Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genoa, spoke at the feast of the Martyr Laurentius of a devious persecution of Christians "also here in Europe".
(Rome) The feast day of St. Lawrence, deacon and martyr, was celebrated on 10th August. This is a big celebration in Genoa. The cathedral is consecrated to the saint. In his homily, Angel Cardinal Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genoa, under Benedict XVI., also President of the Italian Episcopal Conference , addressed the increase of an insidious persecution of Christianity.
An excerpt from his sermon:
"Dear friends, his example [of the martyr Laurentius] reminds us that persecution is part of the Christian faith: 'If they persecute me, they will persecute you too' (Jn 15:20). We should not be surprised, just as we can not yield to the naive optimism, according to which there is only respect and benevolence around us. It is not so! Even if you do not talk about it, there is an anti-Christian, discriminatory regime. And this happens even in our Europe, the lap of the gospel and the cradle of civilization. Sophisticated norms limit the freedom to publicly profess the faith, and it is increasingly being pushed into privacy. Under the pretext of not wanting to violate the different religious or cultural feelings, one wants to create a uniform, leveling way of life by eliminating legitimate and respectful traditions, or by changing concepts, places and symbols. It is clear that in this way one seeks to dilute the appearance of the faith with the intention of wiping it out in the collective and personal consciousness, reducing it to a tradition of which one only has a vague memory. "
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Picture: MiL
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
AMDG
2 comments:
"It all depends on what the meaning of 'is' is". One has to stop being very naive about what is happening in the Catholic Church. In order to develop a one world religion, the Catholic Church must be destroyed. Out of the ashes will arise a new united Church of the people. The links with Communism are real and started with John XXIII and stoked with the interaction from Paul VI to the point where even he declared that "the smoke of Satan has entered the sanctuary".---His newest saint candidate on the fast track is very telling. "Satanelli" was a bishop who fought the military regime in Argentina even to the point of espousing guerrilla chaplains who were armed. He was evidently assassinated by the junta.---These are the very individuals who were fought against by John Paul II. JPII warned against socialism which leads to authoritarian Communism which is atheistic and demonic. It is obvious that Pope Francis believes that he can handle it all to the point of creating a one world socialist government with a one world dictator.
Prayers for Genoa and Cardinal Bagnasco whom like Bologna just a week ago suffered a another bridge problem.
Thank God the Bologna incident was not so severe. Prayers for Salvini and his administration to perservere despite so much evil aimed at them.
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