Miami Prelate Laments Persecution of Christians, Criticizes Bishop’s Post-Orlando Remarks

CNN ^ | 6/24/16

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In his homily at a Fortnight for Freedom opening Mass, Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami lamented the persecution of Christians and took issue with remarks made by Bishop Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg following the June 12 Orlando nightclub shooting.

Preaching in Coral Gables, Florida, Archbishop Wenski said that “in the second decade of the 21st century, some 150,000 Christians are killed for their faith every year” and that “these modern-day martyrs are victims of a despotism in its hardest and harshest form.”

“A new religious intolerance is being established in our country,” he continued. “We see this when Christian pastors are stalked and threatened for being ‘Christian’ pastors, when social scientists are expelled from universities for having turned up ‘politically incorrect’ facts, when charitable organizations and confessional schools are harassed if they take seriously their faith’s moral precepts and require their employees to support their missions. We see this in the refusal of the Administration to accommodate Catholic institutions and businesses because of their conscientious objection to subsidizing contraception and abortions.”

Archbishop Wenski also took issue with some of the reaction to the Orlando nightclub shooting, including comments made by Bishop Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg:

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I just said a prayer for Archbishop Wenski, that God will protect him, in Jesus Name, Amen.

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This is the Akita prophecy, the opposition among priests and bishops.

“As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by my Son. Each day, recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops and the priests.

The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, and bishops against other bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their Confreres. The Church and altars will be vandalized. The Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord.

The demon will rage especially against souls consecrated to God. The thought of the loss of so many souls is the cause of my sadness. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will no longer be pardon for them.”

https://www.olrl.org/prophecy/akita.shtml

[Mrs. Don-o]

Pray for Wenski.

And it would be a good idea to bring St. Michael the Archangel into it.

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