tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post3102146885093256253..comments2024-03-28T15:32:38.398-07:00Comments on The Eponymous Flower: Islamic Call to Prayer Replacing Advent in Linz — Bishop SilentTancredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16015531337154301560noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-4943937077121111092018-12-02T11:03:48.224-08:002018-12-02T11:03:48.224-08:00Their on auto destruct, making themselves obsolete...Their on auto destruct, making themselves obsolete. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-5849919752073108542018-12-02T06:18:10.311-08:002018-12-02T06:18:10.311-08:00Their leaders are so credible, though! Like Sheiks...Their leaders are so credible, though! Like Sheiks who rule on having sexual relations with the corpse of your wife, and such like.Tancredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16015531337154301560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-29334109040214573912018-12-02T04:44:31.013-08:002018-12-02T04:44:31.013-08:00This is true, but we have nothing but our bad lead...This is true, but we have nothing but our bad leaders (Pope Francis especially, and all the bishops over the last 50 years), like minded clergy, radical nuns, etc. and the reforms of Vatican II in and of themselves for the destruction. <br />If it were an outside force that was destroying the Church (something like Communism, etc), then it would not be our fault.<br />But the Catholic Church has been destroyed in Europe and elsewhere by this Pope (and the past 4 popes), and by the leadership over the last 50 years. <br />Yes, Islam is a false religion because it does not acknowledge Jesus Christ as our Savior and the Son of God. I would much rather see Austria turning Southern Baptist Evangelical Christian than Muslim. I very much admire the late Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell, because they were true Christians....not like the Pope we have now.<br />Or the bishops and priests or nuns we have now. (Mostly)<br />It is sad what is happening in Austria and across the Church. But we have no one but ourselves to blame.<br />The late, great Cardinal Giuseppe Siri (1905-1989) stated about 1970, that it would take over 200 years for the Catholic Church to recover from the disaster of Vatican II and what came from it, especially liturgically. Many people laughed at him. But I think he was right.<br /><br />Damian MalliapalliAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-81968487599707369112018-12-02T02:29:20.953-08:002018-12-02T02:29:20.953-08:00But they are following a false religion so the fac...But they are following a false religion so the fact that mosques are full simply means they are full of people following something other than the resurrected Christ who is the only Son of God.David O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04023042558615821880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-28480374176349079192018-12-01T07:19:38.479-08:002018-12-01T07:19:38.479-08:00Hey, I think it's great. As much hostility th...Hey, I think it's great. As much hostility there is today towards Islam in particular and people who are Muslims in general, ya' gotta admit that it's a real religion, and the people have faith it it, whatever it is.<br />I've been to Egypt on modeling shoots for an Egyptian health and fitness magazine, a fashion magazine, a photo spread of yachting down the Nile, and in a costume epic where I had to dress up as an ancient Egyptian Pharoah. I thought they wanted me for the part because I had given our hosts a history lecture on some of the antiquities at the Cairo Museum. They didn't know the facts behind their own pharaohs. But Shows how naïve I am. When it came time for the cameras on set, they gave me the pharaoh costume (or their idea of one... no shirt and short kilt nearly up to by waiste and a gold sword in sheath. Accurate vesture of the pharaoh? Nope. But it pays the bills :)<br />But my point is that I saw the people's faith every day. Not everyone is devout, but there's no where in the world I know of but Egypt (and maybe afew other countries like Saudi Arabia, Morocco, etc.) where the name of God (or their idea of God....Allah), is on their lips all the time. Guys building sets coached each other along chanting "Allah u Akbar", over and over and other religious chants invoking "him"...even simple tasks like painting part of a set.<br />Catholics have not had that kind of Faith, when God was on their minds and lips, since the 12th-13th centuries. Back then, most people thought that it was no burden to go to Mass every day, or to do everything with a prayer first.<br />Four things helped destroy this spirit....first... The Protestant Reformation, second...Humanism/Secularism of the Reniassance Period (1425-1600). (There was a brief revival after the Council of Trent extending all the way to about 1675), and Third the increasing materialism/nationalism/secularism that started towards the end of the 18th century with the French Revolution, European wars, and the secularist policies of Austiran Emperor Joseph II and like minded rulers who wanted to curtail/suppress the Church rather than promote it. Lastly, just when the Catholic Church was recovering in many areas and especially in religious fervor and spirt, epitomized by the reigns of six great Popes (Gregory XVI, Pius IX, Leo XIII, Pius X, Pius XI and Pius XII-- I don't include Benedict XV because his term was too short-- along comes Vatican II and the devastation which sprang from it, a wave of liturgical abuse, corruption, heresy, and immorality(the sex scandals involving priests)--an era best exemplified by the current Pope Francis and the heretics, perverts and deviants he has surrounded himself with and promoted. The Catholic Church across Austria, all Europe except Poland, and practically everywhere else is in ruins. Except where traditional Catholicism holds out in parishes, convents or monasteries, it appears as if Christianity, and even God, has disappeared.<br />So, if Linz echoes to the call to Muslim prayer rather than to the sound of bells like it used to, if Muslims pack their new mosques and the thousand of Catholic churches stand empty since the last 50+ years, so be it. This is the fruit of Vatican II. There is no denying it, or giving it another name to rationalize away the root cause.<br />Francis and his people are making it 1,000x worse, and they don't care. This is their agenda. The silence of the Bishop of Linz in the face of the Muslims speaks volumns. He will not defend our Faith and traditions. He is a "Francis man".<br />Having said all this, sadly, I have to say that I would rather see Linz, and Austria etc., be increasingly Muslim, than to be the kind of Catholic represented by Francis and his people.<br /><br />Damian MalliapalliAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-60331634434579524132018-12-01T04:53:01.588-08:002018-12-01T04:53:01.588-08:00I don't agree with your assessment that "...I don't agree with your assessment that "Europe is screwed".<br /><br />In fact it is the US and Canada's policy of the melting pot that is destroying the Christian culture there faster than the promotion of Islam in Europe through immigration.<br /><br />We at least have our Christian history staring us in the face everywhere we look (architecture, churches, art, etc). Europe is slowly waking up to its slow death and I think it will rise from the dead. Maybe once it has been stripped of its wealth - but as we know - riches will not get us to heaven.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-77012519311372724172018-12-01T01:14:07.277-08:002018-12-01T01:14:07.277-08:00Anything is possible in that Diocese. Indeed that ...Anything is possible in that Diocese. Indeed that country, which, like the rest of Europe, is screwed!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-58157553219027255892018-11-30T15:52:22.979-08:002018-11-30T15:52:22.979-08:00Blending of religions, creation of a new one world...Blending of religions, creation of a new one world religion, new spiritual belief system based on world unity, dissolution of the Catholic Church, dissolution of organized religion.JBQhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09344181644293746758noreply@blogger.com