BLM chants "Death to America!"
Kind of has a "HIGHLANDER" feel to it. The Quickening.
ALOHA HAWAII!!
They are not going to let Joe Biden debate anyone.
It's 100% not a rally, it's a 100% "peaceful protest".
Burn,Loot,Murder didn't work? Inconceivable!
Flordia Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced on Monday a proposed new law that would protect drivers who kill or injured demonstrators if the drivers are fleeing a "mob."
Flordia Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced on Monday a proposed new law that would protect drivers who kill or injured demonstrators if the drivers are fleeing a "mob."
The timing of DeSantis' proposed legislation comes less than two weeks after heated clashes between protesters and police in the state's capital city of Tallahassee.
The major tenets of the proposal include:
• Imposing criminal penalties for violent or disorderly assemblies, making them a third-degree felony;
• Imposing a mandatory minimum sentence of six months in jail for anyone who assaults a law enforcement officer during a violent and disorderly protest;
• Holding people in jail until after their first court appearance;
• Enhanced penalties for anyone throwing a projectile during a violent or disorderly protest;
• Enhanced penalties for people coming from out of state to participate in a violent or disorderly protest;
Tallahassee police officers take several Black Lives Matter protesters into custody during what began as a peaceful march on Sept. 5 in the state's capital city. • Charging people with a felony for blocking roadways;
• Prohibiting destroying any type of public property, including monuments;
• Prohibiting harassing innocent people;
• Making those convicted of participating in a violent or disorderly assembly ineligible for state benefits or employment;
• Using the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act to charge with a federal crime anyone who organizes or funds a violent or disorderly assembly.
How do we turn RGS's funeral into a punchline? Push-ups during the ceremony on live TV sounds like the way to go. They are so stupid!
Rush Limbaugh spoke about it yesterday during the third hour of his program. He quoted a NY Post piece that had a lot of liberal lawyers saying they love her and that she is hands down the best person to replace RGB. In addition Noah Feldman(Trump hater) calls her a truly brilliant lawyer. Also it seems that the Notre Dame elite really loves her. Couple that with the fact that she recently helped uphold the Governor of Illinois unconstitutional lockdown order(7th circuit ruling).
Should be using 2 billion of that money to pay for damages caused from their riots/protests.
25 Sep 2020112 3:42 ROME — Pope Francis told the U.N. General Assembly Friday that the world stands at a crossroads between multilateralism and a dangerous resurgence of nationalism.
In an apparent swipe at U.S. President Donald Trump and his “America First” motto prior to the upcoming presidential elections, the pope said that the world should embark on a path to enhance “multilateralism” and “globally co-responsibility” in order to build on the values of justice, peace, and the unity of the human family.
“The other option gives priority to self-sufficiency, nationalism, protectionism, individualism, and isolation,” the pontiff declared in a live-streamed message delivered from the Vatican, “which leaves out the poorest, the most vulnerable, and the inhabitants of the existential peripheries.”
“That path would certainly be detrimental to the whole community, causing self-inflicted wounds on everyone. It must not prevail,” he added.
The pope said that the role of the United Nations is fundamental to building up this multilateral response, highlighting in particular the mission of the U.N. Security Council.
“Our world in conflict needs the U.N. to become an increasingly effective laboratory for peace,” the pope said, “which requires that the members of the Security Council, especially the permanent ones, act with greater unity and determination.”
“In this regard, the recent adoption of the global ceasefire during the current crisis is a very noble measure, which requires the good will of all for its continued application,” he stated.
The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council are China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
In his address, Francis warned that the erosion of multilateralism poses a graver risk because of the development of new forms of military technology, such as lethal autonomous weapons that he said have “irreversibly changing the nature of war, separating it even further from human action.”
“The perverse logic that links the possession of weapons to human and personal security must be dismantled,” Francis said. “This logic only serves to increase the profits of the industry of war, it fosters a climate of mistrust and fear.”
Speaking about migrants and refugees, the pope lamented that many “suffer alone without any prospects of improving their lot in life, and even worse, thousands are intercepted at sea and forcibly returned to detention camps where they suffer torture and abuse.”
“Many are victims of trafficking, sexual slavery or forced labor, exploited in humiliating tasks, without a fair wage,” he said. “All this is intolerable, but today it is a reality that many intentionally ignore!”
Conspicuous for its absence was any mention of the internment of over a million Uighur Muslims in re-education camps by the Chinese Communist Party in the Xinjiang region.
The BBC reported Thursday that China has “expanded its network of detention centres for its Uighur minority despite insisting the ‘re-education’ system was being scaled back.”
There are some 380 facilities in the Xinjiang region, about 40 percent more than previous estimates, according to a report released by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
The report “identifies 100 more detention sites than previous investigations have shown, based on analysis of satellite imagery, interviews with eyewitnesses, media reports and official documents,” the BBC declared.
PATRIOT!! Pray for Ron Paul.
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. May God bless you and your family. TRUMP 2020 MAGA. If ACB is selected I will pray for her and support her. Lagoa, who i prefer, is also a Catholic.
The Horrors of the Church and Its Holy Inquisition
This piece was originally published at Biblioteca Pleyades.
Joaquin Pinto - The Inquisition. Joaquin Pinto – The Inquisition. “Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with Church dogma must be burned without pity.” – Pope Innocent III
The Inquisition was an ecclesiastical court and process of the Roman Catholic Church setup for the purpose towards the discovery and punishment of heresy which wielded immense power and brutality in medieval and early modern times. The Inquisitions function was principally assembled to repress all heretics of rights, depriving them of their estate and assets which became subject to the ownership of the Catholic treasury, with each relentlessly sought to destroy anyone who spoke, or even thought differently to the Catholic Church. This system for close to over six centuries became the legal framework throughout most of Europe that orchestrated one of the most confound religious orders in the course of mankind.
Inquisition Procedure
At root the word Inquisition signifies as little of evil as the primitive “inquire,” or the adjective inquisitive, but as words, like persons, lose their characters by bad associations, so “Inquisition” has become infamous and hideous as the name of an executive department of the Roman Catholic Church.
All crimes and all vices are contained in this one word Inquisition. Murder, robbery, arson, outrage, torture, treachery, deceit, hypocrisy, cupidity, holiness. No other word in all languages is so hateful as this one that owes its abhorrent preeminence to its association with the Roman Church.
In the Dark Side of Christian History, Helen Ellerbe describes how the same men who had been both prosecutor and judge decided upon the sentence of heresy. Once an Inquisitor arrived to a heresy-ridden district, a 40 day period of grace was usually allowed to all who wished to confess by recanting their faith.
After this period of grace had finished, the inhabitants were then summoned to appear before the Inquisitor. Citizens accused of heresy would be woken in the dead of night, ordered, if not gagged, and then escorted to the holy edifice, or Inquisition prison for closer examination.
In 1244, the Council of Harbonne ordered that in the sentencing of heretics, no husband should be spared because of his wife, nor wife because of her husband, and no parent spared from a helpless child. Once in custody victims waited before their judge anxiously, while he pondered through the document of their accusation. During the first examination, enough of their property was likewise confiscated to cover the expenses of the preliminary investigation.
The accused would then be implicated and asked incriminating and luring questions in a dexterous manner of trickery calculated to entangle most. Many manual’s used and promulgated were by the grand inquisitor Bernardus Guidonis, the Author of Practica Inquisitionis (Practice of the Inquisition) and the Directorium Inquisitorum (Guideline for Inquisitors) completed by Nicolaus Eymerich, grand inquisitor of Aragon. These were the authoritative text-books for the use of inquisitors until the issue of Torquemada’s instructions in 1483, which was an enlarged and revised Directorium.
A Chapter of the Manual is headed “of the torture” and contains these small reflections:
“The torture is not an infallible method to obtain the truth; there are some men so pusillanimous that at the first twinge of pain they will confess crimes they never committed; others there are so valiant and robust that they bear the most cruel torments. Those who have once been placed upon the rack suffer it with great courage, because their limbs accommodate themselves to it with facility or resist with force; others with charms and spells render themselves insensible, and will die before they will confess anything.”
The author gives further directions:
“When sentence of torture has been given, and while the executioner is preparing to apply it, the inquisitor and the grave persons who assist him should make fresh attempts to persuade the accused to confess the truth; the executioners and their assistants, while stripping him, should affect uneasiness, haste, and sadness, endeavoring thus to instill fear into his mind; and when he is stripped naked the inquisitors should take him aside, exhorting him to confess, and promising him his life upon condition of his doing so, provided that he is not a relapsed (one dilated a second time), because in such a case they cannot promise him that.”
Later afterwards in the sixteenth century, Cardinal Giovanni Caraffa, a zealot for the purity of Catholicism who later became the pope himself, also held a stern and gloomy view of moral rectitude for heretics. In 1542, he was appointed by pope Paul III to administer the Inquisition.
The manuscript life of Caraffa gives the following rules drawn up by Caraffa himself:
“Firstly when the faith is in question, there must be no delay; but at the slightest suspicion, rigorous measures must be resorted to with all speed. Secondly, no consideration is to be shown to any prince or prelate, however high his station. Thirdly, extreme severity is rather to be exercised against those who attempt to shield themselves under the protection of any potentate, and fourthly, no man must lower himself by showing toleration toward heretics of any kind.”
Refusing to confess at the first hearing, saw heretics being remanded to the prisons for several months. The dungeons were situated underground, so that the outcries of the subject might not reach other parts of the building. In some medieval cells, the inauspicious were bound in stocks or chains, unable to move about and forced to sleep standing up or on the ground. In some cases there was no light or ventilation, inmates were generally starved and kept in solitary confinement in the dark and allowed no contact with the outside world, including that of their own family.
In 1252, Pope Innocent IV officially authorized the creation of the horrifying Inquisition torture chambers. It also included anew perpetual imprisonment or death at the stake without the bishops consent. Acquittal of the accused was now virtually impossible. Thus, with a license granted by the pope himself, Inquisitors were free to explore the depths of horror and cruelty. Dressed as black-robed fiends with black cowls over their heads, Inquisitors could extract confessions from just about anyone. The Inquisition invented every conceivable devise to inflict pain by slowly dismembering and dislocating the body.
Many of the devices were inscribed with the motto “Glory be only to God.” Bernardus Guidonis, the Inquisitor in Toulouse instructed the layman as to never argue with the unbeliever, but as to “thrust his sword into the man’s belly as far as it will go.” George Ryley Scott describes how the inquisitors, gorged with their inhumanity, and developed a degree of callousness rarely rivaled in the annals of civilization, with the ecclesiastical authorities condemning every faith outside of Christianity as demonic.
Even the very fact of having a charge brought against you, and of being summoned to the Inquisition was sufficient to strike abject terror into the bravest man or woman. For very few who entered the doors of that halls of torment emerged whole in mind and body. If they escaped with their life, they were, with rare exceptions, maimed, physically or mentally forever. Those who did happen to endure the dungeons generally went mad in captivity, screaming out in despair to escape their purgatories. Others willingly committed suicide during their confinement.
The defendants were known to incriminate themselves at any chance they had to escape the horrors. As Henry Charles Lea describes, one of the conditions of escaping the penalties was that they stated all they knew of other heretics and apostates, under the general terror, there was little hesitation in denouncing not only friends and acquaintances, but the nearest and dearest kindred–parents, children, brothers and sisters–this ultimately and indefinitely prolonged the Inquisitions through their associates.
In the ages of faith, when the priest, was little less than a God himself, a curse from his lips was often more feared than physical torments. To even establish an accusation against a bishop itself required 72 witnesses; against a deacon was 27; against an inferior dignitary was 7, and for non-members of the clergy, 2 was sufficient to convict. Whole communities went mad with grief and fear of the thought towards being denounced to the Inquisition. It spread all over Europe. Men, women, and children, all legally murdered on evidence by a church, which today would only be accepted unless the court and jury specifically composed of the inmates of a lunatic asylum.
During the course, defendants had no rights to counsel or advice, and were even denied the right to know the names of their accusers. No favorable evidence or character witnesses were permitted. In any case, one who even spoke for an accused heretic would be arrested as an accomplice. Never would a prisoner of the Inquisition have seen the accusation against himself, or any other. All efforts relating to time, place, and person were carefully concealed.
Henry Charles Lea describes however that evidence was accepted from witnesses who could not legally testify in any other kind of trial; such as condemned criminals, other heretics, or children even as young as the age of two. The Inquisitor Jean Bodin (1529-96) author of De La Demonomanie des Sorciers (Of the Demonomania of Witches) especially valued child witnesses for extracting confessions, as they were easily persuaded to confess. Children though, were no exception for being prosecuted and tortured themselves. The treatment of witches’ children was particularly brutal.
Suspicion alone of witchcraft would warrant torture. Once a girl was nine and a half, and a boy was ten and a half, they were both liable to inquiry. Younger children below this age were still nevertheless tortured to elicit testimonies that could be used against their own parents. A famous French magistrate was known to have regretted his leniency when, instead of having young children accused of witchcraft burned, he had only sentenced them to be flogged while they watched their parents burn.
The children of those parents murdered usually were forced to beg in vain upon the streets, for no one dared feed or shelter them thus incurring a suspicion of heresy upon themselves. The suspicion was sufficient enough to drive away even the closest kindred and friends of the unfortunate. Sympathy for them would be interpreted as sympathy with their heresy.
The pulley or strappado was the first torture of the Inquisition usually applied. Executioners would hoist the victim up to the ceiling using a rope with their hands tied securely behind their back. They were then suspended about six feet from the floor. In this position, heavy iron weights, usually amounting to about 45 kg, were attached to their feet. The executioners would then pull on the rope, then suddenly allowing it to slack causing the victim to fall.
The rapid descent would then come to an abrupt stop, bewildering every joint and nerve in the system. In most cases it entailed dislocation. This process was repeated again and again heavier and more intense until the culprit confessed or became unconscious. Christian Monks would stand by to record any confessions, with even records today displaying the transformation of the monks steady handwriting to vigorous shaking after they recanted inside the dungeons.
If a relapsed heretic refused to recant and endure the torture, the contumacious sufferer was then carried to the scaffold and his body bound to a wooden cross. There the executioner, with a bar of iron, would break each leg
Unsealing of Vatican archives will finally reveal truth about ‘Hitler’s pope’ This article is more than 6 months old Historians can now pore over secret files from the papacy of Pius XII, who has long faced accusations of being a Nazi sympathiser
Pope Pius XII addresses a crowd in Rome in 1943 after a US bombing raid. Pope Pius XII addresses a crowd in Rome in 1943 after a US bombing raid. Photograph: AP Harriet Sherwood @harrietsherwood Sun 1 Mar 2020 01.33 EST
1,259 New light will be shed on one of the most controversial periods of Vatican history on Monday when the archives on Pope Pius XII – accused by critics of being a Nazi sympathiser – are unsealed.
A year after Pope Francis announced the move, saying “the church isn’t afraid of history”, the documents from Pius XII’s papacy, which began in 1939 on the brink of the second world war and ended in 1958, will be opened, initially to a small number of scholars.
Critics of Pius XII have accused him of remaining silent during the Holocaust, never publicly condemning the persecution and genocide of Jews and others. His defenders say that he quietly encouraged convents and other Catholic institutions to hide thousands of Jews, and that public criticism of the Nazis would have risked the lives of priests and nuns.
"There is literally nothing factual in your statement, and I think you're a piece of shit coward for spewing it here to a Catholic." Sorry if speaking the truth makes me a piece of shit, I am a Christian and agree with most of your opinions and posts on this site. I believe many Catholics are great people who have been deceived by evil men who have used Jesus to obtain political power, wealth and control over the weak and innocent(women and children)for their sexual desires and perversions. Read Martin Luther or any literature from the protestant reformation (revolution), all of it speaks about the evils of the Catholic church. A Catholic priests raping young boys is a punchline to many jokes because it happens all the time, everywhere around the world. I think maybe you need to do some homework. Matthew 23:9 King James Version 9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Why is the pope called "Holy Father"?
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. kek
Joe Biden is the only democrat that wants Joe Biden to debate. kek
"Fill That Seat!"
They heard testimony from victims, witnesses, and church authorities, and reviewed thousands of internal church documents from every diocese in the state except Philadelphia and Altoona-Johnstown (which had been examined by previous grand juries). Most of the victims were abused as teenage and prepubescent boys, though girls were also subject to attacks. The youth were manipulated with alcohol, pornography, and power, made to masturbate for assailants, groped, and raped. Each case is slightly different but one unifying theme prevails, according to the report: “All of them were brushed aside, in every part of the state, by church leaders who preferred to protect the abusers and their institution above all.”
Church officials followed a “playbook for concealing the truth,” the reports states. The patterns were similar enough that FBI analyses of the church’s responses yielded seven rules, basically, an institutional guide to covering up abuse. Here are seven principles the jurors note:
Make sure to use euphemisms rather than real words to describe the sexual assaults in diocese documents. Never say”rape”; say “inappropriate contact” or “boundary issues.” Don’t conduct genuine investigations with properly trained personnel. Instead, assign fellow clergy members to ask inadequate questions and then make credibility determinations about the colleagues with whom they live and work. For an appearance of integrity, send priests for “evaluation” at church-run psychiatric treatment centers. Allow these experts to “diagnose” whether the priest was a pedophile, based largely on the priest’s “self-reports” and regardless of whether the priest had actually engaged in sexual contact with a child. When a priest does have to be removed, don’t say why. Tell his parishioners that he is on “sick leave,” or suffering from”nervous exhaustion.” Or say nothing at all. Even if a priest is raping children, keep providing him housing and living expenses, although he may be using these resources to facilitate more sexual assaults. If a predator’s conduct becomes known to the community, don’t remove him from the priesthood to ensure that no more children will be victimized. Instead, transfer him to a new location where no one will know he is a child abuser. Finally, and above all, don’t tell the police. Child sexual abuse, even short of actual penetration, is and has for all relevant times been a crime. But don’t treat it that way; handle it like a personnel matter, “in house.” In response to the report, Pennsylvania’s Catholic bishops issued a statement (paywall) calling for prayers for victims and the church. They promise more openness and said steps have been taken to make churches safer.
Still, some Catholic officials, such as Bishop David A. Zubik of Pittsburgh, denied that the church hid crimes, saying in a news conference reported by the New York Times (paywall), “There was no cover-up going on. I think that it’s important to be able to state that. We have over the course of the last 30 years, for sure, been transparent about everything that has in fact been transpiring.”
The bishop’s claim stands in stark contrast to accusations in the damning report, which says that men of God “hid it all.”
In February, Pope Francis acknowledged a longstanding dirty secret in the Roman Catholic Church — the sexual abuse of nuns by priests.
It's an issue that had long been kept under wraps, but in the #MeToo era, a #NunsToo movement has emerged, and now sexual abuse is more widely discussed.
The Vatican's wall of silence was first broken in Women Church World, a supplement of the official Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano. An article in the February issue by editor Lucetta Scaraffia — a history professor, mother and feminist — blamed abuse of women and minors on the clerical culture of the all-powerful priesthood. The piece was based on hundreds of stories she heard from nuns.
Pope Francis Acknowledges, For First Time, Sexual Abuse Of Nuns By Priests RELIGION Vatican Clarifies Pope Francis' First Remarks On Sexual Abuse Of Nuns By Priests It's very hard for a nun to report she has been raped by a priest, says Scaraffia, because of the mindset that, in sex, women can always say no.
"These nuns believe they're the guilty ones for having seduced that holy man into committing sin," she says, "because that's what they've always been taught."
Adding to the trauma, she says, raped nuns who get pregnant become outcasts from their orders.
'A Life Destroyed': Survivors And Pope Address Clergy Sex Abuse At Vatican Summit RELIGION 'A Life Destroyed': Survivors And Pope Address Clergy Sex Abuse At Vatican Summit "These poor women are forced to leave their order and live alone raising their child with no help," she says. "Sometimes they're forced to have abortions — paid by the priest because nuns have no money."
Traitors!