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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni: ‘Soros, not Musk is the real threat to democracy’

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has stated that George Soros, not Musk, is the real threat to elections and sovereignty. 

Speaking at a 2-hour press conference, at which media had expressed concern about the influence that Elon Musk exerts on both Meloni and on democracies throughout Europe, Meloni asked, “So is the problem that Elon Musk is, let’s say, influential and rich, or is it that Elon Musk is not a leftist?” 

Meloni explained that while Musk expresses opinions, Soros interferes with the domestic politics of nations and uses his money to destabilize countries, according to a report by NDTV.   

“In my opinion, the interference on the sovereignty of a country is when billions are spent to affect political choices by paying political figures, and this has unfortunately happened with us in the past and no one  tore their clothes as … it happened,” said Meloni.   

Prime Minister Meloni also said: 

The problem is when wealthy people use their resources to finance parties, associations and political exponents all over the world to influence the political choices of nation-states. That’s not what Musk is doing. This, for example, is what George Soros does. 

I am not aware of Elon Musk financing political parties, associations or political exponents around the world. This, for example, is what George Soros does. And yes, I consider that to be dangerous interference in the affairs of nation states and in their sovereignty. 

Musk has come under heavy fire from leftist forces across the western world for his support of Donald Trump. First Musk vigorously endorsed Trump following the latter’s escape from a July 2024 assassination attempt, and then he accepted a role in Trump’s upcoming administration as co-head, along with Vivek Ramaswamy, of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).   

As such, Musk has become the sworn enemy of those serving in bloated western government bureaucracies.  

The billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX, the CEO of X (formerly Twitter) and other endeavors, Musk has also become a leading advocate for free speech internationally. Stateside, he has opposed the brutal censoring policies of the Biden administration.  

Meanwhile, the 94-year-old, Hungarian-born billionaire financier George Soros has reportedly been the American Democratic Party’s largest donor for many years. He also has a finger in many European pies.  

“Soros’ Open Society Foundations gives international support to illegal migrants to try to fight the legal system in sovereign nations that try to deport them,” notes Hungarian Conservative (HC) magazine. 

“His Media Matters’ main purpose is to harass advertisers of media companies hosting right-wing content and to manufacture negative press about right-wing public figures,” explained HC.   

“He has also funded the campaigns of Attorney Generals across the United States who are lenient with violent criminals, leading to an increase in crime in the major cities of the US.” 

Nevertheless, European progressives continue to see Musk, not Soros, as a threat.  

In recent weeks, Musk has used his prominent position in social media to repeatedly criticize U.K. Prime Minister Kier Starmer and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for decisions and policies he and many others feel are to the detriment of those leaders’ co-nationals.   

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/italian-prime-minister-giorgia-meloni-soros-not-musk-is-the-real-threat-to-democracy/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=usa

NYE Milan taharrush gamea: Assaults and molestation were carried out by Islamic men, some of whom also waved their national flags and disparaged Italy

Illustration. From Mob Assaults to Murder, Egypt’s Battle with Sexual Violence Enters New Phase | Occupy.com

Two young British citizens were among the victims of attacks reported amid New Year’s Eve celebrations in Milan’s Piazza Duomo, including a group of friends from Belgium, Belgian newspaper Sudinfo reported on Friday.
One of the six young Belgian women from Liège who reported the alleged assault was questioned by the Italian police on Friday.
The two British nationals, “a girl and her boyfriend, met the six young people from Liège in Milan in the afternoon of December 31 and got together with them.
“The two then went to the police and filed a complaint”, reported the French-language newspaper.
Milan prosecutors have opened a probe into allegations that the six young Belgians were sexually assaulted by second-generation North African men in the northern city’s Piazza Duomo.
The reported assaults and molestation were allegedly carried out by Islamic men, some of whom also allegedly waved their national flags and disparaged Italy, according to the Italian media.

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2025/01/10/two-britons-among-nye-milan-victims-media_22a773f6-23d6-498b-b69f-6ccc8344fca5.html

“A Christian and a Catholic”: Polish Presidential Candidate Vows To Halt Liberal Agenda

Karol Nawrocki
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Karol Nawrocki, conservative candidate for president of Poland, is one of two main candidates vying to take high office after President Andrzej Duda, whose 10-year tenure is due to end this year.

The date of the elections, May 18th, was announced this week. While the president’s role is mostly ceremonial, with it comes the opportunity to veto bills, a function which can then only be overruled by a three-fifths majority in parliament.

Duda, an ally of the conservative opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, has for the past year tried to push back on the current government’s liberal agenda.

He vetoed a bill aimed at liberalising access to the morning-after pill, and he has also vowed to veto any attempt to soften Poland’s strict abortion law—a move he eventually did not have to take due to the parliament itself voting down the planned amendment.

Duda has blocked attempts by the government to undo judicial reforms implemented by the previous conservative government, and the president has also issued pardons to PiS politicians who had been jailed by the current cabinet.

The government, led by Europhile Donald Tusk, has initiated acts of vengeance against its political rivals ever since it came into power a year ago—it has jailed opposition figures, purged state institutions, and ignored court rulings made by PiS-appointed judges.

Justice minister Adam Bodnar stated last year that they were “waiting” for Andrzej Duda’s term as president to end so they can begin to “fully restore the rule of law in the country”—i.e., have complete control to push through their liberal ideology.

Tusk’s Civic Coalition has nominated Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski as its presidential nominee—a proponent of LGBT rights and an opponent of the abortion law.

Nawrocki—head of the Institute of National Remembrance and an independent candidate supported by PiS—is shaping up as Trzaskowski’s main rival.

In a recent interview he said that as a “Christian and a Catholic”, he is “pro-life from conception to natural death.” He noted that he supports the current abortion law, which only permits abortion in cases of rape, incest, or serious danger to the mother’s health.

Nawrocki also firmly opposes the introduction of same-sex civil partnerships, adding that,

in Poland, we have two genders, and, as the constitution states, marriage is a union between a woman and a man.

With regard to the war in Ukraine, Nawrocki has gone against the mainstream narrative supported by both the government and the opposition, which believes that Ukraine should be accepted into the EU and NATO:

Currently, I do not envision Ukraine in any such structure—neither the European Union nor NATO—until important civilisational issues for Poland are resolved.

“A country that is not able to account for a very brutal crime against 120,000 of its neighbours cannot be part of international alliances,” he added, referring to the Volhynia massacres, in which Ukrainian nationalists killed around 100,000 ethnic Polish civilians during the Second World War.

According to the latest opinion polls, among the 12 candidates who already entered the race, Trzaskowski and Nawrocki will go through to the second round of voting, and the run-off will be won by the liberal nominee.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/a-christian-and-a-catholic-polish-presidential-candidate-vows-to-halt-liberal-agenda/

Muslim Rape Gangs: The Real Hate Crime Against White Girls: What Do We Do Now?

To attend any of our NCF Locals Events please email: Locals@NewCultureForum.org.uk All events are FREE of charge. On today’s #NCFNewspeak, NCF Director Peter Whittle is joined by NCF Fellow Harrison Pitt and Amy Gallagher of Stand Up To Woke to discuss the biggest issue of the week: Pakistani Muslim Rape Gangs.

Thousands of Romanians Protest Canceled Presidential Election

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Thousands of Romanians gathered on Friday outside the parliament building in Bucharest, which also houses the country’s Constitutional Court, to protest the court’s annulment of the November presidential election.

Outsider populist Calin Georgescu was the runaway leader in the election, but the court nullified the entire vote over allegations of Russian interference.

Georgescu, invariably described as a “far-right populist” by international media, shocked the Romanian political establishment by roaring into first place in pre-election polling. His success was all the more remarkable because his campaign spent very little money on advertising; in fact, he claimed he spent nothing at all.

Georgescu built an enormous following on social media, running as an admirer of American President-elect Donald Trump, a skeptic of funding for Ukraine, an economic nationalist, a Christian conservative, and a very spirited critic of left-wing billionaire George Soros. Polls showed him drawing heavy support from religious conservatives and people frustrated with the bottomless corruption of Romanian government.

One of the major criticisms raised against Georgescu was that he spoke admiringly of Russian President Vladimir Putin as “a man who loves his country,” although he insisted he did not agree with Putin’s agenda.

Georgescu was dismissed as a fringe candidate by Romanian media until he suddenly burst into the lead in polls, then won the first round of the presidential election with 23 percent of the vote. Political analysts confidently predicted he would be crushed in the second round, as lower-ranked candidates dropped out and the anti-Georgescu vote consolidated around a single champion — but suddenly, he was leading in the second round by a seemingly unsurmountable margin.

A week before the second-round vote was to be held, declassified Romanian intelligence documents were released that accused Georgescu of benefiting from 25,000 phony TikTok accounts created by a Russian disinformation campaign. The documents also claimed Russia disrupted the Romanian election system with a massive cyberattack.

Romania’s top prosecutor announced these allegations would be investigated as “electoral crimes” and then, two days before the vote, the Constitutional Court nullified the entire election. Enraged Georgescu supporters flooded the streets, complaining about a stolen election and rigged system. They returned to their protests on Friday, waving Romanian flags and chanting: “We voted, you stole from us … Give us back the second round.”

Demonstrators also argued the administration of President Klaus Iohannis was illegitimate because it should have ended on December 22 following the election. Some of the marchers called for Iohannis to be arrested and denounced members of his government as “traitors.”

Georgescu himself did not attend the protest, although he sent a video message to his supporters and asked the Constitutional Court to “urgently review the decision that has thrown Romania into chaos.”

Georgescu did not join the marchers because he was on his way to “the heart of Europe, to the highest courts,” as he put it, to file legal challenges against “great European institutions” that supported nullifying the election. He was most likely talking about the European Court of Human Rights, which is located in Strasbourg, France.

The protest coincided with Georgescu’s lawyers filing a formal request for the top court to reverse its annulment decision. A similar request was filed by fellow populist candidate George Simion, who notched a disappointing fourth-place finish in the election after the meteoric rise of Georgescu.

“We have been living in a dictatorship since December 6. We are here to defend democracy,” Simion told reporters when he joined the protests in Bucharest.

“I am with the Romanians, not with a person. We do not support Mr. Georgescu. I wonder why Mrs. Lasconi is not here,” he said, referring to former journalist and mayor Elena Lasconi, who finished second in the nullified election.

Lasconi has criticized the election nullification, saying the court “trampled on democracy” with an “illegal and immoral” ruling. She said on Wednesday she will run again, despite heavy pressure from the current government coalition for her to drop out and clear a path for whoever their consensus candidate might be. The coalition is currently having trouble coming up with someone to run.

Several journalists said they were harassed by the protesters and pelted with trash, prompting a response from the police, who said “acts of aggression and intimidation” would be investigated and punished.

A new election in Romania has been scheduled for May 4, with a runoff vote on May 18 if necessary. Current polls suggest a majority of Romanians disagree with the annulment of the November election, and there is every chance Georgescu could win the new vote. Georgescu has urged Romanians to sign a petition demanding not a new election from scratch, but the aborted second-round runoff that would have seen him facing Lasconi, the second-place finisher in November.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/01/10/thousands-romanians-protest-canceled-presidential-election

Trans-Identified Male Convicted of Killing Two Men, Feeding Bodies to Pigs, Files Complaint Seeking Retrial

A trans-identified male convicted of murdering two men and feeding their corpses to pigs has filed a legal complaint seeking a retrial, alleging that the attorney appointed to him by the state of Oregon failed to “controvert false evidence,” and that his Sixth Amendment rights have been violated. Vietnam war and US Navy veteran Susan Monica, born Steven Buchanan, was found guilty of the two murders, as well as two counts of abuse of a corpse in the first degree, and in 2015 was sentenced to a minimum of 50 years in prison.

Buchanan is currently serving his lengthy sentence at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, a women’s prison known for having a history of abuses against female inmates. He is listed under his feminine name, Susan Monica, and is described as being “female” in official records.

In 1991, Buchanan purchased a 20-acre farm in Oregon where he would kill two handymen in 2012 and 2013 before feeding their corpses to the pigs he owned at the property.

Multiple new outlets reporting on the case referred to Buchanan simply as a “woman,” without mentioning his transgender status or the fact he is a biological male.

“You shot two people and fed them to your pigs,” Judge Timothy Barnack told Buchanan during sentencing. “I don’t know how else I can put it. You valued pigs more than you value people. It may sound harsh, but you are a cold-blooded killer.”

Now, Buchanan has filed a writ of habeas corpus demanding to be let out of prison, citing errors in the original trial. Buchanan, referring to himself as “Ms. Monica” in the complaint, alleges that “the trial court barred Ms. Monica from airing her concerns about counsel,” and that the court, which denied his motion for a substitution of counsel, “failed to honor Ms. Monica’s conditional request that if her counsel was not relieved, she be permitted to represent herself.”

In 2012, Buchanan hired 59-year-old Stephen Delicino to assist him with tasks on the farm in exchange for financial compensation and accommodations. According to Buchanan’s testimony, the two became involved in a physical altercation after Buchanan discovered that Delicino was in possession of two of his guns. During a confrontation over the alleged theft, Buchanan has claimed that a gun misfired, striking Delicino in the back of the head and killing him.

However, Buchanan’s story regarding the death of Delicino has been inconsistent. He has variously asserted that Delicino shot himself in the head, and alternatively that he had shot the victim in self-defense — before his remains were eaten by Buchanan’s pigs. What was left of Delicino’s corpse would later be found by investigators in plastic bags on the property.

The following year, Buchanan hired Robert Haney, 56, as a handyman by placing an advertisement for hired help. In the summer of 2013, Haney’s children became concerned when they could not contact their father, and filed a missing persons report with the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.

In the legal filing requesting a retrial, Buchanan argues that his Sixth Amendment rights have been violated, and as such he is entitled to a retrial. Buchanan argues this on the basis that he was not allowed to properly represent himself and that he was not granted an alternative counsel when he complained about the state-appointed attorney who represented him in court, Christine Herbert.

According to Buchanan, Herbert “failed to controvert false evidence” that he had sold a shotgun to a pawn shop shortly after being contacted by investigators looking for Haney.

On May 22, 2014, Buchanan sent a request to the trial court seeking new counsel, and wrote on an inmate request form from the jail: “I need a new lawyer. Yesterday my investigator came to see me and would not talk to me until I signed a release form for mental health… I want someone to find out where Robert Haney was for the 6+ weeks he was missing before he turned up in my pig pen and prove me innocent.”

The main issue Buchanan had with his state-appointed counsel, Christine Herbert, was that “she seamed [sic] more interested in me being insane than in[n]ocent.”

In response to multiple requests from Buchanan for a change in his representation, the court denied his motion for new counsel. Jackson County Judge Timothy Barnack speculated that if he were to give Buchanan new counsel that he “may not like what they have to say, either” and would “keep asking for more and more attorneys.”

Buchanan further contests that a jailhouse informant incarcerated with him had sabotaged his case when testifying in court that he had admitted to shooting Haney after he refused to leave Buchanan’s property. While awaiting sentencing, he was held among female inmates at Jackson County jail. A former cellmate of Buchanan’s, Jordan Farris, testified in court that Buchanan had confessed to the grotesque murders.

Farris also described getting “chills” after receiving a birthday card from Buchanan signed, “from the sweetest murderer in Jackson County.”

Because the state’s attorney, Herbert, had also represented Farris in a felony methamphetamine case, Buchanan accused his legal counsel of a “conflict of interest” and suggested that Farris had “embellished the story” in hopes of gaining a plea deal.

Monica giving an interview from Jackson County jail in 2015. Photo: KTVL 10.

While claiming to be innocent, Buchanan argues in his writ that he shot the first victim, Delicino, in self-defense after a physical altercation, and that his pigs ate the corpse afterwards. The second victim, Haney, Buchanan claims, was “close to death or already dead” when he found the man being consumed by pigs, and then “shot him out of mercy.”

Bizarrely, however, Buchanan’s filing describes how, on January 5, 2014, Deputy Donald Adams of the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department visited his farm to investigate a missing person report lodged by Haney’s son. At that time, Buchanan states he had commented on wanting “to obtain a government grant to research how pigs consume human bodies.”

Astonishingly, in his own legal complaint, Buchanan states: “While the officers were at Ms. Monica’s property they requested to look around. She asked: ‘Where’s your warrant?’ During this encounter Ms. Monica spoke of killing people and feeding them to her pigs and clarified that she was joking.”

Video footage of a 4-hour long police interrogation with Buchanan recorded on January 6, 2014, shows him presenting inconsistencies in his narrative and expressing concern for the welfare of his pigs. When asked about Haney’s death, Buchanan insisted that he happened upon his pigs already consuming Haney, while alive, and that this prompted Buchanan to fatally shoot him.

“He had been gone for over a month. I came down to feed my animals, and I heard this moaning. His guts were out, but he was still alive… I didn’t think he was going to live. I went up and got my rifle and shot him in the head… And I just left him there. You know that pigs will eat anything if you give them the opportunity,” Buchanan said.

“He was being eaten, what I believed to be, alive,” Buchanan told detectives during the interview. “I put him out of his misery. I do that for my animals and this was the first time I did it for a human being and I knew it was wrong but if it were one of my pigs suffering out there, I would have done the same thing.”

Buchanan admitted that he took the remainder of Haney’s body, including his skull, and placed it in a plastic bag in his barn. He then drew a map to direct police to his remains.

State Police forensic anthropologist Veronica Vance testified that Haney had suffered three to four gunshot wounds to the head. His legs had been chopped off with an ax, though it was unclear whether this occurred before or after Haney’s death. Additionally, his thigh bones showed signed of having been gnawed on by an animal.

During a polygraph portion of the interrogation, Buchanan defecated in his pants. He then slipped up and told an officer he “left them,” referring to multiple corpses instead of only Haney’s, which ultimately led to the discovery of Delicino’s body. While drawing up a map of the farm, Buchanan confessed, “Right there, about three feet down, there’s part of another body.”

Police located the remains of the two victims on Buchanan’s property in the locations he had provided during the interrogation. Investigators excavated large portions of his property, but no other human remains were discovered.

Buchanan told police that Delicino had attempted to steal a gun from his farm, and that an argument broke out after he confronted the handyman about the theft. He claimed Delicino then committed suicide by shooting himself in the head multiple times, while running outside and falling into a pig pen.

“He grabbed a little pistol and he said that he [didn’t] want to go back to jail, and he decided he was going to kill himself. He shot himself in the head, and then he ran out. That was when it got even worse… and he emptied the gun in his own head,” Buchanan told law enforcement.

“Do you think I believe your story?” an officer asked Buchanan.

“No. I don’t believe my story… It’s too stupid,” Buchanan said.

During the interrogation, Buchanan admitted, “I do not value human life very much… My feeling is the only thing wrong with the planet is there’s people on it. If not for us, all the other animals, even dodo birds, would be here.”

On January 13, 2014, lead investigator Detective Eric Henderson again interrogated Buchanan, at which point the pig farmer’s story regarding Delicino’s death drastically changed. In the new narrative, Buchanan shot Delicino multiple times in self-defense after the hired handyman allegedly attempted to kill him.

Vietnam veteran Steven Buchanan at his farm in Oregon. Buchanan now claims to be a woman and calls himself Susan Monica.

In Buchanan’s revised explanation, Delicino had stolen a rifle from him worth approximately $300. Some time later, Delicino announced he would be leaving the farm. In a 2022 podcast interview, Buchanan said, “I had tried several times to get him to stay where he was and move in with me.”

The two then allegedly began to argue over “who he had sold the rifle to,” leading Delicino to “go nuts,” according to Buchanan.

“He thought I was going to have him arrested for stealing. I didn’t know it at the time, but he had hit me so hard with the butt of a rifle that he busted my right breast implant.”

Buchanan claims that Delicino attempted to kill him, and it was then that he shot him in the head. He continued to shoot Delicino, he said, because of “this thing called death grip.”

“When he didn’t let go, I went ahead and I shot him a couple more times,” Buchanan said. “I couldn’t believe it, but he was still holding onto my leg really tight. And I didn’t know it at the time, but I’m pretty smart, but you know, nobody knows everything. So I’ve learned that as I had heard about this thing called death grip… after some time, I realized that he was dead after the first shot.”

Detective Henderson, who directed the investigation, told the court during trial that Buchanan had admitted to killing over a dozen victims in a similar manner. “She told me that if she told me about the 17 others that she would spend the rest of her life in jail,” said Detective Henderson, referring to Buchanan as a woman.

During the 2015 court proceedings, Buchanan insisted on cross-examining witnesses, including Detective Henderson. While questioning the lead investigator, KOBI-TV NBC5 reported that Buchanan threatened to kill Henderson and feed him to his pigs. He then attempted to pass off the remarks as a joke.

Buchanan has a documented tendency to lash out with similarly dark “jokes.” During the January 6 police interview, Buchanan angrily responded to Eric Fox, the Deputy Medical Examiner, after being asked the whereabouts of a former tenant.

“So you know he still exists and he hasn’t disappeared, he’s not deceased on your property?” Fox asked.

Buchanan snarled and leaned in as though about to strike Fox, and said, “Well, you’ll have to find him, won’t ya?” He then chuckled awkwardly and blamed his “stupid sense of humor.” During a separate interview, Buchanan quietly remarked, “I see my stupid sense of humor become a reality.”

The former tenant, who lived at Buchanan’s property for four years, would go on to tell local news that the farmer killed his cat and two dogs, and that he believed he had fed them to his pigs.

This is the second attempt by Buchanan to secure a mistrial. In February 2018, he filed for a post conviction review, but was denied on the basis that his attempts to represent himself mitigated his complaints about his counsel’s effectiveness.

It is unclear how many men claiming a transgender status are currently being held in women’s facilities in Oregon state. As Reduxx previously reported, a man in custody for the brutal murder of his ex-girlfriend had been briefly transferred to the Coffee Creek Women’s Correctional Facility, but was quickly moved back to the male estate just weeks later for unknown reasons.

Zera Lola Zombie, born Daniel Lee Smith, has received a “vulnerable” designation by an Oregon Court, entitling him to special protections and privileges due to his gender identity. He is classified as a “female” inmate in the Oregon inmate directory.

https://reduxx.info/exclusive-trans-identified-male-convicted-of-killing-two-men-feeding-bodies-to-pigs-files-complaint-seeking-retrial/

Dutch bishop: Young people love traditional liturgy, not Pope Francis’ ‘synodality,’ climate agenda

Bishop Robert Mutsaerts EWTN/YouTube

Dutch Bishop Robert Mutsaerts has criticized the Catholic hierarchy for focusing on “climate change” and social justice issues instead of the salvation of souls. He said that young people are attracted by traditional liturgy and not by Pope Francis’ “synodality.”

In a blog published in December, Bishop Mutsaerts said that this negative trend has dominated the Catholic Church since the 1960s and the Second Vatican Council.

“How did it get to the point where we see what we see today in church circles? Rainbow flags, LGBT activists dancing around the altar, second-rate bands playing pop music, sermons that are an expression of political correctness rather than anything else?” he pointedly asked.

“How is it that beauty and truth have given way to ugliness and opinions? Ugly buildings, whitewashed walls, iconoclasm, and poorly acted performances that pass for liturgy. Kneelers and communion rails have been removed. The mystery, the sacred, the supernatural had to give way to horizontal flatness.”

The bishop said that he sees a hunger for tradition and transcendence in young Catholics.

“But this has not yet caught on in Rome,” he mused. “There, they are preoccupied with the new buzzword synodality.”

“The leadership of the church resembles Demas, who left Paul out of love for the secular world,” he stated. “And Judas, who thought the money spent on Jesus would have been better spent on the poor. This resonates well with the liberals. They are like those who cry out for Barabbas, the activist who strove for a secular utopia. They say: ‘We take matters into our own hands.’ Jesus, on the other hand, did the will of the Father and chose the cross. That seemed like a failure, but it was the cross that brought redemption.”

Bishop Mutsaerts said people have left the Church in the past 60 years “because the church has let them down.”

“’Yes,’ says the church, ‘we are committed to the environment, to climate change, to diversity, to the poor and issues like that.’ More emphasis is placed on this than on a dignified liturgy, on sacrality, on the call to conversion, and on prioritizing the salvation of souls. People forget that this is precisely what gives people the nourishment they need to truly perform works of mercy.”

“Since the 1960s, the Church has portrayed the faith as ridiculous, no longer naming its core,” the bishop said. “Look at the liturgical abuse that is the order of the day. I am regularly terrorized at Confirmation Masses by choirs singing only Top 2000 songs. I once experienced the choir, accompanied by a deafening band, singing exclusively songs by Bruce Springsteen. ‘Because the Night’ was the offertory hymn. At the end of the Mass, it was clear to me: we will never see these confirmands in church again.”

“At another Confirmation Mass (Nijmegen), the priest refused to give Communion to a confirmand because he wanted to receive Communion on the tongue. That’s actually very clerical: this priest makes his own rules and imposes them on the faithful,” he continued.

“This has been the problem of the Church since the Second Vatican Council: the Church does not teach what the Gospel teaches. We are afraid to proclaim Catholic views. Which priest still talks about ‘salvation’ and the ‘forgiveness of sins?’ We prefer to distance ourselves from it. We apologize for a colleague who stands guard and prays outside an abortion facility.”

“The Pope banned the traditional Latin Mass in Chartres and Notre Dame and added an LGBT pilgrimage to the program of the Holy Year in the same week,” the Dutch bishop stressed.

“We strive so much for ‘freedom and happiness,’ but in practice, this seems to lead to debauchery and dissatisfaction. What is needed are norms and values that we share. Where do we get this from? Norms and values that apply to everyone and at all times. Yes, there is such a thing as the truth that applies to everyone. And yes, we can know it. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle already knew this. This natural law has a supernatural origin that the secular world knows nothing about.”

He said the “dialogue with the world” opened at the Second Vatican Council has led many in the Church hierarchy to “relativize or even deny the timeless truths of the Church.”

These truths “would merely be figments of the imagination of Thomists and other outdated theologians.”

“This led to a completely horizontal translation of the Gospel. Metaphysics was jettisoned, and the focus was exclusively on community. The result is a flat liturgy in which there is no longer any room for sin and forgiveness. The blame was shifted onto others,” Bishop Mutsaerts said.

In today’s Church, at least in Western Europe, the mainstream view says “it should be about social justice, about soup kitchens, about action,” he continued.

“Yes, mainly action. We stand up against discrimination and racism and take part in the social debate on climate change. We are naturally inclusive and diverse and fly the rainbow flag. Of course, we don’t talk about abortion, euthanasia, and mutilation of [so-called] transgender people. The distinction between the sacred and the profane has completely disappeared.”

“Young people, in particular, have sensed this very well and have voted with their feet,” the bishop said. “If the liturgy is an incoherent mess, if you are not asked to reorganize your life, if forgiveness and sin are forbidden words, then what are you doing there?”

“Good liturgy, clarity, and warmth make all the difference. Young people are looking for answers to questions.”

“No wonder young people hungry for meaning, forgiveness, and truth are not at all interested in Laudato Si’, Fiducia Supplicans, and synodality,” the bishop added.

“Parishes and dioceses that think they are focusing on this do not attract young people. Where do you find them: in parishes where things are simply traditional, where the Holy Mass is still Holy Mass, where the sacred is in the forefront, where the liturgy is clearly separated from the secular. You discover things there that you didn’t know before. It is a movement towards beauty, truth, holiness, towards devotion, towards places where the sacrament of Confession is offered and the Rosary is prayed. That’s where I see families, that’s where I see young people, that’s where I see the future of the Church.”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/dutch-bishop-young-people-love-traditional-liturgy-not-pope-francis-synodality-climate-agenda/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=usa

Former European Commissioner and Wannabe Tyrant Thierry Breton Says EU May Cancel German Elections if Right-Wing AfD Wins

Screengrab Le nazillon Thierry Breton veut fermer Twitter et imposer la méthode roumaine aux mal-votants – Riposte Laique

If you were scandalized by the European powers sweeping in to force Romania to cancel its Presidential Elections out of fear of right-winger Calin Georgescu, you better buckle up, according to former European Commissioner—and wannabe tyrant—Thierry Breton.

A Eurofanatic and enthusiast for censorship online, Breton had to resign from the EU after unsuccessfully trying to keep the Elon Musk/Donald Trump podcast from being broadcast.

In an interview on Thursday, Breton said that Elon Musk’s ‘interference’ in the upcoming elections in Germany ‘could lead to a cancellation of the election results.’

CNews reported (translated from the French):

“This interference is also worrying European leaders. While the results of the first round of the Romanian presidential election have been annulled against a backdrop of Russian interference, the threat of Elon Musk intervening in favor of the AfD in Germany raises fears of the worst.”

Breton said that freedom of speech is a ‘fundamental element’ in Europe, commenting on Musk podcast with Alice Weidel on X – but…

“Thierry Breton nevertheless called for keeping calm in the face of this situation that is developing in Germany, mentioning the example of Romania. ‘Let’s enforce our laws in Europe when they are likely to be circumvented and if they are not enforced can lead to interference. We did it in Romania and it will obviously have to be done, if necessary, in Germany’, he concluded.”

There we have it – he ‘calmly’ suggests overriding the popular vote in Germany if it does not fit his Globalist point of view.

“’From the moment it is broadcast in Europe with a regulated platform, Elon Musk has to follow European rules. With the AfD, we have to follow them. It is obvious that we will take all measures to ensure that he respects the law. If he does not respect it, there are fines and the possibility of ban’, he continued, recalling that Elon Musk must comply with European rules.”

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Former European Commissioner and Wannabe Tyrant Thierry Breton Says EU May Cancel German Elections if Right-Wing AfD Wins