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Antisemitic, AntiChristian New York Times' Nicholas Fandos In the latest entry in the 2024 Pulitzer For Fake News, In the category of AntiSemitism in circular reporting style "reports"
Ocasio-Cortez, member of antisemitic Democratic Coalition in House Speech, Accuses Israel of ‘Genocide’
And the AntiSemitic Democratic Coalition's solution is to do the same thing over and over again, expecting different results: 10 years ago, CNN's Greg Botelho and Karl Penhaul reported that a ceasefire brokered by John Kerry. adopted by the United Nations which benefitted Hamas. was announced asking: "Humanitarian cease-fire set in Mideast conflict, but will the peace last?"
Previously Chuck Schumer called for insurrection against Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu
Few words evoke such gut-wrenching emotions as "genocide " It's a term laden with pain, loss, and unspeakable suffering. It's a dark chapter in human history, the depravity of man - that we should never take lightly. Human Trafficking and Human Exploitation are not too far behind.
"Never again" is a term associated with the lessons of the Holocaust, used by liberated prisoners at Buchenwald concentration camp to express anti-fascist sentiment. It was popularized by Rabbi Meir Kahane in his 1971 book, Never Again!I sadly, Never Again, like No One is Above the Law, have become meaningless buzzwords.
The Legacy Media has been in lockstep with the Biden Administration promoting the 2024 #PulitzerPrizeForFakeNews in various categories;
For instance: Axios' @barak_ravid "Reports:" Blinken unloads on Bibi: "You need a coherent plan" or face disaster in Gaza"
As if the Biden Administration foreign policy plans had any coherence.
Antisemitic, AntiChristian NYT's @ReidJEpstein "reports:" "A group of more than 100 Democratic donors and activists on Monday sent a letter to President Biden’s campaign warning that progressive anger over Israel’s war in Gaza is “increasing the chances of a Trump victory.”
TRANSLATION: Wealthy Democrat Donors fear continued Democratic Coalition's AntiSemitism helps president Donald Trump
And
Antisemitic, AntiChristian NBCNews'
@MonicaAlba, @CourtneyKube, #JonathanAllen, and @Carol E. Lee
In the category of AntiSemitism and
"Circular Reporting" say: "Amid deepening tensions, White House weighs how to respond if Israel defies Biden with Rafah invasion"
"Report:" "Netanyahu snaps back against growing US criticism after being accused of losing his way on Gaza"
It's not "growing US criticism." It's Democratic Coalition criticism which included the US Legacy Media.
And it's not growing. It's always been antisemitic
Axios' @BarakRavid "Reports:" Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) speech calling for a new government in Israel landed like an earthquake Thursday, delivering a huge shock to the already tense U.S.-Israel relationship.
Duh! - and it's not just Israel, but every single democracy in the world. Keeping mind Obama's democratic coalition interfered with elections in Macedonia, Israel and coluded with legacy media to mount a coup
Antisemitic, AntiChristian #NYT''s @AnnieKarni "Reports:" Chuck Schumer is advocating for regime change in Israel
NBCNews "reports:" "Israel-Hamas war: U.S. intelligence report suggests Netanyahu's far-right government may be in jeopardy
Axios' @BarakRavid "reports:" "Harris calls for ceasefire, says "people in Gaza are starving"
CBS' @ImtiazTyab, @ErinLyall, #TuckerReals :Report:" "Israel accused of deliberately starving Gaza civilians as war plans leave Netanyahu "increasingly isolated"
While Axios' @BarakRavid "reports" old news"Israeli military operation in Rafah 'cannot proceed,' U.S. ambassador to the UN says"
And
CNN's @KevinLiptak, and @MJLee, previously "reported"
"Biden growing more frustrated with Netanyahu as Gaza campaign rages on"
#APNews "report" :Airstrikes hit refugee camps in Gaza as U.S. approves new weapons sales to Israel"
CBSNews "reports:" "Israel bombs refugee camps in central Gaza, residents say, as Netanyahu repeats insistence that Hamas be destroyed"
And
WaPo's Tim Craig & Clara Ence Morse "report:" "Across U.S., young Muslims are leading AntiSemitic protests in unlikely places: "Young U.S. Muslims are rising up against Israel in unlikely places"
While
CNN's Andrew Carey and Abeer Salman "report:" " Palestinians support Hamas decision to go to war with Israel, survey suggests, with no political solution on horizon"
CNN also "reports" that the same Intelligence that told Biden that giving $6 billion to the Mullahs was not a problem, was the same Intelligence that failed to predict the Hamas attacks
The same Intelligence now "Show Iranian-backed militias are ready to ramp up their attacks against US forces in the Middle East:
By Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis, Zachary Cohen and Jennifer Hansler,
What they don't report:
There was a Christmas Massacre in Nigeria: The death toll is at 140 and climbing after a series of coordinated attacks by Jihadist forces in Plateau. They attacked 20 Christian communities in Central Nigeria, raiding and burning homes while civilians were asleep. 300 are injured and 221 homes are destroyed. The authorities did not respond for over 12 hours, a source has told AP. In the past 2 decades, 62,000 Christians in Nigeria have been killed by Jihadists and another 5 million have been displaced
And Muslims are conducting Ethnic Cleansing in NagornoKarabakh. Where is Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush, Ellison, Jarrett et al - where's the media & illuminati?
And Jew-hating is alive and well in the USA Democratic coalition. Notably, Democratic Socialists of America and Black Lives Matter affiliates have issued statements of support for Hamas: No one in the Biden Administration has condemned the AntiSemitic remarks coming in from the Democrat. Here's a sampling:
Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal compares Israel's self-defense to Russia's "siege of Ukraine
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) antisemitism and disgraceful response to the attacks on Israel is so disgusting that Congressman Jack Berman introduced a resolution to censure her
Or Ilhan Omar rabid antiSemitism that even Adam Schiff was compelled to denounce her "Anti-Semitism has no place in the halls of Congress or civil society, and it’s incumbent upon all of us in leadership positions to speak respectfully and thoughtfully, even about issues as emotionally charged as those involving Israel and Palestine."
Or Haley Campaign Ripping AOC Over Israel Resolution Snub: 'You Would Fit Great with the Anti-Semites' at UN"
Or Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) is under fundraising and associating with an antisemitic activist who once said she wants to burn “every Israeli” alive.
Kamala Harris & Joe Biden are touting what they euphemistically call, the first US National Strategic Center to Combat Islamophobia- a gag order so Tlaib's comments can be construed as free speech, while Dem Michigan AG's statement and other similar speech could be construed as hate speech and Islamophobic.
And we all know is not about hate, but about protecting
Washington State Governor Jay Inslee (Democratic Party) Since 2013, just declared that children belong to the state not unlike Third Reich’s ideology and part of human depravity. And the tactics used by the gender fluidity movement are not much different from the ones used by the Hitler Youth Group.
In an AntiChristian move, not unlike the federal War on Christianity. public schools in Washington state will be required to update curriculum to include LGBTQ histories and perspectives under a new law signed by Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday.
Not since the uber progressive Warren Court decided that teaching children about wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, fear of the Lord., charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control and chastity was too radical, have we seen such an extensive attack on Christian parents.
The Catholic Catechism (CCC 2223) Teaches that "Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children. They bear witness to this responsibility first by creating a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and disinterested service are the rule. This requires an apprenticeship in self-denial, sound judgment, and self-mastery - the preconditions of all true freedom"
Yet, progressives have mounted a multiprong attack on Christian parents: From the legislation such as the one passed in Washington State, to school boards policies, main stream media and the courts.
SB 5462 was introduced in January and went through multiple committee meetings, public hearings and revisions - more than a dozen – during the Legislative session. In what CNN may call a successful cynical strategy, many residents did not realize the bill calls for because LGBTQ is not in the language of the bill.
Previously, under a bill signed by
Gov. Jay Inslee (May 9, 2023) minors seeking gender-affirming care in will be protected from the intervention of parents.
The Teachers Unions agree with Inslee that the children belong to the state. See for example 4th Circuit ruled parents cannote challenge district's policy of gender affinity without parental notification. Dissenting judge calls ruling an "abdication of judicial duty" Most teachers agree with dissenting judge.
Judge John Mendez of Sacramento ruled that students can tell their parents about their gender and sexuality only if they choose. He also found that the state has an interest in “creating a zone of protection for transgender students and those questioning their gender identity from adverse hostile reactions, including, but not limited to, domestic abuse and bullying.”
The DoD Medical Staff Call Puberty Blockers, Hormone Replacement, for Kids ‘Human Rights.' A team of military medical practitioners in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) defended “gender-affirming” care, including hormone replacement and puberty blockers for dysphoric minors as young as seven years old.
In an article that appeared in the latest edition of the American Journal of Public Health, a team made up of medical professionals and clinical psychologists advocated that kids “have an inherent ability and right to consent” to surgical interventions.
“Gender-affirming health care, such as puberty suppression and affirming hormones, mitigates these risks and optimizes patient-oriented outcomes, but many TGD youths have difficulty accessing services,” the authors of “Caring for Military-Affiliated Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youths: A Call for Protections,”
In this case, the Chico, California Unified School District adopted a policy in which the school will not inform a child's parents about a social transition unless the child explicitly authorizes disclosure. The school district argues that the secrecy policy is required by California law.
Elizabeth Mirabelli and Lori Ann West, two teachers from a California middle school, in a lawsuit against the Escondido Union School District—or EUSD, a K-8 school district—and the California Department of Education. EUSD implemented a series of policies on the treatment of transgender and gender-diverse K-8 students which force teachers to use “pronouns or a gender-specific name requested by a student,” while “reverting to biological pronouns and legal names when speaking with parents in order to actively hide information about a child’s gender identity from his or her parents.”
In August 2023, California Attorney General Bonta announced a lawsuit challenging the enforcement of the Chino Valley Unifiec Board's forced outing policy. Prior to filing a lawsuit, Attorney General Bonta announced opening a civil rights investigation into the legality of the Board's adoption of its mandatory gender identity disclosure policy.Sep 26, 2023
John and Jane Parents 1 v. Montgomery County Board of Education (Maryland), A 4th Circuit Court of Appeal's decision upholds Montgomery County School District's “Parental Exclusion Policy” which allows information to be withheld from parents about gender transitioning of their child, including any transitioning plan created by the school.
Doe vs Madison Metropolitan School District The Dane County Circuit Court dismissed a challenge to Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) guidance that allows children to use different names or pronouns at school without parental notification
An estimated 27% of human trafficking victims are children. While the Philippines is one of the largest known sources of children exploitation, California, has consistently had the highest number of human trafficking cases in the US, consistent with the Hollywood Rule Of Pedophilia: Pedophiles go where they are welcome and stay where they are protected and well treated- Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the sex-trafficking ring of young teens she helped financier Jeffrey Epstein run for a decade.Yet, not a single John has been publicly identified.
One in 9 girls and 1 in 20 boys under the age of 18 experience sexual abuse or assault. 3
82% of all victims under 18 are female.4
Females ages 16-19 are 4 times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault.2
Arguably, children affected by aforemtioned legislation, school policies and or litigation are being subjected to abuse by propagandists, activists and or corrupt politicians.
Sources 2. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Sex Offenses and Offenders
3. David Finkelhor, Anne Shattuck, Heather A. Turner, & Sherry L. Hamby, The Lifetime Prevalence of Child Sexual Abuse and Sexual Assault Assessed in Late Adolescence, 55 Journal of Adolescent Health 329, 329-333 (2014)
4 Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement (2000).
Children belonged to the Third Reich
By the time Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, hundreds of thousands of children were members of youth organizations like the Boy Scouts, before they turned woke, then went broke.
But there was also another powerful Naxi youth movement. Since 1922, the National Socialists had had a youth arm designed to train and recruit members for its paramilitary. As the Nazis became more powerful, their youth arm grew.
In January 1933, there were 50,000 members of the Hitler Youth. By the end of the year, there were more than 2 million. The Nazis claimed children belonged to the state and waged war on non-Nazi youth groups. First, they banned children’s groups associated with political movements like Communism. In 1936, they banned all youth groups, including the Boy Scouts. and forced members to become part of the Hitler Youth. Jewish children were banned from participation.
Any similarities between the Third Reich’s ideology and today's progressives' is not coincidental.
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While the Legacy and even the Catholic Media have criticized the Church for past abuses, one in nine children are abused in public schools - yet media, corrupt politicians & teachers unions remain silent.
The Associated Press' Gene Johnson reports that a new Washington State law that says children don't belong to the state, which he and progressives derided as a “#forcedouting” measure will be allowed to take effect this week until a trial court judge can consider the matter, according to King CountySuperior Court Commissioner Mark Hillman said. A hearing before the judge is scheduled for June 21.
Selected Lenten Reflections, Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent: St. Charles Borromeo
On this day, March 23 in 1564 Charles Borromeo received his pallium as Archbishop of Milan. He was not only the Cardinal/Archbishop of Milan but the most significant person of the Counter-Reformation. He is the patron saint of bishops, cardinals, seminarians, and spiritual leaders.
The Catholic Church honors Saint Borromeo for his holiness, love of God, piety, humility, and devotion. Many Catholic charity organizations, schools, and religious education efforts can trace their origins to St. Charles Borromeo.
You have heard it say: "Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Amen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." And “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me. Matthew Chapter 19
Saint Charles Borromeo was born to a wealthy family and his uncle, Pope Pius IV made Charles, aged 22, a Cardinal of the Church. A skeptic might say thar Charles becoming a Cardinal at such a young age, was purely nepotism. But recall Gamaliel, a Pharisee and teacher of the law, respected by all the people, ehen he stood up, said to the Sanhedrin, "For if this endeavor or this activity is of human origin, it will destroy itself. But if it comes from God, you will not be able to destroy them (The Apostles) you may even find yourselves fighting against God.” Acts Chapter 5
Education matters.
While Charles Borromeo was the second son of distinguished and wealthy parents, and seemed like a typical child - had friends, played the violin, went hunting and enjoyed his life - they raised him in an extremely religious atmosphere. When he was twelve, he was given tonsur - shaving the top of a priest or monk's head. This marked him for the priesthood and he was educated with that goal in mind.
Charles studied theology and also earned his degree in law at the University of Pavia in Milan. Because of his organizational and social skills, the Pope promoted Charles to the office of Secretary of State, the Cardinal Protector of several countries and of six religious orders as well as naming him Archbishop of Milan.
In 1562, Charles was appointed to help organize the upcoming Council of Trent. During this planning, Charles’ brother died. This event was life-changing as Charles was forced to look at the meaning and purpose of his life. He decided to reform the Church. He 1) rewrote the catechism 2) started reforms in the preparation of candidates for the priesthood; 3) ordered changes in the prayer book of the Church; and 4) asked the Pope to decree that political appointments could no longer be made in the Church. Many of these reforms, and others with which Charles is credited, grew out of the Council of Trent.
After the Council of Trent, back to Milan as full-time Archbishop, Charkes continued his work with the poor, caring for them in the streets when the plague hit Milan. His heroic behavior during the plague of 1576–78 won him much respect, as he gave away his wealth to feed the hungry and care for the sick in Milan. even saw that the curtains in his palace, his clothes and other possessions were turned into money for medicine for the poor. Charles, the Archbishop of Milan, was usually seen in rags. He taught catechism, found the sick and elderly places to stay, established schools and ran the diocese. He lived a life of prayer, slept little and ate less. He once said, “Here all kinds of poor will be housed, outsiders as well as Milanese; men, women, children because charity knows no distinction of nations, and we are all brothers and sisters in the Lord.”
Toward the end of October in the year 1584, Charles fell ill with a heavy fever and died a few days later.
Feast of St Joseph & St Joseph's Staircase to Heaven. Selected Lenten Reflections: Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent. Solemnity of Saint Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The Catholic bishops of the United States has unanimously recommended the canonization of Servant of God, Dorothy Day. On March 16, 2000, the Vatican granted the Archdiocese of New York permission to begin Dorthy Day canonization process. In 2021, her cause for Sainthood moved forward.
March 8, 2024 Friday Third Week of Lent Selected Reflections: Meet/Salute The Seven Women Saints Named In The Eucharistic Prayer At Mass
March 7, 2024 Thursday of Third Week of Lent Selected Reflections: 40 Hours Devotion
March 5, 2024 Tuesday of Third Week of Lent Selected Reflections: 24 Hours for the Lord
Pope Francis will open the 11th edition of the "24 Hours For The Lord" Lenten initiative this Friday, March 8, at the Roman parish of San Pio V.
March 4, 2024 Monday of Third Week of Lent Selected Reflections: Eucharistic Miracle
Eucharistic Miracle findings presented March 4 1971: Dr. Linoli concluded the "miraculous flesh and blood," were of human origin. He presented his findings on March 4, 1971 and published in "Quaderni Sclavo di Diagnostica Clinica e di Laboratori" the same year.
March 4, 2024 Monday of Third week of Lent - Selected Reflections: See a need, fill a need, Myrtilla Miner
"If God allows me to live, I will devote my entire life to teaching slaves" - Myrtilla Miner
March 2, 2024, Third Saturday of Lent - Selected Reflections: The Power of Prayer, Padre Pio
March 2, 2024, Third Saturday of Lent - Selected Reflections: The Power of Prayer, Padre Pio
February 26, 2024, Monday of the Second Week in Lent - Selected Reflections
"The only time our Lord asked the apostles for anything was the night He went into agony. Not for activity did he plead but for an hour of companionship." - Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
February 23 2024 Friday, First Week of Lent, Selected Lenten Reflections: Servant of God Julia Greely
February 22 2024 Thursday, First Week of Lent, Selected Lenten Reflections: Blessed Carlo Acutis Highway to Heaven
In a video message to the Confraternities of Mérida, Spain, Pope Francis recalls how Holy Week is "a time of grace" to be dedicated to prayer and to our brothers and sisters most in need
Selected Lenten Reflections, Thursdayof the Fifth Week of Lent: Immaculée Ilibagiza
Immaculée Ilibagiza, a light at the bottom of the bottomless human depravity pit. Immaculée credits praying the Holy Rosary to drown out the anger inside her, and the evil outside, during the Rwanda Genocide as a turning point towards God and away from hate that saved her.
Despite the fact that the culture in Central and South Africa's is based on Hammurabi's Code: An Eye for an Eye, as evidenced by the frequent mention of the rule of law in the wake of what has been described as a state under the control of the criminal elite.
"But what credit is there if you are patient when beaten for doing wrong? But if you are patient when you suffer for doing what is good, this is a grace before God.
For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow in his footsteps.
He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.
When he was insulted, he returned no insult; when he suffered, he did not threaten; instead, he handed himself over to the one who judges justly."
Few words evoke such gut-wrenching emotions as "genocide " It's a term laden with pain, loss, and unspeakable suffering. It's a dark chapter in human history, the depravity of man - that we should never take lightly. Human Trafficking and Human Exploitation are not too far behind.
"Never again" is a term associated with the lessons of the Holocaust, used by liberated prisoners at Buchenwald concentration camp to express anti-fascist sentiment. It was popularized by Rabbi Meir Kahane in his 1971 book, Never Again!I sadly, Never Again, like No One is Above the Law, have become meaningless buzzwords.
The late Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar says we can choose to live an Ego-Drama, where everything we do revolves around ourselves and no one else; we write the script, we produce it and we star in it. Or we can live a Theo-Drama where everything we do revolves around God. He writes the script. He produces it. We are merely a supporting cast.
Human depravity is clearly not only a result of the Ego-Drama but the demonic. As Bishop Robert Barron writes: "What are the signs of the demonic? "What are the ways the demonic appears? Look at the names the Bible gives the devils, called in the Greek δῐᾰ́βολος (diabolos), diablo in Spanish, and le diable in French; διαβάλλειν (diaballein) means “to cast apart,” “to throw apart,” “to scatter.” The great sign of the demonic is scattering. God is a great gathering force. Whenever things come together, when a community forms, that is a sign of the Holy Spirit. The scattering power is a sign of the darker powers. When families get scattered, when business organizations, communities, and cultures get divided, that comes from the demonic."
While the twentieth century, was the bloodiest century in the history of the world. Not just because there was a holocaust with six million Jews slaughtered in Germany, but because there were millions more killed by Stalin across the Soviet Union. And then there was Mao Zedong and the millions killed under his regime in China. And then there was roughly twenty percent of the population of Cambodia wiped out under Pol Pot. There were 800,000 Tutsi slaughtered in Rwanda. And, of course, there have been over forty million unborn babies killed in the United States since Roe v. Wade in 1973. Honorable mention goes to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Gaza Conflict.
The systematic killing of ethnic Darfuri people which has occurred during the ongoing conflict in Western Sudan, the Darfur Genocide has become known as the first genocide of the 21st century. Over 2.8 million civilians have been displaced and the death toll is estimated to number 300,000.
China is engaged in an human rights abuses which are being perpetrated against the Uyghur people and other ethnic and religious minorities which live both in and around the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of the People's Republic of China. Since 2014 China has the interned more than one million people currently being held in secretive internment camps without any legal process, the majority of them are Uyghurs, in what has become the largest-scale detention of ethnic and religious minorities since the Holocaust.
Myanmar's government has been accused of genocide against the Rohingya minority. On 25 August 2017, the Myanmar military forces and local Buddhist extremists attacked the Rohingya people and committing atrocities including looting and burning down Rohingya villages, mass killing of Rohingya civilians, gang rapes, and other sexual violence.
In 1994, members of the Hutu tribe slaughtered between 800,000 to one million of their Tutsi neighbors, people with whom they had lived for decades, sharing culture, language, religion, and their poverty.
And faced with threats of ethnic cleansing by Muslims in 2023. and struggling amid a nine-month long blockade, 100,400 ethnic Armenians, representing 99% of the remaining population of Nagorno-Karabakh, fled by the end of September 2023, leaving a couple dozen people within the region.
In the March 2024 UN factfinding mission Sara Hossain declared they found Iranian regime doing systematic egregious widespread institutionalized crimes against humanity of large scale, 551 killed in 2021-2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising , they also executed 834 people in 2023.
Russian Invasion of Ukraine
The Biden Administration lost more than $1 billion worth of weapons sent to Ukraine - As casualties keep mounting with over 200 000 Russian and Ukranian soldiers killed and or wounded abd 30% of Ukranians displaced. Ukraine is also waging a War On Christianity, not unlike the one in the USA: War correspondents- CNN, NYT and the rest of the legacy media are not covering the war wall to wall 24X7 like all previous wars. And reporters like Gonzalo Lira canceled on Trump-ed up charges then killed.
How the war started: The Russian invasion was provoked by the NATO, enabled by China, corrupt media, politicians, #militaryindustrialcomplex, corporate greed and feckless, NATO and USA leadership
The Legacy Media and politicians mocked and or condemned Elon Musk's proposed peace plan, because as Putin declared On 24 February 2022: "Russia is going to win the war in weeks" - we are coming up on years!
The Chinese government said it would not provide weapons to Russia to support the invasion now or in the future. Then proposes a peace plan, while arming Russia.Apr 14, 2023
Who benefits?: Follow the money. A protracted war only benefits the enablers
Child Exploitation
An estimated 27% of human trafficking victims are children. Child traffickingis any exploitation of a child for the purpose of forced labor or sex. It's a form of modern perverted slavery that can trap a child in a living nightmare for years.
While the Philippines is one of the largest known sources of children exploitation with estimates of 60,000 to 100,000 children exploited, often, these children either go to work in child sex rings in the Philippines or are trafficked abroad as sex workers, child trafficking is not restricted to the developing world. On the contrary, the exploitation of children for forced labor or sex is alive and well in the United States.
California, for example has consistently had the highest number of human trafficking cases. 1,334 cases were reported in 2021, while 1,507 cases were recorded in the previous. Worse: the people who are supposed to protect the children, seem more interested in protecting the predators; Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the sex-trafficking ring of young teens she helped financier Jeffrey Epstein run for a decade.Yet, not a single John has been publicly identified
Subtle Human Depravity
NPR’s Michael Copley reported on the Recycle Hoax: “recycling cannot go on indefinitely, and does not solve the solid waste problem. No big deal, right? Wrong. Why this is referred to as subtle human depravity or systemic humanism. There's no such a thing as "systemic racism." If anything, it's systemic humanism: systemic search for power and wealth, no matter the cost. The focus on the Ego-Drama. John Kerry says "We have got to cut down on farming due to climate change, or people are going to starve". While California Governor Gavin Newsom says"Let them eat bugs". The yearly carbon footprint average in the US is 16 tons of CO2. Compare that to the carbon footprint of climate change activists: Bill Gates at 7,500 tons of CO2., John Kerry at 2,000 tons of CO2 and Taylor Swift at 8,205 tons of CO2. Every year, about 1,5000 private jets fly to and from airports for the WEF meeting. Each jet emits 2 tons of CO2
Joseph Goebbels infamously stated: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic, and/or military consequences of the lie” That includes effects of global warming and the lies and misinformation advanced by corrupt politicians and corporate greed.
Pope Francis Laudate Deum is Spot on. 29. The ethical decadence of real power is disguised thanks to marketing and false information, useful tools in the hands of those with greater resources to employ them to shape public opinion.
The facts speak for themselves: we live in a disposable society with the flawed notion that the planet has unlimited resources. Hence it’s easy to accept the idea of infinite or unlimited growth, which proves so attractive to economists, financiers, corrupt politicians, Propagandists and experts in technology. Yes, the climate has always been changing, but the resources are not unlimited. It's about stewardship.
Copley doesn’t report that the New York Times and Legacy Media fawned over Taylor Swift recently having “to travel across the globe and through time, to make the Superbowl,” as NYT’s Benjamin Hoffman, reported. Exacerbating global. warming. Her critics called her hypocritical for that.
Yet, as insignificant as the average Joe's CO2 footprint may be, the collective average Joe has insatiable thirst for non-renewable resources and a penache for waste.
While the reported casualties due to force of nature cannot be linked to global warming, empirically one can see the effects of consumerism: whole mountains and wild animals' habitat being destroyed in the name of progress.
The bottomless pit of human depravity
Clearly, uneducated people in the 20th century do not have a monopoly on depravity. It's the century of mega-educated murderers. We are the most educated, well off people who continue to slaughter the most people and destroy the planet.
Immaculée Ilibagiza
From the pits of human depravity, light always emerges, ever so lightly. Think of Immaculée Ilibagiza as a living example of faith put into action. Immaculée's life was transformed dramatically in 1994 during the Rwanda genocide when she and seven other women huddled silently together in a cramped bathroom of a local pastor's house for 91 days.
In Left to Tell, Immaculée Ilibagiza explains how living through the Rwandan genocide, an event so horrifying that one might expect it to lead to a crisis of faith: "Where's your God"—ultimately strengthened her Catholic faith and relationship with God
She lived a normal childhood loving in a household where education was very important in her household, so it was no surprise that she did well in school and went on to the National University of Rwanda to study electrical and mechanical engineering. It was while she was home from school on Easter break in 1994 that Immaculée's life was transformed forever.
On April 6 of that year, the Rwandan President’s plane was shot down over the capital city of Kigali. This assassination of the Hutu president sparked months of massacres of Tutsi tribe members throughout the country. Not even small, rural communities like Immaculée’s were spared from the house-by-house slaughtering of men, women and children.
To protect his only daughter from rape and murder, Immaculée’s father told her to run to a local pastor’s house for protection. The pastor quickly sheltered Immaculée and seven other women in a hidden 3 x 4 foot bathroom. For the next 91 days, Immaculée and the other women huddled silently in this small room, while the genocide raged outside the home and throughout the country.
While in hiding, anger and resentment were destroying Immaculée’s mind, body and spirit. It was then that Immaculée turned to prayer.
Prior to going to the pastor’s home, Immaculée’s father, a devout Catholic, gave her a set of rosary beads. She began to pray the rosary as a way of drowning out the anger inside her, and the evil outside the house. It was that turning point towards God and away from hate that saved Immaculée." -Immaculée's
Lord, on the cross, you asked pardon for your executioners. Give us strength to love our enemies, and pray for those who persecute us.
Feast of St Joseph & St Joseph's Staircase to Heaven. Selected Lenten Reflections: Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent. Solemnity of Saint Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The Catholic bishops of the United States has unanimously recommended the canonization of Servant of God, Dorothy Day. On March 16, 2000, the Vatican granted the Archdiocese of New York permission to begin Dorthy Day canonization process. In 2021, her cause for Sainthood moved forward.
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The Fascinating Story of Edith Stein, an intellectual power house, a daughter of Israel, trailblazing feminist turned atheist influenced by other women, became a Carmelite nun and willingly carried her cross all the way to the gas Chamber in Auschwitz.
Edith Stein, OCD (religious name: Teresa Benedicta of the Cross; 12 October 1891 – 9 August 1942.) A brilliant philosopher who stopped believing in God when she was 14, Edith Stein was so captivated by reading the autobiography of Teresa of Avila that she began a spiritual journey that led to her baptism in 1922. Twelve years later she imitated Saint Teresa by becoming a Carmelite nun, taking the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.
Edith Stein was born on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement (12 October, 1891), in what is niw Wroclaw, Poland. More than anything else, this helped make the youngest child very precious to her mother. Being born on this day was like a foreshadowing to Edith, a future Carmelite nun.
She was the youngest of 11 children in a devout Jewish family. When she was not yet two years old her father died suddenly, leaving Edith’s mother to raise the seven remaining children,four had died in childhood, and to manage the family business. Brought up on the Psalms and Proverbs, Edith considered her mother a living example of the strong woman of Proverbs 31. However, by her teenage years, Stein had lost her Jewish faith and regarded herself an atheist, although she continued to respect her mother’s total openness to God. hildren. Edith lost her faith in God. "I consciously decided, of my own volition, to give up praying," she said.
In 1911 she enrolled at the University of Breslau to study German and history, but her real interest was in philosophy and in women's issues. She became a member of the Prussian Society for Women's Franchise. "When I was at school and during my first years at university," she wrote later, "I was a radical suffragette. Then I lost interest in the whole issue. Now I am looking for purely pragmatic solutions."
In 1913, Edith Stein transferred to Göttingen University, to study under the mentorship of Edmund Husserl, then the rock star of philosophy. Edmund Husserl was the principal founder of phenomenology, one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. He made important contributions to almost all areas of philosophy and anticipated central ideas of its neighboring disciplines such as linguistics, sociology and cognitive psychology. Stein became his pupil and teaching assistant, and he later tutored her for a doctorate. At the time, anyone who was interested in philosophy was fascinated by Husserl's new view of reality, beyond the Kantian way: "I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law." Husserl's phenomenology unwittingly led many of his pupils to the Christian faith.
It was her study of philosophy which led her to acknowledge the existence of a transcendent reality. In G6ttingen Edith Stein also met the philosopher Max Scheler, who directed her attention to Roman Catholicism. Under the influence of friends who had discovered Christianity, her atheism began to falter.
At the beginning of the First World War, having done a nursing course and gone to serve in an Austrian field hospital, she looked after the sick in the typhus ward, worked in an operating theatre, and saw young people die. When the hospital was dissolved, in 1916, she followed Husserl as his assistant to the German city of Freiburg.During this period she went to Frankfurt Cathedral and saw a woman with a shopping basket going in to kneel for a brief prayer. "This was something totally new to me. In the synagogues and Protestant churches I had visited people simply went to the services. Here, however, I saw someone coming straight from the busy marketplace into this empty church, as if she was going to have an intimate conversation. It was something I never forgot
In 1913 Stein transferred to Göttingen. There she became an active member of the Göttingen Philosophical Society, that included Reinach, Ingarden, and Conrad-Martius. In Göttingen she also attended Scheler’s lectures, which left a deep impression. Stein approached Husserl to write a doctorate on phenomenology, and his initial reaction was to recommend instead that she sit the state teaching examination. However, encouraged by Reinach, she completed her thesis in summer 1916 and graduated summa cum laude for her dissertation, Das Einfühlungsproblem in seiner historischen Entwicklung und in phänomenologischer Betrachtung (The Empathy Problem as it Developed Historically and Considered Phenomenologically), part of which was published as Zum Problem der Einfühlung (On the Problem of Empathy; Stein 1917
In November 1917, Edith went to Göttingen to visit her friend's Adolf Reinach's widow. The Reinachs had converted to Protestantism. Edith felt uneasy about meeting the young widow at first, but was surprised when she actually met with a woman of faith. "This was my first encounter with the Cross and the divine power it imparts to those who bear it ... it was the moment when my unbelief collapsed and Christ began to shine his light on me - Christ in the mystery of the Cross."
Later, she wrote: "Things were in God's plan which I had not planned at all. I am coming to the living faith and conviction that - from God's point of view - there is no chance and that the whole of my life, down to every detail, has been mapped out in God's divine providence and makes complete and perfect sense in God's all-seeing eyes."
In the summer of 1921. she spent several weeks in Bergzabern on the country estate of Hedwig Conrad-Martius, another pupil of Husserl's. Hedwig had converted to Protestantism with her husband. One evening Edith picked up an autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila and read this book all night. "When I had finished the book, I said to myself: This is the truth." Later, looking back on her life, she wrote: "My longing for truth was a single prayer."
Edith Stein wanted to obtain a professorship, a goal that was impossible for a woman at the time. Husserl wrote the following reference: "Should academic careers be opened up to ladies, then I can recommend her whole-heartedly and as my first choice for admission to a professorship." Later, she was refused a professorship on account of her Jewishness.
She was baptized on 1 January, 1922, the Feast of the Circumcision of Jesus, when Jesus entered into the covenant of Abraham. At the Feast of the Purification of Mary,another day with an Old Testament reference,she was confirmed by the Bishop of Speyer in his private chapel.
After her conversion she went straight to Breslau: "Mother," she said, "I am a Catholic." The two women cried. Hedwig Conrad Martius wrote: "Behold, two Israelites indeed, in whom is no deceit!" (cf. John 1:47).
Until Easter 1931 she taught German and history at the Dominican Sisters' school and teacher training college of St. Magdalen's Convent in Speyer. She was encouraged by Arch-Abbot Raphael Walzer of Beuron Abbey to accept extensive speaking engagements, mainly on women's issues. "During the time immediately before and quite some time after my conversion I ... thought that leading a religious life meant giving up all earthly things and having one's mind fixed on divine things only. Gradually, however, I learnt that other things are expected of us in this world... I even believe that the deeper someone is drawn to God, the more he has to `get beyond himself' in this sense, that is, go into the world and carry divine life into it."
In 1932 she accepted a lectureship position at the Roman Catholic division of the German Institute for Educational Studies at the University of Munster, where she developed her anthropology. She successfully combined scholarship and faith in her work and her teaching, seeking to be a "tool of the Lord" in everything she taught. "If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him."
In 1933 The Aryan Law of the Nazis made it impossible for Edith Stein to continue teaching. "I had heard of severe measures against Jews before. But now it dawned on me that God had laid his hand heavily on His people, and that the destiny of these people would also be mine. If I can't go on here, then there are no longer any opportunities for me in Germany," she wrote; "I had become a stranger in the world." Stein met with the prioress of the Carmelite Convent in Cologne. "Human activities cannot help us, but only the suffering of Christ. It is my desire to share in it."
Stein then went to Breslau for the last time, to say good-bye to her mother and her family. Her last day at home was her birthday, 12 October, which was also the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles. Edith went to the synagogue with her mother. It was a hard day for the two women. "Why did you get to know Christianity ?" her mother asked, "I don't want to say anything against him. He may have been a very good person. But why did he make himself God?" Edith's mother cried.
Edith joined the Carmelite Convent of Cologne on 14 October, anow known as Sister Teresia Benedicta a Cruce - Teresa, Blessed of the Cross. In 1938 she wrote: "I understood the cross as the destiny of God's people, which was beginning to be apparent at the time (1933). I felt that those who understood the Cross of Christ should take it upon themselves on everybody's behalf. Of course, I know better now what it means to be wedded to the Lord in the sign of the cross. However, one can never comprehend it, because it is a mystery."
By November, 9, 1938 the anti-Semitism of the Nazis became apparent to the whole world: Synagogues were burnt, and the Jewish people were subjected to terror. The prioress of the Carmelite Convent in Cologne did her utmost to take Sister Teresia Benedicta a Cruce abroad. On New Year's Eve 1938 she was smuggled across the border into the Netherlands, to the Carmelite Convent in Echt in the Province of Limburg. This is where she wrote her will on 9 June 1939: "Even now I accept the death that God has prepared for me in complete submission and with joy as being his most holy will for me. I ask the Lord to accept my life and my death ... so that the Lord will be accepted by His people and that His Kingdom may come in glory, for the salvation of Germany and the peace of the world."
Edith Stein was arrested by the Gestapo on 2 August 1942, while she was in the chapel with the other sisters. She was to report within five minutes, together with her sister Rosa, who had also converted and was serving at the Echt Convent. Her last words to be heard in Echt were addressed to Rosa: "Come, we are going for our people." Together with many other Jewish Christians, the two women were taken to Westerbork as retaliation against a letter of protest written by the Dutch Roman Catholic Bishops against the pogroms and deportations of Jews. Edith commented, "I never knew that people could be like this, neither did I know that my brothers and sisters would have to suffer like this. ... I pray for them every hour. Will God hear my prayers? He will certainly hear them in their distress."
On August 7, 987 Jews were deported to Auschwitz. It was probably on 9 August that Sister Teresia Benedicta a Cruce, her sister and many other of her people were gassed.
When Edith Stein was beatified in Cologne on 1 May 1987, the Church honoured "a daughter of Israel", as Pope John Paul II put it, who, as a Catholic during Nazi persecution, remained faithful to the crucified Lord Jesus Christ and, as a Jew, to her people in loving faithfulness."
O my God, fill my soul with holy joy, courage and strength to serve You. Enkindle Your love in me and then walk with me along the next stretch of road before me. I do not see very far ahead, but when I have arrived where the horizon now closes down, a new prospect will open before me and I shall met with peace.
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