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| Lourdes parish church vandalized as anti-Christian attacks soar in France |
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Posted by: Stone - 11-13-2025, 10:54 AM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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Lourdes parish church vandalized as anti-Christian attacks soar in France
The Sacré-Cœur church in Lourdes was defaced with slurs against Christ as France faces
an alarming surge in anti-Christian vandalism, arson, and assaults across the nation.
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Church of the Sacred Heart in Lourdes, Hautes-Pyrenees, France
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Nov 13, 2025
LOURDES, France (LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks included from original.] ) — Authorities have opened an investigation after the Sacré-Cœur parish church in Lourdes, located in the Hautes-Pyrénées region of southern France, was vandalized with anti-Christian messaging earlier this week.
According to Le Figaro, Police discovered the damage during a morning patrol on November 11. The church was defaced with blasphemous graffiti in France’s most prominent city of pilgrimage amid an upsurge in anti-Christian crimes across the nation.
Officers found the church’s main entrance covered in graffiti written with white marker. On November 11, police revealed the messages contained expressions “insulting to the Catholic religion.” Municipal workers were dispatched shortly after to remove the defacement from the building’s exterior.
However, further details have now been revealed as images released on November 12 confirm that two messages had been written directly on the central wooden doors of the neo-Gothic church. The left-hand panel read “À mort Jésus-Christ” (“Death to Jesus Christ”), and the right-hand side carried the words “Sale race de Jésus-Christ” (“Dirty race of Jesus Christ”).
The national police have launched an inquiry into the incident. As of Wednesday, investigators had not identified the perpetrators, and no organization had claimed responsibility for the attack.
Completed between 1875 and 1903, the Church of the Sacred Heart is among Lourdes’ principal places of worship outside the renowned Marian sanctuary, where the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Saint Bernadette in 1858. The structure, notable for its 213-foot spire and pale stone façade, was built to accommodate the influx of pilgrims following the apparitions receiving papal recognition. It remains a central part of the town’s spiritual and community life.
The incident coincided with the popular release of the devotional film Sacré Cœur (2025), which recently became an unexpected box office success across France and is now being distributed abroad.
“The fact that a building dedicated to the Sacred Heart was attacked while the film ‘Sacré Cœur’ was a box office hit in France and being exported seems particularly telling,” commented a reporter for Reinformation.TV.
READ: French court overturns mayor’s cancellation of ‘Sacred Heart’ film screening
The vandalism in Lourdes adds to a growing list of anti-Christian incidents reported across France in recent years.
Data presented to the European Parliament in February 2025 by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe recorded 2,444 anti-Christian hate crimes in 2023 across the continent. Nearly 1,000 of those occurred in France, representing 41 percent of all such cases in Europe.
According to the Observatory, 62 percent of these incidents involved vandalism, 10 percent arson, and 7 percent physical assaults. The following year saw a sharp increase in France, where actual and attempted arson attacks on churches rose by more than 30 percent.
In the first five months of 2025 alone, French authorities documented 322 anti-Christian acts, marking a 13 percent rise compared with the same period in 2024, Valeurs Actuelles reported.
Concern over the frequency of such attacks has prompted calls for action. In September, 86 French senators signed a joint statement urging enhanced security for churches and Christian sites nationwide. Senator Sylviane Noël of France’s foremost conservative and centre-right party wrote that “Christians must be protected in France, as all other believers are.”
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| Bishops will consecrate US to Sacred Heart of Jesus to honor nation’s 250th anniversary |
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Posted by: Stone - 11-13-2025, 10:46 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Bishops will consecrate US to Sacred Heart of Jesus to honor nation’s 250th anniversary
The consecration will take place on June 12, 2026, the final day of the USCCB's Spring Assembly, which coincides with the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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Painting of Sacred Heart of Jesus in church Chiesa di Santa Maria della Consolazione by Luigi Guglielmino (1885 - 1962).
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Nov 12, 2025
BALTIMORE (LifeSiteNews) — The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) voted overwhelmingly Tuesday in favor of a measure to consecrate the nation to Our Lord’s Sacred Heart next June to commemorate the 250th anniversary of its founding.
The American bishops, during the first day of the USCCB’s Fall assembly, voted 215-8 to approve a measure proposed by Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, and chairman of the conference’s Committee on Religious Liberty, to entrust the United States to Our Lord’s Sacred Heart in June 2026, with seven bishops abstaining from the vote. The consecration will take place on June 12, the final day of the USCCB’s Spring Assembly in Orlando, Florida, which coincides with the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, just weeks ahead of America’s Semiquincentennial.
This will notably be the first time the United States has been consecrated to Our Lord’s Sacred Heart.
“At their November General Assembly, the U.S. bishops approved the consecration of the United States to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart in June 2026, as part of the Church’s commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the United States,” the USCCB wrote on X after the vote.
“Through this act of consecration, the bishops seek to renew devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and to recognize the kingship of Christ, perfecting the temporal order with the spirit of the Gospel,” the bishops’ conference added.
Because the vote was conducted by secret ballot, it is unknown which bishops voted against the measure and which abstained from voting altogether. Some have speculated on social media that the seven bishops who abstained from voting may be Eastern Catholic bishops in attendance, as devotion to the Sacred Heart is not part of their tradition. However, it’s odd that any bishop, let alone eight, would vote against such a measure.
The USCCB did not respond by publication time to LifeSite’s inquiry as to which bishops dissented.
Before the consecration, as part of the initiative, dioceses across the country will be encouraged to invite the faithful to participate in various acts of devotion, such as offering 250 works of mercy or dedicating 250 hours to Eucharistic adoration leading up to the consecration. Prayer resources, including a novena leading up to the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart, will also be developed by the USCCB.
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was introduced in the 17th century by St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, who received visions from Our Lord. The Sacred Heart emphasizes Jesus’ divine love, mercy, and compassion for sinners. It emphasizes a personal relationship with Christ through prayer, acts of reparation, and consecration to His Heart.
As noted by Rhoades while introducing the measure, in his 1925 encyclical Quas Primas, Pope Pius XI had urged the faithful to consecrate themselves, their families, and their countries to Our Lord’s Sacred Heart.
“One hundred years ago, in 1925, in his encyclical instituting the feast of Christ the King, Pope Pius XI – drawing on the teaching of Pope Leo XIII – referred to the pious custom of consecrating oneself, families, and even nations to the Sacred Heart of Jesus as a way to recognize the kingship of Christ,” the bishop said.
READ: Head of Irish bishops to consecrate country to Sacred Heart for first time in 150 years
Indeed, there are an abundance of graces the faithful can gain by consecrating themselves or their households to Our Lord’s Sacred Heart. In fact, Our Lord gave St. Margaret Mary Alacoque 12 special promises for the faithful who consecrate themselves and foster a devotion to His Sacred Heart:
- I will give them all the graces necessary in their state of life.
- I will establish peace in their homes.
- I will comfort them in all their afflictions.
- I will be their secure refuge during life, and above all, in death.
- I will bestow abundant blessings upon all their undertakings.
- Sinners will find in my Heart the source and infinite ocean of mercy.
- Lukewarm souls shall become fervent.
- Fervent souls shall quickly mount to high perfection.
- I will bless every place in which an image of my Heart is exposed and honored.
- I will give to priests the gift of touching the most hardened hearts.
- Those who shall promote this devotion shall have their names written in my Heart.
- I promise you in the excessive mercy of my Heart that my all-powerful love will grant to all those who receive Holy Communion on the First Fridays in nine consecutive months the grace of final perseverance; they shall not die in my disgrace, nor without receiving their sacraments. My divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last moment.”
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| Fr. Chenu Deliberately put Contradictions in the Documents of Vatican II |
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Posted by: Stone - 11-11-2025, 12:54 PM - Forum: The Architects of Vatican II
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Fr. Chenu Deliberately put Contradictions in the Documents of Vatican II
TIA | July 30, 2005
Fr. Marie-Dominique Chenu is often considered the main inspirer of the openness to the modern world in the documents of the Second Vatican Council. Some say that he was the expert who wrote Message to the Modern World, an official statement made by the council at its first session. Fr. Chenu also exerted a general influence over the text of Gaudium et spes, the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World.
Given that Chenu played this important role, it is significant to read his words on how the theological experts, with no second thoughts, deliberately placed contradictory concepts in the texts of the final documents.
His affirmation is remarkable evidence that should convince Catholics to reject the conciliar documents, which are filled with contradictions and ambiguities. No one is obliged to follow a contradictory teaching.
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Above, a facsimile of the book cover; Below, a photocopy of the French original. Below, we present our translation.
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Quote:"The gossip is that the experts directed the Council; indeed, this is not so wrong. I recall a minuscule but revealing episode. While the Decree on the Laymen [Apostolicam actuositatem] was being dicussed, I noticed that it still had a paragraph entirely permeated with the notion of a 'mandate' given to laymen by the Hierarchy, inspired by a dualist conception - the Church on one side and the world on the other. I met with another French expert and we agreed that this was bad.
But that paragraph had already been discussed and adopted by the commission. It was impossible, therefore, to change it. So, we wrote a text to be added that corrected it. It was a second paragraph that said more or less the opposite of the preceding one. The first in a certain way affirmed dualism. But the second stated that the action of the Church must go beyond it.
The French Bishops presented our new text as their own, and it was adopted."
(Marie-Dominique Chenu, Jacques Duchesne interroge le Pere Chenu, Paris: Centurion, 1975, p. 17.
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| Vatican II Institutionalized Progressivism in the Church |
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Posted by: Stone - 11-11-2025, 11:56 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Vatican II Institutionalized Progressivism in the Church
TIA [adapted - not all hyperlinks included from the original; not all emphasis included] | November 7, 2025
What was the principal landmark for Progressivism’s infiltration in the Church? We can say that it was Vatican Council II (1962-1965) that institutionalized Progressivism in the Catholic Church.
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The institutionalization of Progressivism: the Traditional Mass vs the New Mass
Progressivism, as we know, is a doctrinal system that is the heir of Modernism, better disguised, but with the same errors. Since Modernism and its precursor Catholic Liberalism were condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors and in St. Pius X’s Pascendi dominici gregis, progressivists sought to spread these same errors in a veiled way to avoid condemnation.
They did this at Vatican II, by using many different artifices to fool conservative Bishops and impose submission. These artifices include ambiguity in the theological qualification of the Council (pastoral vs. dogmatic), as well as ambiguity (including deliberate contradictions) in the letter of its documents.
After progressivists won at Vatican II, Progressivism spread throughout the Church and has invaded every area of Church life.
The following consequences of Vatican II were implicit behind the ambiguity, and have been admitted by conciliar Popes, prelates and theologians. Each section below outlining the changes contains quotes from progressivist theologians and prelates that substantiate the affirmations in the section. Many more quotes can be found in Atila Guimarães'' Collection on Vatican II in the volumes listed in the footnotes.
1. Changing the Faith & Morals
Until Vatican II, the Church had always preached that the Faith is objective (taught by God through Revelation), absolute (complete and perfect), abstract (beyond external reality & in the realm of ideas), universal (applying to everyone and everything), fixed (never changing) and one (not divided).
After Vatican II, the new Progressivist Church has preached a Faith that is subjective (based on feelings), relative (incomplete and imperfect, adaptable to history), existential (concrete and based on experience), particular (to each person), mutable (able to change) and pluralist (having many different and opposed meanings).
Fr. Joseph Ratzinger (future Pope Benedict XVI who worked behind the scenes as a priest in the Council) called the doctrine of the Church an “anguishing burden” and considered the dogmas of the Church “troubling”:
Quote:“What really troubles us about the Christian faith is, to a large extent, the weight of the plethora of theses [dogmas] that have accumulated through the course of History and now present themselves demanding the assent of faith. ... People want to be liberated from it just as much as from the old-fashioned faith, which by its contradiction of modern knowledge has become an anguishing burden to them.”
Fr. Marie-Dominique Chenu (Council perito) affirmed the Council assumed a relative concept of the Faith: “The word ‘relative’ was feared at that time - incidentally, it continued to be so up until the Council. ‘Official’ theology considered the formulas that expressed the faith as immutable realities and rejected the very word evolution that the Council was to introduce into its vocabulary.” (1)
2. Adapting the Church to world (aggiornamento)
Since her birth, the Church’s policy toward the world was to influence the temporal sphere with the principles of the Gospel, while keeping her integrity and intervening when needed. At a moment when the world was being led by the Revolution backed by the Secret Forces, the Conciliar Popes took a new direction and said: Adapt the Church to the world (Italian aggiornamento).
In the Syllabus of Errors, Pope Pius IX explicitly condemned this idea that “the Roman Pontiff must come to terms with modern civilization” (no. 80). Also in Jamdudum cernimus, he affirmed that “this [contemporary] civilization has produced evils so numerous that we could never deplore them sufficiently, as well as so many poisonous opinions, errors and principles which are extremely opposed to the Catholic Religion and her doctrine.”
Pope John XXIII affirmed that Vatican II’s main task was to adapt the Church to the world: “The ecumenical council will reach out and embrace under the widespread wings of the Catholic Church the entire heritage of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Its principal task will be concerned with the condition and modernization (aggiornamento) of the Church after 20 centuries of life.” (28 June 1961)
Fr. Hans Urs von Balthasar called the Church’s past policy “repressive”: “The collapse of the internal unity and the razing of the external bastions has had repercussions... [Today] the Church has a greater sensibility; her awareness of the world, which had been harshly repressed, has re-established itself...”
Fr. Karl Rahner (Council perito) defended that all laws, prohibitions and ideologies must be destroyed: “Today’s man has ... an almost radical need to demythologize everything, to tear down all the façades, to do away with every prohibition, and to question what will remain after we will have suppressed all laws and destroyed all ideologies.” (2)
3. Secularization
The error of secularization comes from the wrong idea of aggiornamento. In the past Christendom always received much influence from the Church and was made sacral (sacralized) by her. Progressivists, on the other hand, sought to sever this influence through secularization.
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A product of secularization was importing Communism into the Church through Liberation Theology. Bishops & priests support the communist Landless movement in Brazil
With society secularized and the influence of the Church removed from temporal customs, laws and government, numerous false doctrines infiltrated the temporal sphere, particularly Communism and Socialism. This is based on the false idea that God does not act in the world, and that human reason alone suffices to manage society.
Fr. Edward Schillebeeckx (key adviser to the Dutch bishops at Vatican II) affirmed that secularization and socialism characterize the current attitude of the Progressivist Church: “The discovery of the human being in his full secularism ... fundamentally characterizes the present-day behavior of the Church. Today’s Church ... must believe more than ever in man. The spiritual and temporal goods ... must be fraternally shared among men ... This earthly Socialism ... is a sign that points to Christ.”
Von Balthasar affirmed that this secularization is a product of the Enlightenment and that her previous doctrine was “primitive” and a “naive usurpation”: “It was Voltaire, and a little before him, Vico, who went beyond this meaning of history characterized by the primitive theology, and favored instead a secular history of civilization. ... This secularization should not be too greatly deplored, since the old naive identification of salvation history with the history of the world was a usurpation.” (3)
4. Ecumenism
Another fruit of aggiornamento is ecumenism, which states the Church should open herself to the false religions. This conciliar ecumenism denies the Church’s unicity – only she holds the means of salvation for men – and the missionary character of the Church.
Assisi Prayer for Peace
The Conciliar Popes have prayed with pagans, Muslims, Jews & heretics at Assisi since 1986
Pope Boniface VIII taught in the Bull Unam sanctam: “We confess with simplicity that outside of [the Church] there is neither salvation nor the remission of sins...”
Leo XIII in the Encyclical Satis cognitum affirmed: “The Church of Christ is one and the same forever. Whoever leaves her departs from the will and command of Our Lord Jesus Christ; leaving the path of salvation, he enters that of perdition.” (4)
Progressivism, on the other hand, seeks to establish a Panreligion by uniting with the false religions.
Schillebeeckx affirmed that the Council considers non-Catholics part of the Church, and that Vatican II denied the unicity of the Church: “By admitting that other Christian communities [Protestants] are also Church, the Council made a judgment on the incapacity of the Church herself to realize the plenitude and unity desired by Christ. ... At Vatican Council II the Roman Catholic Church officially abandoned her monopoly over the Christian religion.”
Msgr. Ferdinan Klostermann, conciliar perito, advocated the union of religions, his departure point being the unification of mankind:
Quote:“Today man seems to be inside the flux of the evolution of the whole cosmos... humanity for the first time feels like a single family. ... For the first time, the Church has the conditions to truly be the Church of the world ... creating possibilities ... for that spiritual universalism initiated by the final ‘axial period’ and crowned by the presence of Christ.” (5)
5. Spirit of the Council: Tolerance for Error & Evil
Having seen these changes brought about by Vatican II, what could be behind them?
Fr. Karl Rahner, conciliar perito, famously stated: “What is most important in this Council is not the letter of the decrees it promulgated ... its spirit, its more advanced tendencies, this is what is the most important.” (6)
To summarize, behind all these changes is the spirit of the Council, which can be defined as a tolerance for error and evil, and a hatred for the Church’s magisterial, militant, sacral and hierarchical aspects. (7)
This new Spirit is what has been causing destruction in the Church for the last 60 years.[...]
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A new Spirit brought into the Church by Vatican II's periti. left to right: Frs. Yves Congar, Henri de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Rahner, Marie-Dominique Chenu
1. Source for the quote of Ratzinger and Chenu in Section 1 on Changes to the Faith and Morals: Atila Guimarães, Inveniet Fidem (Will He Find Faith?), Vol. 6 of the Collection on Vatican II, pp. 27-29.
2. Source for the quotes of von Balthasar and Rahner in section 2 on adaptation to the world: Animus Delendi II, Vol. V, p. 82.
3. Source for the two quotes of Schillebeeckx and von Balthasar in section 3 on secularization: Atila Guimarães, Animus Delendi II, Vol. V of the Collection on Vatican II, pp. 72-73..
4. Source for the quotes of Pope Boniface VIII and Leo XIII: Animus Delendi II, pp. 205-206
5. Source for the quotes of Schillebeeckx and Klostermann in section 4 on Ecumenism: Animus Delendi II, p. 283, 344.
6. Statement by Karl Rahner in Anton Holzer, Vatikanum II - Reformkonzil oder Konstituante einer neuen Kirche, Basel: Saka, 1967, p. 324.
Animus Injuriandi I, introduction, p. 17.
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