Wie sollte ausgerechnet der Anführer des großen Satans ein Segen für die Welt sein? Wer das satanische Prinzip versteht, wie es im Heiligen Quran beschrieben ist, kennt die Antwort.

Il y a à peine 10 jours en arrière, je dénonçais les risques de guerre de religion en Ukraine si le patriarche œcuménique de Constantinople accordait à Porochenko une église orthodoxe autocéphale. Suite à la traduction en russe et en grec de mon article, la machine de propagande ukrainienne s’est affolée, et a pondu plusieurs articles en russe et en anglais dénonçant mon article comme une fake news, et disant qu’il n’y avait pas d’agressions ni d’expropriation par la force des temples, chapelles et laures de l’Église orthodoxe ukrainienne du Patriarcat de Moscou (UOC-MP)

The AP headlined on July 27th "#MeToo reaches Vatican as nuns denounce abuse from priests” and reported that the Vatican has continued to tolerate rape by its priests, and: Revelations that a prominent US cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse of power that has shocked Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic.

Der Sinn hinter allem? Im Indogermanischen steht Glauben für leubh, was soviel wie „gutheißen, loben, begehren, lieb haben“ oder „für lieb erklären“ bedeuten soll. Wenn wir uns aber mit dem landläufigen deutschem Wort Glauben beschäftigen im Sinne einer Überzeugung in Anlehnung an eine Religionsgemeinschaft, trifft die griechische Übersetzung von pistis für „Treue oder Vertrauen“ wohl am ehesten zu.

Depuis le Maïdan, l’Ukraine se divise sur ses lignes de fractures historiques, le plus souvent ethniques et linguistiques. Mais il en est une autre souvent négligée : la ligne de fracture religieuse. Depuis le Maïdan, l’Église orthodoxe ukrainienne du Patriarcat de Kiev (UOC-KP, église schismatique créée en 1992 et non reconnue par les autres églises orthodoxes) essaye de plus en plus de récupérer fidèles et temples de l’Église orthodoxe ukrainienne du Patriarcat de Moscou (UOC-MP, qui est reconnue par les autres églises orthodoxes).

One obvious next step in the Cardinal McCarrick story is uncovering more victims of his abuse. We now know of two. I would bet that there will surely be more. But that’s not the most interesting or important part of the story. The key now is to uncover the networks within the clergy and episcopate. Some of you might have seen the shocking story that reader Mark Crawford told in the comments section here in recent days. I found that he told the same story in testimony before the New Jersey legislature in 2004. Here’s a portion of that testimony

Does This Explain the Misanthropy of the Jews?

Amid other geopolitical machinations on the “Eastern front” there is one that has so far largely passed under the radar although its potential as a crisis detonator (or perhaps more properly, exacerbator) in the Ukraine and the surrounding Eastern Orthodox domains should not be underestimated. Quite “spontaneously,” as these things are wont to happen, agitation at state and ecclesiastical levels in the Ukraine has been turned on to demand autocephaly, which in Orthodox church terminology is self-ruled status for the Orthodox religious community in the Ukraine.

La récente pétition de cent intellectuels « réclamant une justice équitable » pour Tariq Ramadan, prédicateur musulman et islamologue incarcéré en France dans une affaire de viols, offre au grand public français un certain nombre de faits qu’il connaît peu.

Well, pilgrims, do you think this would be happening if the jihadis and US supported semi-jihadis of the Free Syrian Army had won the war?

The Catholic church is being used as a pawn in a well-orchestrated plan to radically alter the Christian identity of European nations through mass migration, said Bishop Athanasius Schneider in a bombshell interview last week.

The Archbishop of Paderborn, Germany, announced that Protestant spouses of Catholics in his diocese may receive Holy Communion in individual cases according to pastoral judgement. Archbishop Hans-Josef Becker made the announcement June 27 to his presbyteral council, saying that according to his interpretation of a document called “pastoral guidance,” published by the German Bishops Conference, priests may determine to allow Protestant spouses to receive the Eucharist in certain cases, according to Crux Now.

Two new episodes in the festering sex-abuse scandal have called attention to a facet of the problem that has long been understood (at least by some analysts), but routinely neglected if not actively suppressed: the connection between sexual abuse of young people and a widespread homosexual culture among the clergy. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been removed from ministry because of one credible report of misconduct involving a teenage boy. But the Newark archdiocese confirmed that in the past, two other complaints against the cardinal had been resolved by out-of-court settlements.

Militär und Kirche. Soldat*in und Christ*in. Liturgisches Gewand und Feldanzug. Diese Begriffspaare scheinen auf den ersten Blick nicht zusammenzupassen, sind aber Realität in Deutschland und bündeln sich in der Militärseelsorge. Der Begriff ‚Seelsorge‘ bezeichnet die geistliche Unterstützung eines Menschen und dient als Hilfestellung in wichtigen Lebensfragen oder besonderen lebensumständen. Zusammen mit dem Präfix (Vorsilbe) ‚ Militär-‘ wird eine enge Verbindung zwischen kirchlichem Auftrag und militärischem Handeln geschaffen.