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| Vatican honors Hinduism, Islam with dance celebration on anniversary of Nostra Aetate |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-30-2025, 12:59 PM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Vatican honors Hinduism, Islam with dance celebration on anniversary of Nostra Aetate
During the dances at the Vatican, a woman alternately held up signs with an 'Om' Hindu symbol, a picture of a crucifix, and an Islamic crescent and moon.
Oct 29, 2025
(LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican celebrated on Tuesday the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, by paying homage through dance to Hinduism and Islam alongside Christianity.
A recording of the commemoration, held in the Paul VI Hall, shows women dressed in traditional-style garb dancing to Eastern and Middle Eastern music. During the dances, a woman alternately held up signs with an “Om” Hindu symbol, a picture of a crucifix, and an Islamic crescent and moon, as if to suggest that all religions are on equal footing.
The entire event, including the concluding speech by Pope Leo XIV, was permeated by the value of dialogue and “friendship” between religions rather than the traditional Christian mandate to “go and make disciples of all nations,” that is, convert them to the true faith.
Leo said during his closing remarks that Nostra Aetate “opened our eyes to a simple yet profound principle: dialogue is not a tactic or a tool, but it’s a way of life – a journey of the heart that transforms everyone involved.” This statement suggests, contrary to Christ’s Great Commission, that dialogue is not meant to be a means toward conversion, but rather an end in itself.
Nostra Aetate itself is marked by this false ecumenical attitude, since it “does not actually exhort non-Christians to convert to Christ and His Church in order ‘to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth,’” as Matt Gaspers has noted for Catholic Family News.
The document instead claims that the Church “esteems” non-Christian religions and “exhorts her sons, that through dialogue and collaboration with the followers of other religions … they recognize, preserve and promote the good things, spiritual and moral, as well as the socio-cultural values found among these men.”
Nostra Aetate goes so far as to suggest that men can reach God through pagan religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism, in stark contradiction to the longstanding teaching of the Church and the Syllabus of Errors’ condemnation of the idea that “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation, and arrive at eternal salvation.”
The Vatican II document falsely claims that “in Hinduism, men contemplate the divine mystery,” and that Buddhism “teaches a way by which men … may be able either to acquire the state of perfect liberation, or attain, by their own efforts or through higher help, supreme illumination.”
So-called “liberation” or “illumination” is impossible through a non-Christian, pagan religion such as Buddhism or Hinduism. By worshipping multiple false gods, these religions in reality pays homage to demons, as both the Old Testament and New Testament Scriptures affirm: “For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils: but the Lord made the heavens.” (Ps. 95:5) “But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils.” (1 Cor. 10:19-20)
[...]Archbishop Guido Pozzo, the Secretary of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, pointed out about a decade ago that “Nostra Aetate does not have any dogmatic authority, and thus one cannot demand from anyone to recognize this declaration as being dogmatic.”
During Tuesday’s Vatican celebration, Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, shared that Nostra Aetate, remarkably, was in part prompted by the request of a Jewish historian.
“On the occasion of the meeting between Jules Isaac and Pope John XXIII on June 13, 1960, the Jewish historian presented the pope with a memorandum urgently calling for a new (way) of the Church relationship with today’s (man),” said Koch. “Pope John took up this request and commissioned the drafting of a declaration which … resulted in Nostra Aetate.”
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| Video of Statue of Our Lord being toppled in the Netherlands |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-30-2025, 12:07 PM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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It's Here Now: When they desecrated my Parish
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Desecration of my parish church
by Serre Verweij
A video is going viral of a vandal toppling a statue of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in a church in Utrecht. That’s my parish church. A parish of the Archdiocese of Utrecht, led by a pillar of orthodoxy, Cardinal Eijk. An oasis of the true faith in the corrupted and decadent nation that is the modern Netherlands.
It’s a parish where confessions are heard for nearly an hour every evening along with Eucharistic Adoration. One where liturgical abuse is avoided. It is the church where the late Father Elias, co-founder of the EWTN branch for the Low Countries, would hold sermons condemning homosexual acts, abortion, and the push by progressives in the Netherlands to normalize pedophilia.
Nothing seems sacred anymore. Someone acted with impunity. With no other desire than to attack Christ and His Church, apparently. I learned about it online, even though I visit the parish regularly. News of evil travels fast, but especially fast online. Now the bad news is no longer coming from far away, but it is present right here. Here in my parish.
But, this will not break our parish. It will not stop the Church! We also kept celebrating the mass with acolytes and all, during the height of the Covid restrictions during Christmastime, entering by a side door, with less noise and less lights. No official announcement, those who were close to the parish were there. It felt like a secret mass in the catacombs.
We do not fear vandals or desecration. They should fear Christ if they don’t repent. Let us spray for all the ungodly that Christ may turn their hearts. The Church does not have to fear persecution anywhere.
If the faith can grow after tens of thousands have been martyred in Nigeria, then we must never give up!
[Video here: https://gloria.tv/share/UzKwAAZ3PPK64UaNNrG9tSc7r]
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| The Way Of Perfection by Saint Teresa Of Avila |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-30-2025, 11:58 AM - Forum: Resources Online
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The Way Of Perfection
by
Saint Teresa Of Avila
Taken from here.
CHAPTER 1
Of the reason which moved me to found this convent in such strict observance.
When this convent was originally founded, for the reasons set down in the book which, as I say, I have already written, and also because of certain wonderful revelations by which the Lord showed me how well He would be served in this house, it was not my intention that there should be so much austerity in external matters, nor that it should have no regular income: on the contrary, I should have liked there to be no possibility of want. I acted, in short, like the weak and wretched woman that I am, although I did so with good intentions and not out of consideration for my own comfort.
At about this time there came to my notice the harm and havoc that were being wrought in France by these Lutherans and the way in which their unhappy sect was increasing. This troubled me very much, and, as though I could do anything, or be of any help in the matter, I wept before the Lord and entreated Him to remedy this great evil. I felt that I would have laid down a thousand lives to save a single one of all the souls that were being lost there. And, seeing that I was a woman, and a sinner, and incapable of doing all I should like in the Lord's service, and as my whole yearning was, and still is, that, as He has so many enemies and so few friends, these last should be trusty ones, I determined to do the little that was in me -- namely, to follow the evangelical counsels as perfectly as I could, and to see that these few nuns who are here should do the same, confiding in the great goodness of God, Who never fails to help those who resolve to forsake everything for His sake. As they are all that I have ever painted them as being in my desires, I hoped that their virtues would more than counteract my defects, and I should thus be able to give the Lord some pleasure, and all of us, by busying ourselves in prayer for those who are defenders of the Church, and for the preachers and learned men who defend her, should do everything we could to aid this Lord of mine Who is so much oppressed by those to whom He has shown so much good that it seems as though these traitors would send Him to the Cross again and that He would have nowhere to lay His head.
Oh, my Redeemer, my heart cannot conceive this without being sorely distressed! What has become of Christians now? Must those who owe Thee most always be those who distress Thee? Those to whom Thou doest the greatest kindnesses, whom Thou dost choose for Thy friends, among whom Thou dost move, communicating Thyself to them through the Sacraments? Do they not think, Lord of my soul, that they have made Thee endure more than sufficient torments?
It is certain, my Lord, that in these days withdrawal from the world means no sacrifice at all. Since worldly people have so little respect for Thee, what can we expect them to have for us? Can it be that we deserve that they should treat us any better than they have treated Thee? Have we done more for them than Thou hast done that they should be friendly to us? What then? What can we expect -- we who, through the goodness of the Lord, are free from that pestilential infection, and do not, like those others, belong to the devil? They have won severe punishment at his hands and their pleasures have richly earned them eternal fire. So to eternal fire they will have to go, though none the less it breaks my heart to see so many souls travelling to perdition. I would the evil were not so great and I did not see more being lost every day.
Oh, my sisters in Christ! Help me to entreat this of the Lord, Who has brought you together here for that very purpose. This is your vocation; this must be your business; these must be your desires; these your tears; these your petitions. Let us not pray for worldly things, my sisters. It makes me laugh, and yet it makes me sad, when I hear of the things which people come here to beg us to pray to God for; we are to ask His Majesty to give them money and to provide them with incomes -- I wish that some of these people would entreat God to enable them to trample all such things beneath their feet. Their intentions are quite good, and I do as they ask because I see that they are really devout people, though I do not myself believe that God ever hears me when I pray for such things. The world is on fire. Men try to condemn Christ once again, as it were, for they bring a thousand false witnesses against Him. They would raze His Church to the ground -- and are we to waste our time upon things which, if God were to grant them, would perhaps bring one soul less to Heaven? No, my sisters, this is no time to treat with God for things of little importance.
Were it not necessary to consider human frailty, which finds satisfaction in every kind of help -- and it is always a good thing if we can be of any help to people -- I should like it to be understood that it is not for things like these that God should be importuned with such anxiety.
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| Pope Leo says ‘no one possesses the whole truth’ in Sunday sermon |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-28-2025, 09:51 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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The irony isn't lost upon us that on the traditional Feast of Christ the King, the last Sunday of October, changed in the new Conciliar religion to the 'Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time,' and during the Jubilee Mass of the Synodal Teams and Participatory Bodies, the Pope implicitly denies Our Lord's Kingship by relegating Him to one among many possessing the true religion...
Pope Leo says ‘no one possesses the whole truth’ in Sunday sermon
Although no created man possesses the fullness of truth, the Church has a duty to guard and proclaim the infallible truths of the faith.
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Pope Leo XIV delivers the Regina Caeli prayer in St. Peter's Square
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Oct 27, 2025
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV has said that “no one possesses the whole truth” and “no one is excluded” from the Church in his most recent Sunday sermon.
In his homily delivered at the Jubilee Mass of the Synodal Teams and Participatory Bodies on October 26, Leo made remarks that could be interpreted as relativistic regarding the Catholic Church’s proclamation of the one true faith.
“The supreme rule in the Church is love. No one is called to dominate; all are called to serve,” the Roman Pontiff said. “No one should impose his or her own ideas; we must all listen to one another. No one is excluded; we are all called to participate.”
“No one possesses the whole truth; we must all humbly seek it and seek it together,” he stated.
He later reiterated this point, saying, “Being a synodal Church means recognizing that truth is not possessed, but sought together, allowing ourselves to be guided by a restless heart in love with Love.”
Leo stressed the importance of the Church being “synodal,” a vague term often used by his predecessor, Pope Francis.
“The synodal teams and participatory bodies are an image of this Church that lives in communion,” he noted.
READ: Pope Leo holds service with Charles III, head of church that canceled Catholicism for centuries
He said, “[W]e must dream of and build a more humble Church; a Church that does not stand upright like the Pharisee, triumphant and inflated with pride, but bends down to wash the feet of humanity; a Church that does not judge as the Pharisee does the tax collector, but becomes a welcoming place for all; a Church that does not close in on itself, but remains attentive to God so that it can similarly listen to everyone.”
“Let us commit ourselves to building a Church that is entirely synodal, ministerial and attracted to Christ and therefore committed to serving the world,” he concluded.
While it is true that no created man possesses the fullness of truth, the Catholic Church, as the Mystical Body of Christ guided by the Holy Spirit, has always maintained that it is the guardian of the deposit of faith, which is the truth revealed by God.
Pope Leo’s comments are ambiguous and may be interpreted as relativistic, since he failed to make the distinction between individual members of the Church being fallible in their understanding of truth and the Church, as the Mystical Body of Christ, guarding and proclaiming the one true faith.
Sacred Scripture states that “the Church of the living God” is “the pillar and bulwark of the truth.” (1 Timothy 3:15)
Regarding the Church’s authority to proclaim the truth, the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church states: “The Church’s Magisterium exercises the authority it holds from Christ to the fullest extent when it defines dogmas, that is, when it proposes, in a form obliging the Christian people to an irrevocable adherence of faith, truths contained in divine Revelation or also when it proposes, in a definitive way, truths having a necessary connection with these.” (CCC 88)
Regarding the Pope’s comment that “no one is excluded” from the Church, Catholic author and commentator Erick Ybarra responded on X:
“Are Jesus and the Apostles welcome? Do their commands have any value? In particular, about not even eating with Christians who live in outward contradiction to the commands of Christ and/or those who obstinately contradict the dogmas of Tradition? (1 Cor 5:1-13; 2 John 1:10) and treating the impenitent ‘faithful’ as heathen and tax collectors? (Mathew 18)” [sic]
“I think Catholic liberals would vomit at the teaching of Jesus and the Church of the Apostles,” Ybarra continued. “They can barely take a Christianity with any testosterone to begin with. They are more interested in the Church that appeals to the pleasure and honor of man than God.”
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