Germany set for a soft schism. While the Pope watches
The 10th of May has arrived, tension has already mounted around the dreaded German schism, and appeals to Rome to intervene and curb the schismatic drift have multiplied. But the notion of schism today is not really clear because of the role of the Pope, the doctrinal competence of the Bishops' Conferences and the widespread crypto-schismatic situation. The feeling is that nothing will happen, misunderstandings will continue and schismatic practices will be implemented. Just like a crime with no culprits.
Eating blood, a taboo broken in the 19th century
For a long time even in Christianity, the heir to Judaism, it was forbidden to eat food containing blood. It was only 150 years ago that foods containing blood began to be tolerated. In fact, Christians neither knew nor practised forms of food deprivation/exclusion for religious purposes.
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Northern Ireland, the legacy of Bobby Sands
Bobby Sands, a young Irish Catholic that joined the IRA in 1972, died as a hunger-striker just 40 years ago protesting against Britain’s rule in Northern Ireland. Also pope John Paul II tried unsuccessfully to intervene to end the hunger strike.
Mass banned, what happened to "Catholic" Ireland?
Ireland will be allowed to celebrate Mass again from May 10, that is after the total closure of all churches for seven months, including sanctions for "rebel" priests. It’s a unique case in Europe, which combines a contemptuous government and submissive bishops. This is the story of what happened.
Having children is environmental vandalism. The lesson of Vogue
Is bringing a child into the world environmental vandalism? Yes, if they are born into the current lifestyle. The only ecologically responsible way to have a child is to instruct it from the outset not to consume and to overturn the current political-economic system of the West. The fashion influencer’s lesson explains what really constitutes ecological conversion.
Experimental vaccines or cures? The enigma of the EU Regulation
Vaccines may only be used on an experimental basis if there are no alternative treatments. If there are valid cures, the Committee must revoke the authorisation. An article in the 2006 EU Regulation sheds light on the subject of Covid treatment and could explain the Ministry’s obstinacy in not reforming the home treatment protocol. All this while the rejection of the old low-cost drugs continues, and hopes for a new drug, Molnupiravir, by Pfizer coincidentally, are emphasised.
Vatican in the pocket of the contraception industry
The Fifth International Vatican Conference (6-8 May 2021) on the theme of human health has already caused quite a stir. This is so because of the invited speakers (many linked to the Covid vaccine business) and its main advertising graphic, an image seen as a veritable manifestation of practical atheism. Yet, there is an even more disturbing aspect: the main funder of the conference is the John Templeton Foundation which is committed to the spread of contraception and is specialised in involving religious organisations in its birth control campaigns. Pfizer, which will also be represented at the conference, is the manufacturer of injectable contraceptives with long-term side-effects, the cause of many disasters in developing countries. All this is going on while a Motu Proprio signed by Benedict XVI forbade such intermingling.
Pro-vax Vatican creates a kit to indoctrinate priests and the faithful
The Church subjugated to vaccinism trots out, through the Dicastery of Cardinal Turkson, a kit on anti-Covid vaccines to transform the ambons of our churches into places of vaccinist propaganda, providing guidance for homilies, in order to turn every priest into an official of the Super-Ministry of Health, to put themselves at the service of the main political ideology of the moment and present it as evangelical. The kit, truly embarrassing in its clichés, exposes a sycophantic Church that spouts about things it doesn’t know and panders to those in charge. Alas!
Fiacre, king’s son and patron saint of horticulturists and gardeners
Saint Fiacre lived in the 7th century. He was born into a noble family, yet disdained wealth and was attracted to monastic life. He had an extensive knowledge of medicinal herbs, but in the monastery, he also developed the cultivation of the land and especially fruit trees. He fed the undernourished poor with the monastery’s fruit and vegetables.
No more Justice and Peace in the Vatican
The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace has not only been absorbed by the new Dicastery for Integral Human Development, but its legacy has been erased altogether. What used to be a feather in John Paul II's cap for promoting the Church's social doctrine has been transformed into a sort of welfare advocacy.
