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Vatican told to pay taxes as Italy tackles budget crisis
Post Date: 2012-02-18 05:37:06 by Tatarewicz
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After several years of scandal in which the Catholic Church has faced allegations of financial impropriety, paedophile priests and rumours of plots to kill the Pope, the Vatican is now facing a new €600m-a-year tax bill as Rome seeks to head off European Commission censure over controversial property tax breaks enjoyed by the Church. As the EC heads closer to officially condemning the fiscal perks enjoyed by the Catholic Church and introduced by the Berlusconi administration, Prime Minister Mario Monti has written to the Competition Commissioner, Joaquin Almunia, saying that the Vatican will resume property tax, or Ici, payments. Mr Almunia said in 2010 that the exemption amounted ...
Complete Trust in God
Post Date: 2012-02-16 14:47:22 by Artisan
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Complete Trust in God From A Catholic Prayer Book Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622) Do not look forward to the changes and chances of this life with fear. Rather, look to them with full confidence that, as they arise, God to whom you belong will in his love enable you to profit by them. He has guided you thus far in life. Do you but hold fast to His dear hand, and He will lead you safely through all trials. Whenever you cannot stand, He will carry you lovingly in his arms. Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow. The same Eternal Father who takes care of you today will take care of you tomorrow, and every day of your life. Either He will shield you from suffering or He will give ...
Catholic politicians who attack Church should remember God’s judgment
Post Date: 2012-02-14 13:36:37 by X-15
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Rome, Italy, Feb 11, 2012 / 01:46 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Politicians who consider themselves Catholic but collaborate in “the assault against their faith” should remember they will one day have to give account for their acts before God, Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria, Illinois said Feb 10. “There is a last judgment. There is a particular judgment. May they change their minds and may God have mercy on them,” he told CNA during his visit to Rome. When asked specifically about recent actions of Democratic Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius Kathleen Sebelius and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Bishop Jenky replied “I am utterly scandalized.” “The ...
The Dangers of Fundamentalism -- John Dominic Crossan
Post Date: 2012-02-13 06:21:13 by FormerLurker
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Poster Comment:New Testament professor John Dominic Crossan discusses the dangers inherent in Christian fundamentalism.
Chaotic Reflections On Heresy
Post Date: 2012-02-11 15:58:24 by Ada
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I find myself wondering why the ruling classes of America are so grindingly antagonistic to religion. I understand having no interest in religion. I do not understand the animosity. One might say, “The world’s religions are so many, so internally inconsistent and contradictory of each other, and so dependent on assertions which seem to me not to be factual, that I cannot believe any of them.” The position is neither unreasonable nor rabid. One holding it might go about his affairs, leaving others to believe as they chose. He might respect the faith of others without sharing it, might regard religions as harmless and colorful folklore, might indeed regard them as socially ...
Shania Twain performs a satanic sex dance at the Superbowl [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-02-11 04:43:35 by FormerLurker
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Note her cape mimicks the wings of fallen angel Bathomet. Also, her colors are satanic, black and silver. Also watch her hands, she makes satanic gestures. Poster Comment:Shania Twain paying homage to the demon Bathomet at the Superbowl XXXVII halftime show...
Madonna’s NFL Half Time Show - Satanic Ritual [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-02-08 08:52:04 by Bill D Berger
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Madonna’s NFL Satanic Ritual disguised as Church Music. by Nicolas Duplessis.(The Illuminati always has to do its rituals between the New Moon and Full Moon. The Full Moon is in 2 more days, so it is their time for rituals & what better place than a Half Time show with millions of people?) On top of us having a nearly full moon cycle tonight, on this second month, of day five in the year 2012, this moon cycle is very important to the Illuminati because any ritual that is done, will be full force because the power of the ritual will grow with the moon. While the full moon starts in 48 more hours, it is very important for the Illuminati Ritual to happen before ...
Silencing God
Post Date: 2012-02-06 15:54:10 by ghostdogtxn
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Romney and the White Horse Prophecy
Post Date: 2012-02-04 04:12:29 by farmfriend
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Romney and the White Horse Prophecy A close look at the roots of Romney's -- and the Mormon church's -- political ambitions By Sally Denton When Mitt Romney received his patriarchal blessing as a Michigan teenager, he was told that the Lord expected great things from him. All young Mormon men — the “worthy males” of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as it is officially known — receive such a blessing as they embark on their requisite journeys as religious missionaries. But at 19 years of age, the youngest son of the most prominent Mormon in American politics — a seventh-generation direct descendant of one of the faith’s founding 12 ...
Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus || Spoken Word Poem
Post Date: 2012-01-20 21:23:07 by abraxas
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Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus || Spoken Word A poem Jefferson Bethke wrote to highlight the difference between Jesus and false religion. In the scriptures Jesus received the most opposition from the most religious people of his day. At it's core Jesus' gospel and the good news of the Cross is in pure opposition to self-righteousness/self-justification. Religion is man centered, Jesus is God-centered. This poem highlights my journey to discover this truth. Religion either ends in pride or despair. Pride because you make a list and can do it and act better than everyone, or despair because you can't do your own list of rules and feel "not good enough" for God. ...
The evangelical dilemma in South Carolina: adulterer or Mormon?
Post Date: 2012-01-20 19:18:40 by PSUSA2
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For South Carolina conservatives, especially evangelical Christians, the 2012 campaign season is the year of magical rethinking. Look at the frontrunners: If you want a president with a legacy of marital fidelity, you're going to have to work around Newt Gingrich's adultery. If you believe that Mormons don't really qualify as Christian, you may find yourself struggling with Mitt Romney. Of course, there's also Rick Santorum and Ron Paul. Then you just have to convince yourself either man can win; the probability fluctuates from week to week. It's a schism that can be seen all over the state. I've seen it among my own kin, spread across the Carolinas and ...
Exerpt: They Thought They Were Free The Germans 1933-45
Post Date: 2012-01-19 13:07:06 by ghostdogtxn
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Megadeth bassist becomes a seminarian
Post Date: 2012-01-19 12:36:56 by Buzzard
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Concordia Seminary in suburban St. Louis gets an eclectic mix of students in a program allowing them to train for the ministry online — electricians, farmers, entrepreneurs — and even a founder of one of the best-known thrash metal bands. David Ellefson plays bass for Megadeth. He also is an online student in the Specific Ministry Program at Concordia Seminary operated by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper reported that Ellefson's studies illustrate why distance learning programs at seminaries have a growing popularity nationwide, allowing students to attend divinity schools without uprooting their lives. Even in a non-traditional ...
Faith Group Protests Southern Poverty Law Center Over 'Hate Group' Label
Post Date: 2012-01-18 20:29:22 by Dakmar
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A group of pro-family Christian and Jewish leaders – including many African-American pastors – plan to rally outside the offices of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., Tuesday to protest the SPLC’s labeling of organizations, many of them faith-based, as "hate groups" due to their opposition to homosexuality and pro-gay agendas. The SPLC categorizes "hate groups" as any organization in the nation that has "beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics." The group of religious leaders believes the SPLC has wrongly applied that label to themselves and other ...
German Priest Admits 280 Counts of Child Abuse
Post Date: 2012-01-13 10:56:51 by PSUSA2
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A Roman Catholic priest in Germany has admitted to 280 counts of sexually abusing three boys over a several-year period. The 46-year-old priest, who has been suspended, went on trial Thursday at the state court in Braunschweig. The dapd news agency reported that he showed no remorse. The man who was not identified was arrested last July after one victim told his mother what had happened. He was charged with abusing three boys aged between 9 and 15. Hildesheim diocese spokesman Michael Lukas says the defendant's actions were "a catastrophe for the victims and for the Catholic church." The trial continues through Feb. 2. The priest also faces church disciplinary proceedings. ...
The Great Pyramid of Garut?
Post Date: 2012-01-12 18:21:24 by Flintlock
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A pyramid far older and larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza, may have been discovered in Indonesia. Mount Sadahurip in Garut, West Java, dubbed the "Garut Pyramid," has been undergoing verification tests by the Ancient Catastrophic Disaster Team to see if the mount is indeed based upon a man-made structure. By using geo-electric instruments, surveyors are measuring the resistance of the geological layers, while seeking additional funding to begin excavations. An initial survey determined that the structure is unlikely to be of natural formation. A 3D contour plot of topographical digital data supports the following hypothesis, "There exists an anomaly formation made of ...
So much for "Be fruitful and multiply". Bishop has kids, scandal ensues, resigns in disgrace
Post Date: 2012-01-11 13:22:57 by PSUSA2
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January 11, 2012 L.A.'s latest scandal reveals much By Louie Verrecchio The Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the largest diocese in the United States, rang in the New Year with some disturbing news: Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala had resigned in shame after publicly admitting to having sired two children with the same woman more than a decade ago. (I use the word "sire" intentionally as "fathering" is something altogether different.) In an official statement released on January 4th, Archbishop José Gomez reported, "Bishop Gabino Zavala, auxiliary bishop for the San Gabriel Pastoral Region, informed me in early December that he is the father of two minor ...
Critics of catholic pedophile priests are "malcontents"
Post Date: 2012-01-11 12:58:15 by PSUSA2
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BOSTON VICTIMS’ SUMMIT BOMBS January 9, 2012 by admin Filed under Latest News Releases Leave a Comment Over the weekend, lawyers, columnists, reporters, psychiatrists, and activists attended the “10th Anniversary Celebration & Conference” in Boston; it marked the 10th anniversary of media reports on the Boston clergy sexual abuse scandal.Commenting on the outcome is Catholic League president Bill Donohue:A whopping 75 people turned out for the conference, 25 of whom were the speakers. How embarrassing. It’s clear that the professional victims’ lobby is spent. Everyone else has moved on, but those who have an ideological, emotional or ...
(my title) The death (via suicide) of the catholic church
Post Date: 2012-01-06 10:17:38 by PSUSA2
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Catholic Schools Brace For Historic Cuts Updated: Friday, 06 Jan 2012, 9:59 AM EST Published : Friday, 06 Jan 2012, 7:08 AM EST PHILADELPHIA - Word is starting to come out about which Philadelphia Archdiocese schools will likely close after a commission recommends steep cuts at 4 p.m. on Friday. Links: 48 Elementary Schools With Lowest Enrollments | Enrollment Data For High Schools Slideshow: Famous Local Catholic School Grads Fox 29 learned on Thursday night that Delaware County's Archbishop Prendergast and its neighbor Monsignor Bonner will be on the list of Catholic private schools that the Blue Ribbon commission will recommend for closure. It will be up to the Archbishop of ...
Fox apologizes to Jews for Facebook poll on Jesus
Post Date: 2011-12-31 18:09:22 by X-15
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FOX Latin America has apologized for a poll on whether Jews killed Jesus Christ that one of its staffers put on a Facebook page promoting the National Geographic Channel’s Christmas special. The poll asked readers who they think is responsible for the death of Christ: Pontius Pilate, The Jewish People or the High Priests. The Simon Weisenthal Center in Buenos Aires calls it a defamatory reference to Vatican propaganda that “resulted in the persecution and murder of Jews for two millennia.’’ Poster Comment:Big chimpin' going on by the followers of The Protocols. We can assume they are making an even bigger stink because a decent amount of people chose ...
Cleaning clergy brawl in Bethlehem
Post Date: 2011-12-28 15:45:08 by PSUSA2
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(AFP) – 2 hours ago BETHLEHEM, Palestinian Territories — An unholy row erupted between Greek Orthodox and Armenian clergy on Wednesday over the cleaning of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, an AFP correspondent said. Following Christmas celebrations, dozens of black-clad clerics from both churches, armed with brooms and cleaning materials, began to work on different parts of the church, built over the site where Jesus Christ is believed to have been born. But an Armenian priest supervising the work thought that a broom held by a Greek Orthodox priest encroached on their space, and angry words swiftly became a fight. Palestinian policemen at the scene intervened and the ...
Silent Monks Singing Halleluia
Post Date: 2011-12-24 18:56:09 by X-15
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First Amendment Under Attack: 18 Examples of How They Are Coming for Our Free Speech
Post Date: 2011-12-21 13:21:22 by Ada
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In the United States today, the First Amendment is under attack like never before. Technological innovations such as the Internet have made it possible for average Americans to communicate directly with one another in ways that completely bypass the mainstream media, and this is making the elite very uncomfortable. They have decided that they better come after our free speech before it is too late. Right now, free speech in America is being chipped away at it in thousands of different ways. On the one hand, you have the disciples of "political correctness" that want to make all forms of speech that are "offensive" to anyone against the law. On the other hand, you have ...
For those interested in reincarnation and what happens between lives [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-12-21 12:19:02 by PSUSA2
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Here are a couple of books written by a regression hypnotist that stumbled onto this topic. It goes well beyond the standard past life regressions. If you want to know why people are the way they are, and why life is so difficult, and what happens after death, this is a possible answer that goes well beyond the "you must have FAITH, my child!" nonsense. To me, this has the "ring of truth", based on what I already see and know, but your mileage may vary. www.filedino.com/gx2izwm2nvp0 This remarkable book uncovers--for the first time--the mystery of life in the spirit world after death on earth. Dr. Michael Newton, a hypnotherapist in private practice, has developed ...
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