I expect the attacks to ramp up with the nomination of Catholic Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
This is not just an attack on Catholics, but an attack on all Christians. Let me remind you, the commie/libtards don't just hate Trump - they hate you. If you're a Christian, they really, really hate you.
In our smallish town in North Idaho our church is now locked and parishioners who wish to visit the Blessed Sacrament, pray, and meditate outside of Mass times are issued a key card.
We are building a beautiful new church and are using what will eventually be the parish hall as our church until the main church is built. However, the parts already built are large, very expensive, and quite grand.
The keycards have been issued to honor the virtue of Prudence, and to ensure both the safety of the parishioners, and the safety of the building.
How has this become the "new normal" in our world?
From Lifesite News:
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 26, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Sixteen members of Congress have asked Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate the perpetrators of “anti-Catholic hate crimes” in the United States, including “any organizational or ideological connections between them.”
Their letter was sent to Barr, himself a Catholic, on September 25.
Led by Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), the legislators voiced their concern over “an unusual number of horrific and brutal attacks on Catholic and Church properties,” and listed a number of examples of violence against Catholic Church property.
“On July 12, an arsonist set a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary on fire at the historic Saint Peters [sic] Parish Church in Boston. The day before a man in Florida drove a van into the side of a Catholic Church while parishioners were inside, then spilled gasoline onto the Church’s foyer and attempted to ignite it.”
“Also, on July 11, the San Gabriel Mission in California was burned to the ground,” the letter continued. “In the weeks prior, local activists had denounced the Mission’s founder, Father Junipero Serra, so the Mission removed his statue to mollify potential attackers—apparently to no avail.”
“That same weekend, outside of St. Stephen Catholic Church in Chattanooga, unknown vandals beheaded a statue of the Virgin Mary. And these attacks are ongoing.”
Most recently, on September 11, a man was videotaped in the Diocese of Brooklyn, New York, toppling a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, “an iconic image of the Virgin Mary often venerated by Hispanics.”
“To attack the Blessed Mother on the day of 9/11, in the morning, in broad daylight is not only brazen, it is a direct assault on the faith of the people who were walking by that day who wanted to have a moment of prayer,” said John Quaglione, a representative of the Diocese of Brooklyn in an interview with CBS New York.
In the video, a man can be seen climbing behind a fence at the front of the Coney Island church in broad daylight, tearing down the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and tossing it onto the sidewalk below. The statue’s face was smashed and her hands were broken off.
On September 16, a 30-year-old man toppled and destroyed a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus located on the high altar of the cathedral in El Paso, Texas.
“A suspect came into the sanctuary at St. Patrick Cathedral and destroyed the almost 90-year-old statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which was located in the center behind the main altar of the church,” the diocese stated on Instagram. “The church was open and available for prayer.”
Two photos published by the diocese show the statue, lying flat on the floor, with Christ’s head smashed in, and only the neck and part of the beard still connected to the statue. One of his outstretched arms is broken off and can be seen several feet away from the statue on the floor. The base is detached from the statue, as well.
The 16 Congressmen said they were “not the only ones who have noticed this trend,” but also many media outlets.
“By some estimates, there have been 70 such incidents in North America this year with the vast majority occurring in just the past four months,” they wrote. “Since May of 2020, there have been 57 reported instances of anti-Catholic hate crimes in the United States alone. In comparison, the FBI reported just 53 instances of anti-Catholic hate crimes in all of 2018.”
For the legislators, this “suggests that anti-Catholic hate crimes are occurring at around a four times greater frequency than two years ago. As in any other instance of a rapid spike in hate crimes targeted at a specific group, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has an obligation to investigate the perpetrators of this violence and any organizational or ideological connections between them.”
A watercolor rendering of our new St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, Post Falls, ID
That's a pretty in-your-face statement, but I stand behind it as truth.
That includes fake Catholic Joe Biden and his late term abortion supporting Catholic hating running mate, Kamala Harris. It includes each and every person running under the banner of "choice." No exceptions.
Abortion is ending.....where you live. The Beginning of the End of Abortion is a fast-paced journey through forty true stories that demonstrate how prayer saves lives, changes hearts, and transforms communities ... and nations. The escalating results of 40 Days for Life's peaceful prayer vigils held around the globe are in your neighborhood saving lives, closing abortion facilities, and inspiring abortion workers to leave their jobs.
Chapter 3 tells the story of a lady who left the abortion business. After a banquet for a pregnancy center, Shawn was visiting with some of the employees. As often is the case, he asked someone why she got involved in the pro-life movement.
She explained that she had worked at a very large Planned Parenthood abortion facility near a major city. She only did bookkeeping and other business tasks so felt removed from the actual killing of babies.
One day she received an invoice from the local morgue. It was for $350.00.
"The service, listed in bold letters, pierced my heart:
CREMATION SERVICE FOR 150 POUNDS OF MEDICAL WASTE."
..."The question that pierced my heart, she said," was, How many babies have to be aborted to add up to 150 pounds of "medical waste."
I never even made it to that question after reading this because I was focused on the term "medical waste."
Think about that. "Products of conception", yet another euphemism for babies, is nothing but "medical waste" to abortion supporters. Human beings are called "medical waste."
Remember that your tax dollars are pumped into the multi-million dollar Planned Parenthood evil abattoirs.
If the Biden and Harris have their way, all abortions will be "free."
Anyone who thinks that does not make God angry is not paying attention.
It seems the new whack job in charge over at the magazine Christianity Today, Mark Galli, is dumping on Trump for being too "immoral" to be president. He's telling evangelicals that can't vote for Trump. Franklin Graham, whose father, Billy, founded the magazine, slammed the magazine for invoking his father's name.
"My father knew Donald Trump, believed in Donald Trump, and in this last election, he voted for Donald Trump," the president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan's Purse added. "And if he were here today, I'm sure he would tell you that himself."
The people working in the devil's workshop have done an exemplary job of packing the Catholic Church with Marxists and Communists. Now they're chipping away at the evangelicals. Want to know why it will work? Because evangelicals have spent decades centuries dumping on the Catholic Church. You know - "the whore of Babylon." It will be very easy to sway the evangelicals with the Marxist social justice/virtue signally preaching just like they did with their un-biblical prosperity gospel. The evangelicals can sit around and continue their Catholic bashing and not see what is happening in their own churches.
Let's make this as clear as possible:If you call yourself a Christian, you cannot vote for any democrat who supports the killing of babies in the womb, supports same sex "marriage", claims being a homosexual is just "about who they love", and wishes to further balkanize our country by opening our borders to anyone who wants a free ride. That describes every single democrat running for president.
One of the democrat front runners is Pete Buttigieg, who defines himself (often and proudly) as a “gay dude in Mike Pence’s Indiana." He also calls himself a Christian and cheerfully drags out misquoted and mangled scripture with little prompting. The following video was banned by YouTube, but it has been posted to Brighteon.com, the free speech alternative to YouTube.
While you may think this a depressing and ugly reality to face during the Christmas season, I contend that it is exactly what we should be seeing and praying about when we are getting ready to celebrate the birth of Our Lord and Savior.
And if you're one of those people who thinks it's "my body, my choice", and just because you don't dress in black and publicly worship Bahomet, and may even drag yourself into a church occasionally - you're still a pawn of the devil. I strongly urge you to ask for forgiveness this Christmas.
I wasn't going to comment on this, but it's been weighing heavy on my heart since yesterday. Not because I'm surprised (okay - I am a little surprised), but because it saddens me to see good conservative people display such unwillingness to access the truth.
A few days ago, Bill Finlay aka "Wild Bill for America", a man who I've followed and admired, posted a meme on his Facebook page that said: SHOULD BASIC BIBLE KNOWLEDGE BE REQUIRED TO BE POPE?
Uh oh!
I pretty much knew what would follow. I was right.
The usual nonsense about what Catholic's believe including "worshiping statues" (we don't), "we're forbidden from reading the Bible" (not true), "everything the Pope says is infallible" (it's not), the Blessed Virgin is equal to God (she's not), and my favorite "Catholics aren't Christians" (we are.)
I will be the first to agree that Francis is not the best Pope we've ever had to lead the Church and most days he says things that makes the average pew potato cringe. But to let loose with a bunch of anti-Catholic rhetoric when you know absolutely squat about the doctrine of the Catholic Church is arrogant and loathsome, and I might add, very un-Christian.
I really expected Bill to step in and clarify that the discussion was about the Pope and not some generalized Catholic bashing. He didn't.
Many of my local political "friends" gave the post a thumbs up, but not one of them stepped in to rectify the bashing which leaves me with the impression that they also hold the same anti-Catholic bias.
Let me make something abundantly clear: It would benefit people to clean up their own pigpens before arrogantly thinking they have the duty to clean up their neighbors pigpen. It's particularly repugnant when they know nothing about their neighbors pigs or his pen.
“There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.”Fulton J. Sheen
FYI: Both the above books are written by Protestants.
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Roman Catholic leaders are calling for two weeks of public protests
against President Barack Obama's policies as they intensify their
argument that the administration is engaged in a war on religion.
The days between June 21 and July 4 have been set aside by the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops which has sought to end the
administration's contraception mandate, among other policies.
The protests against the Obama administration’s policies could be “the
game-changer” in the presidential election, one leading lay churchman
told Newsmax on Tuesday.
The protests, dubbed “A Fortnight for Freedom” will be an
“unprecedented, aggressive attack” against policies that church leaders
see as an assault on religious freedom, said Catholic Advocate chairman
Deal Hudson.
O’DONNELL (43:28): I’m saying that to support an organization where at the top of the infrastructure, are people willing to ignore the mass child abuse and torture and sexual molestation of its own constituents.
It’s almost like when you read about cults, Jonestown, all these cults [that] allow sexual perversity and sexual behavior.
Let me make sure I understand this. Rosie O'Donnell, a woman who has sexual relations with other women, is talking about sexual perversity? How weird is that?
Unfortunately, I read an article The Catholic Church is a Criminal Enterprise by Matt Taibbi, which really deserves nothing more than to be relegated to the trash heap of silly anti-Catholicism. Memeorandum saw fit to highlight it on their news aggregator. Why? I have no idea. If you really want to waste time reading this hate-filled piece of garbage, you'll have to Google it, because I would not honor it with a link. Then I find out that the Washington Post printed a pile of anti-Catholic doggie-do by Sinead O'Connor on Palm Sunday. I have no intention of even reading a screed written by someone such as Ms. O'Connor who has absolutely no credibility.
I did read a fine article in the National Review by George Weigel & Rev. Jay Scott Newman (who are credible) entitled Spreading the Big Lie. They ask the question, "Why did the Washington Post choose Palm Sunday to publish an ignorant and malicious piece by Sinead O’Connor on abuse in the Catholic Church?" Why, indeed...
Here's the bottom line for me. If you don't want to be Catholic, don't. I don't want to be Protestant, and so I'm not. Isn't that simple? However, I don't feel the need to go about bashing Protestants. The truth is exactly what Bishop Fulton J. Sheen said in 1938, "There are not a hundred people in America who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions of people who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church — which is, of course, quite a different thing."
"There are very few people who disagree with what Catholics believe, but there are millions who disagree with what they think Catholics believe." Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
If the world were to listen to the likes of "Catholic's in Name Only", such as Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden, they would have to come up with a very scary idea of what a real Catholic believes.
These people are going to have a lot to answer for when God asks them how many people they led astray. Leading others to commit sin is a very serious matter. Very serious!
It seems like the Catholic bashing has been heating up the past few weeks. My suggestion to those of you that consider yourselves Christians - watch your back. They'll be coming for you next!
If anyone doubts that the government is gearing up to tackle religious institutions who do not condone homosexuality, check this article on InsideCatholic about Obama's appointment to the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. read the rest
As always, anything the Vatican does receives terrible reporting from the media. It generally receives bad reportage mainly for two reasons. 1) Reporters don't know a thing about Catholicism. 2) Most reporters hate Catholicism.
They hate Catholicism so much that when Notre Dame plays Boston College they can't bring themselves to root for either team so they just hope for injuries.