Posted on 03/02/2013 7:18:31 AM PST by NYer
Pray for the cardinals!
As promised, here is the article I mentioned on the other thread.
Excellent article!
Time for Catholics and normal people to wake up, mobilize, turn back to Jesus and His teachings to avert the destruction of society by devil and his followers.
Thanks for posting.
The quote is from Ps. 73, verse 22 - not Psalm 22. Nice article, but somebody needs to hone their skills.
OK...someone has to ask. What’s with the crude stereotype of a negro (?) King (Queen??) that’s also on his coat of arms?
My guess would be Prester John, but it’s just a guess.
From the Vatican web site:
In the dexter corner (to the left of the person looking at it) is a Moor's head in natural colour [caput Aethiopum] (brown) with red lips, crown and collar. This is the ancient emblem of the Diocese of Freising, founded in the eighth century, which became a Metropolitan Archdiocese with the name of München und Freising in 1818, subsequent to the Concordat between Pius VII and King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria (5 June 1817).The Moor's head is not rare in European heraldry. It still appears today in the arms of Sardinia and Corsica, as well as in the blazons of various noble families. Italian heraldry, however, usually depicts the Moor wearing a white band around his head instead of a crown, indicating a slave who has been freed; whereas in German heraldry the Moor is shown wearing a crown. The Moor's head is common in the Bavarian tradition and is known as the caput Ethiopicum or the Moor of Freising.
This is the ancient emblem of the Diocese of Freising, founded in the eighth century. Cardinal Ratzinger was first Archbishop of Munich and Friesing as of 1977.
Nah...I googled it...
“In the dexter corner (to the left of the person looking at it) is a Moor’s head in natural colour [caput Aethiopum] (brown) with red lips, crown and collar. This is the ancient emblem of the Diocese of Freising, founded in the eighth century, which became a Metropolitan Archdiocese with the name of München und Freising in 1818, subsequent to the Concordat between Pius VII and King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria (5 June 1817).
The Moor’s head is not rare in European heraldry. It still appears today in the arms of Sardinia and Corsica, as well as in the blazons of various noble families. Italian heraldry, however, usually depicts the Moor wearing a white band around his head instead of a crown, indicating a slave who has been freed; whereas in German heraldry the Moor is shown wearing a crown. The Moor’s head is common in the Bavarian tradition and is known as the caput Ethiopicum or the Moor of Freising.”
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/elezione/stemma-benedict-xvi_en.html
I’m slow this morning :-)
Ninja’d!
See post #10.
So, the pope is a bear...
What does he do in the woods?
I don't think His Holiness planned it this way. However, the job of getting Europe re-conquered for Christ began with his Regensburg address and the "dictatorship of relativism" meme. He was truly a great pope, for a great burden.
“So, the pope is a bear...
What does he do in the woods?”
Wears a funny hat, silly.
"In fact, just last year Benedict himself placed on your shoulders and mine a burden which we cannotand must notshirk. Just over a year ago, Pope Benedict told our American bishops that in the face of hostile forces that threaten not just our Christian faith, but humanity itself, committed believers must never fall silent."Catholics, he told them, must confront anti-Christian forcesthe very ones inflamed to harm him nowwith 'rational arguments in the public square' to help shape the values that will shape the future.
"Essential to this task, Benedict told our American bishops, is 'an engaged, articulate and well-formed Catholic laity endowed with a strong critical sense vis-à-vis the dominant culture.' Thats you and me. You and I have become St. Corbinians bear!"
All Americans might think about the implications of these remarks.
America's Founding princples--the principles which can enable citizens to recognize which are true ideas of liberty and which are counterfeit ideas of tyranny--are under assault.
In 2008, Michael Ledeen, on another subject altogether, wrote of the degree to which Americans have been "dumbed down" on some basic ideas underlying our freedom:
Ledeen said, "Our educational system has long since banished religion from its texts, and an amazing number of Americans are intellectually unprepared for a discussion in which religion is the central organizing principle."
In the Pope's speech in Germany a few years ago, he observed:
"A reason which is deaf to the divine and which relegates religion into the realm of subcultures is incapable of entering into the dialogue of cultures."
What a powerful analysis!
Ledeen put his finger on a problem that stifles meaningful dialogue and debate in America. Censors [disguised as "protectors" (the Radical Left's ACLU, NEA, education bureaucracies, etc., etc.)] have imposed their limited understanding of liberty upon generations of school children.
From America's founding to the 1950's, ideas derived from religious literature were included in textbooks, through the poetry and prose used to teach children to read and to identify with their world and their country.
Suddenly, those ideas began to disappear from textbooks, until now, faceless, mindless copy editors sit in cubicles in the nation's textbook publishing companies, instructed by their supervisors to remove mere words that refer to family, to the Divine, and to any of the ancient ideas that have sustained intelligent discourse for centuries.
Now, it is the ACLU which accuses middle Americans of "censorship" if they object to books, films, etc., that offend their sensibilities and undermine the character training of their young. Sadly, many of those books and films are themselves products of the minds that have been robbed of exposure to wisdom literature in the nation's schools and universities.
Thankfully, America's Founders were not "deaf to the divine"! A rediscovery of the ideas of liberty among ordinary citizens of today would expose the purveyors of tyranny and oppression under counterfeit notions of "change" and "fairness."
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