Month: July 2024
The Roman Rainbow Church – Pope Francis and his allies target the Catholic church
When British socialists founded the Fabian Society in 1884, they picked a most appropriate symbol to represent their goal of using gradual means, rather than revolutionary confrontation, to transform their country into a socialist paradise.
That symbol? A wolf wearing a sheepskin.
Such a symbol also would make an appropriate coat of arms for a pope who uses stealth and subterfuge to transform the Catholic Church into the world’s largest LGBTQ+ grooming agency.
As FrontPage Magazine has often reported, Pope Francis is slowly leading the church into a full embrace of gender ideology under the guise of “mercy” and “accompaniment.” Though Francis has criticized gender theory as “ideological colonization,” his appointments expose his duplicity. But two recent events blatantly unmasked Francis’ ultimate goal.
When the Vatican celebrated World Children’s Day — a holiday it created — on May 25, a male drag performer danced in front of children. The performer even exposed his covered buttocks deliberately to them.
That performer, Carmine De Rosa, said on social media that the Vatican officially invited him to perform and knew what his act constituted: “I would like to point out, reading the comments, that I was WANTED at this event FOR THE TYPE OF SHOW I CARRY ON STAGE and for professionalism…But I simply defend MY ART. (Capitals in original)”
One week later, Francis appointed three prelates who support gender ideology to the Dicastery for the Development of Doctrine, the Vatican’s highest theological body. Monsignor Bruno Forte advocates greater acceptance for homosexuality and LGBTQ+ relationships in the church, as well as protection of their legal rights. Forte expressed those ideas in the report for the Vatican’s Synod on the Family in 2014.
Cardinal Marcello Semenaro — who supports civil same-sex unions, as does Francis — annually holds in his diocese the Forum for Italian LGBT Christians, designed “precisely to make homosexuality — and not just persons with homosexual tendencies — fully accepted inside the Church,” reported Riccardo Cascioli. “It aspires to change the Catholic Catechism and argues for a rereading of Sacred Scripture according to a rainbow ideology.”
Another cardinal, Portugal’s Jose Tolentino de Mendonca, wrote the preface to a book by Sister Maria Teresa Forcades i Vila advocating “queer theology.” In 2015, she expressed her support for same-sex marriage “because sexual identities are not to be considered as closed boxes that God wants to complement each other and that must remain forever like this, fixed in defined and separate roles,” she told the Milan daily Corriere della Sera.
The next year, she told Italy’s La Repubblica that same-sex love was sacramental, and same-sex couples should be able to adopt children.
“A sacrament is the manifestation of God’s love in space and time,” she said. “Love is always a sacrament of God if it respects the freedom of the other. Possessive love, on the other hand, even if it is between a man and a woman, may not be sacramental in the profound meaning of the term.”
Forcades i Vila added that she “absolutely” supports same-sex adoptions: “What children need is adult, mature and responsible love from parents who put their needs before their own and who at the same time know how to set the right limits for them and help them grow. Growing up with two women or two men is not a problem.” (Emphasis added)
One frightening thought:Tolentino de Mendonca devised the idea for World Children’s Day.
Francis prepared the way for all three men last year by appointing Argentine Cardinal Victor Fernandez to be the dicastery’s chief of doctrine. Fernandez’s theological writings include two blatantly erotic works.
One book, which Fernandez called “a pastor’s catechesis for teens,” is Heal Me with Your Mouth: The Art of Kissing. In another book, Mystical Passion: Spirituality and Sensuality, Fernandez wrote that believers could experience “a kind of fulfilling orgasm in our relationship with God,” that homosexuals “will (not) necessarily stop being homosexual” after experiencing divine grace and that those influenced by “strong conditioning…can do things that are objectively sinful, without being guilty, and without losing the grace of God or the experience of his love.”
In an interview days after his appointment, Fernandez personally exemplified Francis’ duplicity. The Vatican’s new head of doctrine defended traditional marriage yet allowed the possibility of blessing same-sex unions.
“At the same time, I think we should avoid gestures or actions that may express something different,” he said. “That is why I think the greatest care must be taken to avoid rites or blessings that can feed this confusion. Now, if a blessing is given in such a way that it does not cause that confusion, it will have to be analyzed and confirmed.” (Emphasis added)
Fernandez expressed that position in December with Fiducia Supplicans, which allows priests to bless unmarried same sex-couples spontaneously and which Francis approved.
Before making those appointments to the Vatican’s most important theological body, Francis seeded the ground at lower levels. An American Jesuit, the Rev. James Martin, the editor-at-large of the Jesuit magazine America, serves as a papal communications advisor. Martin founded Outreach, a Catholic LGBTQ ministry, and uses his various platforms, especially Twitter/X, to promote gender ideology, subtly endorse transgender medical procedures for children and openly oppose biblical teaching on homosexuality — as FrontPage Magazine reported.
Martin even connected his book discussing the meaning of Lazarus’ resurrection in John 11 to gender ideology:
“This message, however, is especially important for LGBTQ people,” he wrote. ” ‘Coming out’ means to accept, embrace and love who you are, especially your sexuality and the way that God made you, and to reveal or share that part of yourself with others. Coming out is often a critical step for LGBTQ people, who are sometimes told, either overtly or covertly, that they should not accept or love themselves.Or, worst of all, that God doesn’t love them.” (Italics added)
On June 12, Martin tweeted that Francis “confirmed my ministry with LGBTQ people and showed his openness and love for the LGBTQ community,” adding that “the Holy Father said he has known many good, holy and celibate seminarians and priests with homosexual tendencies.”
This despite the fact that twice in the previous three weeks, Francis reaffirmed the church’s ban on homosexual seminarians, even using a vulgar slur to describe their sexual behavior.
Others hold higher positions. San Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy demands the “radical inclusion” of LGBTQ+ Catholics without having them repent from their sexual behavior. Luxembourg Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, one of Francis’ closest advisors, publicly rejects historic teaching on homosexuality and believes doctrinal change is inevitable.
“I believe that this is wrong,” Hollerich said about historic teaching that condemns homosexuality. “But I also believe that we are thinking ahead here in teaching. The way the Pope has expressed himself in the past can lead to a change in doctrine.” (emphasis added)
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life — which Pope John Paul II founded to fight abortion — commissioned a homoerotic painting for his cathedral. Paglia also developed a sex-education course for teens that one Catholic psychologist called “the most dangerous threat to Catholic youth that I have seen over the past 40 years” because of “pornographic images … used by adult sexual predators of adolescents.”
Paglia’s diocese and former parish are not the only church jurisdictions facing Fabian transformation.
In the Diocese of Lexington, Ky., St. Paul’s Catholic Church offers same-sex blessings by appointment, contrary to Fiducia Supplicans. The website for the parish’s LGBTQ ministry also has a prayer to “Our Mother of Pride,” featuring Mary cloaked in a rainbow flag and holding an infant Jesus.
In May, Lexington Bishop John Stowe issued a statement supporting a woman who lives as a monastic hermit and identifies as a man; Stowe even used male pronouns for the hermit. In 2021, Stowe publicly supported expanding the 1964 Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination by sexual orientation or gender identity, despite opposition from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which expressed concern about religious discrimination. The House of Representatives passed the proposal in 2021 but it died in a Senate committee.
Two years earlier, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., told a transgender Catholic, “you belong to the heart of this church,” he said. “If you’re asking me where do you fit, you fit in the family.”
Helping emotionally wounded people heal from immense pain is one thing. Ignoring or denying the consequences of their behavior is quite another. Valuing such a group over the innocent reaches a different level entirely.
But as the spectacle of a drag performer dancing in front of children at a Vatican event clearly demonstrates, Francis and his cohorts have no interest in protecting the innocent. By appeasing gender ideologues, by deliberately confusing mercy with enabling, Francis and his sycophants fully intend to “queer” the Catholic Church.
Children be damned.
Irish teacher released after 400+ days in jail over refusal to use transgender pronouns
A Christian teacher in Ireland was freed after serving more than 400 days in jail as part of a dispute born out of his refusal to address a transgender pupil by biologically inaccurate pronouns.
On June 28, Mr. Justice Mark Sanfey of the High Court in Dublin ordered that Enoch Burke could be released from the Mountjoy prison, where he has been kept since September 2022.
Irish media reported that Justice Sanfey ordered Burke to be released now that Irish schools are on their summer recess but that the teacher risked returning to jail if he breaks conditions of his release. Those conditions include a ban on him returning to the Church of Ireland Wilson’s Hospital secondary school in Multyfarnham, Co Westmeath, where Burke taught.
The saga surrounding the jailed teacher has been ongoing since 2022. Burke, a teacher of history and German, refused to comply with his school principal’s May 9, 2022, order to use a female name and pronoun for a male student who was in the process of “transitioning.”
This decision set him on a course that ultimately led to his imprisonment. He was placed on paid administrative leave in August 2022 while the school board held a disciplinary process, but when he continued to come to the school, he was served an order to ban him from entering – something he also ignored.
He was then arrested for contempt of court on September 5, 2022, while sitting in an empty classroom in the school. He was sentenced to jail for an unspecified period of time, until he either purged his contempt of court or until the court decreed otherwise. However, after 108 days in jail, he was released by the High Court after the judge argued that Burke was using his imprisonment for his own ends.
In January 2023, the school had issued a notice of dismissal to Burke. After Burke continued to present himself at the school from that month, incurring a daily fine of €700 every time, he was subsequently imprisoned once again in September 2023.
His current release is, as mentioned, due to the summer term holidays rather than the judge exonerating Burke, with the very real threat of future jail time if the former teacher returns to his school.
Burke has consistently maintained that his imprisonment and firing from the school are unjust, stating in January 2023 that the judge “wants to fine me for the profession of my religious beliefs.” He has also denied that he is in contempt of court.
His arrest and jail term are technically due to Burke’s refusal to comply with the court order to avoid the school rather than his refusal to use the transgender pronouns, though as highlighted by Gript Media, Burke has not been required to purge his “contempt of court” in being released on June 28.
The case has become a pivotal and divisive one in Ireland as the issue of transgender ideology becomes more aggressively prevalent in society.
Some have hailed Burke as a public champion in the cause against the growing acceptance of transgender ideology.
Others have argued that Burke’s jail term is due to his own continued refusal to accept his firing by the school and that he could walk free if he only agreed to not present himself at the school.
Burke is from a family of Evangelical Christians, who are well known in the public domain and the court rooms for their vocal stance in defense of Christian values in Irish society. Future developments in his case, and whether or not he will remain free from jail in the future, remains to be seen with his personal future being largely in his own hands.
Schadenfreude: France’s voters had a surprise for Macron
By Monica Showalter
France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, had it all figured out.
Following victories of conservative parties across Europe, he decided he’d secure his center-left legislative majority to keep the so-called ‘far right’ away from power by holding a snap election. If his party got enough votes, it could pick the prime minister and the cabinet officials, making for a very comfy presidency for himself indeed.
It was proactive. It was clever. It was a hardball power play to check an opponent.
The New York Times’s Roger Cohen noted that it took on this tone:
In a statement of its own, Mr. Macron’s party declared: “We cannot give the keys of the country to the far right. Everything in their program, their values, their history, make of them an unacceptable threat against which we have to fight.”
Just one problem with it: The French voters thought otherwise. The Marine Le Pen train had already pulled out of the station, leaving Macron and his masterplan in the dust. The results of June 6-9 parliamentary elections of Europe, which triggered this snap election, were a waving battle banner of more to come, not a minute little protest vote, as Macron had calculated. The former global investment banker forgot that the trend was not his friend.
It was about as bright a move as that of U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, who had launched a U.K. referendum on leaving the European Union, figuring the Brits would vote ‘no,’ as he had wanted — and much to his surprise, they voted ‘yes.’ Emmanuel, meet Dave.
This time, the French voters elected members of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party to the National Assembly by a stinging 33% margin, leaving Macron’s own Ensemble party with 20%, and the socialists with 28%. That’s misery itself for Macron’s French globalists, who’ve allowed in too many illegal migrants and seen the country explode into an orgy of crime, disorder and welfare bills. As a second round beckons next week, they may even get the prime minister’s job if they get enough votes in the runoff next week, which will make for some very interesting “co-habitation” as the French say.
What’s vivid here is that Macron was completely out of touch with the zeitgeist, or as the French say, l’esprit de l’époque. He didn’t seem to think there was much to grotesque new wave of crimes seen in France by unassimilated and ungrateful migrants claiming asylum or refuge, or else just there illegally. He could stop letting them in and the problem would go away, and there were some restrictions on illegal immigration, as the prime minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, who detests Macron, could attest.
Migrant problems, though, carry on long after migrants get past the gate.
A major cathedral, Nantes, was set on fire by an illegal. The monstrous fire at Notre Dame was called an ‘accident,’ which seems like a coverup but coincided a lot of problems with illegals.
A rejected asylum seeker (who was not thrown out) went on a stabbing spree in the sylvan city of Annecy, slashing four children in strollers and two adults, and was only stopped by a young French man with a backpack who was on a pilgrimage to see France’s cathedrals. Authorities insisted it wasn’t terrorism.
Migrants claiming to be Jihadis stabbed a priest who was saying mass in Normandy in 2022. Another priest in St. Etienne, near Lyon, was attacked during Islamic race riots in what authorities claimed was a robbery, in 2023. Protestant churches have been trashed by Islamist militants in those riots, too.
Meanwhile, in Paris, migrants lead in rapes of French women in public places.
According to GBNews:
More than three quarters of rapes on the streets of Paris last year were committed by foreign nationals, according to shocking data from French authorities.
97 rapes were recorded in public spaces in France’s capital in 2023 – fewer than a third of which have been solved, local outlet Europe 1 reported.
Of the 97, 36 were arrested, 28 of whom were of foreign nationality – a staggering 77 per cent of those accused – while 30 cases were solved by the authorities.
Cohen’s piece in the Times is very good but contains one flaw down the page in its description of how Marine Le Pen’s conservative party has changed, with a dismissive use of academic statistical studies on migrant crime:
Also unchanged was its readiness to discriminate between foreign residents and French citizens, and its insistence that the country’s crime level and other ills stem from too many immigrants, a claim that some studies have challenged.
Surely the migrant stabbing sprees, the migrant rapes, and the migrant attacks on cathedrals and churches would affect French voters in the way they lived, in the way they continued their culture, in the way they asserted themselves as French citizens in the aftermath of these attacks. French people would be afraid to go out on the streets, would shudder at the migrant campouts and garbage, litter and feces being left across city centers in France’s beautiful cities, and would force certain residents to consider arming up for self defense.
Those kinds of forced cultural changes of French people are what drive them towards the conservatives, Le Pen’s conservatives understand very well what the problem is that French people are experiencing, even as authorities dismiss every monstrosity committed as an anomaly or not their fault and let it go on and on and on, waving their misleading statistics as Chesa Boudin once did before he was thrown out as district attorney in San Francisco.
As adventure travel writer Robert Young Pelton once noted: The first and foremost human right is personal security. Without it, there aren’t any other human rights.
I have a friend who’s a foreign correspondent who has spent time in Paris with a major news organization, he’s a closet conservative. He once told me he spent time with Marine Le Pen and found her extremely empathetic, very pleasant, her charm and kindness actually took him off guard.
That kindness and empathy had to be a vote getter with France’s voters, making them vote for the “unelectable” party (as it has been dismissed) much to Macron’s surprise.
He now faces the unpalatable choice of hooking up with the far-left socialists, whom he disdains, or watching Le Pen’s party take most of the power, if not an unbeatable majority come next week.
That’s what comes of ignoring the feelings of the voters, who’ve been battered by crime and seen their beautiful French culture trashed in the name of globalism, including unfettered migration from unassimilated migrants who hate every civilized value. Macron rants about the socialists messing with his foreign investors, but where is his concern for the French and their ability to walk around without getting molested in their own cities? If he had paid attention to that, he might just have had a different political story.
AfD Congress in Essen Faces Violent Protests as Membership Soars 60%
Photo: @Alice_Weidel on X, 29 June 2024
Coordinated efforts by the far left and municipal officials failed to disrupt the annual congress of the right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in the German city of Essen over the weekend. The congress followed months of infighting, but also big successes for the party in last month’s European elections. The party also reported that membership had surged by 60% since January 2023.
According to protest organisers, 70,000 people took to the streets of Essen in a total of 32 demonstrations during the three-day congress. There were violent clashes between demonstrators and the police on Saturday morning, about which German media and politicians were largely silent.
In the congress hall itself, the party comfortably re-elected Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla as co-leaders, although attempts to centralise power within the party’s national committee and move towards having a general secretary were postponed.
On foreign policy, the party did not, in the end, debate motions restricting the ability of party representatives to travel abroad and speak to foreign media.
Alice Weidel received the largest applause of the weekend for declaring “Ukraine does not belong to the EU and not to Europe” as she voiced objections to fresh sanctions against Russian gas.
Weidel also defended her handling of the expulsion of the lead MEP candidate Maximilian Krah after his remarks appearing to relativise the guilt of SS soldiers and stated that her party had “grown up” and was ready to take the front stage in national and European politics.
The next task facing the party following the weekend congress is determining their alliances on the Right given the creation of a new faction for the European Parliament alongside newer nationalist parties, primarily from Eastern Europe.
Germany: Seven Syrians attack young woman and sexually assault her
A nightmare for a young woman from Chemnitz (21) who was sunbathing on a meadow near an allotment site at the weekend. Suddenly, seven young refugees from Syria turned up, insulted and attacked her. Two of them – 15 and 16 years old – are also said to have sexually harassed the victim.
The incident took place in the Gablenz neighbourhood. The gang of Syrians appeared out of nowhere in front of the young woman at 1.10 am and began to insult the local woman. The group may have come from the outdoor swimming pool just a few metres away.
Suddenly, the 21-year-old was punched in the face and fell to the ground. Together, the young refugees tried to drag their victim into a blind alley. They are said to have repeatedly touched the young woman indecently on her breasts and private parts.
The woman from Chemnitz fought back with all her might, screaming for her life. A neighbour (22) from an adjacent garden heard this and immediately rushed to help. He was also injured by the Syrians. Only when other witnesses arrived did the young men let go of the two and fled.
Thanks to the good description, the police were able to arrest five of the seven Syrians a short time later. The two youngest of all (15, 16) were brought before the investigating judge. The suspicion of sexual assault and bodily harm is primarily directed against these two suspects,” confirmed a police spokeswoman. The other suspects were charged, but have been released.
Am helllichten Tag: Sieben Syrer fallen über junge Frau (21) her | Exxpress
“People Are NO Longer Afraid To Vote Right-Wing!” – Marine Le Pen’s Party Surges In French Elections
Political theorist Ralph Schoellhammer says “people are no longer afraid to admit they are voting for right-wing parties” as Marine Le Pen’s party surges in the French elections. “It was once considered socially unsavoury to vote for right-wing parties.” Labour and European parties need to address the everyday concerns of disaffected voters and show that only progressives have the answers, Sir Keir Starmer has said. Sir Keir was asked after a stump speech at Hitchin Town Football Club what lessons he drew from the strong showing for the French far-right National Rally party in the first round of election voting. “The lesson that I take from nationalism or populism wherever it is across Europe – obviously we’re seeing the results emerging from France – but we also see the situation in other countries across Europe and across the world. “The lesson I take from that is that we need to address the everyday concerns of so many people in this country who feel disaffected by politics who feel on this Thursday either that the country’s too broken to be mended or that they can’t trust politicians because of what the Tories have done after the last 14 years. “We have to take that head on and we have to show both Thursday in the United Kingdom and across Europe and the world that only progressives have the answers to the challenges that are facing us in this country and across Europe.”
Germany: Iranian man attacks three policemen with a knife and is shot dead (Video)
A man who allegedly attacked three federal police officers with a knife in Lauf an der Pegnitz near Nuremberg on Sunday has died after being shot by police. The 34-year-old succumbed to his injuries at the scene of the incident at the railway station, a spokesman for the Middle Franconia police said in the evening. Immediately initiated first aid measures could not have saved his life.
According to the spokesman, the attacker had initially attacked a federal police car on patrol. When the officers got out of the car, he also attacked the officers themselves. “A knife was also involved,” said the spokesperson. In the evening, the police released details about the attacker. According to them, he was an Iranian citizen.
The officers remained unharmed. The spokesperson did not initially provide any information on how many shots were fired, who fired and where the shots hit the man.
The police had previously announced on X that a shootout had taken place following a previous attack on federal police officers. Another post on X stated that a larger operation was underway. “We are on site with numerous forces. Please stay away from the area. There is no danger to the population.” According to the police spokesperson, the square in front of the railway station is closed.
Lauf an der Pegnitz: Polizisten schießen nach Messerattacke auf Angreifer – WELT
The Revolution Spreads to France: “I am a leftist, usually I vote for the left”
Voters are turning on the incumbents. That’s true in the U.S. and it’s true in Europe.
And the revolution that has already seen fundamental electoral change sweeping across Europe has come to France.
In France, where the same inept governments, corrupt arrangements, and hollow rhetoric have been the order of the day for a generation, voters took on Macron’s liberal centrists and first-round voting backed Marine Le Pen’s right-wing National Rally. It’s not the end of the process, but it’s another political earthquake. Le Pen’s party had close calls before, but this one is looking like the closest of them al so far.
Previously fear of the ‘right-wing’ coming to power had united the other parties, but no one is going to side with a Left led by Communists and their political allies. Besides all of the smears hurled at Le Pen apply to the Left’s Jean-Luc Mélenchon who actually is an antisemite, a dangerous extremist, and is soft on Putin.
But the French are pretty clear about why they’re voting for the National Rally. They’re tired of crime, violence and terrorism. They’re sick of a system that puts migrants first, that panders to Islam and to the Eurocrats. Whether or not anything will change even if the National Rally is able to form a government may be open to question, but the voters have had it. Even people who wouldn’t otherwise have voted for NR are doing it.
David said that everyone in his synagogue was voting for National Rally, as were many other religious Jew he knew. Many of his leftist Jewish friends were either voting for right parties of not voting at all.
David pointed to mass immigration and the consequent changes in French society and Islamist antisemitism as the major concern driving the drastic political shifts he had seen among his friends. David lives in an area heavily populated with immigrants, many from Mali, Senegal, or Afghanistan.
He explained that the area had become riddled with drugs and crime, and were not safe for native French or girls.
“I am a leftist, usually I vote for the left,” said David. “I’m the most leftist of all my friends.”
“I don’t know Jews who are voting for the leftists,” said David. “Most of the Jews I know are voting for [Reconquête leader Éric] Zemmour or [National Rally President] Jordan Bardella.”
Moving from the Left to the right is a dramatic change for some French Jews, who David said had been left with a difficult choice — But difficult or not, based on what David said his friends have made the choice all the same.
It may be anecdotal, but it is happening.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-revolution-spreads-to-france
Sulphuric acid attack by a man without ” origin” on visitors to a café in Bochum, Germany
Apparently, various delinquents are getting fed up with old-fashioned knife attacks. They hardly cause a stir any more. Acid attacks, which are particularly common in backward, archaic cultures, are more promising.
According to the police, a “man of unknown origin” stormed into the outdoor area of a café in Bochum yesterday afternoon to spray “highly concentrated sulphuric acid” on the guests – as reported by “NTV”. A total of eleven people were injured, one of them seriously. Seven police and firefighters were also slightly injured after being contaminated with the liquid.
Shortly after the attack, the suspected perpetrator was arrested near the scene, but the police did not provide any details. His flat is now to be searched.
“I heard people shouting outside”
A male guest is said to have been the target of the attack. He was seriously injured and disfigured. A woman at the same table, a waitress and several other guests also suffered injuries. The incident was terrifying:
“I heard people screaming outside. One man was writhing on the floor in pain and screaming ‘Help, I’m on fire, why me?” the innkeeper told the newspaper “Bild”.
Motive unclear, origin of perpetrator concealed
As usual, there is still no information on the motive for the offence and no details on the identity of the alleged attacker. A homicide squad has been set up. ( German magazine “focus”)