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Fred Martinez is a widely published Catholic writer and former TV broadcaster who has been a pro-life activist, speaker and Board member/adviser with various organisations for many years. In 1985 he founded the Juan Diego Society through which hundreds of babies under threat of abortion were saved. Praise for Fred Martinez’s The Hidden Axis : "[T]horough piece of journalism.”- Dale Ahlquist, EWTN host and American Chesterton Society President, "[N]ecessary reading." - Ginny Hitchcock, National pro-life leader and longtime colleague of Fr. Paul Marx, “[A] moral tour de force that is must reading .”- Chuck Morse, radio talk show host, WROL-Boston, "[O]ne incredible, thought-provoking book." - Tony DiGirolamo, Executive Producer of the Culture Shock television show, “[P]rofoundly important." - Dr. Pravin Thevathasan, Catholic Psychologist, “[T]renchant expose.”
L8r
Because they wouldn't let him go to Disneyland.
Might be a good time for Benedict to admit his error...
What error was that? Or, did you mean era?
TIA.
Comment to original article:
Mark Docherty said…
Dr. K’s original review of The Socci book actually went much further, until he chickened out, or perhaps was threatened: “I read this book expecting to be a little skeptical of an author who would argue that Benedict XVI did not validly resign the papacy. After all, it sure looked as if he intended to do that in his famous speech of abdication, and the world seems to have accepted it as such. Socci, however, persuaded me otherwise with his careful analysis of Benedict’s XVI’s various utterances on the subject (and there are a surprising number of them!), Archbishop Gaenswein’s speeches, and, above all, the interpretations of canon lawyers — none of them traditionalists, by the way — who have proved in detail that the resignation lacks several conditions for validity.“
The whole thing is explained here: https://nonvenipacem.com/2019/05/31/words-matter-calling-a-thing-x-when-it-is-really-y-and-then-equating-x-with-y-is-either-confused-or-dishonest/ [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/05/is-socci-saying-pope-benedict-needs-to.html]
Lastly, some time back, on EWTN’s Fatima series, Fr. Andrew Apostoli said that the Rosary and Our Lady of Fatima saved the world from Russia’s hydrogen bomb rocket.
He said this historical event may have been represented in the Third Secret of Fatima as Our Lady stopping the angel from covering the world with flames.
The Opus Angelorum website wrote about what Fr. Apostoli was speaking on about how the rosary saved the world in 1960 from nuclear annihilation:
Most of us remember the time when Nikita Khrushchev visited the United Nations in October, 1960 and boasted that “they would bury us”—would annihilate us! And to emphasize his boasting, he took off his shoe and pounded the desk before the horrified world assembly.
This was no idle boast. Khrushchev knew his scientists had been working on a nuclear missile and had completed their work and planned on November 1960, the 43rd anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, to present it to Khrushchev.
But here’s what happened. Pope John XXIII had opened and read the third Fatima secret given to Sister Lucy. He authorized the Bishop of Leiria (Fatima) to write to all the bishops of the world, inviting them to join with the pilgrims of Fatima on the night of October 12-13, 1960, in prayer and penance for Russia’s conversion and consequent world peace.
On the night of October 12-13, about a million pilgrims spent the night outdoors in the Cova da Iria at Fatima in prayer and penance before the Blessed Sacrament. They prayed and watched despite a penetrating rain which chilled them to the bone.
At the same time at least 300 dioceses throughout the world joined with them. Pope John XXIII sent a special blessing to all taking part in this unprecedented night of reparation.
Well, here is what happened. On the night between October 12 and 13, right after his shoe-pounding episode, Khrushchev suddenly pulled up stakes and enplaned in all haste for Moscow, cancelling all subsequent engagements, Why?
Marshall Nedelin, the best minds in Russia on nuclear energy and several government officials were present for the final testing of the missile that was going to be presented to Khrushchev. When countdown was completed, the missile, for some reason or other, did not leave the launch pad. After 15 or 20 minutes, Nedelin and all the others came out of the shelter. When they did, the missile exploded killing over 300 people. This set back Russia’s nuclear program for 20 years, prevented all-out atomic warfare, the burying of the U.S.—and this happened on the night when the whole Catholic world was on its knees before the Blessed Sacrament, gathered at the feet of our Rosary Queen in Fatima. Our Lady does not want nuclear war.
The Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary
I. THE POWER OF THE ROSARY
“If I had an army to say the Rosary,” Pope Pius IX once said, “I could conquer the world.” And he said this because the Rosary, next to the Mass, is the most powerful weapon in the Church’s arsenal.
Now most people are aware that the Christian Navy defeated a large Moslem fleet, against overwhelming odds, at Lepanto on October 7, 1571. And most people are aware that this victory was won because Pope Pius V organized a Rosary procession to pray for the success of the battle. However, most people are unaware of the many amazing victories won through the power of the Rosary in the Twentieth Century. And so it is fitting to study some of these miraculous and divine interventions because this will help us to strengthen our faith in Mary’s intercession and to deepen our trust in the power of her Rosary... [http://www.opusangelorum.org/Formation/Holyrosary.html]
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost - Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.
Fr. Ratzinger is not a bishop anymore. He’s just a priest. He abandoned the Church and made Bergoglio Pope.
They were talking about this on Relevant Radio yesterday; one of the predictions was that it was too late to completely avoid the annihilation predicted at Fatima, but that it would be possible to mitigate it with sufficient sacrifices/rosaries/etc.
Ping.
Busy praying as BVM directed.