Posted on 03/07/2022 2:17:39 PM PST by delta7
Nothing is lost with peace. All can be lost with war. Let men return to understanding. Let them resume negotiating. Negotiating with good will and with respect for each other’s rights, let them realize that an honorable success is never precluded when there are sincere and active negotiations. And they will feel great – with true greatness – if imposing silence on the voices of passion, whether collective or private, and leaving reason to its proper domain, they will spare their brothers bloodshed and their homeland ruin……….
Thus it was that on August 24, 1939, Pius XII addressed both rulers and peoples as war was imminent. These were not words of empty pacifism, nor of complicit silence about the multiple violations of justice that were being carried out in many quarters. In that radio message, which some people still remember hearing, the appeal of the Roman Pontiff invoked “respect for each other’s rights” as a prerequisite for fruitful peace negotiations.
The Media Narrative
If we look at what is happening in Ukraine, without being misled by the gross falsifications of the mainstream media, we realize that respect for each other’s rights has been completely ignored; indeed, we have the impression that the Biden Administration, NATO and the European Union deliberately want to maintain a situation of obvious imbalance, precisely to make impossible any attempt at a peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian crisis, provoking the Russian Federation to trigger a conflict. Herein lies the seriousness of the problem. This is the trap set for both Russia and Ukraine, using both of them to enable the globalist elite to carry out its criminal plan.
It should not surprise us that pluralism and freedom of speech, so praised in countries that claim to be democratic, are daily disavowed by censorship and intolerance towards opinions not aligned with the official narrative. Manipulations of this kind have become the norm during the so-called pandemic, to the detriment of doctors, scientists and dissenting journalists, who have been discredited and ostracized for the mere fact of daring to question the effectiveness of experimental serums. Two years later, the truth about the adverse effects and the unfortunate management of the health emergency has proven them right, but the truth is stubbornly ignored because it does not correspond to what the system wanted and still wants today.
If the world media have so far been able to lie shamelessly on a matter of strict scientific relevance, spreading lies and hiding reality, we should ask ourselves why, in the present situation, they should suddenly rediscover that intellectual honesty and respect for the code of ethics widely denied with COVID.
But if this colossal fraud has been supported and disseminated by the media, it must be recognized that national and international health institutions, governments, magistrates, law enforcement agencies and the Catholic hierarchy itself all share responsibility for the disaster – each in its own sphere by actively supporting or failing to oppose the narrative – a disaster that has affected billions of people in their health, their property, the exercise of their individual rights and even their very lives. Even in this case, it is difficult to imagine that those who have been guilty of such crimes in support of a pandemic that was intended and maliciously amplified could suddenly have a jolt of dignity and show solicitude for their citizens and their homeland when a war threatens their security and their economy.
These, of course, can be the prudent reflections of those who want to remain neutral and look with detachment and almost disinterest at what is happening around them. But if we deepen our knowledge of the facts and document them, relying on authoritative and objective sources, we discover that doubts and perplexities soon become disturbing certainties.
Even if we only want to limit our investigation to the economic aspect, we understand that news agencies, politics and public institutions themselves depend on a small number of financial groups belonging to an oligarchy that, significantly, is united not only by money and power, but by the ideological affiliation that guides its action and interference in the politics of nations and the whole world. This oligarchy shows its tentacles in the UN, NATO, the World Economic Forum, the European Union, and in “philanthropic” institutions such as George Soros’ Open Society and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
I don’t see where he is a “ man of God.” He has a title, but then, so does Frank the Commie Pope.
Setting aside that “Appeal to Authority,” this so- called “Man of God” is obviously a very biased man, and not for theological reasons. He points out flaws only on the Ukrainian and NATO side, flaws that are equally glaring on the Russian side as well, for they too have played globalist games and lied to their people about the pandemic, etc., and Russia is going all in for censorship, as much as any nutty leftist governor ever did. His commentary treats the Russian Federation ( which really isn’t a Federation any more except in name) as if it was helplessly drawn into another country against its will, dragging its missiles, tanks, helicopters and planes in ...accidentally. Doing this while identifying as a “man of God” is a form of using the Lord’s name in vain.
That is exactly what I thought.
It could have been written by Pius XI.
WOW, just wow.
Ha! Great description :)
…. His commentary treats the Russian Federation ( which really isn’t a Federation any more except in name) as if it was helplessly drawn into another country against its will, dragging its missiles, tanks, helicopters and planes in ...accidentally.…..
Doing this while identifying as a “man of God” is a form of using the Lord’s name in vain. …
What??
Abp Vigano has been long respected, and, well received, on FR, by those of many different denominations.
He has been calling out the globalists and the evil edicts of Bergoglio, for some time.
https://freerepublic.com/tag/vigano/index?tab=articles
Vigano was “identified as a man of God”, rightly so, by the OP.
Where were all of your previous criticisms of him? I may have missed them.
I don’t believe that that entire article was written by Vigano. As I read more and more it just did not match his writing style. I suspect almost all of that article was not written by Vigano. Maybe just the quote in the headline.
I don’t believe that that entire article was written by Vigano.
It has this, at the end of the article…
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop,
Former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America
March 6, 2022
First Sunday of Lent
Are you saying it’s forged? By Lifesite? Or, who?
Yep, I’ve seen them here. They’re somewhat hysterical, overreactive and I suspect a lot of them are PMSing.
The pay must be pretty decent for them to strut around making little pink, frilly a$$es of themselves. 😏
What a cerebral analysis you’ve provided. Very fair and balanced.
“Attack, Attack, Attack!!! Sqwaaaawwwwwk!!!”
Are you on meth, or something?
Haven’t seen a FReeper quite like you.
Are you paid?
Some of them are the very same posters.
:)
Yep.....the very same. What a coinkydink.
You aren’t standing up to anybody, ya bloviating slug.
You’re just slithering around from thread to thread, slinging childish insults and pushing some bizarre agenda.
You aren’t fooling anybody and you certainly aren’t impressing anyone.
Buzz off, troll.
Wow....seems like a machine, or....something.
No I’m not fooling anybody just exposing anti American lunacy.
That one needed to be troll-slapped. :)
See it’s funny because you’re kooks and so when a conservative member of FR for 24 years calls you out, you decide kooky things like “wow all these old time members are being paid by the democrats”.
Thinking like that is why you have no ability to sensibly analyze what’s going on in the world.
The list of nutty things pro Putin people post are endless. United States is creating biological warfare in Ukraine; Putin is defending Christianity; All news of Ukraine military success is from a video game, everyone who supports Ukraine is a paid Soros agent; the USA “forced” Putin to attack; Putin protestors are all “WEF” and reading from a script.
And now you sit around and decide that anyone disagreeing with you is being paid. If only.
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