Religion
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"...What one did not hear from any senior member of the Argentinian hierarchy was any expression of regret for the church's collaboration and in these crimes. The extent of the church's complicity in the dark deeds was excellently set out by Horacio Verbitsky, one of Argentina's most notable journalists, in his book El Silencio (Silence). He recounts how the Argentinian navy with the connivance of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now the Jesuit archbishop of Buenos Aires, hid from a visiting delegation of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission the dictatorship's political prisoners. Bergoglio was hiding them in nothing less than his holiday home in an island called El Silencio in the River Plate. The most shaming thing for the church is that in such circumstances Bergoglio's name was allowed to go forward in the ballot to chose the successor of John Paul II. What scandal would not have ensued if the first pope ever to be elected from the continent of America had been revealed as an accessory to murder and false imprisonment.
One would have thought that the Argentinian bishops would have seized the opportunity to call for pardon for themselves and put on sackcloth and ashes as the sentences were announced in Córdoba but that has not so far happened..."
Read the rest of Hugh O'Shaughnessy's article here. This article was first published in January 2011.
This is just one of a number of alleged shameful instances involving Bergoglio and the Junta.
"...What one did not hear from any senior member of the Argentinian hierarchy was any expression of regret for the church's collaboration and in these crimes. The extent of the church's complicity in the dark deeds was excellently set out by Horacio Verbitsky, one of Argentina's most notable journalists, in his book El Silencio (Silence). He recounts how the Argentinian navy with the connivance of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now the Jesuit archbishop of Buenos Aires, hid from a visiting delegation of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission the dictatorship's political prisoners. Bergoglio was hiding them in nothing less than his holiday home in an island called El Silencio in the River Plate. The most shaming thing for the church is that in such circumstances Bergoglio's name was allowed to go forward in the ballot to chose the successor of John Paul II. What scandal would not have ensued if the first pope ever to be elected from the continent of America had been revealed as an accessory to murder and false imprisonment.
One would have thought that the Argentinian bishops would have seized the opportunity to call for pardon for themselves and put on sackcloth and ashes as the sentences were announced in Córdoba but that has not so far happened..."
Read the rest of Hugh O'Shaughnessy's article here. This article was first published in January 2011.
This is just one of a number of alleged shameful instances involving Bergoglio and the Junta.
Since 2003 there have been 17 honor killing cases in Belgium (13 murders and 4 attempts). 75% of the victims have been women and the countries of origin of the families are Morocco, Turkey, Algeria, Kosovo and Afghanistan. Except for two Assyrian Christian cases and one Hindu caste conflict case the rest have all been Muslim.
This week a trial opened in Mons, Belgium in the murder case of Sadia Sheikh, aged 20. The accused are her mother, father, brother and youngest sister (Sadia had three sisters and one brother). Her parents emigrated to Belgium in 1973 and her father did very well for himself being the owner today of several businesses. Sadia is torn between her family and her aspirations. She wants to become a lawyer; her father forbids it. She runs away, her mother threatens suicide. She comes back, her father decides that she will marry a cousin she has never met in Islamabad. She meets a Belgian young man and starts seeing him in secret. Three days before the flight to Pakistan she runs away to a women's shelter in Brussels. She then gets her own apartment in Mons. Her family tries to grab her at school but she hides. She then doesn't leave her apartment and does her courses long distance. Her family tracks her down and sweet talk her into celebrating the end of Ramadan with them. She talks about Jean. Her mother threatens to commit suicide if her daughter marries a non-muslim. She spends the next Sunday and Sunday night with her family. They invite her for an afternoon meal the next day. Unbeknownst to her, her family is plotting to kill her. Her brother and one of her sisters withdraw 12,000 euros from the bank to finance his escape after the murder. The day of the meal her parents go to visit her eldest sister right at the time that they are supposed to be having a meal with Sadia in their home. Her brother picks her up at school and drives her to the parental house where, as soon as they get there (she is still wearing her coat), she is held by her youngest sister while her brother shoots her 4 times. He manages to stay on the lam for over three months with the help of his eldest sister and his brother-in-law.
Sadia had to die because as soon as she didn't show up for the wedding the family honor was ruined.
This week a trial opened in Mons, Belgium in the murder case of Sadia Sheikh, aged 20. The accused are her mother, father, brother and youngest sister (Sadia had three sisters and one brother). Her parents emigrated to Belgium in 1973 and her father did very well for himself being the owner today of several businesses. Sadia is torn between her family and her aspirations. She wants to become a lawyer; her father forbids it. She runs away, her mother threatens suicide. She comes back, her father decides that she will marry a cousin she has never met in Islamabad. She meets a Belgian young man and starts seeing him in secret. Three days before the flight to Pakistan she runs away to a women's shelter in Brussels. She then gets her own apartment in Mons. Her family tries to grab her at school but she hides. She then doesn't leave her apartment and does her courses long distance. Her family tracks her down and sweet talk her into celebrating the end of Ramadan with them. She talks about Jean. Her mother threatens to commit suicide if her daughter marries a non-muslim. She spends the next Sunday and Sunday night with her family. They invite her for an afternoon meal the next day. Unbeknownst to her, her family is plotting to kill her. Her brother and one of her sisters withdraw 12,000 euros from the bank to finance his escape after the murder. The day of the meal her parents go to visit her eldest sister right at the time that they are supposed to be having a meal with Sadia in their home. Her brother picks her up at school and drives her to the parental house where, as soon as they get there (she is still wearing her coat), she is held by her youngest sister while her brother shoots her 4 times. He manages to stay on the lam for over three months with the help of his eldest sister and his brother-in-law.
Sadia had to die because as soon as she didn't show up for the wedding the family honor was ruined.
Happy Birthday! Happy Descent!
Today is Krishna Janmastami, the birth or descent of Krishna, the god worshipped by millions of Hindus around the world.
Krishna appeared on this earth, at midnight, approximately 5,000 years ago in Mathura, located in Northern India, 91 miles south of New Delhi.
Today is Krishna Janmastami, the birth or descent of Krishna, the god worshipped by millions of Hindus around the world.
Krishna appeared on this earth, at midnight, approximately 5,000 years ago in Mathura, located in Northern India, 91 miles south of New Delhi.
The Vatican is trying something new on the occasion of the Pope's trip to the UK in September. You want to witness the beatification of Cardinal Newman? 30 euros please (70,000 tickets available). The Evening Prayer at Hyde Park? 12 euros please (130,000 tickets available). The Papal Mass celebrated in Glasgow? 24 euros.
The trip is budgeted at 27 million euros, half of which will be paid by the British government (why?), but the ticket sales will only go towards the Vatican's half.
The trip is budgeted at 27 million euros, half of which will be paid by the British government (why?), but the ticket sales will only go towards the Vatican's half.
40 Italian woman have written a joint letter to the Pope. In it they describe the "painfully lonely lives" of priests and monks and claim to all be in relations with priests or monks. They are asking the Pope to eliminate the celibacy requirement for priesthood. Good luck. A couple of weeks ago, the Archbishop of Vienna said publicly that he thought eliminating the celibacy requirement might diminish the instances of child molestation in the Church. The Pope insisted that he retract the statement and spoke of "the value of sacred celibacy."