The Pope Gives Obama Booklet on Bioethics in First Meeting

In their first meeting, the pope gave President Obama a copy of a Vatican document on bioethics that hardened the church's opposition to using embryos for stem cell research, cloning and in-vitro fertilization.

At http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/10/obama-set-meeting-pope-trip-ghana/

This is a good one !!!

PRESIDENT OBAMA VISITS VATICAN AND VOWS TO POPE TO REDUCE ABORTIONS IN U.S.

I will only believe when I see!

At http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersComService_2_MOLT/idUSTRE5693XC20090710

Against the enemy

Father Syquia's prayers for protection and deliverance:

Step 1: Prayer for Protection:
Jesus Crucified, cover me, my family, relatives, and friends and all our possessions with Your Precious Blood. (Recite three times)

Step 2. Prayer for Armor
I put on God's armor to resist the devil's tactics. I stand my ground with truth buckled around my waist and integrity for a breastplate. I carry the shield of faith to put out the burning arrows of the evil one. I accept salvation from God to be my helmet and receive the Word of God from the Spirit to use as a sword.

Step 3. Prayer for Deliverance (said forcefully)
In the Name of Jesus of Nazareth, through His tremendous power as God and through His most powerful and salvific Name, I rebuke, repudiate, bind and cast out all spirits not of the Holy Spirit. I command you, in the Name of Jesus, to depart right now from (state the person or place) and go immediately and directly to the foot of the Cross and never to return.
(Then pray this prayer to the Holy Spirit asking for assistance and His infilling):
O Most Holy Spirit, enter into the empty spaces left by these spirits and fill (state name of person or place) with Your Presence, love, and protection. Please do not allow these spirits to return.

Step 4. Prayer to the Angels.
(Make a personal prayer to the angels to stand guard and remain around the person or the place just delivered to seal them from future demonic influences)

Step 5. Prayer for Cleansing.
Heavenly Father, in the Name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior by the power of the Holy Spirit, we pray that the cleansing power of the Most Precious Blood of Your Son come upon us right now. Purify us and wash us clean with the Blood of Jesus from the top of our heads down to the very soles of our feet. Let this Blood penetrate the very marrow of our bones to cleanse us from any entanglement from whatever spirit and refresh our bodies, souls, and spirits. And may the Sign of Your Holy Cross drive away all evil spirits from us. (Make the Sign of the Cross). In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Step 6. Prayer of Praise and Thanksgiving.
(Make a personal prayer of praise and thanksgiving to God)

http://www.spiritdaily.com/exorcisthaunted.htm

Pope calls for 'God-centered' global economy

By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY

Pope Benedict XVI today called for reforming the United Nations and establishing a "true world political authority" with "real teeth" to manage the global economy with God-centered ethics.
In his third encyclical, a major teaching, released as the G-8 summit begins in Italy, the pope says such an authority is urgently needed to end the current worldwide financial crisis. It should "revive" damaged economies, reach toward "disarmament, food security and peace," protect the environment and "regulate migration."
Benedict writes, "The market is not, and must not become, the place where the strong subdue the weak."
The encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth) is a theologically dense explication of Catholic social teaching that draws heavily from earlier popes, particularly PaulVI's critique of capitalism 42 years ago. And echoing his predecessor John Paul II, Benedict says, "every economic decision has a moral consequence.

More at http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-07-07-pope-encyclical_N.htm

Two each time?

By JoANNE YOUNG / Lincoln Journal Star
Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 - 12:17:05 am CDT

It happens.People with celebrity status, people who have achieved a degree of fame in science, music, politics — they die.And sometimes, a couple of them die within hours, or days of each other.

Among the latest departing duos is Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, who died hours apart June 25.

“People have been slipping out of this world in occupational clusters, I’ve noticed, for years,” says Marilyn Johnson, author of “The Dead Beat.”One of the most intriguing of the early departing duos was former Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who died hours apart — Jefferson at his Monticello home in Virginia, Adams in Quincy, Mass. — on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.Among the latest, you know, is Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, who died hours apart June 25.Johnson, who has tracked this phenomenon for years, began by reading obits a couple of decades ago in the New York Times, when she was an editor in New York.On Oct. 25, 1986, it caught her attention that the Times had side-by-side obituaries for (1) the scientist who isolated vitamin C and (2) the scientist who isolated vitamin K. Both were Nobel Prize winners.“I couldn’t believe it,” she said in a phone interview. “I still can’t get over it.”The Times editors liked to highlight those coincidences, she said, and she developed quite an appreciation for it: like the two Medal of Honor winners from different eras, who both had saved fellow marines. And two who had made careers of doing the voices of Winnie the Pooh characters — one Tigger, the other Piglet.It just takes a little careful reading of the obits, Johnson says.Some are obvious.Princess Diana (Aug. 31, 1997) and Mother Teresa (Sept. 5, 1997).Authors Aldous Huxley and C. S. Lewis (Nov. 22, 1963), who were joined by President John F. Kennedy (also an author).James Brown (Dec. 25, 2006) and former President Gerald Ford (Dec. 26, 2006).Pope John Paul II, head of the smallest kingdom in the world, the Vatican (April 2, 2005), and Prince Rainier, head of the second smallest kingdom in the world, Monaco (April 6, 2005).

More at http://www.journalstar.com/living/402/doc4a526102738ea242043377.txt

Is the New World Order just around the corner

What is the New World Order? If we are to believe what we are told then imagine a utopia where the average man can twiddle away his time knowing that the enlightened elite will see to his every need. It is a global empire that unites men under a common banner. It is touted as a world state where by the divisive ideas of nationality, creed, religion, and culture no longer divide one individual from the other. Within this order lay the foundation of a new era without discrimination, unemployment, or war. It will become a global society where we will yield both our individuality as well as our sovereignty for the benefit of peace and prosperity for everyone. Truly, the coming utopia is a manifestation of Eden as it was intend to be.
Many people suggest that the idea of a one world government is merely the passive aggressive speculation of those who considered themselves as either militantly antigovernment or Christian fundamentalists. It is a conspiracy theory referring to a totalitarian government designed to create and enforce international law. And while it may be contributed to idol fancy, consider such unions as the World Trade Organization, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the European Union, and the United Nations. Is it difficult to understand why some may have reason to be concerned?

More at
http://www.examiner.com/x-15871-Little-Rock-Christianity-Examiner~y2009m7d6-Is-the-New-World-Order-just-around-the-corner-part-1

Russians order Flight Changes, after Massive Magnetic Shift downs Airliners...

At http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/7331/53/

ANGELS, THE FUTURE CHURCH, THE VIRGIN: MAN WHO WAS ABDUCTED BY DRUG LORDS FOLLOWS WITH FURTHER MYSTICAL DETAILS

At Spirit Daily.
http://www.spiritdaily.com/marinofolo1.htm

I could also see the presence of many other angels -- those who were the guardians of my relatives, or people I hurt. I saw the spiritual warfare, throughout my life -- the struggle between them and the fallen spirits.
"So much life with them and so little awareness of it!
"It was a very sad moment: to see how so many graces had been wasted.

Marino Restrepo

US call to free Vietnamese priest

Father Ly is a strong advocate for democracy in Vietnam

A group of 37 United States senators has written to Vietnam's president calling for the "immediate and unconditional release" of a priest.
Father Nguyen Van Ly was jailed for eight years in 2007 for spreading propaganda against the communist state.
The senators believe the trial in the central city of Hue, which lasted just half a day, was seriously flawed.
The 63-year old priest has been jailed three times since the 1970s for a total of 17 years.
The senators - led by Democrat Barbara Boxer and Republican Sam Brownback - asked Vietnam's President Nguyen Minh Triet to intervene in the case.

More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8129811.stm

Bono says U2 Song inspired by Mary

In a recent Rolling Stone interview Brian Hiatt quotes Bono as saying "Magnificent was inspired by the Magnificat, a passage from the Gospel of Luke in the voice of the Virgin Mary that was previously set to music by Bach. "There's this theme running through the album of surrender and devotion and all the things I find really difficult," Bono says. "All music for me is worship of one kind or another."

Dick Staub of www.DickStaub.com writes "Magnificent" recalls the prayer of the Virgin Mary in the Gospel of Luke: "Magnificent, Magnificent, I was born, I was born to be with you in this space and time. I was born, I was born to sing for you. I didn't have a choice but to lift you up and sing whatever song you wanted me to. I give you back my voice from the womb my first cry, it was a joyful noise ... Only love, only love can leave such a mark, but only love, only love can heal such a scar."

The Magnificat [Latin: magnifies], also called the Canticle of Mary, is recorded in the Gospel of Luke (1:46-55). It is the Virgin Mary's joyous prayer in response to her cousin Elizabeth's greeting (Luke 1: 41-45). This great hymn forms part of the Church's prayer in the Divine Office (Liturgy of the Hours). When it is recited as part of the Divine Office, it is followed by the Gloria Patri ("Glory be"). The traditional sung Magnificat is Latin plainchant. One of the hymn's most glorious musical renditions is the version of the Magnificat by J.S. Bach. The Catechism of the Catholic Church describes the Magnificat as "the song both of the Mother of God and of the Church" and explains this prayer's significance...

Read more at http://ministryvalues.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=679&Itemid=127

On aids and the Catholic Church

That, at least, was the attitude of the Western elites — the very people now condemning the Roman Catholic Church. Yet it was the Church that was in Africa caring for people with AIDS when Hollywood and the Western media were more concerned with puppies and kittens. Even today, almost half of all Africans with AIDS are nursed by people working for the Roman Catholic Church. A Church, by the way, that has also called for all African debt to be forgiven and for a radical redistribution of wealth from north to south.None of this is mentioned when Pope Benedict is attacked for his condemnation of the condom fetish. If we read the man’s statements, however, what we see is a sophisticated deconstruction of Western double-standards and a thoughtful critique of the failed attempt to control AIDS.

More at
http://thebenedictnotes.blogspot.com/
http://holymotherchurch.blogspot.com/2009/06/anti-catholicism-once-again-rears-its.html

The stoning of Soraya M.

A true story.

http://www.thestoning.com/

The "great" Henry VIII

I just find this interesting piece in BBC about Henry VIII:

And he is also famous for the split with the Roman catholic Church - what is the legacy of that?

Henry turned the 13th Century Garrison Church at Old Portsmouth into a gunpower store. It was a 'Domus Dei' - a house of God, a church hospital and rest place for pilgrims. In 1540 they would have been turned out onto the street.

He was responsible for the dissolution of beautiful monasteries like Netley Abbey near Southampton and Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight.

Henry VIII was a great destroyer of our English architectural heritage.

When you compare the beauty of those monasteries with the 45 palaces he built, there is no comparison. The split with Rome also meant that we became the enemy of most of Europe.
Henry was forced to cover the coast with forts, beautiful in themselves, wonderful structures like Southsea Castle, but in comparison to what was destroyed, they are poor indeed.

At http://www.bbc.co.uk/hampshire/content/articles/2009/06/18/henryviii_childs_feature.shtml

Global warming or Ice Age ?

DOUG L. HOFFMAN
Little Ice Age II, The Sequel?

Wednesday, June 10th 2009, 1:54 AM EDT

The lingering cool temperatures being experience by much of North America has weather forecasters wondering it we are entering a new Little Ice Age—a reference to the prolonged period of cold weather that afflicted the world for centuries and didn't end until just prior to the American Civil War. From historical records, scientists have found a strong correlation between low sunspot activity and a cooling climate. At the end of May, an international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA released a new prediction for the next solar cycle: Solar Cycle 24 will be one of the weakest in recent memory. Are we about to start a new Little Ice Age?According to the report, Solar Cycle 24 will peak in May 2013 with a sunspot count well below average. “If our prediction is correct, Solar Cycle 24 will have a peak sunspot number of 90, the lowest of any cycle since 1928 when Solar Cycle 16 peaked at 78,” says panel chairman Doug Biesecker of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center. This does not mean that we won't feel the results of renewed solar storm activity here on Earth.

More at http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=3561&linkbox=true

Christians, here come the lions

At http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=100930

Strange Lightning Looks Like Jellyfish

Jeanna Bryner
LiveScience.com
Thu Jun 11, 6:37 pm ET

An eerie red figure flashed across the sky above a thunderstorm near the south coast of France, and then it was gone in the blink of an eye.
Atmospheric scientist Oscar van der Velde, standing on his balcony in Sant Vicenç de Castellet, in Barcelona, Spain, captured the sprite, as it is called, in spectacular detail on the night of June 5. He was more than 150 miles (250 km) away from the storm.
...

In fact, scientists are still trying to figure out just what causes sprites, with some attributing the electrical bursts to lightning and others to meteoric dust, gravity waves or something else completely. The flashes also have been linked with UFO sightings.

More at http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090611/sc_livescience/strangelightninglookslikejellyfish;_ylt=AjFMcJAL6L14SAT364Vh8oUDW7oF

Image

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Pope Warns Secularism Can Infest Church

Cautions Against Worship Lacking Heart

ROME, JUNE 11, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is warning of a "serpentine secularization" that penetrates the Church and is manifested in "formal and empty Eucharistic worship."

The Pope celebrated the feast of Corpus Christi today in Rome, presiding over Mass in the Basilica of St. John Lateran and then processing with the Blessed Sacrament to the Basilica of St. Mary Major.

In his homily, the Holy Father illustrated the importance of faith in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, telling the thousands of pilgrims that this faith "cannot be taken for granted."

"Today there arises the risk of a serpentine secularization even within the Church, which can convert into a formal and empty Eucharistic worship, in celebrations lacking this participation from the heart that is expressed in veneration and respect for the liturgy," he cautioned.

According to the Pontiff, "the temptation is always strong to reduce prayer to superficial and hurried moments, letting oneself be carried away by earthly activities and worries."

And nevertheless, he added, the Eucharist is "the bread of eternal life of the new world that is given us today in the holy Mass, so that starting now the future world begins in us."

"With the Eucharist, therefore, heaven comes down to earth, the tomorrow of God descends into the present and it is as if time remains embraced by divine eternity," the Bishop of Rome explained.

More at http://www.zenit.org/article-26151?l=english

Christian Martyrs in China

At http://lolawantsunsoclicited.blogspot.com/

New martyres: Fr Ragheed Ganni and companions

"There are days when I feel frail and full of fear. But when, holding the Eucharist, I say ‘Behold the Lamb of God Behold, who takes away the sin of the world’, I feel His strength in me. When I hold the Host in my hands, it is really He who is holding me and all of us, challenging the terrorists and keeping us united in His boundless love."

Finally his day came. On July 3, 2007, Fr Ragheed left his church with his cousin, Basman Yousef Daud. In the car following them were the other two deacons, Gassan Isam Bidawed and Wahid Hanna Isho, and Isho's wife Bayan Adam Bella.
The gunmen stopped the cars. They led the woman away, and then one of them turned to Fr Ragheed and screamed: "I told you to close the church, why didn't you do it? Why are you still here?."
Fr Ragheed replied: "How can I close the house of God?"
They ordered them to convert to Islam. They refused. The gunmen pushed the four men to the ground, and murdered them.
Iraq's Christian population has been devastated by the US-led invasion. Half the population have fled; countless priests have been murdered, women kidnapped and churches bombed. Fr Ragheed might have been just one more victim of the 21st century's worst war, but in his inspirational life and sense of sacrifice he seems more like something from The Lives of the Saints.

At http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/edwest/blog/2009/06/03/a_modern_christian_martyr

For some reason the Vatican was so against the war in Iraq.

Sodom and Gomorrah

Obama declares June 'LGBT Pride Month'
Jody Brown and Allie Martin - OneNewsNow - 6/2/2009 7:20:00 AM

In a presidential proclamation on the White House website, Barack Obama has lauded what he calls "the determination and dedication" of the LGBT movement by proclaiming June as "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month."

"The LGBT rights movement has achieved great progress," Obama states in the official proclamation, "but there is more to be done. LGBT youth should feel safe to learn without the fear of harassment, and LGBT families and seniors should be allowed to live their lives with dignity and respect."

This is the "respectable" president of the USA speaking.
Is he the anti-Christ?
Is USA Sodom and Gomorrah?

More at http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=551240