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"And
how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been
like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an
arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say
good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests , as for
example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city,
people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at
every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase ,
but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up
in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes,
hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, "The Gulag Archipelago" (1973)
We
are living in a propaganda matrix that is controlled by a tiny demonic
global banking elite. Their almost total control of the mainstream news
media and most politicians allows them to do all types of PsyOps that in
a normal society would 'never fly'. Stirling
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End of Days
Special Report: Papal Conclave
Open Video Letter to the Cardinal-Electors of the Roman Church by Lord Stirling - video ~ link
~ The
Earl of Stirling (Tim Alexander) calls for the next Pope to lead the
fight against the globalists mad drive towards World War III, an even
more intense Global Economic Depression, and the developing global
high-tech police-state tyranny. Lord Stirling calls this fight "the
Greatest Moral Imperative of Our Time" (about three minutes into this
video).
Conclave not likely to begin before Monday 11 March 2013 ~ link ~ Vatican City, Mar 4,
2013 / 07:00 am - While the cardinals created by Benedict XVI arrive in
Rome and get acquainted with the pre-conclave operations, cardinals from
the old establishment are pushing for a quick conclave.
An anonymous cardinal – which is how this type of pressure is usually applied – told the Italian press agency AGI that his “dream is that the Church will have a new Pope within this week,” and that “this is possible if the congregation set this Thursday, the 7th, as the date for the conclave, and the conclave elects the new Pope by Friday, the 8th.”
This is almost impossible, since the Sistine Chapel must still be prepared for the conclave and has not been closed to visitors yet.
An anonymous cardinal – which is how this type of pressure is usually applied – told the Italian press agency AGI that his “dream is that the Church will have a new Pope within this week,” and that “this is possible if the congregation set this Thursday, the 7th, as the date for the conclave, and the conclave elects the new Pope by Friday, the 8th.”
This is almost impossible, since the Sistine Chapel must still be prepared for the conclave and has not been closed to visitors yet.
In 2005, the Vatican office that deals with furnishing and decorating the
Sacred Palace – called the Floreria Apostolica – began preparing the
Sistine Chapel on April 5 and the conclave did not begin on April 18. And
even though the Floreria clerks are not busy with the novendiali – the
nine days of mourning for the late Pope – the Sistine Chapel will not
probably be ready for at least seven days.
Vatican closes Sistine Chapel ahead of Papal Conclave ~ link ~ The Vatican has announced
it was closing the Sistine Chapel to visitors until further notice,
ahead of a conclave to elect Pope Benedict's successor.
In a message on its website, the Vatican Museums said it would still be possible to visit the complex but the renaissance Sistine Chapel, the Borgia Apartment and the modern religious art collection would be off-limits to tourists. The Sistine Chapel is renowned for Michelangelo's famous frescoed ceilings and his apocalyptic Last Judgment.
In 2005, the last time the College of Cardinals elected a pope,
preparations for the conclave included installing a false floor to hide
anti-bugging devices and attaching the stove, where the ballots are
burned, to the Sistine Chapel's chimney.
In a message on its website, the Vatican Museums said it would still be possible to visit the complex but the renaissance Sistine Chapel, the Borgia Apartment and the modern religious art collection would be off-limits to tourists. The Sistine Chapel is renowned for Michelangelo's famous frescoed ceilings and his apocalyptic Last Judgment.
Cardinals huddle at Vatican; Date of Conclave still undetermined ~ link ~ The conclave has been expected to commence March 11. But 12 of the
115 cardinals eligible to vote had yet to show up when discussions
started at 9:30 a.m. Monday, and no date will be set for the conclave
until they are all assembled.
“There was no talk about when the conclave will begin,” Cardinal
Francis George of Chicago said during a break from discussions, but he
added: “We would like to be done by Holy Week so we can have a pope and
get back to our dioceses.” Holy Week begins on Palm Sunday, March 24.
Every Cardinal in his place: Internal ranking determines seating chart ~ link ~ The Vatican calls it
"precedence," and it has little to do with the importance of the
cardinal's day job, the size of his diocese or his age. But it has
everything to do with timing. Cardinals are divided into a three-tier
internal hierarchy: cardinal bishops, cardinal priests and cardinal
deacons. It's the seating order for the general congregations in the
Vatican synod hall. It will be the order they line up in for the
procession at the Mass for the election of a new pope. The four
patriarchs of Eastern Catholic churches who are cardinals are inserted
in the ranking between the cardinal bishops and cardinal priests. Simply
skipping the cardinals who were over 80 years of age as of Feb. 28, the
precedence is the order the cardinal electors will process into the
Sistine Chapel for the conclave, the order that determines where they
will sit inside and the order in which they will cast their ballots. The
cardinal bishops are six senior Latin-rite cardinals residing in Rome;
one of them, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, is dean of the College of
Cardinals. Diocesan bishops make up the bulk of the rank of cardinal
priests, while cardinal deacons are mostly officials of the Roman Curia.
A glimpse inside the Papal Conclave ~ link ~
Soon, 115 cardinals – the pope's
most senior advisers – will convene at the Vatican to elect a successor
to Pope Benedict XVI. They'll enter a conclave: a tradition-rich
election process that pre-dates anything found in most modern
democracies.
Discretion is a top concern; great
pains are taken to ensure the deliberations stay secret. But the actual
rules for the election are quite transparent, laid out by Pope John Paul
II in his 1996 document Universi Dominici Gregis.
Conclave runs on modern twists to ancient rules ~ link
The Third General Congregation - video ~ link
Gammarelli: Papal tailors ready no matter what size the new Pope is ~ link
Cardinals press Vatican for details on alleged corruption - with video ~ link
Papal contender says issue of women in Church 'secondary' - with video ~ link ~ Marc Ouellet, the Canadian cardinal who many believe has a shot at
the papacy, says that questions regarding the role of women in the
church, gay marriage and abortion are important but “secondary.”
In the second part
of a world-exclusive English language interview with CBC’s chief
correspondent Peter Mansbridge, the cardinal weighed in on major social
issues of our time, including women’s role in the church and challenges
the institution faces in modern times.
“Obviously these questions are, have their importance, but it is
secondary, you know, and it has been always secondary,” said Ouellet.
Cardinal George: Next Pope must embrace zero tolerance for sex abuse ~ link ~ The next pope must be "very
aware" of the need for vigilance in preventing clergy sex abuse and
accept a policy of "zero tolerance" as the universal law of the church,
said Chicago's Cardinal Francis E. George.
Cardinal Scola: Church is itching for truth and responsibility ~ link
Pope watchers keeping tabs on Vatican 'backroom boys' ~ link ~ Today begins the General Congregation, the first collective meeting
of cardinals since Pope Benedict XVI resigned. Among the scarlet-clad
men gathering in the Vatican are the so-called Grand Electors. When it
comes to electing a new Pope, they are the Vatican’s version of backroom
boys.
“Grand Elector” is the very unofficial name used for the few
cardinals with the power, respect, connections and, in some cases, pure
force of personality to pull together support for a particular papal
possibility.
Just as there are no official candidates for pope, so there are no
official campaign teams. But the Grand Electors come close. And in
Vatican circles, puzzling out who they’ll be is something of a sport.
Cardinal Toppa: It is the Church that produces the Pope ~ link
Conservative thinkers dominate those who vote for Pope ~ link ~ It's unlike any election you've ever heard of.
A conclave has no official candidates. There are no parties, no party
platforms, no manifestos, no pledges, not even any stump speeches or
slogans.
There are also no factory tours, baby kissing, robo-calls and certainly no banners or bunting.
Nevertheless, it is an election. And all elections cause division and
consternation. But speaking of "factions" within the Cardinals of the
Catholic Church has lost much of its meaning.
Benedict XVI Honored by Eastern Orthodox Hierarchs ~ link ~ Following the
announcement of Benedict XVI’s retirement, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the
chief hierarch of the Eastern Orthodox Churches, issued a statement expressing his profound respect and friendship to Benedict. Bartholomew
honored Pope Benedict as an eminent theologian and reaffirmed his desire to keep
dialogue open between Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians “for the union
of all.” Benedict and Bartholomew’s friendship has been marked by their common
mission to restore Christian culture to Europe. The Russian Orthodox Church
issued a similar statement thanking Benedict for his efforts to restore
relations between the Vatican and the Moscow patriarchate.
Cardinal Pell hopes for a Pope that knows how to govern ~ link
Canadian contender for Pope: 'Others could do it better' ~ link ~ Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, one of the leading candidates to
succeed Pope Benedict, suggested in an interview broadcast Monday that
other candidates for pope might do a better job.
He also said it
would not be surprising for the pope to come from outside Europe after
that continent's long dominance of the papacy.
Cardinal electors send thank you telegram to Benedict XVI ~ link
Cardinal's Catch-22: Eager for Conclave but need time to choose well ~ link ~ Cardinal-electors are caught in a
Catch-22. They are eager to give the world a new pope; however, they
need time to pick the right leader, said South Africa's cardinal.
"There might be a need for a long delay" as the cardinals try to gauge how much they do or don't know enough about each other, Cardinal Wilfrid Napier told Catholic News Service March 1, the first day of the "sede vacante."
No church leader wants to be away from his diocese for too long, he said, and no one wants to miss Easter, March 31.
"There might be a need for a long delay" as the cardinals try to gauge how much they do or don't know enough about each other, Cardinal Wilfrid Napier told Catholic News Service March 1, the first day of the "sede vacante."
No church leader wants to be away from his diocese for too long, he said, and no one wants to miss Easter, March 31.
Cardinals start to ponder subtleties of Big Task ~ link
Cardinal Wuerl is looking above all for a Pope with a spiritual vision ~ link
My Brother, Cardinal Dolan ~ link ~ Cardinal Timothy Dolan, as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops, had emerged as the voice of conscience rights against
health-care legislation that would force Catholic organizations to pay
for employees’ contraception.
Currently serving as archbishop of New York, he will vote in the
upcoming conclave to elect our next pope. His name is even being
mentioned as papabile, meaning he is a likely candidate for pope.
In the Annals of Deep History, fascinating facts about a Church that has faced and survived all challenges ~ link ~ History
is not always overly engaging but at
certain key junctures becomes fascinating, such as right now, as cardinals
convene to choose a Pontiff.
The world -- so quick to dismiss Catholicism (the Mother
Church) -- also can't help watching.
Is the Church in disarray? Permanent decline?
Hardly -- not in the context of history.
In fact, while it certainly is battling crises (such as
homosexuality, which warrants immediate, special, and urgent reform, and
such as the young who have left, searching for more vigor) -- and while
the secular culture around it is in precipitous, apocalyptic decline --
the Church, rocked though it is by the loudest internal problems in many
years, has been in a stable period, if one looks at the longer reach of
history.
Cardinal O'Malley lists sex abuse, Curia reform as priorities ~ link ~ Boston archbishop also says this week 'needs to be
like the novena before Pentecost, so that the Holy Spirit can pour over
us to help us find our new Peter.'
Election of Pope Trivia Quiz ~ link ~
Argentinian Cardinal: 'God spoke through Pope Benedict' ~ link ~ Cardinal Estanislao Esteban Karlic, the retired archbishop of Parana,
Argentina, said that God used Benedict XVI’s resignation from the papacy
to speak a message of love to his people.
Cardinal Zen's thanksgiving to Pope Emeritus ~ link ~ A red hat cut through the crowd waiting for Pope Benedict XVI Feb. 28
in the main square of Castel Gandolfo. Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun,
archbishop emeritus of Hong Kong had made his way to Rome to say his
farewell to Benedict XVI, and then he followed him to Castel Gandolfo,
where the cardinal joined the crowd as a pilgrim among pilgrims.
To replace Benedict XVI Irish Archbishop Diarmuid Martin ~ link ~ London bookmakers see a contest among Nigeria's
Cardinal Francis Arinze, Marc Ouellet of Canada and Peter Kodwo Appiah
Turkson of Ghana, each of whom would present a smiling face of
Catholicism as the next pope. (Either of the Africans might also guide
the church to a future in the developing world.) Liberals hope for
someone like Christoph Schoenborn of Vienna, who seems open to sharing
power with laypeople. Some longtime Vatican
watchers say the Italians seek to reassert their control, in order to
fix the management problems inside the bureaucracy. According to this
faction, the church's finances are a mess and the brand is severely
damaged.
This was but a small gesture that reflected Cardinal Zen’s deep
gratitude for a pope who showed a great concern for the Church in China.
Although it hasn’t made headlines, there is evidence that Benedict XVI
loved China and China loved Benedict XVI.
Politics, personalities drive the decision on who will be Pope ~ link ~ A bid outdated but background material. Stirling
But the damage to the church has been done mainly by the never-ending
scandal of priests who sexually abuse children and the routine cover-up
practiced by higher-level officials, up to and including the pope.
The lowest point in the crisis came with Ireland's
outraged response to revelations of sexual abuse by priests and the
cover-up orchestrated by the hierarchy. In 2011, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny decried "the dysfunction, disconnection, elitism, the narcissism that dominate the culture of the Vatican to this day."
For conservative Catholics, one Pope too many ~ link ~ Although they have been quiet about it, conservative Roman Catholics have reservations about Pope Benedict XVI’s
impending departure completely unrelated to their sadness at losing a
pastor they admire. Those misgivings are likely to be exacerbated by the
news that Benedict will be known officially as “pope emeritus” or “Roman pontiff emeritus.”
Although a papal resignation is provided for in church law,
Benedict’s decision undermines the mystique of papal uniqueness. As I
discussed in a column several years ago, a papal retirement emphasizes
that the pope is a bishop, albeit the bishop of Rome.
Liberal Catholics long have emphasized that fact, sometimes referring
to the pope as the head of the “college of bishops.” Conservative
Catholics prefer the pre-Vatican II view of the pope as the source of
all human authority in the church, akin to a king.
Indeed, it is conservative Catholics who have been insisting that the
proper term for Benedict’s decision is “abdication,” not “resignation.”
An abdication is seen as a rupture is the natural order of monarchy,
even when it is necessary. But the less seen of the former king, the
better. Britain’s Edward VIII became the Duke of Windsor after his
retirement, not “king emeritus.”
Pope Benedict's departure is a surprise; his successor won't be ~ link ~ Even if the new pope looks different from the endless line of old
European men -- an African or Latin American, for instance -- he will
likely be a man who subscribes to traditional views. Do not expect
priests to be allowed to marry or women to become priests anytime soon.
Benedict may be going, but his conservatism has been institutionalized.
Pope Benedict XVI's sartorial flair ~ link ~ Also see: Benedict XVI, the best dressed Pope ~ link ~ He did bring back the usage of a number of garments, etc. that had not been used for years. Stirling
The Real Reason There Won;t Be Women Priests ~ link ~ I disagree with this article. The real reason is that there are solid dogmatic reasons against it! Stirling
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