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Posted by: Stone - 12-09-2023, 07:31 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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NB: This announcement indeed potentially portends good news however certain lingering questions are as of yet unanswered, for example, who are the priests chosen as seminary professors? Were they ordained in the traditional or in the Novus Ordo Rite, which Archbishop Viganò notes in the below announcement that
there are 'disturbing changes to the rite of conferring Holy Orders'? Will Archbishop Viganò considered being conditionally re-consecrated as he himself was consecrated in the new Novus Ordo Rite which can be doubtful? With Archbishop Viganò's seemingly inching closer to sedevacantism, will the new seminary acknowledge Pope Francis as Pope, both in their Masses and in their studies? These questions and others will need clarification before we can fully support the new seminary.... but we hope our concerns are shown to be baseless and good fruit is poured out in this endeavor!
Also of note, Archbishop Viganò laudably refers twice to Archbishop Lefebvre in his announcement as a praiseworthy model in realizing the need for seminaries. But this also begs the question, why Viganò did not choose to simply throw his approval and weight behind the SSPX and their seminaries? Perhaps there too he sees the infiltration of the errors of Vatican II? We notice, while praising Archbishop Lefebvre, he does not include the current SSPX hierarchy!
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Archbishop Viganò announces house of formation to train priests who will resist ‘errors of Vatican II’
Archbishop Viganò announced his plans for a new seminary under his supervision while insisting that 'good and holy priests are needed who are not subjected to the blackmail of having to accept the errors of Vatican II or the deviations of Bergoglio in order to exercise their ministry.'
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
Dec 8, 2023
(LifeSiteNews)
Dear Friends and Benefactors,
On December 2, the President of Exsurge Domine offered hospitality in Torrita di Siena for the celebration of Mass on the First Saturday of the month, followed by a reception attended by a number of friends and supporters. It was an opportunity to get to know each other in person – or to meet again – and to let you know about the decision to undertake the establishment of the Collegium Traditionis, the house of clerical formation that will welcome young traditional vocations and accompany them with discernment toward the Priesthood: I invite you to read my homily for a more complete picture. Needless to say, this ambitious project responds to an obvious pastoral need of the faithful – especially in Italy – and to my duty, as Successor of the Apostles, to ensure a doctrinally and morally safe harbor for new and holy Vocations: only with a long-term view, projected toward the future of our children, will we be able to create the basis for the rebirth of a genuinely Christian society. Without workers, you know well, the Vineyard of the Lord bears no fruit.
By now you will have learned of the unilateral decision of the Nuns of Pienza not to continue on the path they had taken and to abandon the Monastic Village project, which Exsurge Domine had generously offered them. Without going into the merits of the choice of the Benedictine Community, I would like to reiterate – as the President has already had the opportunity to communicate – that what has been done so far thanks to your support will not be interrupted, but will simply be adapted to the new destination of the properties and buildings: no longer a cenobium for nuns, but a Seminary and a place of retreat for those who feel called to the service of God. I also believe that this change has allowed the realization of something more urgent and certainly desired by Divine Providence. Of course, I cannot help but feel sorry for the attacks made against Exsurge Domine; but you know better than I that any work that has a supernatural purpose is targeted by the devil. So let us not be surprised if even our efforts – however prudent and conscientious they may be – are made the object of ungenerous criticism and slander: this will rather enable us to commit ourselves with greater confidence to the Lord’s help.
This new issue of the Exsurge Domine Newsletter is published on a special and symbolic occasion: the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. And it is under Her patronage that we place our apostolate, our activity, our commitment, but also your families, your intentions and concerns. To Her, our Queen and Lady, we entrust ourselves, our loved ones and all of you, whose prayers and material support have made possible what has been done so far. I trust that we can count on your help and that of so many generous people to support all that remains to be accomplished.
With deep gratitude, I wish you all to spend Advent in a spirit of preparation for the Nativity of Our Lord, accompanied on this journey of waiting and prayer by the maternal protection of the Immaculate Virgin.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
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Adeamus cum fiducia ad thronum gratiæ, ut misericordiam consequamur, et gratiam inveniamus in auxilio opportuno. (Heb 4:16)
Dear Brothers and Friends, on this first Saturday of December, the Introit of the Votive Mass in honor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is an invitation for us to turn to the Mediatrix of all Graces, to the One who is Almighty by grace, while the world and the Church are besieged by an attack that seems to overwhelm everything in general apostasy.
Let us approach the throne of graces with confidence, to obtain mercy and find graces to help us in the right time. These are the concluding words of the fourth chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, in which the Apostle speaks to us of Christ the High Priest: There is no creature that remains hidden from him, but all things are naked and open in his eyes, and to him we must render an account (Heb 4:13). And immediately afterwards: Having therefore a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us remain firm in the profession of our faith (Heb 4:14).
The reason why the Church wanted to propose as part of the Mass of the Immaculate Heart a passage of Scripture relating to her Divine Son lies first of all in Virgin Mother’s role of Co-Redemptrix. Ego sum ostium (Jn 10:7) the Lord said – “I am the gate” – and that doorway of grace is the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, wide open to welcome each one of us. But we also invoke Mary Most Holy as Ianua Cœli, the Gate of Paradise. Christ the Lord is Universal Mediator, by virtue of His Incarnation, Passion and Death; Our Lady is Mediatrix, by virtue of Her Divine Motherhood and Her Compassion at the Cross of her Son. Devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary is a powerful refuge for us, especially when the Passio Christi continues in the Passio Ecclesiæ: not only in its individual members, but in the entire ecclesial body. It is in these hours of darkness and apostasy, when all seems lost, that the pierced Heart of the Savior opens in the immolation of love to the repentant soul, and the Heart of the Virgin, pierced by the sword, beats in unison with that of Her Son.
Ours is a world without love, because it is without God. A world in which God has been banished from society and, as horrible as it may seem, in which the same enemies that rage in the secular world would also like to oust Him from the Church, turning her into a Masonic sect subservient to the New World Order. The Civitas Dei seems to be a distant memory of a bygone era, while the Civitas diaboli is established in almost all once-Christian nations. But we forget that the Civitas Dei is not a utopia that deceived our fathers, but rather the necessary realization of the words of the Apostle: Oportet autem illum regnare, donec ponat omnes inimicos sub pedibus ejus. It is necessary for Our Lord to reign until He has placed all His enemies under His feet (1 Cor 15:25).
There are, therefore, enemies – and today we know well who they are – destined to be humiliated by the King of kings, and their fate is sealed; it is only a matter of time. Enemies who today have united – consilium fecerunt in unum (Ps 70:10) – in an infernal alliance between the deep state and the deep church, to hasten their delirious plan of global domination. A project that is the exact opposite of that regnum veritatis et vitæ; regnum sanctitatis et gratiæ; regnum justitiæ, amoris et pacis of which the Preface of the Feast of Christ the King speaks. The kingdom of the Antichrist is a kingdom of lies and death; a kingdom of perversion and damnation; a kingdom of injustice, hatred and war. And if in the economy of Redemption everything that comes to us from God is freely given and the fruit of His generous magnificence, where Satan reigns everything can be monetized, everything is bought and sold, everything has a price.
The restoration of the Divine Kingship of Our Lord cannot be attained, however, without first restoring the Catholic priesthood, on which depend the survival of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Most Holy Eucharist, and the sacramental grace by which souls are sanctified. And just as a body cannot subsist without a heart, so too the Catholic Church cannot live without the priesthood, through which the Eucharistic Sacrifice, the beating heart of the Mystical Body, is perpetuated on our altars.
As proof of this supernatural reality, we can see the pitiful state in which the Church finds herself today, a victim of the distortion of the priesthood and the falsification of the Mass: the disastrous collapse of priestly and religious vocations on the one hand, and on the other, the deformation of young people in the few surviving seminaries, which are now corrupt doctrinally and morally. Since the great reform of the Council of Trent we had witnessed a revival of religious orders and clergy, helped in this by a wise discipline that forged saints. Since the so-called “conciliar reform,” we have seen churches, seminaries, convents and Catholic schools emptied. Out of the eagerness to please the world, to follow fashions, and not to seem reactionary, the postconciliar Church has been reduced to insignificance, after having deprived the faithful and clergy of that priceless patrimony that has proved valid and effective over the centuries. It is difficult not to see in the Second Vatican Council the blatant contradiction of two thousand years of faith.
The providential work of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, beginning with the immediate postconciliar period, had the indisputable merit, on the one hand, of denouncing the estrangement from the immutable lex credendi, and on the other of understanding the threat to which the priesthood was exposed with the introduction of the reformed liturgy and with it the disturbing changes to the rite of conferring Holy Orders. The priests of the new church became “presidents of the assembly” and their ministerial role was progressively silenced and forgotten, precisely because there was no longer to be an alter Christus who sacrificed the Immaculate Host on the altar to the Eternal Father, but rather a mere delegate of the people who presided over a fraternal agape around a table.
For this there was no longer any need for a High Priest, a King, a Prophet. This is why the kingdom of Christ must be restored also and first of all in the bosom of the Church, recognizing that for sixty years now the modernist Hierarchy has methodically erased and denied any reference to the doctrine of the social kingship of Christ reaffirmed only a few decades earlier – in 1925 – by Pius XI. On the other hand, the Innovators could have achieved very little if they had not taken steps to eliminate this obstacle to the laicization of society and, paradoxically, of the Church itself. By now it is evident: Christ the King and Priest is the stumbling block of conciliar neomodernism and even more so of the last ten years of the “Bergoglian pontificate.”
Italy, blessed by God, who providentially desired that the See of the Papacy would be located in Rome, now follows the ruin of other Catholic nations which have become apostates and rebels against Christ. The Italian Church has also sunk into ruin, and the Italian Bishops’ Conference is totally subservient to the new Bergoglian course. The Bishops of the Italian Dioceses are either silent or else convinced supporters of Bergoglio. Most parish pastors, priests, and religious follow the synodal wind like weather vanes, and the few dissenters do not dare to react publicly.
For this reason, I believe the time has come to give a new impetus to Exsurge Domine, the Association I founded a few months ago. I wished to reserve this particular occasion which sees us gathered today in the house of the President of Exsurge Domine to announce that the Monastic Village at the Hermitage of Palanzana in Viterbo, initially intended to help the Benedictine Sisters of Pienza, will become, God willing, a house of formation for clergy which will take the name Collegium Traditionis, since the Sisters have recently decided to dissociate themselves from the project that Exsurge Domine had offered them.
The Collegium Traditionis will be the first and only traditional Italian reality destined for a seminary, equipping itself with teachers and spiritual guides of sure orthodoxy and solid spirituality, under my supervision.
This passage follows in some way the initiative of the venerable Archbishop Lefebvre, but it differs from it in its Italian and Roman flavor, and also in consideration of the different ecclesial context today compared to the situation of the 1970s. We will therefore have vocations and ordinations for Italy, to restore the Catholic priesthood in the homeland of St. Ambrose and St. Charles Borromeo, St. Robert Bellarmine, St. Pius V and St. Pius X, and all the Saints whose our beloved Italy is honored.
I am well aware of the challenge that this project represents, but I am equally confident that, where the intention is right, the Lord will not fail to bless our commitment to the service of the Church and to protect Exsurge Domine from the attacks to which it will certainly be subjected. However, my commitment and that of my confreres will need the help and collaboration of those whom, as Saint John Chrysostom writes, the Lord has endowed with material means to make them cooperators and instruments of Providence. Good things belong to the Lord, says the great Doctor of the Church, and the rich are those who have the privilege of administering the riches that God has granted them to use for good. For this reason, dear Brothers and Friends, I urge you to become ministers of Providence yourselves in this ambitious project, in the awareness that this work of charity of yours – obviously accompanied by a supernatural gaze – will serve Italy first and foremost, indeed the Italian people, given the total absence of a traditional seminary in this region. Your children and your children’s children deserve not only to grow up and be educated in a Christian family, but also to have Ministers of God who do not betray their vocation, and who continue, even in times of apostasy, to do what Christ commanded the Apostles and their Successors, remaining faithful to what the Holy Church has always taught.
The joy of cooperating in the urgent needs of the Church goes hand in hand with the pride of carrying out a meritorious work for our country as well, because it is only through the sanctifying action of the Sacraments and the Holy Mass that the Italian people will be able to rediscover the pride of their faith and find the courage to resist the subversive project now underway. But in order for this to be possible, good and holy priests are needed who are not subjected to the blackmail of having to accept the errors of Vatican II or the deviations of Bergoglio in order to exercise their ministry. If you think of the few clergy of the former Ecclesia Dei Institutes, or of the secular and regular priests scattered throughout the Dioceses and Religious Orders, you can easily understand why today an institute of independent clerical formation is more indispensable than ever: not because independence is to be pursued in itself, but because the abuse of authority on the part of the Vatican and diocesan Bishops effectively prevents any authentically Catholic and truly traditional pastoral activity.
At this rite today we have four priests of Familia Christi and two seminarians present. Their past history should serve as an example of this systematic persecution that the Bergoglian Church is waging against anyone who deviates from the avowedly antitraditional line of this “pontificate.” These priests have had the opportunity to understand first-hand the absolute falsity of the alleged parrhesia so praised by Bergoglio. And I can testify that the persecution they suffered gave them the opportunity to understand that no compromise can be accepted, least of all in doctrinal, moral and liturgical matters. But how many other priests, how many parish priests, how many monks and friars, how many young vocations remain isolated and sterile, because there is no refuge to welcome and assist them?
For this reason, I am sure that all of you will be able to seize the opportunity that is given to you, each according to his or her own means, both spiritual and material, to contribute to the work of Exsurge Domine. In this regard, St. John Chrysostom also admonishes those whom the Lord has made rich, reminding them of the task they have of making themselves cooperators in the magnificence of God, of being in some way stewards of His goods, created and granted not to nourish selfishness and the lust for power, but in harmony with the divine order, for the glory of the Most Holy Trinity and for the Good of souls.
This evening, with First Vespers of the First Sunday of Advent, the Holy Church prepares to celebrate the Birth of the Redeemer. The first and last Sundays of the liturgical year instruct us with the Gospel of the end times, showing us how everything begins and is fulfilled in Christ, King and High Priest, Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. We find ourselves in an interregnum between the coming in humility of the Incarnate Word and His return in glory; an eternal glory: cujus regni non erit finis, as we recite in the Creed. Well, in this time of trial and mercy that prepares us for liturgical Advent as well as the final coming of the Lord, we have the possibility of meriting the beatitude of heaven by fulfilling the Will of God, in Faith animated by good works.
An eschatological outlook leads us to believe that we are now living in the end times, and that the time has come to look realistically at the struggle to which we are called. Non præteribit generatio hæc donec omnia hæc fiant. This generation will not pass away before all this happens (Mt 24:33), the Lord warns us. We need to understand the privilege we have received of witnessing the final stages of the epochal war between God and Satan; a war already won by Our Lord on the Cross, but which is waiting to be sanctioned by the triumph of Christ and the definitive defeat of the Adversary. It is a privilege that consists above all in being witnesses of this victory, precisely when the apparent success of the enemies suggests that all is lost and the Church has been defeated and overthrown. But was this not also the case after the Savior’s death, after His burial, when the Apostles had abandoned the Lord and shut themselves up in the Upper Room? The Passio Ecclesiæ is not unlike the Passio Christi, and there is no glory of the resurrection through it without first suffering the sufferings of Calvary. In this the words of the Apostle are fulfilled: Instaurare omnia in Christo (Eph 1:10) means precisely restoring all things in Christ, understanding that the Cross is the throne from which the Divine King reigns, and that the Church, His Mystical Body, must also rediscover her own identity and mission by ascending Golgotha as well.
Let us so live that the Child King, whom we will soon adore with the shepherds and the Three Magi Kings, may illuminate this valley of tears, warm our hearts, and inflame our wills: so that at His triumphant return as Rex tremendæ majestatis each one of us may be called to His right hand: voca me benedictis.
And may the Blessed Virgin – whose Immaculate Heart was chosen by the eternal Son of the Father to be the domus aurea, the palace of the King of kings – deign to offer all that we have returned in this life to Our Lord, in the confidence that we will receive back a hundredfold. May the imminent Feast of the Immaculate Conception spur us to trust in the Blessed Virgin, who alone overcame all heresies and who in her humility – a model for us all – deserved to be able to crush the head of the ancient Serpent. To the Immaculate Conception, our Mother, Lady and Queen, I entrust in a very special way the Exsurge Domine Association and all those who support it with the spiritual help of prayer and with the material help of charity. Let us ask her to answer our supplication and make us worthy of Christ’s promises. And so may it be.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
December 2, 2023
Last Day of the Liturgical Year and First Saturday of the Month
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| FDA Approved, Controversial Lab-Grown Meat Becomes A Reality |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-09-2023, 06:29 AM - Forum: Health
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FDA Approved, Controversial Lab-Grown Meat Becomes A Reality
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ZH | DEC 07, 2023 - 08:20 PM
Authored by Patricia Tolson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ZH),
In an effort to protect its farming industry, its economy, and the health of its citizens, Italy recently became the first country to officially ban cultivated meat.
Cultivated meat, also known as lab-grown meat, is created in a lab through a five-step process in which stem cells from an animal are replicated and grown in a series of bioreactors before being blended with additives to create a more realistic texture. The meat cells are then drained in a centrifuge, formed, and packaged for distribution, according to consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
In a Nov. 16 Facebook post, Italian Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida said, “In defense of health, of the Italian production system, of thousands of jobs, of our culture and tradition, with the law approved today, Italy is the first nation in the world to be safe from the social and economic risks of synthetic food," according to an English translation.
The bill passed the Italian Senate by a measure of 159–53 and was supported by the country's agricultural groups, which worked to protect Italy's $10.1 billion meat-processing industry.
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Cultivated chicken is made in tanks at Eat Just in Alameda, Calif., on July 27, 2023. Cell-cultivated or lab-grown meat is made by feeding nutrients to animal cells in stainless steel tanks. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Efforts in the United States to block lab-grown meat, or to ensure that consumers know what they're buying, include a 2018 law in Missouri that prohibits plant-based and lab-grown food from being labeled as “meat.”
"This act also prohibits misrepresenting a product as meat that is not derived from harvested production livestock or poultry," the law states.
On Nov. 13, Florida state Rep. Tyler Sirois filed a bill that aims to prohibit the "manufacturing, sale, holding, or distribution of cultivated meat" in the state.
"Farming and cattle are incredibly important industries to Florida," the Republican legislator told Politico. "So I think this is a very relevant discussion for our state to have."
Should the bill, HB 435, become law, restaurants and stores in violation could be fined up to $5,000, and manufacturers, processors, packers, or distributors who misrepresent or mislabel the food could be fined up to $10,000 per violation.
Wilton Simpson, commissioner of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, is fully on board with Mr. Sirois's effort.
"Without this legislation, untested, potentially unsafe, and nearly unregulated laboratory-produced meat could be made available in Florida," Mr. Simpson said in a statement to The Epoch Times.
"One of my top responsibilities is ensuring the safety and wholesomeness of our food supply and protecting Florida’s consumers, and this proposal does just that.”
On Nov. 22, the measure moved to the Agriculture, Conservation, and Resiliency Subcommittee.
Cultivated Meat Market
So far, only two countries—the United States and Singapore—have approved cultivated meat for human consumption.
Research and Markets predicts that the global lab-grown meat market will reach nearly $2 billion by 2035. It lists 16 cultivated meat companies, five of which are based in the United States, three in Israel, two in the Netherlands, two in Singapore, and one each in China, India, the UK, and Switzerland.
"In 2025, the nuggets segment is expected to account for the largest share of the lab-grown meat market," Research and Markets states in its January analysis.
"The large market share of this segment is attributed to the increasing adoption of on-the-go lifestyles, the growing demand for snacking products, and the increasing demand for frozen products."
However, lab-grown burger patties are projected to register the highest compound annual growth rate from 2025 through 2035, according to the company.
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Chef Zach Tyndall brushes sauce on a piece of Good Meat's cultivated chicken as it's grilled at the Eat Just office in Alameda, Calif., on July 27, 2023. In June, the U.S. Department of Agriculture authorized two California-based companies, Upside Foods and Good Meat, to sell chicken grown from cells in a lab. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
In November 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it had "completed its first pre-market consultation for a human food made from cultured animal cells."
On June 21, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) granted its first-ever approval to produce cell-cultured meat to two companies in the United States, Good Meat and Upside Food.
Good Meat—the cultivated meat brand of the food technology company Eat Just, Inc.—has manufacturing facilities in the United States and Singapore.
According to the company, the USDA approval allows for its first lab-grown chicken product to be produced and sold in the United States. Four months earlier, the company had received its "No Questions" letter from the FDA, which meant it passed a food safety review.
"Our first product is cultivated chicken that is prepared and served in multiple formats and was approved for sale in Singapore in 2020 and the United States in 2023," the company states on its website.
"We’re also working on other types of meat, including cultivated beef using cells from California pasture-raised cattle and Wagyu from the Toriyama farm in Japan."
Washington-based restaurant China Chilcano added a dish using Good Meat cultivated chicken to its menu in July.
Major investors in Good Meat are UBS O'Connor, a hedge fund management firm within UBS Asset Management, and the venture capital firms of Graphene Ventures and Singapore-based K3 Ventures.
Bill Gates has been a major investor in Upside Foods since its launch in 2017.
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Bill Gates speaks at an event called "Transforming Food Systems in the face of Climate Change" during the United Nations' Climate Change Conference in Dubai on Dec. 1, 2023. (Christophe Viseux/COP28 via Getty Images)
Upside Foods said its USDA approval clears the company to produce and sell its cultivated chicken. The company says it takes about three weeks to produce its chicken filet product.
"Not to get bogged down in semantics, but we can’t overstate this: We’re making meat!" the company states on its website.
"Cultivated meat is a brand-new product category, so we understand that there’s a lot of confusion out there about what it is and what it isn’t. For one thing, cultivated meat is not vegan or vegetarian."
According to the company, its cell-cultivated chicken is made up of "more than 99 percent chicken cells."
The FDA approved Upside Foods to make its products in November 2022, based on a self-assessment by Upside of its processes and risk management practices.
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| Religious Leaders Join UN, WEF To Push the Global Climate Agenda |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-08-2023, 07:10 AM - Forum: Great Reset
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Religious Leaders Join UN, WEF To Push the Global Climate Agenda
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ZH | DEC 08, 2023
Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ZH),
Deep in a Cambodian old-growth forest, Buddhist "ecology monks" wrap trees in saffron clerical robes before ordaining the trees into the Buddhist faith.
The practice is an example of "forest activism" that spread to Cambodia after Thai monks in the 1990s began ordaining trees as they would a new monk.
Ordained trees become sacred and protected from illegal logging because harming an ordained monk is taboo in the Buddhist religion.
The recognition that religion can be a powerful tool when applied to selling the global warming narrative has been gaining traction at the United Nations and the World Economic Forum (WEF), where faith has traditionally been kept at arm's length.
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Buddhist monks tie a saffron robe around the trunk of a tree to symbolically ordain it in an attempt to stop it from being felled to make way for a motorway on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Feb. 10, 2021. (-/AFP via Getty Images)
The globalist agencies are now welcoming help from religious leaders fighting climate change, one of the 17 U.N. sustainable development goals for 2030.
But some religious leaders are alarmed by their colleagues' involvement in the climate debate.
"I think this is a dangerous agenda, and it keeps the church from doing what its primary calling is, and that is to win people to faith in Jesus Christ," Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, told The Epoch Times.
"We ought to be much more concerned about what God thinks."
The U.N. predicts doom if urgent action isn't taken to save the earth from the calamity of rising oceans and extreme weather caused by global warming, although scientific evidence remains controversial.
The U.N.'s 2030 climate goal calls for "deep, rapid, and sustained" reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 42 percent, and the U.N. is aiming for net zero emissions by 2050. It predicts that global temperatures will rise by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2035.
Crucifying Fossil Fuel
In anticipation of the U.N. Paris Climate Conference in 2015, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, and Christian groups issued climate change declarations, marking a turning point in faith leader support for the global climate agenda.
The U.N. heralded the news of Pope Francis's papal letter on climate change that year to all Roman Catholic bishops, titled Laudato Si.
The spiritual leader of 1.36 billion Catholics lent his considerable clout to saving the planet, lamenting that environmental degradation was hurting the world's poorest citizens.
"I urgently appeal, then, for a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet," Pope Francis wrote.
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Pope Francis delivers a speech as other religious leaders and scientists listen during the meeting "Faith and Science: Towards COP26," in The Vatican on Oct. 4, 2021. (ALESSANDRO DI MEO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
And although the pontiff couldn't attend this year's COP28 U.N. climate summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, he sent a message for the inauguration of the first-ever Faith Pavilion at the event, stressing the responsibility of religious leaders to care for the planet.
Many religious leaders have joined U.N. officials in demanding that financial institutions stop funding fossil fuel projects.
Leaders of the World Council of Churches, Muslim Council of Elders, and New York Board of Rabbis released statements in 2021 and 2022 saying that banks, pension funds, and insurance firms had a "moral imperative" to stop investing in fossil fuels.
They pressured financial institutions to invest in so-called renewable energy for "children and future generations of life on earth."
Michael O'Fallon is the founder of Sovereign Nations, a media website dedicated to the preservation of national sovereignty.
He spoke with The Epoch Times about what he sees as a sinister development.
The climate change agenda is part of the U.N. and WEF's quest to govern the world's energy and wealth, he said.
"This is going to be all-encompassing. It's going to change everything unless we completely stop it," Mr. O'Fallon warned.
As evidence of the new world order, he pointed to the Terra Carta, a document on people and planet rights modeled after the 808-year-old Magna Carta.
The 2021 Terra Carta is part of the sustainable market plan started by British King Charles, who's head of the Church of England.
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King Charles III delivers an address at the opening ceremony of the World Climate Action Summit during COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Dec. 1, 2023. (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
According to its mandate, "nature" must be given "fundamental rights and value" to ensure a lasting and tangible legacy for this generation.
Even otherwise traditionally conservative Christian groups, such as the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), have joined the environmental movement.
Christians believe in following in Jesus's footsteps by helping the poor and vulnerable—who globalists contend will suffer the most from climate change.
"We wish to navigate the complexities of our times, including issues like climate change, with Biblical clarity and a deep love that reflects God's own heart for this world, especially for those least able to enjoy its blessings," NAE President Walter Kim said in a 2022 statement.
But Mr. Jeffress said he isn't buying what the U.N. is selling.
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A woman walks into the "faith pavilion" at the COP28 United Nations climate summit venue in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Dec. 6, 2023. (Giuseppe CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)
"Look, let's be clear, Jesus Christ is the one who sets the agenda for the church, not the United Nations," Mr. Jeffress said.
"And for churches to adopt the United Nations purpose statement and causes is really the church prostituting itself, allowing itself to be used by an outside organization."
The concept of nations is biblical, meaning a global government isn't part of God's plan, he said.
In his new book, "Are We Living in the End Times?" being released this month, Mr. Jeffress said people need to be politically and spiritually aware of what's happening. The Southern Baptist pastor is known as a spiritual adviser to former President Donald Trump.
The so-called climate urgency has galvanized environmental activists from GreenFaith and Interfaith Power and Light to stage protests and disruptions.
GreenFaith organized a demonstration last year at BlackRock's New York location that resulted in arrests after protesters warned the colossal investment firm to stop "destroying the earth" by investing in fossil fuels.
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| The Progressivism of Benedict XVI - A Different Religion? |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-06-2023, 08:02 AM - Forum: The Architects of Vatican II
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From a Q&A from here [emphasis mine] ...
Did Benedict XVI Believe in the Resurrection?
Dear TIA,
I have heard and read that Pope Benedict XVI did not believe in the historical resurrection of Jesus Christ; is this what he believed? If so, was he really a Catholic?
Why do so many Catholics praise him if this is the case? This troubles me terribly. I would appreciate your thoughts on this.
Thank you. God bless you.
Pax Christi,
J.B.
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TIA responds:
Dear J.B.,
Progressivism has infiltrated the Church for a long time; since Vatican II took over the Catholic Church, which is posing today as Catholic, although it is not.
St. Pius X affirmed that Modernism was the synthesis of all heresies. Progressivism is a more encompassing and more subtle Modernism. Therefore, it is also a different religion.
Now, Pope Benedict XVI has been a progressivist since his youth and according to his own words, he did not change. (here and here).
For Progressivism, the resurrection of Christ is not what the Catholic Church always believed and taught, but the entrance of mankind in a new stage of evolution. Adam for the progressivists is a code name to refer to the first ape who became man. Christ's resurrection is a code term for man to become god in the next stage of evolution. He would have been the first of many.
This is what Progressivism believes about the Resurrection.
We do not know to what particular book or text of Benedict XVI the person who told you he does not believe in this dogma was referring.
However, that same evolutionist thinking appears in his book Jesus of Nazareth, in which he clearly denied the dogma of the Ascension of Our Lord to Heaven, as you may read in this TIA article.
You ask further why so many Catholics praise him. The answer is that Progressivism lives by presenting itself as Catholic, fooling as many as it can. The work of true Catholics should be to expose this plot.
Cordially,
TIA correspondence desk
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| Historic Marble St. Joseph Statue Destroyed in Indianapolis Church Vandalism |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-06-2023, 06:11 AM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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Historic Marble St. Joseph Statue Destroyed in Indianapolis Church Vandalism
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CV NEWS FEED // Police are investigating vandalism that destroyed a historic marble statue of Saint Joseph and newly-remodeled steps to a Catholic church in downtown Indianapolis last week.
The vandalism occurred early in the morning on November 30 at St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church.
The statue of St. Joseph used to stand at the entrance of the church, and weighed some 800 pounds, according to the Archdiocesan newspaper the Criterion. A photo released by the diocese showed it broken completely in half.
“When they pulled the statue down, you can tell the step went down about an inch from the weight of it. Now, there is a gap and it knocked off a significant piece of limestone that will now have to be replaced. It’s another expense we were not anticipating,” said the former co-chair of St. Mary’s fundraising committee Helen Small to local news outlet WRTV Indianapolis.
St. Mary’s church was originally built in 1910. In 2022, St. Mary’s held a fundraising campaign to rebuild and restore much of the outside of the church.
Small explained that St. Mary “recently spent millions revamping the front of the church where the damage is,” according to WRTV Indianapolis.
“It was worth getting that done to have it ready for the next century or more but now this. It’s unfortunate,” Small said.
The pastor of St. Mary issued a statement to parishioners after the vandalism occurred:
Quote:As many of you are aware, our marble statue of St. Joseph was vandalized last night. We are saddened by the damage done to this priceless image of the foster father of our Lord. St. Mary is proud to be a Catholic presence in the downtown Indianapolis community, and we are grateful for the good relationships we enjoy with many community partners. I invite you to take a moment today to pray the Litany of St. Joseph for the conversion of those who committed this act of vandalism and for peace in our city.
St. Joseph, Protector of the Holy Church, pray for us!
Over 350 church vandalisms have occurred in the United States since 2020, according to CatholicVote’s violence tracker.
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| ‘To Return the Nuns to the World Is to Deliver Them to the Devil’ |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-04-2023, 09:41 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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‘To Return the Nuns to the World Is to Deliver Them to the Devil’
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TIA [adapted] | December 2, 2023
Referring to Luther and the French Revolution, Pius VI and Adrian VI severely condemn the heresiarch Luther and the revolutionary authorities who removed so many consecrated nuns from their convents and returned them to the world.
Analogously their words apply to Vatican II’s aggiornamento, which stimulated nuns to leave their convents and embrace the modern world. Indeed, what the Conciliar Popes consider "progress” – for religious men and women to enter the world – was severely condemned by previous Popes as the work of heretics and blasphemers.
Popes Pius VI & Adrian VI
Pius VI, the Brief Quod aliquantum of March 10, 1791
As for what we have already said about the vows of the Religious, we must add the odious decree pronounced against the sacred virgins [the nuns], that is, the order to remove them from their Cloisters, such as Luther made. For he, to use the words of Adrian VI “was not afraid of contaminating those vessels dedicated to God` and to physically remove from their Convents the virgins consecrated to Jesus Christ who had professed the monastic life, and to return them to the world, or rather to the Devil, which they had previously abjured.”
Yet these religious nuns – this most illustrious part of the flock of faithful Catholics – have often kept very serious disasters away from the cities with their prayers, as St. Gregory the Great recalls having happened in his time in Rome: “Without the religious virgins, none of us could have survived for so many years in this place among the swords of the Lombards.”
And Benedict XIV spoke similarly about the religious of Bologna: “This city which has been oppressed for so many years by so many misfortunes could not still exist if the Divine Wrath had not been partly appeased by the continuous, fervent prayers of our nuns.”
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| ISIS claims deadly blast at Catholic Mass in southern Philippines |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-04-2023, 05:54 AM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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ISIS claims deadly blast at Catholic Mass in southern Philippines
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Lanao Del Sur Governor Mamintal Adiong Jr. stands among law enforcement officers as they investigate the scene of an explosion that occurred during a Catholic Mass in a gymnasium at Mindanao State University in Marawi, Philippines, December 3, 2023. Lanao Del Sur Provincial Government/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES
CNN | December 3, 2023
ISIS has claimed responsibility for a deadly explosion that ripped through a Catholic mass service at a university gym in the southern Philippines on Sunday.
At least four people were killed and dozens of others were injured in the blast at the Mindanao State University in Marawi City, according to authorities.
In a communique, ISIS said its fighters “detonated an explosive device on a large gathering of Christian disbelievers in Marawi City,” according to the SITE Intelligence Group, a counterterrorism threat intelligence organization that tracks the online activity of extremist groups.
Photos of the scene showed soldiers and emergency workers standing among debris in the gym. A section of the seating area was blown up, chairs strewn across the floor.
Lanao del Sur province Gov. Mamintal Adiong Jr., told reporters more than 40 people were being treated at a government hospital in Marawi, while a number of others with minor injuries were treated at the university’s infirmary following the blast.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. condemned the attack in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Without naming any specific groups or elaborating further, he described the blast as “senseless and most heinous, perpetrated by foreign terrorists.”
“Extremists who wield violence against the innocent will always be regarded as enemies to our society,” he said, adding that additional security personnel had been deployed to assist in the response.
The United States condemned the “horrific terrorist attack” in a government statement.
“The United States is in close contact with our Philippine partners and stands with the people of the Philippines in rejecting this act of violence,” State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said.
Mindanao, the second largest island in the Philippines, is home to several Islamist insurgent groups and has long been a hotbed of insurgency against the Philippine government.
While the Philippines is mostly Catholic, Mindanao is home to a sizable Muslim population.
In 2017, ISIS-affiliated militants laid siege to Marawi for five months. The violence forced more than 350,000 residents to flee the city and the surrounding areas before Philippine forces liberated the city.
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| Bloc Québécois bill seeks to eliminate religious belief as a defense against ‘hate speech’ |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-01-2023, 06:36 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Bloc Québécois bill seeks to eliminate religious belief as a defense against ‘hate speech’
'This Bloc Quebecois bill is just a Trojan Horse to enable future pogroms against Christians and any religious believer from other faiths who publicly disagree with LGBT ideology,' reacted Campaign Life Coalition's Jack Fonseca.
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Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet
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Nov 30, 2023
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews - adapted: not all hyperlinks included) — The Bloc Québécois party is citing growing tensions in Canada as a reason to remove religion as a defense against “hate speech” charges in a newly tabled federal bill.
On November 28, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet tabled Bill C-367 which aims to eliminate the provisions for religion to be used as a defense against “hate speech” charges, alleging that the change is necessary given the rise in “antisemitic” attacks in Canada since the Israel-Hamas war broke out in early October.
“We can fear that these acts were encouraged by an exception in the Criminal Code,” Blanchet told the House of Commons.
The bill would amend “the Criminal Code to eliminate as a defense against wilful promotion of hatred or antisemitism the fact that a person, in good faith, expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded to the bill saying, “We will be looking at my honorable colleague’s bill to see whether it can help combat hate and incitement of violence. This is a complex issue, but we are here to work constructively to protect Canadians.”
Jack Fonseca of Campaign Life Coalition told LifeSiteNews, “I fear this bill is not at all about protecting Jews from violence. I believe its real purpose is to allow Christians to be charged with hate speech in the future, for expressing peaceful Biblical beliefs about homosexuality and transgenderism.”
“Calls to violence should obviously be prosecuted,” Fonseca explained. “However, hateful speech that does not constitute a call to violence should be countered in a democratic society with good speech that exposes the hate for what it is.”
“Censoring hateful speech, which doesn’t constitute a call to violence, simply drives it underground and allows it to fester and grow even more aggressively in the shadows,” he continued. “This is another reason why preserving free-speech in Canada is so important, and worth tolerating opinions that we find ugly and offensive. Censorship is not the answer.”
“This Bloc Quebecois bill is just a Trojan Horse to enable future pogroms against Christians and any religious believer from other faiths who publicly disagree with LGBT ideology,” he warned.
“Just think about it. The justification provided by the Bloc, which is an atheistic Marxist political party, makes no sense,” Fonseca pointed out. “Police can already charge attackers with attempted murder for shooting up the Jewish school in Quebec, or with some kind of reckless endangerment firearms charge.”
According to Blanchet, he proposed the modification to the Criminal Code as a result of the increase in antisemitic attacks in Canada, and especially Montreal, following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.
In recent weeks, Jewish schools in Canada have increasingly become targets for pro-Palestine protestors. On November 12, Montreal’s Yeshiva Gedola school was fired upon for the second time. In early November, both this school and another Jewish school pleaded for help after shots were fired at their buildings after hours.
Last week, police investigated a bomb threat at Toronto’s Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy. The most recent attack was on November 27 when a Molotov cocktail thrown at the entranceway of the Jewish Community Council of Montreal on Nov. 27.
Furthermore, the RCMP are currently investigating a speech by Muslim preacher Adil Charkaoui in Montreal.
“Allah, destroy the Zionists aggressors… Allah, count every one of them, and kill them all, and do not exempt even one of them. Allah, bring upon them a black day,” Charkaoui said during a pro-Palestinian rally on October 28.
Charkaoui later claimed his speech “did not contain any hate or call to violence,” pointing out that he had not directly said “Jew.”
However, Fonseca pointed out that, “Under the Criminal Code, police can already charge the man in question with incitement to violence, and with uttering a death threat for saying ‘destroy the Zionist aggressors.'”
“The latter statement isn’t even a quote from the Quran! Prosecutors do NOT need the religious belief defense removed from Canada’s Criminal Code in order to proceed with criminal charges,” he declared. “It’s subterfuge for a different purpose.”
“I believe this is why Trudeau has signaled support, in principle, for the Bloc bill,” Fonseca added. “Because Trudeau is looking ahead at how he can use it destroy Christianity and further entrench LGBT ideology.”
Having just passed its first reading, Bill C-367 must be read twice more in the House of Commons before it can be passed on to the Senate.
This is not the first time that the Israel-Hamas war has been used to push new legislation. On November 21, Justice Minister Arif Virani said that it is clear legislation is needed to ban certain internet content given the shootings and attacks committed in Canada since the Israel-Hamas war broke out. He failed to provide details regarding what would be censored.
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