives that prompted Francis for the Motu proprio Traditionis Custodes and the campaign of annihilation against the traditional rite, with increasingly repressive measures (Diocese of Rome, Responsa ad dubia, Archdiocese of Chicago). Pullella, the Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Pius, does not ask how well-founded and justified such motives are.
Rather, the papal mouthpiece at Reuters deepens the anti-tradition message:
“After the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), the Latin Mass was no longer used on a large scale and was replaced by the local languages. In July, the Pope tightened the rules for celebrating the Latin Mass after arguing that the Latin Mass was being used by opponents of reform to damage the unity of the Catholic Church, thereby reversing the decisions of his two predecessors. Since then, some conservatives, including bishops, have openly challenged the Pope, leading to the latest chapter in what some have called a 'liturgical war' in the Church. "
The procedure is not new, but rather well-known in Pope Francis' pontificate: Francis throws a stone into the pond, but uses the hand of someone else so that his involvement can neither be proven with certainty nor can he be he held responsible for it. With Francis it is not just a matter of tactics, but of a strategy that a close associate, Archbishop Bruno Forte, Special Secretary of the Family Synod, described as "a typical Jesuit".
Mask fetishism in St. Peter's Basilica, with the exception of the Pope. Even the choir of the Sistine Chapel had to sing with a mask.
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: Vatican.va (screenshot)
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.Com
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Friday, January 7, 2022
Catholic Girl’s Basketball Coach Suspended for Hurting Losing Team’s Feelings by Winning 92-4
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| Execute him at once! |
Edit: girl's basketball doesn't matter anyway, but these kinds of successes lead to great things later in life for the girls. Where's Camille Paglia?
Death Vaxx Kills More Children Than Covid
[Children’s Defender] Louisiana nurse last month told state lawmakers her hospital is seeing “terrifying” reactions to COVID vaccines, but hospital officials are failing to report them.
Collette Martin, R.N., a practicing nurse for 17 years, said her Louisiana hospital is witnessing blood clots, heart attacks, strokes, encephalopathy and heart arrhythmia following COVID vaccination, and staff are failing to report anything to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
Martin, testifying at a Louisiana House Health and Welfare Committee hearing, told State Rep. Lawrence Bagley that most medical professionals in her hospital aren’t even aware VAERS exists.
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Health Commissioner Lies About Number of Cases of Children Hospitalized to Push Death Vaxx
Edit: not sure if this odd looking creature is Jewish, but in the face of protests and charges by animal activists against the ritual slaughter of thousands of chickens on their feast of Kaparos, she found that the practice of killing thousands of chickens and hurling the carcasses around causes no threat to public health. Oy!
Here’s LifeSiteNews which will encourage the usual suspects to complain about the site for various reasons they can’t describe.
ALBANY, New York (LifeSiteNews) — New York State’s acting health commissioner affirmed late last month that she played up extremely rare pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations to promote injecting all children five years old and above with the experimental and abortion-tainted COVID jabs.
The promotion of universal vaccination in young children comes in spite of evidence that children face very minimal risk from COVID-19, and ignores the thousands of reports of serious adverse events and deaths connected with the experimental shots.
During a December 28, 2021, press conference, acting State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett said that while the numbers of pediatric COVID-related hospital admissions were “small,” and while children are not “having an epidemic of infection,” a handful of rare pediatric hospitalizations were given center stage in a recent health alert “to motivate pediatricians and families to seek the protection of vaccination” for young children.
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— Keep School Open (@KeepSchoolOpen) December 28, 2021
The 2001 Summer of shark attacks ended with the events of 9/11
(it also postponed the clergy sex abuse news until the following Spring)
Thursday, January 6, 2022
Satanic Monastery University Demands Death Clot for Students
[Saint Cloud Times] The College of St. Benedict and St. John's University will require masks indoors and COVID-19 tests for students when they return to campus for the spring semester, according to a press release.
CSB/SJU will also require COVID-19 booster shots for all eligible students and employees by March 1. If individuals’ booster shot eligibility is after March 1, they have one month to comply with the requirement.
The required post-arrival testing event will be hosted Jan. 11-14 and students will be emailed with a link to sign up. Exempt students includes those who have received a booster shot and uploaded documentation to the school, tested positive for COVID in the last 90 days or are within six months of an initial Moderna or Pfizer vaccine series or two months of a J&J vaccine.
https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/2022/01/05/csb-sju-require-covid-tests-booster-shots-masks-semester-starts/9107819002/
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Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Deep Church revealed. Coffin interviews a Bircher
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| https://www.patrickcoffin.media/the-deep-church-revealed/ |
It's inescapable. The jab is killing people
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
We Have Lost a Great Witness to the Presence of Christ — Archbishop Luigi Negri
Archbishop Luigi Negri, who was a courageous voice to the end, also in defense of the traditional rite, died on New Year's Eve.
(Rome) On the last day of 2021, New Year's Eve, Archbishop Luigi Negri passed away, a staunch fighter for the Lord. A few days before him, the homophile South African Anglican bishop and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu died. Although he did not allow himself to be cremated, he let himself be "environmentally friendly" dissolved in a potassium hydroxide solution. Pope Francis expressed "sadness" about Tutu's death, but not a single word about the death of Archbishop Negri.
Archbishop Negri celebrated his 80th birthday on November 26th. In 2005 Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro and in 2012 Benedict XVI. promoted him to Archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio. He had experienced his spiritual formation at the side of Don Luigi Giussani and in his Community Comunione e Liberazione (CL, Community and Liberation). He has suffered greatly in recent years from the direction of CL in the current pontificate.
He who speaks clear words makes enemies. Archbishop Negri had to experience this repeatedly. The diocese of San Marino-Montefeltro is one of those small dioceses that rarely attract attention. The small Republic of San Marino is well known, but the diocese to which it belongs is largely unknown. Msgr. Negri, however, attracted attention, although he did not seek it. As a bishop, he had the church doors of San Leo, a town in his diocese, locked when a Masonic meeting was taking place there. In the Castle of San Leo there is a Museum of the Lodge Brothers, dedicated to the impostor Cagliostro, who was imprisoned there for some time. Bishop Negri wanted to prevent profanation and underline the incompatibility of Church and Lodge, which other Church representatives would like to repeal. As Archbishop of Ferrara, he then had to experience how well-founded certain worries are when there was a sacrilegious Host robbery in a church there in 2017. "During these hours I lost peace," said Msgr. Negri at the time.
Construction and destruction
In the Archdiocese of Ferrara he promoted living orders and communities that are helping to rebuild the Church. These included the Franciscans of the Immaculate, whom his predecessor had already called to the city. Archbishop Negri promoted places of Mass in the traditional rite, where he himself took part in celebrations. He had the most important side chapel in his episcopal church rebuilt as such a place of measurement and in 2014 he canonically established the old ritual priestly brotherhood Familia Christi. In 2016, on the occasion of the 4th International Pilgrimage of Tradition ad Petri Sedem, he gave the sermon at the Pontifical Mass in St. Peter's Basilica.
What is from the pontificate of Benedict XVI, only a little is left, so much has already been removed from the episcopate of Monsignor Negri by his successor, including the chapel in the cathedral church for the celebration in the traditional Rite. The Society of Priests he founded was placed under temporary administration soon after his retirement from Rome and, with the consent of Pope Francis, smashed in 2020. At that time the brotherhood numbered seven priests and 13 seminarians. They met the same accusation that had already led to the provisional administration of the Franciscans of the Immaculate: the closeness to tradition and the traditional Rite. From the point of view of Santa Marta a further complicating factor was that the Familia Christi had given refuge to former members of the Franciscans of the Immaculate.
Bishop Luigi Negri with Pope Benedict XVI. during his visit to the Republic of San Marino.
“Hypothetical" bishops
Negri himself tried to bring down progressive Church districts prematurely after the election of Pope Francis. Italian media invented a kind of conspiracy that Negri had forged against Francis, or at least wished him dead. There was no early dismissal, but no sooner had Negri celebrated his 75th birthday, which according to canon law obliged him to offer his resignation to the Pope, than he was retired by Francis.
In 2018 he took stock of the situation in the Church with his book “Le sfide” (The Challenges). With the book he threw the gauntlet to many people in the Church, for he was a man of particularly fine manners, but not of soft tones. He thought it important to call things by their names where necessary. He wrote that in the Church today, by which he meant the pontificate of Francis, “a climate of confusion” and “a climate of retribution” prevails. There are bishops, especially in the German-speaking areas, who are only "hypothetically believers". He also attested the incumbent Superior General of the Jesuit Order having an "abyss of stupidity" because of his statements on the authenticity of the Gospel.
In 2014, Archbishop Negri made corrections to the perceptions about the Crusades at a lecture evening and demanded that “Christians should regain their fighting spirit”. The inclusion of the migrants by Pope Francis in the Lauretanian litany he criticized as "political correctness". In 2018 he described mass migration and its supporters as "destructive". In a 2017 interview, he expressed doubts about the official portrayal of Pope Benedict XVI's resignation. He pointed a finger at the then US President Barack Obama and spoke of "serious responsibility inside and outside the Vatican because of the resignation of Benedict XVI."
Extraordinary Episcopal figure
Archbishop Luigi Negri (1941-2021)
Since 2012 he has been one of the editors and sponsors of the Catholic online daily newspaper La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana (NBQ), which is headed by Riccardo Cascioli. Cascioli calls him "a great friend and supporter" in his New Year's obituary:
“He was an extraordinary bishop, a witness of the presence of Christ in a society that is impoverished and impoverished by his absence."
And further:
“If one sees it through the eyes of the world, it may seem paradoxical that the news of a friend's death comes just when one is about to go into church to sing the Te Deum. But from the point of view of faith, the moment is propitious to thank God more consciously for the gift of friendship from Monsignor Luigi Negri. Friend: that seems to me to be the word that best describes this extraordinary figure of a bishop who, in his friendship with Christ, which he learned in his long collaboration with Don Luigi Giussani, developed the ability to welcome everyone who met him met his path to accompany fatherly to Christ. "
“He also did the same with Bussola, a work that he has supported and accompanied from the beginning and for as long as his health allowed it. His reflections on the Church and society have shaped the path of our newspaper; he has guided us all to recognize providence in history, to read the news from the perspective of eternal life, the task of the Church in a time of great confusion among Shepherds and refocusing on the disorientation among believers. It is no coincidence that his episcopal role model was the 'Lion of Munster', the German bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen, who vigorously denounced the brutalization of morals by National Socialism and at the risk of his life and called for God's law. "
Suffice it to look at the articles Archbishop Negri wrote in the last years of his life to see the clarity of his judgment. Cascioli calls this judgment “a beacon in this fog that has settled over Church and society”. They are an instrument that helps "hold fast to the truth at a time when lies seem to triumph everywhere".
"His only concern was to lead us to Christ so that we might recognize him in the sometimes complicated events of our personal lives."
The "rotten fruits" and a discussion that was prevented
One of his last sensational acts was the defense of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò against criticism from unexpected quarters. In June 2020, the former nuncio in the USA called for an open and honest discussion to begin about the “rotten fruits” of the Second Vatican Council. Such, according to Viganò, has been prevented, delayed and postponed at great expense for over half a century. When he was attacked by Sandro Magister, the unofficial doyen of the Vaticanists, Archbishop Negri unequivocally stood behind Msgr. Viganò: "We are rallying around you".
In May 2020 he had already signed the sensational appeal against the Corona measures by a group of cardinals and Archbishop Viganò. In it, Catholics and all people of goodwill were warned that the coronavirus was serving as an excuse for certain circles to seek world domination. Since then there has been an avalanche of orchestrated attacks against the archbishop. Their orientation can be read in the Wikipedia entry on Archbishop Luigi Negri. Anyone who takes a different opinion on Corona inevitably ends up in the barrage of paid media mercenaries. Archbishop Negri had to experience this too. He would also want to make a report personally to Benedict XVI.
At the beginning of 2020 he had Benedict XVI. write a final letter asking him "for one last gesture of charity" so that I can see you and confide in you my confusion about the sad times in which we live ". On January 24th the receipt of the registered mail was confirmed in the Vatican. A reaction from Benedict XVI. is not known. The Archbishop's wish for a “last meeting” did not come true.
The traditional blog Messa in Latino wrote on the day of the Archbishop's death:
“The year ends with the just published news of the death of S. E. Msgr. Luigi Negri, Archbishop Emeritus of Ferrara and friend of tradition. The Catholic Church in Italy and elsewhere is losing one of its clearest heads, one of the few who are still able to think and speak against the current. "
Requiescat in pace.
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: NBQ / MiL
Trans: Tancred vekron@hotmail.com
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Death Rate Up Substantially for Working Age People Since Before Plandemic
(The Center Square) – The head of Indianapolis-based insurance company OneAmerica said the death rate is up a stunning 40% from pre-pandemic levels among working-age people.
“We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business – not just at OneAmerica,” the company’s CEO Scott Davison said during an online news conference this week. “The data is consistent across every player in that business.”
OneAmerica is a $100 billion insurance company that has had its headquarters in Indianapolis since 1877. The company has approximately 2,400 employees and sells life insurance, including group life insurance to employers in the state.
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Friday, December 31, 2021
Munich Police Stop Public Rosary
About 200 participants had to finish the public prayer and also blow out their candles.
Munich (Kath.net) The Munich police interrupted a rosary prayer in downtown Munich on Wednesday evening with around 200 participants. This was reported by a participant in the demonstration in a Telegram group. The participants had to end the peaceful prayer and also extinguish the candles [Oy veh, a fire hazard!] The police had previously announced on Twitter that meetings, gatherings and elevators that were not displayed in the urban area and related to the measures to protect against infection were prohibited. "The offense constitutes an administrative offense," wrote the police. According to media reports, the police had threatened people with massive fines if they took part in unauthorized meetings, the talk is of fines of up to 3,000 euros.
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Jews Mad About Dolfuß Admiring Austrian Leader
Edit: don’t apologize, it makes you look weak. Don’t be like Holy Steve! Of course the journalist doesn’t like Dolfuß, the saintly Austrian steward of the kingdom on the Danube. Karner has cravenly offered to “rework” the museum featuring Dolfuß to satisfy his Jewish masters.
Finally, was anything the Austrian craven said about Israel and the United States poisoning the environment substantially wrong?
Pfizer’s Jewish developer, whose family were Sephardic Jews from Thessaloniki, Greece, is helping his evil company make billions on the deadly klot shot, which is killing many and sickening many others. What a cohencidence!
BERLIN (AP) — A Nobel laureate in literature, Jewish students and other prominent figures in Austria want the country’s new interior minister removed from office because of allegedly antisemitic comments he made during a regional election campaign more than a decade ago.
Gerhard Karner, who became interior minister a week ago when predecessor Karl Nehammer became Austria’s new chancellor, said Monday that he regrets what he said and wouldn’t say it now, but he rejected allegations of antisemitism.
According to a report in German news weekly Der Spiegel, the conservative Karner once accused Austria’s center-left Social Democrats of working “against the country with gentlemen from America and Israel,” and described them as “climate poisoners.”
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Tuesday, December 28, 2021
The Blood of the Faithful is Europe’s New Hope
The blood of the faithful is the hope for a new Europe.
From Arduinus Rex *
"Blessed are you when you are insulted and persecuted and slandered in all possible ways for my sake" (Mt 5:11).
In the difficult days of the recent history of the Archdiocese of Paris, when Archbishop Michel Aupetit renounced the office of diocesan bishop, the Holy See decided on November 25th to recognize the martyrdom in odium fidei of five priests during the time of the so-called Paris Commune.
The uprising, which raged from March 18 to May 28, 1871 in the French capital and became known as “La Commune de Paris”, wanted to implement a form of government and a social program that was independent of the French Republic and that was based on rationalism and libertarian socialism. The Communards were obsessed with the idea that the Catholic religion must be suppressed in order to overthrow the old regime and establish a new form of society. They immediately unleashed violence and persecution against the Church, ransacked many places of worship and imprisoned hundreds of clergy and religious. When the regular French army besieged Paris on May 21st, the Communards committed atrocities known as “Semaine sanglante” or “Bloody Week”. In those days the leaders of the insurrection carried out their plan to execute those whom they considered to be opponents. Among the victims who died out of love for Christ and His Church were a priest of the Institute of Religieux de Saint Vincent de Paul (Religious of Saint Vincent de Paul), Henri Planchat, and four priests of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and the Eternal Adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar (Arnstein Fathers). They were killed on May 26, 1871, with gunfire and edged weapons.
P. Henri Planchat
Mathieu Henri Planchat was born on November 8, 1823 in La Roche-sur-Yon in the Vendée and spent a truly pious childhood and youth, first in his hometown, then in Chartres and Lille, where his father, a judge, was transferred. In 1837 the boy was accepted as a boarding school student at the Collège Stanislas in Paris. He stayed there for three years and then continued his studies at the Collège de l’Immaculée-Conception of Abbé Ferdinand-Marie Poiloup in Vaugirard (then a suburb of Paris). The years he spent in Vaugirard were decisive for the further course of his life. He got to know the Vincent Conferences, was convinced of their idea and turned to them with great enthusiasm. In his free time he devoted himself to the poor in the neighborhood. He looked after the people's library set up by the parish conference, looked after the children in the schools, and spent Sundays in the patronage that the brothers of St. Vincent de Paul (today: Religious of St. Vincent de Paul) recently opened on Rue du Regard and took care of the apprentices. And every Sunday the young man ended the day in prayer at the feet of Our Lady of Victory.
Planchat had a bright future ahead of him, assured by his father's reputation, wealth, family connections, exceptional intelligence and brilliant law degree. In his soul, however, the vocation as a priest grew and the desire to place himself entirely at the service of the simplest people in the institute of the brothers of St. Vincent de Paul, whom he had met in Vaugirard. Once qualified as a lawyer, he entered the Issy seminary. The young seminarian made no secret of the fact that he was interested in the apostolate in the lower classes. To some of his companions it seemed impossible that a young man with the path to a brilliant ecclesiastical career open to him could dream of such a humble ideal. Still less did they understand how he could be satisfied with a completely unadorned cell and a very modest outward appearance. But Henri gave them an answer that betrayed the spirit with which he prepared himself for the priesthood: “Ce n'est pas à ceux qui ont de belles pendules et de beaux tapis dans leurs appartements que l'on va se confesser, quand on veut se convertir ". (You don't go to confession because you have beautiful clocks and luxurious carpets in your apartment, but when you want to convert).
Ordained a priest on December 21, 1850, he introduced himself three days later to Jean-Léon Le Prevost, former official of the ministry of culture and President of the Saint-Sulpice parish, superior of the small community of the Brothers of Saint Vincent de Paul. which he founded together with Clément Myionnet, Maurice Maignen and Louis Paillé. He was the first priest to be accepted into the young congregation. From then on, his whole life was to be a constant act of sacrifice, terrible and magnificent at the same time, for those people whom he loved so much and from whom his executioners would also emerge.
And so he walked day and night through the streets of Grenelle, a suburb of Paris, where an indifferent, religiously self-forgotten and sometimes a working-class population lived that was hostile to Christ and Church. The “soul hunter”, with his pockets full of medals, pictures and good books, set out to discover this world. He penetrated every alley, went into the most disreputable corners, entered the dirtiest huts and the most polluted slums. He also did not shrink from insults and threats. On the contrary, they were sometimes an opportunity to have a conversation that ended in confession. In a short time everyone got used to the fact that this priest tirelessly walked the streets of the neighborhood and entered every house. Something changed. Soon everyone began to come to him to confide in him their worries and needs, without being afraid to open their hearts laden with misery and suffering. He went to everyone and brought them the comfort and help they had hoped for. From the first months the results were admirable: high-profile conversions, people returning to the Christian faith, conversions in the face of death, legalization of civil marriage through sacramental marriages (up to five hundred per year). Such an intense apostolate could not prevent Planchat from deteriorating in health. After a year he got sick and had excruciating nerve pain. A stay of several months in Italy enabled him to regain the strength to continue his service. In April 1853 he returned to Grenelle, recovered. He resumed his apostolate with renewed zeal.
On one of his apostolic trips he happened upon a laundry. The sight of the priest, and a priest so poor-looking at that, shocked the workers, who treated him with sarcasm. Without getting excited, Planchat entered the premises, handed out medals, pictures and rosaries to everyone and gave a little speech that shook all those present deeply. When he was about to leave, the lady of the house joined him and with tears in her eyes asked him to accept a gift for a Mass for their concerns and those of the workers.
One evening he went to the house of a dying man who was far from God. Despite his best efforts, he could not bring the sick man closer to the Savior. Rather, he was chased away with insults and threats. But the good priest did not want to abandon this soul. He went down into the street, saw a curb not far away and, in spite of the icy wind that was blowing relentlessly, sat on it and began to say the rosary. The hours passed and Planchat continued to pray the rosary. At midnight he was still there praying for the poor dying man. A woman ran out of the house and begged him to go up to the sick man at once. The priest came in time to take his confession, give him the final unction and take his last breath
It was winter and Father Planchat had gone to the end of the Issy Plains to help a dying woman. It was snowing, it was after midnight, and he had not come home yet. His confreres were already restless. Finally Planchat appeared covered with snow and half frozen to death. He wasn't alone. He had picked up a soldier who had lost his way on the plain and a homeless man in the street.
On another winter night the porter Planchat was surprised how he tried to enter the house unnoticed. He walked at a pace that was not his usual. When the porter asked: “What are you wearing on your feet, Reverend?” He replied: “Nothing, nothing” and tried to make himself smaller. But the attentive porter looked at him more closely and was amazed. Planchat was without shoes. His socks were wet and icy. He apologized.
“I gave it to a poor man on the Esplanade des Invalides who had none. What can I say? He was older than me. "
Many other anecdotes could be told about him, examples of heroic charity. Just think of how at the outbreak of war he organized a wonderful service of spiritual and material help for the soldiers and how he went with the Abbé de Broglie on the battlefield to bring the fighters the facilities of the sacraments and spiritual service. In order to get an idea of his apostolic work, it should be remembered that in the Patronage of Saint-Anne alone, from July to December 1870, in addition to his usual apostolate among the young and poor in the area, he received four thousand soldiers, confessed and received them gave them Communion. In the following February it would be eight thousand!
Ladislas Radigue was born on May 8, 1823 in Saint-Patrice-du-Désert, took the habit of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts and made perpetual vows on March 7, 1845. He was ordained a priest on April 22, 1848. For twenty years he was novice master, then vicar general of the congregation and finally superior of the motherhouse in the Paris district of Picpus.
Polycarpe Tuffier was born on March 14, 1807 in Le Malzieu. During his youth he studied at the College of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts, where he received his calling. On May 14, 1823, he resigned from his religious profession. He was ordained a priest in 1830 and worked as a pastor, chaplain of the sisters of the order and in various cities as superior of the respective college. Eventually he became procurator and general councilor of the congregation. He was distinguished by the depth of his sermons.
Marcellin Rouchouze was born on December 14, 1810 in Saint-Julien-en-Jarez. He placed his religious vows on February 2, 1837 in the hands of the Servant of God Marie Joseph Coudrin, founder of the Congregation of Sacred Hearts. He was sent to Belgian colleges of the Congregation as a teacher of Latin, mathematics and philosophy. Although he considered himself unworthy of the priesthood out of modesty, he was ordained a priest on June 5, 1852, at the age of 42, for the good of souls. A man of calm character and pure heart, he was called to Paris as General Secretary of the Congregation.
Frézal Tardieu was born in Chasseradès on November 18, 1814 and professed on April 6, 1839 in the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts. He was ordained a priest in 1840. After being master of novices in Vaugirard, Leuven, Belgium, and Issy, he moved to Paris as General Councilor of the Congregation, where he continued to teach dogmatic theology. Gifted with an excellent intellect, he repeatedly showed extraordinary charity.
Martyrdom was recognized by five victims in odium fidei of the Paris Commune.
Father Planchat was arrested on April 6, 1871, Maundy Thursday. On April 12 of the same year, a Wednesday in the octave of Easter, the Communards broke into the motherhouse of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart, stole the precious cult objects, desecrated the Most Holy Sarament of the altar and chained the other four servants of God. All five remained in solitary confinement in Mazas Prison for forty days and were then transferred with many other priests to the prison for convicted prisoners in La Grande Roquette. On May 26th, they were taken from prison by the mob and soldiers who were inspired by the odium fidei, and the massacre began in a villa on Rue Haxo. The priests were killed and their corpses desecrated.
Before they were arrested, the religious priests were aware of the danger. Although they could have escaped, they stayed in Paris to carry out their priestly duties. Planchat, who had been warned of his probable imprisonment, also stayed at his post to take confession from the faithful in anticipation of Easter. As far as possible, they also made confession while they were in captivity and gave absolution. They even managed to receive Holy Communion, which pious women secretly brought them.
Their fame as a martyrs spread immediately after they were murdered and has persisted over the years to this day. For this reason, the beatification or the recognition of their martyrdom was initiated. A first informative process took place from March 8, 1897 to August 8, 1900 at the ecclesiastical curia in Paris. The diocesan inquiry took place from October 29, 2015 to May 4, 2016. On October 27, 2016, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints issued the decree on the validity of the process. After the elaboration, the position was presented to the historians among the consultors for assessment on October 20, 2020. It was then discussed in accordance with the usual canonical procedure whether the servants of God were really martyrs. On May 11, 2021, the theologians among the consultors gave their approval. The cardinals and bishops of the Congregation, who met for an ordinary session on October 19th, recognized that the servants of God had been slain for their faithfulness to Christ and the Church.
Cardinal Prefect Marcello Semeraro reported the result of these steps to Pope Francis. The Pope accepted the vote of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and ordered that the decree be published and included in the official pronouncements of the Congregation and thus become legally valid.
* Arduinus Rex, a pseudonym after King Arduin of Italy, a nephew of Berengar II, related to the Franconian Unruochingers and Widonen, writes for the traditional online publication Europa Cristiana, founded and directed by the lawyer Carlo Manetti and the historian Cristina Siccardi.
Translation: Giuseppe Nardi
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