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Clinton removes Defense Sec. As Emergency Czar & appoints Reno
In an ominous statement of his future intentions, President Clinton has removed the Secretary of Defense as the person who would be in charge in case of an emergency in the nation. Attorney General Reno has been appointed to replace the Defense Secretary who is a Republican. Reno
=s appointment will take effect Oct. 1,2000. In case Clinton wants to stay in power, he can declare an emergency and seize total control of all key points of the nation. The following executive orders show the powers Clinton will have if he declares an emergency. Congress would have no power to stop him.
Orders of Seizure
Some Executive Orders (EO) recorded in the Federal Register and accepted by Congress as the law of the land. These can be mobilized by Pres. Clinton with nothing but his signature.EO #10955 by Pres. Kennedy. Empowers the federal government to seize all communications media including radio and television stations, newspapers, magazines, CB, Ham, short wave, telephones, satellite systems and the Internet. The first amendment would be suspended. Freedom of speech and religion would not be permitted.
EO #10997. Seizure of all electrical power, fuels, including gasoline and materials.
EO#10998. Seizure of all food resources, farms and farm equipment. Anti-food hoarding regulations would go into effect, all food resources to be under control of Secretary of Agriculture who could ration food.
EO#10999. Seizure of all kinds of transportation, including your personal car and control of all highways, seaports, waterways, railways, airports and public storage facilities, empowering the Secretary of Commerce with full jurisdiction.
EO #11000: Seizure of all civilians for work under Federal supervision of the Secretary of Labor, including involuntary location of workers without regard to payment or reimbursement. (The Defense Production Act of 1950, Section 2153 of War and National Defense.)
EO #11001: Federal takeover of all health, education, and welfare, including Catholic hospitals and schools and pharmaceuticals.
EO# 11002: Postmaster General empowered to register every man, woman and child in the U.S.A.
EO #11003: Seizure of all aircraft and airports by the Federal Government.
EO #11004: Housing and finance authority may shift population from one locality to another. Housing could be seized.
EO #11005: Seizure of railroads, inland waterways, and storage facilities.
EO #11051: The Director of the Office of Emergency Planning authorized to put Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tension or financial crisis. He is also to perform such additional functions as the President may direct.
EO #11490: Presidential control over all U.S. citizens and businesses including churches in times of emergency.
EO #11921: The Government would seize control over education, welfare, mechanisms of production and distribution, energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institutions and impose total censorship.
EO: #13010: Directs FEMA to take control over all government agencies in time of emergency.
An Executive Order is issued by the President and appears in the Federal Register for 30 days. If there is no challenge by Congress, the order then becomes law.
Sister Lucy was asked in 1946 if communism would one day rule in America. She said:
AYes@. That day may be at hand as Clinton who has many communist links has prepared the scene for a complete communist takeover by issuing many executive orders and combining the old orders into one big order EO #12919.Howard J. Ruff, economist and publisher of The Ruff Times stated:
ASince the enactment of EO #12919, the only thing standing between us and dictatorship is the good character of the President, and the lack of a crisis severe enough that the world would stand still for it.@Clinton has stated to friends that he will not leave office. They asked him how he could stay in office. Clinton said:
AStart a world war@.Hezbollah Muslim fighters are now at the Lebanon-Israel border due to the withdrawal of Israeli and Lebanese Christian forces from the buffer zone in southern Israel. Syrian officials have said that war with Israel is inevitable. All Muslim foreign ministers recently met in Cairo to decide what to do about the Israeli problem. Clinton can meddle in this area and easily start a serious war to keep him in office as he declares a national emergency and rules by decree in union with the emergency czar, Janet Reno, a reputed lesbian as is Hillary Rodham Clinton (Secret Service agent fired by Hillary reported that she is a lesbian.) Another lesbian cabinet member hired by Hillary is Donna Shalala, a pro-abortion Catholic who is head of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW).
Prophecy of Lourdes for 2000
The last prophecy #5 of Lourdes (1858) to St. Bernadette Soubirous (1844-1879) found in the Vatican Archives about 1978 is the longest of all, and has the following wording:A
Your Holiness, the Blessed Virgin said to me that with the end of the twentieth century, it will also be the end of the age of sciences. A new age of the faith will begin everywhere in the world. In the end proof will be given that it is God Who has created man. This will be the beginning of the end for science. Millions will return to Christ, and the power of the Church will grow as strong as never before.A
The reason why many will turn their back on scientists can be found in the arrogance of doctors who use their knowledge to create a monster. Those doctors will use their ability, in order to create a creature from the substance of an animal; such creature is neither man nor animal. People will know in their innermost depth of their hearts that it is wrong. However, they will be powerless to prevent the creation of such beings. At the end, they will hunt the scientists just as one hunts rapacious wolves.A
Prior to the end of 2000, there will be a final collision between the followers of Mohammed and the Christian nations. A terrible battle will take place in which 5,650,451 soldiers will lose their lives, and a bomb of great power will be dropped on a city in Persia (Teheran, Iran?). But, at the end Athe Sign of the Cross@ will be victorious, and all nations will convert to the Christian Faith.A
Thereupon, a century of peace and joy will follow, for all nations will lay down their arms. Much wealth will be given, and Our Lord will pour out His Blessing upon the faithful. Not one single family in the whole world will be poor, or suffer from hunger. Every tenth person will be given the gift from God to cure the illnesses of those who ask for help. Many will rejoice thanks to these miracles. The 21st century will become known as the ASecond Golden Age of Mankind.@
Catholic World News
JERUSALEM-For the first time in 60 years, almost all of the leaders of the world=s Orthodox Churches gathered for a synod in the Holy Land, meeting in the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem.The 14 patriarchs, all of the church leaders less the leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church who was ill, discussed church history and a transition to the future, but passed no resolutions in the two-hour meeting. Greek Orthodox Patriarch Diodoros I of Jerusalem asked his colleagues to work for the stability of their churches and unity among them, despite rivalries that plague the churches.
The biggest dispute is over the role of the Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew, whose recent efforts to unify Orthodoxy under his title as Ecumenical Patriarch has been dubbed
Aneo-papism.@ The patriarch has also been criticized for his close ties with Pope John Paul II. The authority of the pope, as Bishop of Rome, was one of the primary reasons for the split between the Eastern Churches and the Latin Church in 1054 A.D.Later, all 15 Orthodox Patriarchs gathered for a midnight liturgy to celebrate Christmas. The patriarchs were joined by Palestinian and Jordanian choirs, singing hymns and dozens of Orthodox priests. Other dignitaries included former Russian President Boris Yeltsin and the President of Georgia, Severdnaze who was a former Soviet Foreign Minister.
ANN ARBOR, Michigan- A new survey says fewer Americans are attending church, but the rate is still higher in the US than in other developed countries.
The University of Michigan
=s Institute for Social Research said it found that 55 percent of Americans reported attending church at least monthly in 1998. Sixty percent said they attended monthly in 1981.The institute said attendance has been increasing in Great Britain and five of the seven ex-Communist nations surveyed, but it is falling in Switzerland, Spain, and Australia.
When asked about how frequently they pondered the meaning of life, 46 percent of Americans replied
Aoften,@ second only to East Germans at 47 percent. Twenty-six of 37 countries showed gains in this area, including Australia, South Korea, Italy, the Netherlands, and West Germany which rose by 10 percent. East and West Germany were counted separately in the 1981 poll and were counted separately in the 1990 and 1998 surveys.VATICAN-Pope John Paul II met on January 21 with judges from the Vatican
=s canonical courts, and urged them not to accept theories that undermine the teachings of the Church regarding the indissolubility of marriage.Each year the Pontiff meets with the members of the Roman Rota at the start of their judicial year. This year, the Pope warned the canonists against
Acertain opinions which have sprung up in the domain of theological and canonical research.@ These opinions, he said, cast a shadow over the indissoluble character of Christian marriage. He insisted that a Christian marriage cannot be declared null simply because it was contracted in a society that accepts divorce.The Church may, after careful examination in an ecclesiastical court, declare the
Anullity@ of a marriage, the Pope said. In other words, the Church court may find that a valid Christian marriage never took place. However, such a declaration does not undermine the essential principle that a valid Christian marriage cannot be dissolved---@even if the prevailing mentality in the society in which we live has trouble accepting this fact.@Pursuing the topic further, the Holy Father told the Vatican judges that a marriage cannot be annulled simply because the two parties were affected by the prevailing attitudes of the surrounding society. Specifically, he continued, even if a couple enters marriage without a clear intention of remaining married for life, that lack of conviction is not, by itself, sufficient grounds for an annulment. The marriage can be declared null only if the couple actually denied the principle of indissolubility, and that attitude affected their decision to marry. The Pope pointed out that what he was saying was a direct contradiction of
Aa presumption that has sometimes, unfortunately, been formulated by some tribunals.@The Pope stressed that the Church does not have the power to dissolve Christian marriages.
AA sacramental marriage which has been celebrated and consummated can never be dissolved even by the power of the Roman Pontiff,@ he said. He underlined the importance of upholding Church teaching, particularly at a time when society in general disregards the permanence of marital bonds. Ed. Bishops of the Church in the USA are notorious for dissolving marriages for frivolous reasons making a total mockery of the Sacrament of Marriage.ATHENS-The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church said in an interview with a Greek magazine released Feb. 14 that the Catholic Church is hurting efforts at healing the thousand year rift between East and West by failing to condemn proselytism in former Communist nations.
Patriarch Aleksei II told Religions Info magazine that the Vatican has reneged on a promise to reduce support for Eastern-rite churches
C which have liturgies and traditions similar to Orthodox churchesC that aggressively seek out members in the former Eastern bloc where Orthodox are in the majority. AThis entire situation has blackened our relations with the Roman Catholic Church, he said. AReligions must come into contact with each other, but not fight for occupation and dominance.@As the leader of the largest Orthodox Church, Patriarch Aleksei would be instrumental in any ecumenical efforts to heal the Great Schism of 1054, but he has been the most reluctant Orthodox leader in pursuing dialogue.
The patriarch also challenged the centuries-old structure that declares the Patriarch of Constantinople as the ecumenical patriarch, the
Afirst among equals@ of the 16 Orthodox churches. He said there is not a Atheological problem@ with the theory of making Russia a second pole of leadership.LONDON--The newly appointed Archbishop of Westminster has called for an end to the law which bars the heir to the British throne from marrying a Catholic. Prince William
=s uncle and grandmother are Catholics.Speaking on BBC television
=s breakfast show yesterday, Bishop Cormac Murphy-O=Connor said he hoped to continue the work of his predecessor Cardinal Basil Hume which has given the Catholic community a higher profile in British life.He said:
AI think that, inasmuch as the Catholic community is part of this country, there is a strong part of me that would say that an heir to the crown should be free to marry whoever he wishes, whatever denomination, and there must be freedom here. I think that this is a question that needs to be looked at.@There is a great effort to disestablish the state church and the Queen as head of the state church and to permit a Catholic sovereign but Prime Minister Tony Blair said it would take a great effort to make the change as the Anglican church is so entangled in the sovereign
=s role as governor of the Anglican church.Bishop Murphy-O
=Connor said that, while he was Acompassionate@ to people who got into difficulties in life, he upheld the Vatican=s teaching on contraception, priestly celibacy, and abortion which was Aalways an evil.@
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BELGOROD, Russia--Father Krzysztof Kempa, pastor of Belgorod Catholic parish said the authorities do not want to register the parish or even accept the relevant documents from them because they are afraid the Catholic community will demand the return of their church building that the authorities transferred to the ownership of the Orthodox Church
=s Moscow Patriarchate=s Belgorod diocese. Metropolitan Ioann Popov had publicly demanded that the existence of a Catholic parish be forbidden. The Catholic pastor was arrested in 1998 after an outdoor Mass in front of the Catholic church building and was accused of organizing unauthorized meetings. The government said that they cannot return the church until the Orthodox church agrees Aas it is our traditional church and we must help it so that the West does not fill the spiritual vacuum, since the idea of the separation of Church and state is in fact a sham.@LONDON-
-One thousand British churches of all denominations have begun a door to door campaign giving out a free 80-minute video of the life of Jesus based on St. Luke=s Gospel.Catholic, Anglican, Baptist, and Methodist churches have already distributed 230,000 videos as part of the project spearheaded by the evangelical organization, Agape. They then return a week later to ask if people have watched the video and if they have any questions.
George Hyder, of the London City Mission told the Daily Telegraph:
APeople do not know the story of Jesus any more. By giving them this video we take them to the first stage. We do not see it as a direct link to getting them in church.@A
What matters is that we as a Church are coming out of our four walls and reaching people,@ he continued. AIf we asked people to come to church and sit on a hard piece of wood and listen to an 80-minute sermon we would get nowhere. We are not expecting the video to bring immediate conversions, but we are sowing seeds.@TORONTO
C The United Nations Human Rights Commission thru Fausto Pocar has summoned the Canadian ambassador to give account for Ontario=s refusal to fund religious schools in the province other than Catholic schools.Last November a UN Human Rights tribunal ruled that Ontario
=s funding of only Catholic schools put Canada in violation of the 1976 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.While even the Canadian Catholic Bishops supported the idea of the province funding other religious schools, the province refused, claiming such action would harm public education. The federal government wrote the UN saying that education is wholly a provincial matter and that the UN had no control.
JAKARTA--The curriculum in Catholic schools in Indonesia will not include Islamic instruction, the Indonesian Catholic Bishops Conference said, rejecting government pressure in the most populous Muslim nation in the world. Government officials have threatened to remove some government-subsidized teachers from Christian schools and to put bureaucratic pressure on diverse services for these schools which have 40 percent Muslim students.
VATICAN--The worldwide crisis of clerical vocations has ended, according to the prefect of the Vatican
=s Congregation for the Clergy.Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos reported that there are now 109,828 seminarians preparing for the priesthood around the world
C a slight increase over the 108,517 in 1997, and an enormous increase from the 60,142 in 1975.The cardinal also observed that today
=s seminarians are somewhat older than their counterparts of a generation ago. Many have completed undergraduate education, and quite a few have gained some experience in professional life before entering the seminary.There were 404,626 priests serving the Catholic Church in 1999. Cardianl Castrillon Hoyos noted that 9,551 priests of 49,237 have returned to their ministry after having abandoned the priesthood between 1970-1995. 6,811 are European, 2,382 in Asia and 216 in North America, Latin America (84), Africa (51) and Oceania (7). And the number of defections from priestly life is falling; the cardinal pointed out that in 1975 there were 3,314 men who left the priesthood; in 1997 there were 1,006.
In nearly every case, the priest
=s return follows the same pattern: first he begins to pray the Breviary each day once again, and then after a period of time he seeks out a bishop and applies for reinstatement. That process requires the approval of the Vatican which has set up an organized system to handle such requests.Returning priests are also required to spend at least one year in a priestly community under the spiritual direction of an older priest. And they are also required to study for the priesthood once again.
Pope
=s assassins ready to strike again After Pope John Paul II was gunned down in a brutal assassination attempt, it has been revealed that his would-be killer is part of a vast conspiracy that still has the Pontiff as a target.Furthermore, a book, In God
=s Name by D. Yallop (Bantam) charges that the same group of people murdered John Paul I because he had discovered their crimes.Yallop took his cue from French author Roger Peyerfitte
=s book, The Red Cassock.Peyerfitte claims that highly-placed Vatican insiders told him that John Paul I died from an injection of a drug that caused his heart to fail.
The Bayside, New York visions of May 21, 1983 agree. The blessed Virgin Mary stated:
AWe will go back, my child, in history, short history, and remember well what had happened in Rome to John, Pope John, whose reign lasted 33 days. O my child, it is history now, but it is placed in the book that lists the disasters to mankind. He received the horror and martyrdom by drinking from a glass. It was a champagne glass given to him by a now deceased member of the clergy and the secretariat of the state.@ Roses From Heaven, Vol. II, page 384.Amazingly, 18 months after Mehmet Ali Agca, a 24-year-old Turkish terrorist, made his attempt on John Paul II
=s life, he revealed that he had been paid by the same arms-smuggling ring investigated by John Paul I.And the organization still exerts tremendous influence in Italy.
Sources close to the center of power in the Vatican revealed to Peyerfitte that a cardinal, a bishop and an underworld hood murdered John Paul I.
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The cardinal was then poisoned by a prelate who had trained with the Russian secret service,@ the author adds. The Patriarch of Moscow died in the arms of John Paul I so perhaps he was also poisoned by the Russian trained prelate.Investigations following the assassination attempt on John Paul II revealed that Acga was controlled by Soviet agents operating out of the Bulgarian consulate in Rome who had hoped to de-stabilize the Church and smuggle Agca out of Rome.
John Paul I was reportedly aware that his life was in danger because he had amassed too much knowledge about a powerful Masonic society during investigations he conducted while still a cardinal.
He uncovered a web of international intrigue involving more than $1 billion in Vatican funds, a massive arms-smuggling ring, and the possibility of a coup in Italy.
The evidence he accumulated disappeared following his death, and the conspirators are said to fear that its now in the hands of John Paul II.
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The tentacles reach everywhere,@ a police source says. AThere is no telling when they might strike again.@
Author who says Pope was murdered reveals evidence to back claim
The author of the 1984 book that charges Pope John Paul I was murdered has revealed the shocking evidence behind his bombshell accusations.David Yallop, author of the explosive book, In God
=s Name, charges that the Vatican=s official account of the pontiff=s death was very different from the story provided him by John Paul=s devoted attendant, Sister Vincenza.The Vatican says the Pope
=s body was discovered by his private secretary, Father Diego Lorenzi at 5:30 a.m. on Sept. 29, 1978--only 33 days into his reign as head of the Catholic Church.Sister Vincenza insists in taped interviews with Yallop that she found the pontiff dead 45 minutes earlier.
Then there is the matter of papers which the Sister says the Pope was clutching in his hands at the time of death. The Vatican disclaims any knowledge of papers being found on the pontiff.
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Those papers contained the names of top Vatican figures to be dismissed or removed,@ says Yallop.It was a blacklist of people involved in the sinister
AP2" Masonic Lodge which was laundering money through the Vatican Bank, claims Yallop.On the day of John Paul
=s death, Sister Vincenza told Yallop she knocked on his door at 4:30 a.m.A
I brought him his coffee as usual, and called out my greeting: >Good morning, Holy Father,= @ she recalls.A
There was no reply. I went away, a little concerned, and came back a quarter of an hour later. The coffee was untouched. I knew something was wrong.A
I said a prayer, and listened by the bedroom door, knocking again until I was banging heavily to wake the Holy Father.A
Then I opened the bedroom door, and my heart stopped. The Holy Father was sitting in his bed, wearing his glasses, and he had sheets of paper in his hands.A
His head was turned to the right, and his lips were parted, as if baring his teeth, in an expression of agony.A
I felt his pulse, and prayed again. The Holy Father was dead.@Yallop insists the incriminating papers were removed from the dead Pope
=s hands, and his favorite book, The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A. Kempis was substituted. AI have established beyond a doubt that the book was not in the papal apartment before he died,@ says Yallop.A
It had been returned to another part of the Vatican by Father Lorenzi.A
The Vatican got their story together very badly. Since then, they have tried to solve their problems by giving themselves a gift of clairvoyancy.A
They have criticized my book before seeing it, just as they used clairvoyancy when morticians were called to embalm the Pope.A
They were, according to the Vatican, called in at 5 a.m.--half an hour before he officially died.A
It was panic in the wake of murder,@ Yallop maintains.He added that the Vatican officially said the Pope died of a heart attack, but made the announcement without benefit of an autopsy--even though John Paul was in perfect health before his death.
The author charges that the man behind the murder is Licio Gelli.
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He was the main conspirator. I know where he is hiding in South America,@ says Yallop.A
I wanted to approach him personally, but was warned off. I was told I would be shot before I got within a mile of his ranch near Montevideo, Uruguay.Yallop says Gelli is the head of
AP2" Masonic Lodge. The Vatican became involved with the powerful group through banking, the author claims.A
With the controls that existed at the time, the safest way to launder money was to bring it into the Vatican City in suitcases and deposit it with the Vatican Bank,@ he says.Banco Ambrosiano, a large Roman institution and its president Roberto Calvi became heavily involved, as did the crooked financier Michele Sindona, who was in prison in Africa, claims Wallop.
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Paul Marcinkus, head of the Vatican Bank and originally from Chicago, was also on the blacklist held by the Pope,@ he says. Marcinkus did not live in the Vatican but was seeking entrance at the Vatican gates at 5 a.m. on the morning of the Pope=s body being found.A
So was the late John Cardinal Cody of Chicago. Jean Cardinal Villot, the Vatican secretary of state, knew about the pontiff=s blacklist, because he was on it himself, and I accuse him of perverting the course of justice when the Pope died.@So, as it was, says Yallop, there were many people anxious about their future when John Paul I was elected Pope---and many people with the motivation to have him killed. Star, July 3, 1984 by John Lisners.
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Williamsburg, Virginia--The founder of the Christian Coalition said he supports a moratorium on the death penalty because it isn=t always applied fairly. 21 persons on Florida=s death row have been released in 2 decades because they were found innocent.Washington--An Israeli spy agency has been caught using highly-advanced technology to tap right into White House and State Department phone and modem communications, transferring them directly to eavesdroppers in Tel Aviv, the country=s capital. A well-researched story by two well-known investigative writers, J. Michael Waller and Paul M. Rodriguez, reported in Insight magazine that the FBI is tracking the spying.
Catholics voting for abortionists
In the 1998 election in New York state, 47% of Catholics voted for pro-abortion Charles Schumer who is an ordained rabbi. The opponent was Senator Alphonse D=Amato who is pro-life. This clearly shows the almost complete failure of Catholic bishops and priests to teach Church doctrine effectively in this life-or-death issue.The Pro-Life movement should expose these ecclesiastical leaders for what they are: cowards. Cowardice of our bishops in failing to excommunicate the
ACatholic abortionist politicians.@ The expression, ACatholic abortionist,@ is a contradiction in terms--one cannot be Catholic and pro-abortion at the same time.No amount of talk about
Athe Church being silent in order to preserve our tax-exempt status@, etc, can justify this 47% pro-abortion vote by Catholics, if we still live in a country where there is free speech. It is almost useless to support the Pro-Life movement when we are betrayed by the spineless bishops in this way.
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Pat Robertson was the keynote speaker at a symposium at the College of William and Mary law school. Asked about a moratorium after his speech, Robertson said:
AI think a moratorium would indeed be very appropriate.@ He said minorities and poor people often can=t afford high-priced attorneys and thus don=t always receive the best defense.The moratorium question was posed by Michael Radelet of Moratorium 2000, a national anti-death penalty organization founded by activist Sister Helen Prejean, the author of
ADead Man Walking.@London--
Anglican Archbishop George Carey of Canterbury said on April 10 that he expects the Church of England will eventually be disestablished as the official state church.A
I expect the Church of England one day to be disestablished,@ the Sunday Times quoted Carey as saying during a weekend catechetical meeting. The archbishop had previously been on record since 1993 as being opposed to disestablishment.A
This is a very important development,@ the paper quoted David Jenkins, former Bishop of Durham and a supporter of disestablishment, as saying. AGeorge Carey is recognizing the fact that we are no longer a Christian country but we need a Christian church for the whole country.@A spokesman for the Church of England said the archbishop had not changed his position.
AThere=s no call for it (disestablishment),@ the spokesman, the Rev. Bill Beaver, said. ABut we have to continually prove ourselves, and find out what people want us to do.@There have been many calls to disestablish the Church because the monarch is governor of the Church and thus must be an Anglican preventing a Catholic monarch. Prince Charles friend, Camilla Bowles is a Catholic as is the uncle and grandmother of Prince William, the heir after Charles.
Charles wants the oath to be changed to
Adefender of faith@ from the present Adefender of the faith@ which was given to Henry VIII when he was a Catholic. Henry died believing he was a Catholic even though he had separated the Catholic Church in England from Rome in 1535.New Delhi, India
C Seven cases of midnight attacks on church schools and convents have been reported since March. Robbery and beatings were common to all the incidents suggesting there is someone sinister behind the attacks. Hindu groups are very militant against Christian efforts to convert Hindus.Washington, DC--The new chaplain to the US House of Representatives said he hopes to reach across party lines to offer ministry to all members of Congress and their families.
Father Daniel Coughlin celebrated a Mass at St. Peter
=s Church near Capitol Hill.Some Democrats and Catholic activists had charged the GOP leadership with anti-Catholic sentiments after they initially selected a Protestant minister over a Catholic priest during the search for a new chaplain. Father Coughlin was the surprise replacement pick of House Speaker Dennis Hastert after the initial successor stepped aside. The priest at the center of the controversy was again overlooked as the new chaplain since he was writing a book and members were afraid they would end up in his book. The Archbishop of Chicago, Francis George, recommended Fr. Coughlin for the job when the Speaker asked for his advice. Coughlin was the Vicar for priests. Priests with problems would consult Fr. Coughlin for advice but now his parishioners are 435 members of the House of Representatives.
Minsk, Belarus--One hour before the deadline, by which he was due to leave Belarus, Catholic priest Father Zbigniew Karolyak said the head of the Catholic Church in the country, Cardinal Kazimierz Swiatek, has ordered him to defy the government expulsion order and remain in his parish he has shepherded for nine years amidst
Agreat pressure@ from the authorities. He was fined 44,000 rubles (just over $50). The Belarusian government has waged a campaign in recent years against Polish priests who they consider a destabilizing force in the mainly Russian Orthodox country.Istanbul
, Turkey--Turkey=s Armenian patriarch invited Pope John Paul II to visit his country as he delivered his Easter message. Most of the 65 million Turks are now Muslim with Armenian Christians making up the second largest religious group. Turkey was a Catholic country until Muslims overran the nation.Tokyo, Japan--US Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander of the Allied occupation of Japan after World War II, once considered attempting to convert Emperor Hirohito to Christianity, but later abandoned the idea, according to a diary of the then-US secretary of the Navy and reported by Kyodo News.
MacArthur believed converting the Emperor to Christianity would spread Christianity and thus democracy in Japan which he believed was based on Christian principles.
Imperial Palace officials told the general that the emperor would convert and that
Athe emperor had offered to make Christianity the official religion of Japan.@MacArthur abandoned the idea of converting the emperor, believing it would create conflict between Catholics and Protestants. Most Christians at the time were Catholics.
Vatican--Pope John Paul II presided on May 9 at the celebration of the Divine Liturgy according to the Byzantine rite as 2,500 pilgrims from Romania gathered for the occasion.
The Liturgy marked the 300th anniversary of the ecclesial agreement that established the Romanian Catholic Church. In 1700, the Orthodox bishop of Transylvania signed an accord with the Holy See which established full communion between Rome and the faithful within his jurisdiction. The union recognized the right of the Romanian Catholic Church to retain her own Byzantine liturgical traditions.
The Romanian pilgrims included faithful of both Latin and Byzantine rites. But the celebration in St. Peter
=s Basilica followed the Byzantine liturgical tradition. The celebrants included bishops of both rites. But Pope John Paul--who was not among the celebrants--preached the homily.The Holy Father saluted the Romanian Church for the courage displayed by so many people who suffered for the faith, particularly during the years under Communism when the Romanian Catholic Church was outlawed and the faithful driven underground.
AKeep alive in your hearts the memory of the martyrs and transmit that memory to future generations, so that it can continue to inspire generous and true Christian witness,@ the Pope urged the Romanian worshipers. The Romanian Catholic hierarchy in turn proclaimed unswerving allegiance to the Holy See. AToday in your presence, we renew--with the same excitement and the same spirit of faith--the union brought about by our ancestors, and conserved through all the vicissitudes of history,@ the Romanian bishops statement proclaimed. The statement was read by Archbishop Lucian Muresan of Fagaras-Albia Julia, the president of the Romanian bishops conference and metropolitan of the Romanian Catholic Church.Pope John Paul also sent a special message of greeting to the Romanian Cardinal Alexandru Todea who was unable to attend the ceremony because of age (87) and illness. Cardinal Todea, who was secretly ordained as a bishop for the underground church in 1950, was arrested the following year and spent 16 years in prison. During his May 1999 visit to Bucharest, the Pontiff gave one of his most memorable displays of emotion when he embraced Cardinal Todea, as the Romanian prelate sat beside him in his wheelchair.
Pope instructs Vatican to release Third Secret of Fatima
At Fatima on May 13, 2000, Cardinal Sodano announced the third secret of Fatima will be released soon as soon as a commentary is prepared. Release is expected about mid-June.Our Lady at Bayside, New York on May 13, 1978 revealed the third secret:
AHow I warned and warned that satan would enter into the highest realms of the hierarchy in Rome. The Third Secret, My child, is that satan would enter into My Son=s Church.@Pope Paul VI said on June 29, 1972, the ninth anniversary of his coronation:
AFrom some fissure the smoke of satan entered into the temple of God.@ROME-
-A Chinese bishop was ordained for the Communist country=s state-controlled Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association in May with the approval of Pope John Paul II, a significant step forward in relations between the Vatican and China.Bishop Zhao Fengchang, 66, was ordained bishop of Yanggu and apostolic administrator of Linqing (Shandong) by Giuseppe Ma Xuesheng of Zhoucun, assisted by Bishop Fang Xingyao of Linyi and Bishop Wang Dianduo of Heze, in the presence of about 1,500 Catholics.
Before the Ordination Mass began, the Holy See
=s approval was publicly announced, which was not the first time the Vatican has given its stamp of approval for the ordination of an Association bishop. But it was the first time that the ordaining bishops were all in legitimate communion with the Holy See, at the Vatican=s specific request.Sources in Shanghai said the government
=s A hands off@ attitude is due to social and economic tension in China. Beijing wants to avoid disputes with the Catholic Church and the international community.Another element established by the recent ordination in Shandong is that the Vatican confirms the existing territorial arrangement of China
=s dioceses. The new bishop was in fact, ordained ABishop of Yanggu and apostolic administrator of Linqing@ although the Government Religious Affairs Bureau had put the territory under the new diocese of Liaocheng.Sevastapol, Ukraine
C For the ninth year since the Church was re-legalized, Crimea=s Ukrainian Catholic community has had to hold its Easter services in borrowed premises.The Ukrainian Catholic Church, the largest of the Eastern-rite Catholic churches, and the Church that will unite with the Russian Orthodox Church eventually, has been in communion with Rome since the Union of Brest in 1596. The Church was suppressed and her property confiscated by the Soviets after the annexation of Western Ukraine during World War II and was re-legalized only in 1989. The Cathedral at Lviv or Lvov was seized from the Orthodox by a sit-in in 1989 and now never closes with services around the clock to keep the Orthodox from taking back the church.
There has been little progress in building a Catholic church in Sevastopol or Yalta either with officials there dragging their feet on granting the church a suitable plot of land. Despite the intervention of several deputies of Ukraine
=s Supreme Council nothing has changed so far for Crime=s Eastern-rite Catholics.
All-talk bishops wimp out on pro-abortion Catholic politicians
The bishop=s blinked!America
=s 250 Catholic bishops, at their annual conference in Washington on Nov. 18, 1998, issued their long-awaited critical statement on Catholic politicians who support abortion agendas in defiance of church teaching.Their expected bomb turned out to be a wet cracker.
The bishops by a 217-30 vote with three abstentions, decided the best course would be to