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ABBA MINISTRIES OF CANADA |
JANUARY 2016
For Malachy's viewpoint of issues surrounding the Lambeth Conference 2016
and possible repercussions, please go to: www.jesusofnazareth.ca/canterburytales012016.html
CANTERBURY TALES
CHRISTMAS 2015
APOSTASY ON HAYDEN STREET
This year the Anglican Primate has, as per usual, delivered a hackneyed Christmas message prepared by the jaded gnomes of Hayden Street. Filmed at 'Church Wars' HQ and starring the Anglican version of Han Solo and Princess Leia [aka Hiltz, flanked by the imposing presence of Lutheran Bishop Susan Johnson, looking every bit the 'enforcer' for the Christian Women's Movement]. In the opening scene our hero, using a strange north American drawl far removed from the Nova Scotia accent of his youth, ruminates that "As I read the Christmas story, I am always taken by the way we portray the innkeeper".
Now, we know that Hiltz has reinvented the Anglican Church of Canada, which now worships mammon instead of Jesus, but one might assume that an archbishop, with a doctorate in theology, even an honorary one, might know that there is not one biblical Christmas narrative that mentions an 'innkeeper'. Weird ain't it?
It is revealed that Hiltz needed an 'intro' in order to raise secular issues and thus avoid embarrassing topics like Jesus and why he arrived two millennia past to redeem us; thus enter the mythical innkeeper. [The Catholics had claimed Santa Claus this year with the Pope's endorsement of 'The Polar Express'.]
Hiltz goes on to exhort charity for Syrian refugees, but remember in a strange twist he is anti-Israeli, and maybe anti-Semitic, so that if you are displaced west of the Golan Heights you will not get his blessing, nor any charity that he claims to disburse but is actually paid for by the Canadian taxpayer.
Back in November at the Council of the General Synod [CoGS] Hiltz stated: "I'm personally feeling that we're living in exciting times in the life of the church - within our own respective churches, in our relationship one with another and in our renewed sense of what we say ecumenically: the call for the church, like its Lord, to be in and for the world." I did struggle through this Hiltz Anglican-speak "State of the Union" address in its entirety, and as far as I could determine his muddled thinking on gay marriage and proposed changes to the Marriage Canon; the upcoming Lambeth conference; Anglican achievements affecting our Indigenous people [He sees positive, where the rest of us see negative] and the way other Anglicans world-wide actually identify with his side-stream, small 'a' Anglicanism is unique to the dying megachurches which since the mid-twentieth century have been operating a giant, inverted, ecumenical Ponzi scheme in an effort to avoid bankruptcy. An Air Canada stewardess recently shared this story with me: Apparently, she was on a flight to London, England, when the aircraft experience severe clear air turbulence. The airbus shed altitude like an express lift; overhead storage bins ejected hand luggage and oxygen masks deployed spontaneously. Everyone was becoming extremely frightened.
As you can see, he did mention the Lord; however, if you read the transcript you will realize that it is unclear if Hiltz means Jesus or Justin Trudeau.
I believe that my main concern in all of this is that the megachurches will in fact disappear in twenty to fifty years and in the act tip over the manger and take the remains of Christianity to oblivion with them. True Christianity [for example, Abba Ministries of Canada] is growing, but not quickly enough: we soon celebrate twenty years as Jesus' true disciples and we have some sixty ministries coast to coast; yet it is not enough.
This Christmas, I urge you all to spent a few hours scouring the gospel [not in pursuit of the illusive innkeeper] but in distilling Jesus' many messages to his disciples. Caiaphas and his cronies seem to me the perfect doppelgangers for Hiltz and Johnson and their ilk: complacent, self-serving politicians who have reinterpreted Holy Scripture to suit their own devious purposes.
Jesus would say to Hiltz and Johnson, "If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." As you know, they have already turned away from him sorrowfully because their wealth and the trappings of power are so important to them. Jesus comment aside to us, his true disciples remains, "Truly, I say to you, it will be hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven as for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle"..[Matthew 19: 22-26].
AN ANGLICAN CHRISTMAS
Finally, she remembered the passenger manifest and recalled that the Primate was travelling in first class. On the spur of the moment she made her way forward from cattle class and approached the Prince of the Church. She coughed nervously and said, "Your Grace, this is really frightening. Do you suppose you could, I don't know... ...do something religious?"
"What did he do?" I asked, obviously fascinated.
"He jumped up and took a collection!" She said with a grin.
Have a Holy Christmas, and pray for peace in 2016. Pray hard!
In Christ,
Malachy.
June 2015
TRUTH AND RECOCILIATION - THE NAME OF THE GAME
OH, CANADA... ...BOW YOUR HEAD I SHAME.
TRUTH AND RECOCILIATION - THE NAME OF THE GAME
OH, CANADA... ...BOW YOUR HEAD I SHAME.
The Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission [TRC] has completed its investigation of the legacy of the Residential School System. While Justice Sinclair's TRC is probably a much better effort than previous TRCs; for example, the post-apartheid charade conducted by Desmond Tutu, the egotistic Anglican terrorist, sadly, it will probably be no more successful in the long term, nor will it be received with enthusiasm by the non-aboriginal community at large.
Here in Canada, most of the worst perpetrators of violence and abuse at the Residential Schools are already dead, but the organizations who sheltered; paid; profited; supported and encouraged them are alive and very active [some actually fighting for their financial existence] in the public domain. The Canadian Government [the legislators]; the megachurches [the perpetrators] and the RCMP [the enforcers]; to these three we should add the Canadian citizenry, who stood by and let the whole crime happen exactly as the average German tacitly supported the Nazis in the nineteen-thirties.
The Canadian TRC, having burned its way through millions in administrative cost has now issued its 'findings', which include 94 recommendations of variable quality, most of which will never be implemented or impact the suffering of our indigenous people in any real way.
The TRC is far too heavily influenced by current events, the infamous 'Zeitgeist', and once the Zeitgeist speaks, everything is likely to be its echo. Hegel said, "No man can surpass his own time, for the spirit of his time is also his own spirit." What usually happens is that TRCs immerse past events and policies in the acid bath of hindsight, scour them, cleanse them, surgically remove their outdated falsehoods, errors and injustices, and replace them with falsehoods, errors and injustices of contemporary manufacture.
Does doing so lead to the truth? No, but it makes some people feel virtuous, and that soothes the troubled souls of church leaders and government all of whom are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder brought on by the necessity of digging into the coffers and paying compensation to their victims. After all, shouldn't a simple 'sorry' be quite enough? Why do the aboriginals need a niggardly $2.8 billion, most of which came from the taxpayer, in compensation?
Regardless, the most contentious statement to surface at the TRC refers to something that I have spotlighted for many a long year: "Genocide". Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of that nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aimed at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. [Lemkin].
In 2015, the camp is divided on genocide with notables like National Post's ex-convict Conrad Black opposing and Canada's Chief Justice affirming. The religious leaders would rather hide within their carefully constructed entity of denial; obfuscation; downright lies, and pompous religiosity, while projecting their collective guilt onto the government of the day or any other convenient target.
Whether Justice Sinclair, an aboriginal himself and the TRC Chairman, has done a 'good job' will be for history to decide; however, that he has done an honest job is without doubt, and compared with the corrupt and biased Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu in South Africa, he is to be congratulated for his work at the TRC.
Personally, I fear that he will die a disappointed man because 'boiled down' the major proposals can be reduced to one thing, power and money. Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples would strengthen the sovereignty of First Nations, while weakening the authority of federal and provincial governments and reducing the overall amount of financial exploitation that is so prominent today. You can rest assured that the ghost of the Canadian Residential schools will continue to haunt us for many years to come.
The megachurches, so complicit in this evil and so hypocritical and mealy-mouthed in their response will as usual dress-up in fine robes; make dramatic statements, most of which will end in demands that the government [i.e. the taxpayer] shell out more dollars to compensate for their holier than thou beatings; rapes; psychotic treatment of children and, above all, murder. Cold blooded murder; genocide in the name of Jesus Christ. Abba Ministries of Canada celebrated the ordination of two new priests and one deacon at Christ the Servant Catholic Church [CTS] in Cold Springs, Ontario during November 2014.
Those responsible are: Rt. Revd Fred Hiltz, Anglican Church of Canada; the Rev. Stephen Farris, moderator of the Presbyterian church; the Rt. Rev. Gary Paterson, moderator of the United Church; Fr. Peter Bisson, Provincial of the Jesuits in English Canada, and Archbishop Gerard Pettipas, President of the Catholic Entities Parties to the Indian Residential School Settlement, among others.
These men will appear contrite in public; wring their soft white hands in despair and pay endless lip service to the TRC findings, while behind the scenes they make a fine living on the 'givings' of their bewildered and aging adherents and supervise the shredding of evidence and the endless white washing of their involvement in the abuse and death of innocent children.
Talk is cheap, asked what his message was to Anglicans, Hiltz said, "My message is simple... ...we need to turn apology and actions associated with that [genocide] into priorities, and so I'm saying, we need to take the recommendations of the TRC, which apply to the churches, and declare them to be priorities in our church." Uh huh, so when might that happen dare we ask?
Understandably, Justice Sinclair does not want to see Aboriginal people continue as another minority group in society, but as people who have original rights that need to be respected going forward.
Read the bigoted columns in the National Post and other newspapers: listen to the twaddle of people who consider that they own the land just because their pox-infected and desperate ancestors survived the ocean crossing and struggled ashore from 1492 onward; these Canadian 'pioneers' forget that without the help of the aboriginal people that their progenitors would not have survived to pass on their racist genes. They also forget that they were escaping exactly the same persecution back home that they now dish out so easily to our Aboriginal peoples.
That is one reason why the commission wants the residential school experience to be incorporated into school curricula, into citizenship guides, into law and journalism programs, into the very fabric of national life. This too will have many detractors; however, there is compelling evidence to support the proposal. Take a look at Spain, where even today seventy-six years after the Spanish Civil War and forty years after the death of Francisco Franco, history offers a few meagre pages of neutral information and the average Spaniard [many damaged by this fratricidal war] dares not mention Franco's name, while the monster lays in his gilded tomb in the basilica that the slave labour of his victims built for him at Valle de los Caidos.
Take a look at the notorious Magdalene Laundries and other Irish atrocities run by the catholic church [sic], which probably killed as many children and destroyed as many lives as the Canadian Residential Schools.
What about Jesus, in whose name these atrocities were committed?
Remember, he called a little child and had him stand among them.
And he said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
"Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
"And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me.
"But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea." [Matthew 18 2-6]
I see a small business opportunity here if you are interested: millstone manufacture. Perhaps we could ask the perpetrators for some start-up capital?
In Christ,
Malachy
June 2015
The author acknowledges multiple sources on the world-wide web.
This spirit-filled occasion welcomed the Reverend Nancy Coyle, transitional Deacon at CTS; the Reverend Germain Landry, Assistant Priest at CTS and the Reverend Olive Heron-Coverley of Markham.
This year we have also witnessed celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the so-called Great War. WWI was a human tragedy beyond our comprehension. Not only that it sowed the seeds for WWII. I have chosen a Punch cartoon, which I believe expresses the futility of war. At least one prominent religious group has predicted that when the last of the generation born before 1914 has died, the end of the world will come. Maybe so, maybe not; however, I believe that 2015 will be a very significant year. [Twenty years ago, I wrote a novel set in this decade, which saw the collapse of various world orders.] As Christmas approaches, here is a partial list of those fulfilling my work of 'fiction': from west to east, the USA; the UK; France; Spain; Greece; Rumania [or basically the Euro-zone] Lebanon; Syria; Iraq; Iran; Egypt; Pakistan; Russia; the Ukraine. The reasons for instability vary, religion; youth unemployment; currency manipulation; dictators and oligarchs; civil war; terrorism; dishonest and greedy politicians; etcetera.
Well. That should make for cheerful conversation as the Yule log blazes and the Christmas tree lights twinkle. Use a little extra rum to stiffen up the eggnog...
So, this Christmas, let us sing with some attention that bleakest and yet loveliest of carols, It Came Upon The Midnight Clear, stressing the lines that run 'Man at war with man hears not the love song which they bring. Oh, hush the noise, ye men of strife, and hear the angels sing'.
I am so much looking forward to the Christmas speeches [and hot air] from the Primate Fred Hiltz, which the gnomes of Hayden Street are frantically spinning together based on a desperate need for more funding to prolong the Anglican nightmare. I am sure that there will be something about 'the poor' from the Pope, screened and edited by the puppet master, von Benedict, and the United Church will promise everybody everything and give nothing as it usually does. The English queen is rumoured to be abdicating in order to give the Prince of Wails [sic] a go at running the royal firm; however, I feel that she has not reached such a point of senility yet, at least I hope so. The world is definitely not ready for Queen Camilla of Rottweiler-Holstein.
This Christmas I will end by following Papa Franco's example of pastoral magic: while trying to console a distraught little boy whose dog had died, Franco told him in a recent public appearance on St. Peter's Square that, "One day, we will see our animals again in the eternity of Christ. Paradise is open to all of God's creatures."
This put me in mind of an uplifting story from old Ireland that I heard recently about a venerable priest and his cat. This ingenious cleric had named his cat 'Malachy' after his bishop [one would suppose due to his enormous respect for his superior] but the cat, like the bishop was advancing in years, so the pastor, we shall call him Father O'Fearadaigh [Faraday in English], acquired a kitten as a companion for his faithful pet. The kitten [presumably continuing the tradition], he named, 'Eoghan'. [Gift of God].
On returning home after Mass, Father O'Fearadaigh discovered that the kitten had climbed up a tree in his backyard and then was afraid to come down. The cleric coaxed, offered warm milk; etcetera, however, Eoghan would not come down. The tree was a sapling, not sturdy enough to climb, so the good Father decided that if he tied a rope to his car and pulled it until the tree bent down, he could then reach up and retrieve the kitten.
So, that's what he did, all the while checking his progress in the rearview mirror. He then figured if he went just a little bit further, the tree would be bent sufficiently for him to reach young Eoghan. But as he moved the car a little further forward, the rope broke. The tree went 'boing!' and the kitten instantly sailed through the air - out of sight.
The priest felt terrible. He walked all over the neighborhood asking people if they'd seen a little kitten. No. Nobody had seen a stray kitten. So he prayed, 'Lord, I just commit this kitten to your keeping,' and went on about his business.
A few days later he was at the grocery store, and met one of his neighbours, a church member. He happened to look into her shopping cart and was amazed to see a large bag of cat food. This woman was a cat hater and everyone knew it, so he asked her, 'Why are you buying cat food when you hate cats so much?'
She replied, 'You won't believe this, and then told him how her little girl had been begging her for a cat, but she kept refusing. Then a few days before, the child had begged again, so the Mom finally told her little girl, 'Well, if God gives you a cat, I'll let you keep it.'
She looked more than a little shaky as she continued: 'I watched my child go out in the yard, get on her knees, and ask God for a cat. And really, Father O'Fearadaigh, I know that you will not believe this, but I saw it with my own eyes. A kitten suddenly came flying out of the clear blue sky, with its little paws outspread, and landed right in front of her.'
This Christmas, never underestimate the Power of God and His unique sense of humor.
In Christ,
Malachy
Bishop Emeritus
Abba Ministries of Canada
My thanks to sources on the world wide web. December 2014
ABBA MINISTRIES OF CANADA
2014 FALL MESSAGE FROM MALACHY
IS PAPA FRANCO OUR KNIGHT IN BATTERED ARMOUR?
First step towards a Catholic schism or civil war in the Vatican!
A lonely old man sits contemplatively in Suite 201 at Casa Santa Marta just a stone's throw from Saint Peter's basilica.
He is tired and perhaps without hope, a broken man.
The recent Extraordinary Synod looked progressive, exactly like this man's many musings since ascending the throne of Saint Peter. Launching the "The Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the Context of Evangelization," the Pope, his bishops and a few selected laypeople had spent the past two weeks discussing some of the thorniest topics in Catholic doctrine: divorce, gay sex and birth control.
At first, it appeared that a great step forward might be forthcoming; then the full weight of the mulishly anachronistic church, its cardinals and bishops came crashing down on Papa Franco' poor old head.
When I was a boy, a ray of light illuminated the Vatican: its name was Pope John XXIII. After Pius XII a poor candle would have broken the darkness, but Pope John was much, much more than that! I always found it difficult to believe that his sudden death after presiding over the opening session of Vatican II was from natural causes. Much more likely, it was to kill his many farseeing initiatives.
Then after Paul VI, a mafia don if ever there was one, another miracle John Paul I flared briefly in the dogmatic darkness of the Sistine Chapel.
If you read my past articles you will have noticed my speculation that papa Franco was in some way mimicking John Paul, but now I wonder if is it possible that the Holy Spirit and John Paul have been guiding him? After 33 days John Paul succumbed to a 'heart attack' induced by a dose of digitalis in his bedtime beverage. [That is as close as we can get after the Vatican murderers had tampered with all the evidence and the body.]
John Paul II and Benedict XIV followed with a shameful track record of extreme right wing Catholicism and cover ups of all manner of evil and abuse. Benedict is now pope emeritus; however, this latest fiasco shows that his malevolent grip on Vatican affairs is as strong as ever.
Alas, the Pope chose the wrong vehicle to effect his changes. The Extraordinary Synod not only torpedoed his hopes for a more inclusive Church - it may have derailed his entire mission.
Catholics across the world have grasped eagerly at the pope's every word. The Argentine Pope's attitude struck many as refreshing. Others, though, found it confusing. In the 19th century, Britain's Cardinal Newman wrote that theology evolves, but doctrine does not. The Magisterium, or the Church's teachings, cannot change, because "known truth cannot be changed" - as Benedict decreed back when he was Cardinal Ratzinger.
The question is: what is papa Franco's position now? He has been overruled by his bishops and sent packing. That message seals his fate; he is no longer the spiritual leader of the world's Catholics, he is just a nice, media friendly figurehead. Can he fight back? He could, Franco could speak ex cathedra and play the infallibility card: An infallible pronouncement - whether made by the pope alone or by an ecumenical council - usually is made only when some doctrine has been called into question. While most doctrines have never been doubted [or have been generally accepted] by the large majority of Catholics, these issues of birth control, divorce and homosexuality and, perhaps the role of women in the church, have been prominent since before the reign of John Paul [Albino Luciani].
This action would require enormous courage on the pope's part, and would need to be carefully planned, certainly without Benedict's knowledge [and his spies are everywhere], and swiftly executed. The church would be on Franco's side, but the curia and many bishops would not. There are elements in the Vatican that would not hesitate to kill another pope; in addition Franco could precipitate a civil war and/or a schism within the church itself.
One journalist has speculated that perhaps the pope should stop worrying about extracting from the next Synod's participants, or the College of Cardinals, or the Vatican civil service, a document that conveys his vision. He should focus instead on doing what he has done best: living out that compassionate vision with every breath he takes. He may, indeed, have no other option. "God is the God of surprises," the Pope said in his homily at Santa Marta last week. For his mutinous subordinates to sign up to their leader's doctrinal agenda now would not be a surprise, but a miracle.
In Christ,
Malachy
Bishop Emeritus
Abba Ministries of Canada
My thanks to sources on the world wide web. October 2014
AND YE SHALL HEAR OF WARS AND RUMOURS OF WARS... [Matthew 24:6]
PRAYERS are in order for the victims of MH17 and innocent victims of terror around the world!
Never since the end of the Cold War has world peace looked so fragile. The twentieth century was the bloodiest in human history; with the end of imperialism and the rise of the USSR and communism/capitalism. Lenin, Marx, Stalin, Khrushchev, and more, with their bizarre version of communism that came down to a lowest common denominator: a nine millimeter bullet in the back of the neck. In late 2012 the leader of Iran's parliament boasted, "We proudly say we support the Palestinians, military and financially... The Zionist regime needs to realize that Palestinian military power comes from Iranian military power." Uh-huh and where does Iranian military power come from? Russia and Iran are neighbors, divided only by the Caspian Sea and trade between then in nuclear technology and weapons amounts to a visible minimum of 5 billion dollars every year and probably much more. Uncle Vlad's Terrorist Armaments Emporium is open 24 hours per day! Israel, Turkey, Cypress and Italy have all intercepted Iranian arms shipments in the Middle East: Iran has become Uncle Vlad's number one armaments broker. Obama has made it clear that Israel stands alone, and Putin can do as he pleases. The United States is governed by empty suits that neither understands, nor want to get involved in foreign policy. The US appears poised to relinquish it role as 'world policeman' which is preferable to the appeasement and ambiguity of the moment. Hand in your badge, disband the CIA and stop meddling in world affairs for American domestic advantage. Interestingly, Putin commented recently: "To some extent [the U.S. is] living like parasites off the global economy and their monopoly of the dollar." "If you kid's don't behave, Old Holy Joe'll get yer" Thus spake many a mother and grandmother in the days of my childhood. In the Archdiocese of Tuam in the west of Ireland, hand in hand with the devil himself, Holy Joe held sway. Old Holy Joe, aka the Most Reverend Joseph Walsh was for his sins [and there were many confessed and many that remained attached to his immortal soul forever] the Archbishop of Tuam and it was on his watch that the Sisters of Bon Secours [ironically the 'Sisters of the Safe Harbour...'] who ran yet another notorious Irish workhouse, tossed eight hundred babies and infants into a catholic septic tank as if they were just so much excrement. There have been a couple of things lately that suggest, just suggest, that Papa Franco is in fact making some small effort in the direction of change. As Advent progresses and the so-called Christian world prepares for Christmas and the birth of Jesus we should pause and examine what Christians truly understand as the meaning of Christmas.
Communism begged the rise of an equal and opposite evil: fascism and Spain was the first to suffer under the fascist Franco while the Nazis and the Communists practiced the military art of mass destruction on the Spanish people during the Spanish Civil War [1936 - 1939]. Global war was to rage for a further six years and claim conservatively 20 million lives.
During the cold war that followed WWII Berthold Brecht wrote: "Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again." Vladimir Putin was born October 7, 1952 in Saint Petersburg, a city then known as Leningrad, and between 1975 and 1991 he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the KGB, an organization not well known for its humanitarian activities. 
Putin has basically ruled Russia as 'Czar' through various crony warlords, criminals and proxies since 1999. Modern Russia is totally corrupt [even by today's standards where political corruption is the norm] fueling global conflict by supplying weapons to rogue states like Syria and Iran and to terrorist groups worldwide such as Hamas and Hezbollah. More recently Czar Putin has started to play out his 'dream' which is to restore Russia to its former USSR style glory. Putin started in 2008 with the annexation of Georgia, but that simply whetted his appetite, and this year he has taken the Crimea and now is orchestrating a civil war in the Ukraine. [Nearly 300 innocents died on Malaysian Airlines System flight MH17 when it was brought down by a Russian BUK ground to air missile in Eastern Ukraine near the Russian border]. What next? Probably the Baltic States, Belarus and Finland will find themselves bloodied, beaten and under the Russian roof, in the very near future.
On July 24, as the situation within the Ukraine worsened, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced his resignation, opening the way for new elections that would reflect the country's starkly changed political scene after the ouster of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in February. Advantage Putin, who will see this as a green light to advance his predations.
As this ghastly drama plays out, what does the United States; European Union leadership; NATO and the UN do? Nothing! Harper has spoken out strongly, much more than most, but Canada is incapable of a response of any serious kind to Putin's Russia.
In what some may see as an unconnected drama, Israel has initiated a ground invasion of Gaza in the face of rocket attacks in unprecedented numbers by Hamas. Israel has shown amazing restraint, even offering a cease fire brokered by Egypt, which the Hamas leadership turned down flat; however, she has plainly had enough.
WHO ARE ISRAEL'S ENEMIES? WHERE DO THEIR ARMS COME FROM?
Israel's air force recently blew up a weapons cache in Sudan [a country that keeps big charities in the lap of luxury, but allows its own people to starve] that was destined for Hamas in Gaza, the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Arab reported this month. According to the report, Sudanese officials believe that Israel did carry out a recent bombardment in its territory, and have imposed a total blackout on the incident.
Syria also plays its part, after its expulsion from Jordan in 1999, Hamas found refuge and support in Syria. The latter's support was premised on the organization being part of the 'axis of resistance'. Hamas' base in Syria would also allow for better coordination with Hezbollah. Hamas was critical to Iran, Hezbollah and Syria's attempt to de-emphasize the Shi'a character of the axis, and its assertion instead of a Muslim and resistance identity. To the more secular Basher al Assad, whose privileged Alawi sect is an offshoot of Shi'a Islam, Hamas further helped in positioning the Syrian government as holding a non-sectarian character. Hezbollah and Hamas have had their ups and downs recently, but a steady flow of arms and maybe chemical weapons comes from the Assad regime.
But where does Syria get its military hardware? You guessed: Uncle Vlad's TAE in Moscow; open seven days a week! Assad's army, seeking to end a three-year civil war that's killed 150,000 people and displaced 9 million, started using longer-range Russian Smerch and Uragan rockets for the first time in February, according to Jane's Defense Weekly and Stratfor, a U.S. geopolitical research company. Syria has also intensified the use of MiG-29 fighter jets with ground-attack capabilities, Stratfor said, citing analyses of video footage.'Russia is now doing everything to ensure that Assad wins convincingly," Alexei Malashenko, a Middle East analyst at the Moscow Carnegie Center, said by phone. "If Russia can show it's capable of carrying out its own foreign policy, regardless of America's wishes, it will be a major achievement for Putin." When it comes to death and destruction, all roads lead to Moscow and Putin!
Hamas weapons come from even the most unlikely sources: Obama and the United States of America signed an $11 billion arms deal which includes helicopters, with Qatar this month: Qatar is Hamas strongest ally and home to Hamas' cowardly leader Khaled Meshaal. Meshaal is the gutless creep who lounges in safety in a Qatar five star hotel suite while telling Palestinian families to stay in their homes and die for the cause; the same villain who orders rockets and munitions hidden in hospitals and schools; then exploits rabid press photo ops [many clearly staged and phony] when somebody gets killed.
WORLD REACTION FROM OUR SO-CALLED LEADERS
French president Francois Hollande, a funny [peculiar] little man, who rides around Paris on a scooter, servicing his various mistresses when not bumbling through affairs of State; has shown solid support for Putin: the first of two Mistral class helicopter/troop carriers built in France nears her delivery date. The ships are designed for rapid deployment of troops and are ideal for Russia's plans of territorial acquisition. Despite howls of protest, Hollande is more inclined to 'Ooh-la-la'... Although, what do the ladies see in him? Doesn't matter Putin will get his ships regardless of gum flapping about 'sanctions'.
Meanwhile back in Perfidious Albion, British PM David Cameron [latest of a long line of two-faced British PMs] reiterated the UK's staunch support for Israel in the face of Hamas' attacks, and underlined Israel's right to defend itself from them. Simultaneously, Cameron supports Russian criminals and Putin as they supply armaments to all of Israel's declared enemies. The UK has become a haven for Russian oligarchs and an 'offshore bank' for their money. Cameron, like serial liar Tony Blair can look forward to a very comfortable retirement, probably as a major general in the FSB [or newly restored KGB].
Anglican Primate Fred Hiltz and others, whose thinly veiled anti-Semitic stance continues, issued the usual ambiguous statement calling for peace. Nora Carmi, project coordinator for Kairos Palestine managed to read between the lines rather quickly and promptly wrote to Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the ACC on behalf of the Palestinian group, which she described as 'euphoric' upon hearing the resolution. Her letter also stated that the Kairos Palestine group hopes the church will move toward the "boycott, divestment and sanctions" stance. The Kairos Palestine group recommends such action as an "important element and non-violent tool" to accelerate ending the occupation of Palestinian territories. Fred is all for it!
Talk-a-mile-a-minute Papa Franco telephoned President Shimon Peres this week to ask him to deliver a message of peace to the people of Israel and the region as a whole. The pope called on everyone to exercise restraint and to strive for peace in the face of the Gazan crisis. He said he was particularly concerned that innocent people are suffering and being killed due to the influence of radical forces. The pope was going to 'follow up' with a call to Hamas leader Khaled Meshall, but unfortunately he had misplaced the telephone number. Frankly, the pope's time would be better spent dealing with the suffering of innocent children killed or abused by his church.
Studies of the biblical predictions regarding Armageddon are as diverse and varied as anything can possibly be. The number 7 figures prominently and given the potential for Mammon to play a very significant part at this time, a speech by Christine Lagarde Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund [IMF] delivered at The National Press Club back in January was interesting. For someone in her position to dabble in the occult and numerology is unusual; however her 'unlucky sevens' message seems to point the finger at July 2014 as a turning point. Of course, numerology typically is nonsense. That is, unless people of power and influence actually believe in it, and allows their actions to be guided by the nonsense. Then it can have very real consequences.
As the nations of the world take sides, there is, unfortunately, even the potential that we could see World War III develop. Let us hope that it never comes to that, but with the world as unstable as it is right now, you never know what may happen. Remember that the Doomsday Clock still stands at five minutes to midnight.
All I can suggest is that you pray to the Father and ask for the wisdom to understand what is happening to humanity.
In Christ,
Malachy
Bishop Emeritus
Abba Ministries of Canada
The author acknowledges multiple sources on the worldwide web. July 2014.
THE TERROR OF TUAM, or OLD HOLY JOE'LL GET YER!
WARNING! Content has the potential to sicken a seasoned concentration camp guard.
I always regarded Sister Blister and the other teachers in the local school on Achill Island, one and all graduates of the Reinhart Heydrich School of Infantile Education, as an enormous pain in the Bon Derriere, frequently mine but, bless them for their munificence; they generously provided the tawse FOC.
The past sins of the Roman Catholic Church in Eire have, in the last decade or so, spewed forth, like so many ghastly skeletons, tumbling out of graves, stink holes and closets into the full glare of public scrutiny, often after hundreds of years of carefully crafted obscurity. The reputation of said Catholic Church is currently lower than whale excrement, with fresh horrors revealed almost daily.
Consider an extract from recent report from Martin Sixsmith, a fellow Irishman:
"In nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent, I covered stories of mass graves in far-flung locations in Eastern Europe and Russia. The thought of them has remained lodged in my memory. But never did I expect to be covering a mass grave from modern times on my own doorstep; I thought Western and Northern Europe was immune from such horrors.
"Yet that is exactly what I came across in January this year in the small Irish town of Tuam in County Galway, an ugly place with its rundown streets and council estates. On a grey, rainy afternoon, I was taken to a patch of land in the centre of one such estate. Surrounded by houses built in the 1970s, on the edge of a scruffy playground, I found a plaster statue of the Madonna on a pile of stones, incongruously sheltered by an old enamel bathtub. Beneath it were the bodies of nearly 800 babies.
"The remains of a forbidding 8ft wall nearby were a clue to the place's history. Until 1961 this had been the site of a Catholic religious community run by the Sisters of Bon Secours. They had bought the workhouse in the 1920s and converted it into a home for unmarried mothers. For the next 36 years, the nuns took in thousands of women. In those days, sex outside marriage was proclaimed a mortal sin. [As was contraception, inside or outside marriage, and the Catholic Church forced government legislation making the sale of contraceptives illegal.]
"The Church said the girls were 'fallen women' and degenerates. Their crime had to be hidden, their babies delivered in secret behind high walls, and their children taken away.
"News of the mass graves at Tuam finally made the newspapers last week, but I had heard of the site and visited the shrine five months ago while researching a BBC TV documentary about the estimated 60,000 babies that the Church took for adoption in the 1950s and 1960s, many of them sent to America in return for large payments disguised as 'donations'.
"But Tuam had other, even darker secrets. I talked to local residents and met John, now in his 80s and one of the first to move into the estate in October 1972, who told me how children made a grim discovery on the grassy area. He said: 'Not too long after we came here they were playing football and they saw something they thought was a ball or something. They kicked it around, but when we looked at it we saw it was a child's skull.'
"Worse was to follow. 'The local lads used to go fishing in the river', John said. 'They needed to dig for worms and one day they lifted up some old slabs that had been lying since before the estate was built...'
"What the boys found was horrific. The slabs concealed the entrance to a Victorian septic tank built for the workhouse. Its original function had ceased in the 1930s when mains sewerage came, but the nuns had seemingly put it to a new and grisly use. 'We children burst open the slab... tank was full of skeletons' Barry Sweeney, one of the boys there that day, says: 'It was a concrete slab, but there was something hollow underneath it, so we decided to bust it open and it was full to the brim with skeletons. The priest came over and blessed it. I had nightmares over it.'
"Like all the mother and baby homes run by the Church, conditions in Tuam had been primitive. The girls were denied basic medical care and refused painkillers for even the most difficult birth because the pain was 'God's punishment for your sin'. Their babies were neglected, crowded into communal nurseries where infection and disease ran unchecked. The result was a shamefully high death rate, with measles and dysentery killing hundreds. Infant mortality was often five or six times worse in the Church's homes than in the rest of Ireland, and judging by accounts of what went on there it is hardly surprising."
The horror continues: Unnamed, unrecognized children lie in mass graves across Ireland; all are victims of the Roman Catholic Church.
The current Archbishop of Tuam, Michael Neary, a quintessential princely hypocrite, said he is 'greatly shocked' by the news, but he is quick to blame others with the thinnest excuses possible, "As the diocese did not have any involvement in running the home, we do not have any material relating to it. There exists a clear moral imperative on the Bon Secours Sisters to act upon their responsibilities." Sister Blister and her evil friends.
But when the Evil Sisters were approached, they stonewalled too: 'We haven't got one single record. We gave everything over to the county council and then it went to the health board, so we have absolutely nothing on the home."
Of course these wicked women, who dared to call themselves 'Brides of Christ' are mostly dead, stoking the fires of an unimaginable hell; others are old now; not strong enough to carry a child's body to a septic tank; not even strong enough to talk to the media and there is really nothing they can do, except repent, clear the record for atonement's sake, but they will never do that!
Nothing except wait for death and then hear Jesus' voice say, "I do not know this woman..."
And meanwhile, back at the Vatican, Papa Franco has launched a scathing attack on the global economic system, warning that it is near collapse because of a 'throwaway culture' of greed and the 'atrocity' of youth unemployment.
These 'smokescreen' tactics of finger pointing and blame-mongering are now well established as a Franco trademark. It wows Catholics and non Catholics alike and only a few see it for what it really is: a massive cover-up regarding the blatant sins committed by the Roman Catholic Church.
In Christ,
Malachy
Summer 2014, The author thanks Martin Sixsmith for his excellent journalism.
IS POPE FRANCIS TRYING? WELL, HE IS TRYING MY PATIENCE!
MAY 2014 - UPDATE [BELOW]: HE'S TRYING THE UN'S PATIENCE TOO!
His personal mea culpa in the area of Roman Catholic child abuse is touching, and the appointment of yet another committee to investigate, report and etcetera the issue was to be expected.
What was perhaps not expected was the appointment of a disenchanted Irish woman Ms. Marie Collins to that group. Ms. Collins was abused by a Catholic chaplain as a thirteen year old hospital patient many years ago. Father Anonymous, whom Cardinal Desmond Connell's "priority was solely to protect the 'good name' of this abuser," is a disgusting pedophile who used his position with the Catholic Church to ruin many lives and was not brought to justice until 1997. He is protected still, because, of course, the Catholic Bishops, Cardinals and Popes maintain an entrenched position: obfuscate, lie and admit nothing.
Marie Collins says "I came out convinced that what had happened was my fault, that there was something about me that caused it to happen,"There would be numerous hospital stays with doctors and medicines treating symptoms - but never the cause - and four years of agoraphobia when she never left her house. Her life, she said, was a joyless and dark existence.
It would be almost 40 years before her life changed, when the priest who abused her was jailed in 1997 and she finally received counseling as a sex-abuse victim. Since then she has become a tireless campaigner for the rights of abuse victims. She has challenged the "lies and hypocrisy" she found within the Catholic Church. She has helped bring about a state commission in Ireland that investigated sexual abuse by the Catholic Church in Dublin. And now, strangely, the Vatican has reached out to her.
Ms. Collins has been critical and outspoken of the church, and with regard to this appointment, she has made it very clear that she remains just that, plus a healthy dose of cynicism.
I believe that Cardinals, Bishops and supporters of pedophilia will not be pulling the fine Vatican wool over Ms. Collins eyes.
Let us remember, this Easter, that Jesus said, "Suffer the little children to come unto me." Papa Franco needs to remember that He did not add, "So that my priests can abuse them..."
The big question remains: 'At the end of the day, will anything change?'
In Christ,
Malachy
UPDATE May 2014
The United Nations anti-torture watchdog has ordered the Vatican to hand over files containing details of clerical sexual abuse allegations to police forces around the world amid concerns over the use of "diplomatic immunity" to hamper investigations.
Members of the UN Committee on Torture also warned the Holy See against effectively allowing suspected paedophiles to seek sanctuary in Rome, after calls for a former Papal ambassador to be extradited to his native Poland to face investigations.
In a highly critical report, published in Geneva, it questioned attempts by the Vatican to claim that its obligations under international law only apply within the tiny city state.
It ordered the Vatican to use its authority over the Roman Catholic Church worldwide to ensure all allegations of clerical abuse are passed on to the secular authorities and impose "meaningful sanctions" on any Vatican officials who fail to do so. [They might start with Pope Emeritus Benedict, the author of the bestseller among Catholics The Vatican Dummies Guide to Covering-up Child Abuse]
And it voiced "regret" at a lack of openness by the Vatican about its co-operation with civil authorities in sexual abuse investigations.
Papa Franco was, of course, unavailable for comment...
Der Panzer Kardinal immediately claimed diplomatic immunity...
Meanwhile, the abuse continues...
In Christ
Malachy
The writer acknowledges sources on the world wide web, in particular John Bingham Religious Affairs editor of the Daily Telegraph
2013 CHRISTMAS MESSAGES FROM POPES, PRIMATES AND MALACHY...
For the Catholics the pomp and circumstance is definitely number one. In a small village of some 2000 souls in rural Andalucia, Spain the parades, which about everybody follows, last for a week. Elaborate floats with a life-sized Maria and Jesus; fresh flowers, and a volunteer marching band as big as the paid 15th Field Regiment Band in Vancouver BC [population 600,000.00]. By contrast, unless it is a religious fiesta, the pueblo church is all but empty for Mass.
Papa Franco will have lots to say as usual; however, doctrine and dogma remains unchanged and the pope still has one foot in the dark ages. I have watched carefully since the coronation of Francis [See: 'Enough Popes for one Lifetime' at jesusofnazareth.ca] to be convinced that in this pope we have another John Paul II manipulated by the curia and the panzer cardinal, now pope emeritus, himself.
For the Anglicans it is business as usual: you cannot put Mammon on a float and march with it, but they still manage to worship it. Hiltz will continue to fuel the worldwide Anglican schism by promoting his GLBT church agenda and attacking God's chosen people when an opportunity arises.
In Merrie England, where Anglicanism was born out of one man's carnal lust [heterosexual, in this case] and his daughter's pique, Oilman [Justin Welby] will be pontificating for the first time at Christmas, providing that he can get his high button boot out of his mouth in time after his last speaking fiasco. Only God Himself know what he might say, he's not predictable like Hiltz, but it will probably be a hilarious Christmas blooper. The last Canterbury was a hoot, but Welby is in a class of his own.
Canada's United Church of Canada [UCC] is a megachurch classic. This Happy Holiday the UCC will celebrate Hanukkah with a Mother Christmas float pulled by Canadian Autoworker [CAW] members with booze induced red noses. It is rumoured that the Reverend Kate Crawford will perform the Dance off the Seven Veils in six movements for the Midwinter Festival in an effort to bring women to prominence in a gay/male dominated organization. If it happens, it will be the UCC highlight of the program, so show up at London's First-St. Andrews United Church early because it might be standing room only. As usual folks, there will be something for everybody!
Not so with the Baptists... The Southern Baptists didn't celebrate much at Christmas until after the American Civil War and there is a general feeling [although, perhaps a little vague these days] that the reason is simply that they cannot find much of Jesus in Christmas. I tend to be of the same mind.
It is all in a word: Christmas. The Mass of Christ; Mass is a very Catholic intuition [mutated into Communion or the Eucharist by the Anglicans]. Deny it if you like, but there is substantial evidence that the early church invented Christmas to replace the old Midwinter Festival in its hasty attempt to dominate the older Pagan religions.
Face it folks, and I know that this is a huge problem for the primate of Canada and some of the Catholic hierarchy; Jesus was born and died a Jew. He is not a Catholic and, therefore, does not go to Mass. Our Saviour was crucified under the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate and for Him to acknowledge the mass by His presence might indicate that His "one sacrifice" was not enough for the salvation of His people. The Catholics believe that Jesus is 'present' at the Mass through transubstantiation, and that is fine and a celebration of the second covenant, but it is "in remembrance" at any Mass and gives no special credence to Christmas.
Jesus said for us to observe that which he commanded. [Why is that so difficult, I wonder?] In the New Testament there is no mention of Christmas, nor is there a commandment instructing us to observe Christmas.
OK relax everybody; no, I am not suddenly joining the great 'politically correct and ban religious symbols - except RCMP Sikhs daggers and turbans - movement.' The Salvation Army bells can jingle all they like, yet let us not trivialize the impact of Christmas as we understand it.
Jesus did not tell us to celebrate Christmas; he told us to respect a coin with Caesar's head upon it, but not to worship money. He told us to love God with all our hearts and our neighbours as ourselves, so dear people shall we try and do that this Christmas Season? That is not to the exclusion of turkey, Yule logs, Saturnalia trees, Midnight Mass and singing 'Silent Night' or 'I'm dreaming of a white Christmas'.
And, above all, remember that this planet is still a war torn disaster and that big fat charities and some churches continue to get bigger and fatter [in particular the Curia, and the various Houses of Bishops] while millions die of hunger and disease, alone and without hope. Pray for Peace and a decent quality of life for everyone - not just the first world and its politicians [Lay and Religious].
Enjoy the thinly disguised begging; the political charades and the ecclesiastical smoke and mirrors from Ottawa, Canterbury and Rome!
May God bless you all and may Jesus walk beside you this Christmas.
In Christ,
Malachy
Bishop Emeritus
Abba Ministries of Canada
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