Showing posts with label Pope Benedict. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pope Benedict. Show all posts

July 1, 2015

New York Times Joins Extremist Leftists Promoting, Publishing Propaganda, Demonizing Western Religions



On Monday, the Times published an image of Niki Johnson's "Eggs Benedict," a portrait of Pope Benedict XVI fashioned entirely out of condoms. (Screenshot)
[From article]
For The New York Times, deciding which images are too offensive for publication is a tricky business.
On Monday, the paper published an image of Niki Johnson's "Eggs Benedict," a portrait of Pope Benedict XVI fashioned entirely out of condoms.
The artwork is "not hate-based," the Milwaukee artist told the Times, but is meant only to "critique" Benedict's views on sex and contraception "while raising awareness about public health."
"What I want to do is really destigmatize the condom, normalize it," she told the newspaper. "I've watched kids and parents talk about condoms. It opens a door to talking about what those things are and what they do."
The Times' decision to run an image of "Eggs Benedict" comes just five months after it opted not to show Charlie Hebdo's infamously provocative artwork.
The newspaper's executive editor, Dean Baquet, said in public statements at the time that the French satirical magazine's cartoons were simply too offensive for publication.
[. . .]
For the Times, there's no comparison between "Eggs Benedict" and Charlie Hebdo's controversial Muhammed artwork.
[. . .]
An official with the Milwaukee Art Museum, which will soon display Johnson's portrait, told the Times he hopes the condom-laden image will "bring not only controversy, but room for conversation about the underlying discussion the artist intended as well as regarding the role of art in public discussion."
The Times' Corbett told the Examiner, "I don't think these situations – the Milwaukee artwork and the various Muhammad caricatures – are really equivalent. For one thing, many people might disagree, but museum officials clearly consider this Johnson piece to be a significant artwork."
[. . .]
The Times has been criticized in the past for having an apparently inconsistent policy when it comes to publishing controversial – and even offensive – images.
In 1999, for example, the Times published Chris Ofili's "The Holy Virgin Mary," a painting of Christ's mother fashioned entirely out of feces and adorned with cutouts of genitalia from pornographic magazines.
In 2005, 2006 and 2010, the Times republished anti-Semitic cartoons in full.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/new-york-times-bans-charlie-hebdo-cartoons-but-runs-condom-pope-image/article/2567282

New York Times bans Charlie Hebdo cartoons, but runs 'condom pope' image
BY T. BECKET ADAMS
JUNE 29, 2015 | 6:00 PM

March 3, 2013

Pope Resigns To Clean Up Vatican


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287074/Pope-resigns-2013-Gay-sex-rings-The-Filth-corrupting-Vatican--Pope-REALLY-quit.html

Gay sex rings, 'The Filth' corrupting the Vatican...and why the Pope REALLY quit
Sickened by moral corrosion in his own shadowy cabal, Benedict can only rid Rome of its malign influence by resigning... a leading Catholic writer's explosive analysis
By JOHN CORNWELL
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 17:01 EST, 2 March 2013 | UPDATED: 07:41 EST, 3 March 2013

February 12, 2013

Pope Announces Retirement


[From article]
The Faith is Europe, Europe is the Faith, wrote Hilaire Belloc. And when the faith dies, the culture dies, the civilization dies, and the people die. So historians and poets alike have written.
[. . .]
And the people have begun to die. No Western nation has had a birthrate in three decades that will enable its native-born to survive.
[. . .]
The Secular City seems to have triumphed over the City of God. But in the Islamic world, an ancient and transcendental faith is undergoing a great awakening after centuries of slumber and seems anxious to re-engage and settle accounts with an agnostic West.

http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/a-godly-man-in-an-ungodly-age/

END OF A PAPACY
A GODLY MAN IN AN UNGODLY AGE
Pat Buchanan looks at pope's resignation in light of multi-century decline of Christianity
February 11, 2013
Patrick J. Buchanan

February 4, 2013

Letter To Pope Benedict XVI



Pope Benedict XVI



His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI

As an Italian citizen and a Catholic by marriage, I am writing to your Holiness on behalf of my human rights organization, Voice of the Copts. Our mission is to raise awareness in the West about the plight of the Egyptian Christians and their struggle against Islamic supremacy. Born into a Coptic family in Cairo, Arabic was my native language while growing up. Today I find these assets valuable in interpreting and explaining current events as they pertain to the hidden realities of Islam and its impact on the free world.

For many years I have found various doors opened to our organization, and many willing to listen to the grim facts now facing democratic nations dealing with an encroaching Islam. Only the grace of God has kept us in our work as we have put our personal finances to good use in fulfilling our goals.

Naturally, I thought the Christian community around the world and especially denominations in the United States would embrace my message and join with us in this very serious endeavor. I found the opposite to be true. Most churches, including the Coptic Orthodox and the Catholic Church, are, if not indifferent, uninterested in offering us opportunities to speak out on the dangers of what lies behind the persecution of Christians and Jews even as we have asked for no special treatment and no financial contributions.

To put it bluntly, whenever we met with Catholic bishops and priests in America to tell the story of Copts, our request for action was largely ignored. I was utterly mystified by the consistency of this response. I found it inexplicable – until now.

My answer arrived just a few days ago with an incident involving Catholic Bishop McManus of Worcester, Massachusetts who reversed his decision to have a friend of mine, Robert Spencer, -- a fellow activist, author and expert on Islam -- speak at their men’s conference on March 16. The Bishop caved in to the false charges of an Islamic supremacist group that viciously attacked Mr. Spencer with names such as arch-Islamophobe and hatemonger claiming he had no authority to speak about Islam.


Robert Spencer

The Catholic diocese complied with these audacious demands and canceled the engagement without interest in pursuing Mr. Spencer’s point-of-view or the issue of free speech. Such submission through appeasement weakens the church.

I have always believed that my lack of progress toward activating the church with my message of the Coptic struggle was never solely due to my personal failing. The rescinding of Mr. Spencer’s invitation by the Bishop in reaction to pressure by Muslim activist, Abdul Cader Asmal, reaffirms my true belief that the real failure resides in the local church -- its unwillingness to recognize the important role it could play in standing up for the very freedoms that afford religious practice.

Muslims in Egypt and other Islamic-majority countries attack Christians and their churches, oppressing them by serial acts of violence perpetrated in the name of Allah and Islam just because of their Christian faith. Church leaders in free nations must speak out in defense of their brothers and sisters in Christ who suffer persecution and are weakened by strong waves of Islamic attacks, powerless to help themselves under brutal regimes. In speaking out, we exercise the teachings of our Lord’s words.

We do not advocate holy war. Our adversaries do that. We only ask that church leaders who are bound up in fear, intimidation and lies as a result of false propaganda and interreligious dialogue be given license to think critically, assess the origins of persecution forces around the world and judge accurately the reasons for Christian victimization. This license can come only from the official heads of church denominations in statements contradicting the disinformation campaign forced upon Christians and Jews in the West.

To make certain that each and every believer becomes aware, properly informed, and conscious of the threat we face, the church must first create a new openness and interest in learning the truth from correct and trustworthy sources -- without expurgation, mitigation, or political correctness. Every single Christian must comprehend the worldview held by the perpetrators of these unspeakable crimes against Christians and Jews around the world -- before it is too late.

His Holiness, as we are certain of your wisdom and concern for our beloved church,
Voice of the Copts kindly requests the Holy See to conduct an immediate investigation into the Diocese of Worcester to determine the reasons behind the Bishop’s behavior. Please attend also to other dioceses around the world likewise misled in their responses when confronting similar dilemmas -- acting out contemporary portrayals of Judas who betrayed Christ for thirty pieces of silver.
February


Dott. Architetto Ashraf Ramelah,
President
www.voiceofthecopts.org
www.lavocedeicopti.org

December 30, 2009

Pope Assailant Incarcerated in Hospital


after a berserk woman knocked him down at the start of Christmas Eve Mass.

Susanna Maiolo, 25, a Swiss-Italian national, is being held under Vatican jurisdiction at a psychiatric facility.

she spent two years at a residential home for people with psychiatric disorders and illnesses

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/bumped_benedict_bounces_right_back_3ZQC1ojYmesuOqqL4ZioyM#ixzz0bDXVo9C7

Bumped Benedict bounces right back
By CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
New York Post
Last Updated: 10:51 AM, December 27, 2009
Posted: 3:05 AM, December 27, 2009

February 21, 2009

Pope Benedict Warns of Eugenics Based on Beauty


With a long history of eugenics in Massachusetts this warning should be focused on the Universities in the Bay State. Formerly persons accused of mental illness and other illnesses were kept from having children. The Massachusetts programs were so efficient that Adolf Hitler praised the Massachusetts medical community. Many elite members of the Harvard Community believe in upper class dominance and superior genes. They do not define what superior is, only that they have them.

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE51K1KE20090221

Pope warns on new eugenics based on beauty
(Writing by Deepa Babington; editing by Robert Woodward)
Reuters
Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:08pm EST