BREAKING from Antigua 🇦🇬:
We filled the airport with one message:
🚫 “OAS Delegates: NO to WOKE indoctrination & abortion in America.”
Result?
❌ Banners erased by @OAS_official orders
❌ Threats: “There will be consequences.”
❌ Speech at risk of being CANCELLED
They’re terrified of your voice. Watch what they tried to hide.
#FreeSpeech #globalist
🚨 BREAKING: Canadian Cardinal: Catholics shouldn't use 'Pride' symbols—they're 'contrary to God’s divine revelation' 🚨
Frank Cardinal Leo, Archbishop of Toronto, spoke out strongly against Catholics who use "misguided and inadequate" symbols in the month of June that "do not represent us as Catholics but rather contribute to confusion, distortions and ambiguities about what the Catholic faith truly teaches regarding the human person, human nature, and natural moral law."
Rather, they should turn to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, he said, "one of the most profound and enduring symbols in Catholic devotional life as it encapsulates the depth of Christ’s love for humanity."
The statement, dated June 1, was posted on the Archdiocese of Toronto's website on May 29.
"We need to make sure that the symbols we use are consistent with our Catholic faith and not borrowed from ideological fora, promoted by lobby groups and endorsed by political movements," Cardinal Leo continued.
"We ought to honour and respect our traditions and not compromise the integrity of the faith by using symbols that are contrary to God’s divine revelation."
"We do good to use our own symbols to tell our own story without resorting to trendy, misguided and inadequate symbols that do not represent us as Catholics but rather contribute to confusion, distortions and ambiguities about what the Catholic faith truly teaches regarding the human person, human nature, and natural moral law."
Over a century ago, Pope Leo XIII noted that "the preservation of the Eastern rites is more important than is realized." Let us embrace the appeal to safeguard and promote the Christian East, especially in the diaspora. https://t.co/9uiYDTismI
War is never inevitable. Weapons can and must fall silent, for they never solve problems but only intensify them. Those who sow peace will endure throughout history, not those who reap victims. Others are not enemies to hate but human beings with whom to speak.
The Holy See is willing to help enemies meet, so they may look each other in the eye and so people may be given back the dignity they deserve: the dignity of peace. With heart in hand, I say to the leaders of nations: let us meet; let us dialogue; let us negotiate!
The ancient, yet ever new spiritualities of the Christian East offer a healing balm. They merge an awareness of human misery with awe for divine mercy, so that our lowliness never leads to despair but invites us to welcome grace.
There is so much violence and so many wars in our world! Amid this horror that should provoke outrage—as people die in the name of military conquest—stands the call of Christ, who repeats: ‘Peace be with you!’
Christ's peace is not the silence of the tomb after a conflict, and it is not the result of subjugation. Peace is a gift that gazes at others and renews their lives. Let us pray for this peace, which is reconciliation, forgiveness, and courage to turn the page and start again.
Shared from Jerome Castaneda on Facebook
The devil appeared to three monks and said to them: If I gave you the power to change something in the past, what would you change?
The first of them, with great apostolic fervor, answered: "I would prevent you from causing Adam and Eve to fall into sin, so that mankind would not be separated from God."
The second, a man full of mercy, said to him: “I would keep you from turning away from God and condemning yourself forever.”
The third of them was the simplest and instead of answering the temptor, he knelt down, made the Sign of the Cross and prayed, saying, "Lord, deliver me from the temptation of what could have been and wasn't."
The demon, yelling loud and trembling in pain, be gone.
The other two, surprised, said to him, “Brother, why did you react like that?” ”
He answered them:
“First: We should NEVER dialogue with the enemy.
Second: NOBODY in the world has the power to change the past.
Third: Satan's INTEREST was not to prove our virtue, but to hold us in the past, so that we neglect the present, the only time God gives us His grace and we can cooperate with it to do His will.
Of all the devils, the one that most detains men and prevents them from being happy is "what could have been and wasn't". The past is left to the Mercy of God and the future to His Providence. But the present is in His love. Live today loving God with all the strength of your heart and those God has given you.
My take re the pope’s hope that hell is empty:
It seems to me that, in scripture, God *desires* that all men be saved but explicitly warns us that many are not.
I agree with the pope in that, I too, "*like* to think of hell as being empty.” Or mostly empty.
It would be nice to learn that Jesus' warnings and the story of Lazarus & the rich man were merely rhetorical devices.
I don’t think that’s the case. But I'd enjoy finding out that I was wrong about that. Who wouldn't?
In either case, Jesus' intention was that we take the very real possibility of eternal damnation very seriously and let it impact our choices now—especially when our love isn’t strong enough to help us do the right thing.
I think most people today do not take that possibility very seriously.
I like the tension St Augustine teaches disciples to live in, "Do not despair; one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume; one of the thieves was damned."