I kept hearing that Pope Leo XIV was “far left,” and for a while I assumed there must be some truth to it.
Then I started actually listening to him.
Not clips. Not political commentary. Not somebody telling me what I was supposed to think about him. His speeches. His words. His teaching.
And I have completely changed my opinion of him.
On immigration, he has acknowledged that a country has the right to control its borders. But he does not stop there. He has also told immigrants that entering another country comes with responsibilities. Learn the language. Respect the laws. Learn the customs. Participate in the life of the community.
That struck me because it is neither “open borders” nor a rejection of the immigrant. It is order and responsibility alongside human dignity.
Then there is abortion.
Pope Leo has been absolutely clear that the right to life begins at conception and continues until natural death. In his encyclical, he specifically named induced abortion and euthanasia among choices the Church considers gravely wrong.
And now, as he prepares to go to France, where abortion has been placed in the constitution and assisted dying has advanced into law, the central theme of his visit is essentially a defense of human life: “That the world may have life.” (AP News)
Then listen to what he tells young people.
Stop being afraid of commitment.
Stop being afraid of your vocation.
Stop being afraid of marriage.
When speaking to hundreds of thousands of young people in Spain, he congratulated couples preparing for marriage and told them plainly: “You don’t have to be afraid to get married and start a family.”
In a culture constantly telling young adults to delay marriage, delay children, chase themselves first and keep every option open forever, hearing the Pope tell young people that marriage and family are something beautiful enough to embrace instead of fear hit me hard. (National Catholic Register)
The more I listen to Pope Leo, the more ridiculous our political labels start to look.
Borders matter.
Laws matter.
The unborn matter.
Migrants matter.
Marriage matters.
Families matter.
Human dignity matters.
None of those things cancel the others out.
That is Catholicism.
I thought I had Pope Leo figured out before I really listened to him.
I was wrong.
And honestly, the more I hear from him, the more I love this Pope.
En Ontario, Canadá 🇨🇦, acaban de eutanasiar a una anciana, cristiana practicante, contra su voluntad. La escena misma es de terror: la mujer gritaba y se movía para que no le inyecten la aguja con el veneno intravenoso que la mataría, lo que ocasionó que la enfermera la termine ensangrentando con la aguja. Sí, es muy gráfico, pero es importante compartirlo para entender la realidad macabra de la eutanasia.
La chica de la foto es su nieta y representante legal, quien hizo lo posible para frenar esta locura. El procedimiento de la eutanasia lo comenzaron mientras la nieta estaba de viaje y sin su conocimiento y consentimiento. La anciana fue sometida a una seria de preguntas que no entendía, ni siquiera sabía qué tipo de procedimiento iban a aplicarle...
El 5% de las muertes totales en Canadá son por eutanasia, el nivel más alto del mundo.
Nagasaki, 1949.
Entre las ruinas de la catedral de Urakami, devastada por la bomba atómica cuatro años antes, los católicos japoneses vuelven a reunirse alrededor del altar para celebrar la Misa de siempre.
@olimpistaodios2@ABCDeportes Jajaja te sugiero un poco más de respeto a un tipo que desde niño sigue al Olimpia y entiende bastante de futbol porque recibió enseñanzas de parte de los grandes de nuestro club: su papá, su abuelo, ODD y otros formidables dirigentes.
Es poco conocido que Larry Silverstein, magnate sionista, alquiló las Torres Gemelas solo dos meses antes del atentado del 11S y en ese contrato firmó justo una póliza de seguros millonaria en caso de atentado terrorista.
Larry siempre se tomaba el café con sus socios en las oficinas del World Trade Center cada mañana y sus hijos trabajaban cada día allí... pero por lo que sea, justo ese dia el 11 de septiembre no acudió, fue al dermatólogo y sus hijos llegaron tarde al trabajo.
Silverstein además mintió inventándose que el jefe de bomberos le dijo que era mejor derribar el edificio anexo a las Torres Gemelas.... las aseguradoras en 2007, aceptaron pagarle 4550 millones de dólares de indemnización por el derribo de cada edificio.
Yahudi İzleyici: (ağlayarak) Konuşmanız sırasında Yahudilere yönelik birçok kez Nazi benzetmesi yaptınız. Bu son derece incitici. Bu, Nazi rejimi altında gerçekten acı çekmiş olan insanlar için çok aşağılayıcı.
Norman Finkelstein cevap veriyor:
— Bu tavra artık saygı duymuyorum. Gerçekten duymuyorum. Bu timsah gözyaşlarından hoşlanmıyorum ve onlara saygı da duymuyorum. (Dinleyicilerden alkışlar ve yuhalamalar yükselir)
— Yabancı bir dinleyici kitlesi önünde "Holokost kartını" oynamaktan hoşlanmıyorum ama şu an kendimi buna mecbur hissediyorum. Rahmetli babam Auschwitz'deydi. Rahmetli annem Majdanek toplama kampındaydı. Ailemin her iki taraftan da tüm üyeleri katledildi. Annem ve babam Varşova Gettosu Ayaklanması'na katıldılar.
— İşte tam da annem ve babamın bana ve iki kardeşime öğrettikleri dersler nedeniyle, İsrail'in Filistinlilere karşı işlediği suçlar karşısında sessiz kalmayacağım! Onların acılarını ve ölümlerini kullanarak; İsrail'in her gün Filistinlilere karşı işlediği işkence, vahşet ve ev yıkma suçlarını meşru göstermeye çalışmaktan daha aşağılık bir şey düşünemiyorum!
— Bu yüzden artık bu gözyaşlarıyla sindirilmeyi veya baskılanmayı reddediyorum. Eğer zerre vicdanın olsaydı, burada döktüğün o gözyaşlarını Filistinliler için döküyor olurdun!
«La Iglesia católica la inventó Constantino en el año 325.»Año 107. Un obispo llamado Ignacio va camino de Roma, encadenado, y escribe: «donde está Cristo Jesús, allí está la Iglesia católica».Constantino nacería 165 años después.
At the moment Jesus died, three of the four Gospels stop describing Golgotha and cut, without warning, to a scene half a mile away, inside the temple. Matthew, Mark, and Luke each record it with almost the same words: the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. No one on the hill could have seen it. It happened behind walls, in a place only priests could enter. And yet the Gospel writers considered it so important that they interrupt the death of the Son of God to tell you about a piece of fabric.
To understand why, you have to understand the veil. God's instructions for it go back to Exodus: a curtain of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, with cherubim woven into it, hung to divide the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place, the Holy of Holies, the room where the presence of God dwelt above the ark. The cherubim were not decoration. The last time cherubim stood as a barrier in Scripture was at the gate of Eden, with a flaming sword, after Adam and Eve were driven out. The veil was Eden's gate, rebuilt in cloth. It said one thing: you cannot come in here.
By Jesus' day, the temple was Herod's vast rebuilt structure, and the curtain matched its scale. Josephus, the first-century Jewish historian, describes the temple's great veil as a Babylonian tapestry of blue, scarlet, purple, and linen, embroidered with a panorama of the heavens, an enormous hanging some sixty feet high. Later rabbinic tradition, recorded in the Mishnah, claims the veil was a handbreadth thick, woven from seventy-two cords each of twenty-four strands, and that it took three hundred priests to immerse it when it needed cleaning. Those numbers are probably rabbinic exaggeration, and it is honest to say so. But even discounting them, we are describing something the size of a building's wall, thick, heavy, and woven by expert hands. It was not a bedsheet. No man could tear it. And Mark is precise: it tore from top to bottom. From the top, sixty feet up, where no hand could reach, downward. Whatever tore the veil did so from God's side of it.
Now consider who was allowed past that curtain. One man. Once a year. On the Day of Atonement, the high priest, and only the high priest, passed through the veil into the Holy of Holies carrying the blood of a sacrifice, to sprinkle it before God for the sins of the nation. Every other day of the year, every other person alive, was kept out on pain of death. The high priest of the year AD 30 was Caiaphas, the man whose bones now lie in a museum drawer. That was the whole system: one mediator, one day, one room, and a curtain that stood every other hour of every other day announcing that God was here and you were not permitted to approach.
Then, at three in the afternoon on a Friday outside the city, Jesus cried out, "It is finished," and breathed His last. And in the temple, in the middle of the afternoon sacrifice, with priests at their duties, the barrier ripped open from the top down, and the Holy of Holies stood exposed to anyone standing in the Holy Place. For the first time since Sinai, a human being could look straight into the place where God dwelt, and nothing stood in the way.
The letter to the Hebrews, written to Jewish Christians who knew the temple intimately, explains what the Gospels only show. It calls the old system a shadow and says the high priest entering once a year with the blood of animals was pointing forward to something. Then it says this: "We have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh." Read that slowly. The curtain is His flesh. When His body was torn on the cross, the veil was torn in the temple, because they were the same barrier being removed by the same death. The high priest brought blood into the Holy of Holies once a year, and had to come back next year. Jesus, Hebrews says, entered once for all, with His own blood, and then did something no high priest ever did: He sat down. There was no more work to do.
There is a strange witness to that afternoon from an unexpected source. The Talmud, the vast collection of rabbinic writings compiled centuries later, records that "forty years before the destruction of the temple" a series of ominous things began happening in the sanctuary: the lot for the LORD on the Day of Atonement stopped coming up in the priest's right hand, the crimson thread that was supposed to turn white as a sign of forgiveness stopped turning white, the westernmost lamp of the menorah kept going out, and the great temple doors began opening on their own at night, so that a leading rabbi rebuked them, warning that they were foretelling the temple's destruction. The temple was destroyed in AD 70. Forty years before is the year 30, the year of the crucifixion. This is a rabbinic source, not a Christian one, written by men who did not believe in Jesus and drew no connection to Him. It should be handled carefully, since the Talmud was written down long after the events. But according to Judaism's own memory, from that year onward, the signs of atonement in the temple stopped working, and no one could say why.
The torn veil pointed two directions at once. It announced that the way to God was open. It also announced that the temple's purpose was finished. Within a generation, in AD 70, Roman legions burned the building to the ground, exactly as Jesus had wept and warned it would be, and not one stone was left on another. There has been no veil, no Holy of Holies, no Day of Atonement sacrifice since. The system that ended on that Friday afternoon was dismantled by history forty years later, and it has never returned. What replaced it is a man, seated at the right hand of God, and a door that does not close.
People think that the cross is where a good teacher was killed by his enemies. But at the instant of His death, the one room on earth that God had walled off from humanity was flung open from the inside. Nobody stormed the temple. Nobody broke down the door. God tore the curtain Himself, and He tore it downward, toward us.
This is what it means for you. There is no longer a room you cannot enter and no priest you must go through. The curtain that separated you from God did not wear thin over time; it was ripped in half by His own hand, at the cost of His own Son's body. Hebrews draws the conclusion for you: "Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace." Not creep near. Not earn your way near. Draw near, with confidence, because the way is open and it is never going to close again.
The veil is torn. Walk in.
Jesus is the great High Priest who opened the way, once for all. Thank You, Jesus.
🚨 «El objetivo es sacar dinero de las guerras y devolverlo a manos de una élite transnacional (Agenda Gløbalista 20 30)»
⚠️La guerra es un esquema de lavado de dinero basado en impuestos para la élite de seguridad transnacional - Les importa muy poco si es en Afganistán o Ucrania, el verdadero objetivo es el robo del dinero público.
"La meta no es ganar ninguna guerra, sino mantener conflictos permanentes que alimentan ese circuito de poder"
"El Objetivo es una guerra sin fin, no una guerra exitosa"
____ Julian Assange
Remember this young French Catholic who carried a 35kg cross for 14 hours to replace the vandalized Aneto cross at the top of the Pyrénées?
Someone vandalized his cross, so he made an even bigger one and took it again to the peak of the mountain.
Christ is King 🇫🇷
Obispo Mutsaerts, Países Bajos: “la Iglesia católica no necesita un sínodo permanente sobre sí misma. Necesita santos. Obispos que enseñen. Sacerdotes que recen. Religiosos que vivan radicalmente para Dios. Padres que transmitan la fe. Jóvenes que descubran que la verdad es más que una opinión. Una liturgia en la que Dios ocupe realmente el lugar central. Confesionarios en los que los pecadores encuentren el perdón. Seminarios en los que se forme a hombres dispuestos a entregar su vida a Cristo. Católicos que no se pregunten constantemente cómo debe adaptarse la Iglesia al mundo, sino que tengan el valor de invitar al mundo a dejarse transformar por Cristo”
Carta abierta a Su Santidad sobre la “Sinodalidad”
Bishop Fulton Sheen, half a century ago:
"Just think, my dear ladies, of how many mentally disturbed women we are going to have in the United States in the next 10 or 15 years when the guilt of abortion begins to attack the mind and soul.". 🤯
EL TRIUNFO DE LA COHERENCIA
El partido AfD ha ganado las elecciones en Alta Sajonia con casi el 45% de los votos.
A nivel nacional, Alice Weidel preside este partido, en parte neonazi y en parte sionista; el chiste se cuenta solo. Pues bien, esta victoria podríamos titularla así: el «triunfo de la coherencia».
En efecto, Weidel destaca por ser sumamente «coherente»: promociona la familia tradicional y pretende mantener a raya la inmigración, aunque está casada con otra mujer nacida en Sri Lanka, con niños adoptados, y con residencia oficial y fiscal en Suiza, no en Alemania (!). Al respecto, sólo me surge un interrogante: ¿cuál es el coeficiente intelectual promedio del «votante patriota» de AfD?
Dicho esto, es reseñable la algarabía de las «nuevitas derechitas extremistitas»; cada país tiene la suya y todas están de enhorabuena, porque todas comparten más o menos las mismas aficiones demagógicas pestilentes y abyectas. No tengo duda de que Trump llegará a organizar una gran fiesta con todos los líderes liberales y libertarios del mundo en honor a AfD y bajo el amparo protector del «espíritu» de Jeffrey Epstein.
En definitiva, este «triunfo de la coherencia» es compartido con el «triunfo de la ignorancia». Como decía la gran Concepción Arenal: «Con la ignorancia armonizan bien los errores».
— Dr. Mn. Jaime Mercant Simó
▶️ FALLECIÓ LA DOCENTE QUE FUE TRASLADADA EN LA CARROCERÍA DE UNA CAMIONETA EN CDE | 😔🕊️
Según informó el joven denunciante Aldo Barrios, falleció la mujer que horas antes había sido trasladada de urgencia rumbo al IPS de Ciudad del Este, recostada sobre edredones en el piso de una camioneta.
🕊️ La víctima era docente y, según relataron allegados, muy querida en la zona del km 11. Compañeros, vecinos y familiares habrían buscado alternativas para trasladarla ante la falta de una ambulancia.
🗣️ “¿Para qué diablos sirve el seguro IPS para personas que aportan durante años y no pueden tener una ambulancia de urgencia?”, cuestionó Barrios.
📽️ Vía aldo.barriosg (Instagram)
Nunca fueron novios.
Pero él la llamó "mi único amor verdadero".
En 1992 eligió a Whitney Houston para El Guardaespaldas cuando casi nadie apostaba por ella. Le dijo:
-“Si tú no haces esta película, yo tampoco la hago”.
Esperó un año entero.
Le prometió que no la iba a dejar caer.
Y cumplió.
En el set se convirtió en su guardaespaldas de verdad.
El director no se sentía cómodo con ella.
Kevin la guiaba, le tomaba la mano y le decía que era hermosa cuando ella dudaba de todo.
-“Yo le hice una promesa a ella, no a él”.
“Yo te voy a cuidar”.
Y lo hizo.
Le pidió que no trajera séquito.
Fue idea de él que cantara I Will Always Love You a capella al principio.
Sin música, solo su voz.
Porque quería que se notara que lo sentía de verdad.
Cuando Whitney murió, Kevin escribió:
“La dejé caer, debí haber estado ahí y no estuve.
El resto de mi vida voy a vivir con ese dolor.
La salvé entonces, debí haberla salvado ahora.
Ella era mi único amor verdadero.
Todavía tengo I Will Always Love You como tono de llamada”.
En el funeral habló 17 minutos.
No quiso recortar.
Dijo que Whitney, a pesar de ser la más grande, siempre se preguntaba:
“¿Soy suficiente?
¿Soy bonita?
¿Les voy a gustar?”.
Y le contestó delante de todo el mundo:
-“No eras suficiente, eras grande.
Cantaste la canción entera sin banda.
Tú hiciste la película.
No eras solo bonita, eras tan hermosa como una mujer puede ser.
La gente no solo te quería, Whitney, te amaba”.
Nunca fueron una historia de amor convencional.
Fueron algo más raro y más triste:
El hombre que la eligió, la protegió y nunca dejó de guardarla…
Ni siquiera después de que ella se fuera.
Y cada vez que suena esa canción, todavía la está cuidando.
EUA: Jim Caviezel afirma que o adrenocromo é dez vezes mais potente que a heroína, diz que existem várias "Ilhas Epstein" administradas por agências de inteligência ou governos, volta a apontar os Rothschilds e diz que a teoria da conspiração sobre a presença de nazistas na Ucrânia acabou se revelando verdadeira.
"O império do adrenocromo. É um composto químico. É uma droga da elite que eles utilizam há muitos anos. É dez vezes mais potente que a heroína. Possui certas propriedades místicas, como a capacidade de fazer você parecer mais jovem...
Os agentes com quem conversei relataram que barris - contendo partes de corpos - estão sendo enviados para biolaboratórios.
Quem é a OTAN? Quem é a ONU? Quem são os Bancos Centrais? Os bancos dos Rothschilds.
A Ilha Epstein não era a única ilha dedicada a atividades sexuais existente... Há muitas agências envolvidas nisso."
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Vídeo legendado em português!
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