Category Archives: The Jesuits

Liberty’s first Saint?

Junipero Serra

Does a society like the U.S. deserve a saint?

Well in the country where anything goes, the Pope feels it’s appropriate to reward them with a saint in whose presence the indigenous natives were maltreated. Continue reading Liberty’s first Saint?

Have to conduct “a re-reading [of the Gospel] inclusive of the new data…”

Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti

Christians will not immediately need to renounce their faith in God “simply on the basis of the reception of [this] new, unexpected information of a religious character from extraterrestrial civilizations.” However, once the “religious content” originating from outside the earth “has been verified” they will have to conduct “a re-reading [of the Gospel] inclusive of the new data…”

–Father Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti SJ, Vatican Astronomer, Eminent Theologian, Jesuit Priest and Full Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce in Rome [Connected With Opus Dei],

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Vatican objects to Obama’s controversial invites for papal visit

So the Vatican are concerned in case Pope Francis is photographed with those who “flout” Church teaching, just in case it is misrepresented as supporting their positions. Continue reading Vatican objects to Obama’s controversial invites for papal visit

Cardinal Burke had grave reservations on the same annulment proposals Pope Francis just enshrined

‘Confusion and error on holy matrimony’ are being sown by Satan in society and in the Church,’ warns the cardinal.

Source: Lifesitenews

Thank goodness there are good men of faith who still hold on to the teachings of God, and also in the words of Jesus given to his apostles in the the Bible.  Continue reading Cardinal Burke had grave reservations on the same annulment proposals Pope Francis just enshrined

Pope Francis address to Vatican Observatory symposium

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Friday (18th September) addressed participants at a symposium organized by the Vatican Observatory, saying their scientific research on the universe can help promote inter-religious dialogue which is more urgent than ever nowadays. He also encouraged an ever deeper dialogue between science and religion.

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Pope Francis the Reformer?

Photograph by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty.

March 13, 2013

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the seventy-six-year-old Archbishop of Buenos Aires, is the new Pope—the first Jesuit and the first Latin American ever to hold that job.

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The poisonous Protocols

Umberto Eco on the distinction between intellectual anti-Semitism and its popular counterpart

Saturday 17 August 2002

Amid the controversy following the desecration of Jewish graves in Rome last month, some words of Pier Ferdinando Casini, speaker of Italy’s chamber of deputies, have been remembered. He claimed that anti-Semitism is less rooted in Italy than in other countries. It is my belief that a distinction must be made between intellectual anti-Semitism and popular anti-Semitism. Popular anti-Semitism is as old as the Jewish diaspora. It arose from an instinctive reaction of the common people to different people, who spoke an unknown language evocative of magic rites. A people steeped in the culture of the book, the Jews learned to read and write. They practised medicine, engaged in trade, and lent money – hence the resentment towards them as “intellectuals”. Such were the roots of peasant anti-Semitism in Russia. Continue reading The poisonous Protocols