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August 15 - Cardinal Newman's Bones to be Removed for Veneration
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
Comment from
UTT:
The following article
needs
very little comment.
The "veneration" of bones is a pagan
practice
that is an
abomination to the God of the Bible.
LONDON (The Catholic
Herald) - Bones are to be
removed from the body of
Cardinal John Henry Newman so that they can be
venerated as holy relics.
The Government has granted a licence
permitting undertakers to dig up the body of
Cardinal Newman more than
a century after his death.
Officials from the Ministry of
Justice have also given the go-ahead for
Catholic experts in holy
objects to fly in from Italy and
retrieve
"major relics" from the corpse after the
coffin is opened for the first
time.
These will most likely be bones from his hands
which will be shared out
between key churches in Britain - as well as
one being sent to the Vatican.
They will be placed in shrines so
Catholic pilgrims can venerate
Cardinal Newman and pray for his
intercession when he is made
a saint.
Mr Jennings said:
"Specialist people from Rome and Milan
will be
coming out to take relics from his body. A
'major relic' could be the
bones from one of his fingers."
Newman's remains will be
transferred to a new coffin that
will be put on show to the
public before it is placed in a marble
sarcophagus after a
celebratory Mass in the Birmingham Oratory.
Mr Jennings said yesterday
that he was "most grateful" to Sir Suma
and
his officials for granting the
licence in "exceptional circumstances".
He added: "The Ministry
of Justice has recognised the importance of
Newman as a national figure
and as a figure of
great importance to the
country, the Church and to dialogue
between faiths."
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August 17 - License Plate Readers To Be Used In D.C. Area
Article: Technology For a Globar Monetary System
Comment from
UTT:
It is becoming increasingly apparent that
the threat of terrorism is
becoming the catalyst that is moving the
world towards a system that
will monitor individual lives and become the
central controlling factor that
will be implemented by a one world
government. The technology
that is now available makes the reality of
such a system
possible.
Authorities plan to install about
200
automated license plate readers on police
vehicles and alongside roads in the
Washington area to thwart potential
terrorist attacks, dramatically expanding
the use of a high-tech tool
previously aimed at parking scofflaws and
car thieves.
The
new project is much broader,
installing cameras on about 160
police vehicles
and at 40 fixed sites, such as
airports or highway entrances, officials
say. It appears to be one of the
most extensive license reading systems
in the nation, according
to privacy experts.
"The technology has
reached the point where it's
very good now. It puts a tool in the hands
of police officers out in the
street to help fight terrorism,"
said Reardon,
who works in his department's homeland
security unit.
The readers will
scan the license plate of every
vehicle that zooms by and run the
numbers through federal
criminal databases and terrorist watch lists,
Reardon said. Maryland,
Virginia and the District could plug in
additional databases.
When the machines get
"hits," they instantly
notify police or other law enforcement officials.
The devices can typically read
hundreds of plates an hour.
Civil liberties advocates say the
tag readers are the latest sign
of how surveillance programs are
expanding in U.S. cities, driven
by terrorism fears and rapidly
developing technology. New
York officials said last week that they plan
to scan the license plates of
all cars and trucks entering Manhattan as
part of a new security system
that also involves thousands of
closed-circuit cameras.
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August 15 - Pope: Feast of the Assumption, trip to Lourdes in view
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
Comment from
UTT:
The pope
declares that "Mary" the mother
of Jesus is omnipresent. This
glorification of the mother of Jesus is not
only unbiblical, it
is
heretical in light of scripture.
Castel Gandolfo
(AsiaNews) - On the feast of
the Assumption of
Mary into heaven (body and soul), Benedict
XVI recalled the
"maternal solicitude"
of the
Virgin Mary toward
"her children", especially "in their
difficult
times of
trial". Visiting the shrines dedicated to her, the
pope
continued, one
encounters many "witnesses" of this
concern. "At this
moment, I think
especially of the unique universal citadel of life
and of hope that is
Lourdes, where, God willing, I will go in a
month, to
celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Marian
apparitions
that took place
there".In his reflection before the
Angelus, from the
courtyard of the pontifical residence in Castel
Gandolfo, the pope
also explained the biblical and theological
foundations of this
feast, which expresses a
"firm
conviction of the Church, [which] found its highest
expression
in the dogmatic
definition of the Assumption, proclaimed by my
venerable
predecessor Pius XII in 1950".
The pontiff's
explanations seemed to be intended to smooth over
the difficulties that
the Protestants and Orthodox have in accepting
this dogma:
"A twofold tradition - in Jerusalem and in
Ephesus -
attests to her 'dormition', as the
Eastern
[Christians] call it,
her 'falling asleep' in God. This was the
event that
preceded her passage from earth into Heaven, which
is the
confession of the
uninterrupted faith of the Church. In the
eighth century, for
example, John Damascene, establishing
a direct relationship between
the 'dormition'
of Mary and the
death of Jesus, explicitly affirms the truth of her
bodily assumption.
In a famous homily, he writes: 'It was necessary
that she who had
carried the Creator as a child in her womb should
live together with
Him in the tabernacles of heaven' (Homily
II on the
Dormition, PG 96, 741 B)".
"As Vatican Council II
teaches",
Benedict XVI
continued,
"the Most Holy Virgin
Mary must always be situated in the
mystery of Christ
and of the Church. In this perspective, 'just as
the Mother of
Jesus, glorified in body and soul in heaven, is the
image and
beginning of the Church as it is to be perfected is the
world to come, so
too does she shine forth on earth, until the day
of the Lord shall
come (cf.
2 Pt.
3:10),
as a sign of sure
hope and solace to the people of God during its
sojourn on earth'
(Const.
Lumen Gentium,
68). From
Paradise, the
Virgin Mary, especially in their difficult times of
trial,
continues always to watch
over the children
that Jesus himself entrusted to Her before dying
on the
cross".
During the
morning, Benedict XVI went to the church of St.
Thomas
of Villanova, in
Castel Gandolfo. In his homily, he emphasized
the importance of
the feast of the Assumption, of this "ability to
look up to heaven
and to God, the true reality and the bridge to a
new world",
in the face of the "sad spectacle of so
much
false joy and
tormented suffering" that reigns in our
society,
learning
"from Mary how to be witnesses of hope and
consolation".
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August 20 - We must 'cultivate knowledge and devotion to the saints,' Holy Father exhorts
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
Comment from
UTT:
The statements made
by the pope encouraging
"the faithful" to "cultivating
devotion" to the
saints reveals that the pope is
not aware of what the Bible teaches
about such practices. The
Roman Catholic idea that one can pray to the
dead in order to receive a
blessing or favor, in the Bible is called
necromancy. This is an open
door to the fallen spirit world and is
forbidden by the God of the
Bible.
The Holy Father
said, "Every day
the Church offers us
one or more saints and blessed to
invoke and to imitate." He
proceeded to speak about yesterday's Feast
of St. John Eudes, who confronted with
17th century Jansenism and promoted
devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and
the Holy Heart of Mary.
Pope
Benedict also spoke about St.
Bernard of Clairvaux. Bernard, who Pope
Pius VIII labeled the "Honey-Sweet
Doctor" for his eloquence, traveled
throughout Europe defending the
Christian faith. The Holy Father
added, "He was also remembered as a Doctor
of Mariology, not because he wrote
extensively on Our Lady, but because
he understood her essential role in the
Church, presenting her as the
perfect model of the monastic life and of
every other form of the Christian
life."
Pope
Benedict recounted that tomorrow the
Church celebrates the feast of St. Pius X,
Friday,
the memorial of the
Queenship of Mary,
and Saturday, the feast of St. Rose of
Lima.
Pope
Benedict said that
the Church offers
human beings the possibility of
walking in the company of the saints.
Hans Urs von Balthasar wrote
that the
saints represent a real way for us to
access Jesus.
French writer Jean Guitton explained
that the
each saint reflects the light of God's
holiness. The Holy Father added that
it is important "to cultivate knowledge and
devotion to the saints, along
with daily meditation on the Word of God
and a child-like love for
Our Lady".
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In Jesus,
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