Passing of a Muslim friend

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Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus ("Salus extra Ecclesiam non est" Saint Cyprian)- the duty was clearly set out by saint Cyprian of Carthage of salvaton on our garden of roses- Holy Mother Church

http://southafricancatholic.blogspot.com/2008/10/extra-ecclesiam-nulla-salus-salus-extra.html


Article by Marc Aupiais

My eyes sting as I write, I have been informed by the grapevine that a close friend of mine, Mariam, is dead. She was Muslim. Oddly, we often found ourselves discussing faith, both fascinated by the other's. I hope my friend is wrong, and she hasn't died, but I doubt it.

What is of good comfort to me is:

"16. Finally, those who have not yet received the Gospel are related in various ways to the people of God.(18*) In the first place we must recall the people to whom the testament and the promises were given and from whom Christ was born according to the flesh.(125) On account of their fathers this people remains most dear to God, for God does not repent of the gifts He makes nor of the calls He issues.(126) But the plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator. In the first place amongst these there are the Mohammedans, who, professing to hold the faith of Abraham, along with us adore the one and merciful God, who on the last day will judge mankind. Nor is God far distant from those who in shadows and images seek the unknown God, for it is He who gives to all men life and breath and all things,(127) and as Saviour wills that all men be saved.(128) Those also can attain to salvation who through no fault of their own do not know the Gospel of Christ or His Church, yet sincerely seek God and moved by grace strive by their deeds to do His will as it is known to them through the dictates of conscience.(19*) Nor does Divine Providence deny the helps necessary for salvation to those who, without blame on their part, have not yet arrived at an explicit knowledge of God and with His grace strive to live a good life. Whatever good or truth is found amongst them is looked upon by the Church as a preparation for the Gospel.(20*) She knows that it is given by Him who enlightens all men so that they may finally have life. But often men, deceived by the Evil One, have become vain in their reasonings and have exchanged the truth of God for a lie, serving the creature rather than the Creator.(129) Or some there are who, living and dying in this world without God, are exposed to final despair. Wherefore to promote the glory of God and procure the salvation of all of these, and mindful of the command of the Lord, "Preach the Gospel to every creature",(130) the Church fosters the missions with care and attention."

DOGMATIC CONSTITUTION ON THE CHURCH
LUMEN GENTIUM
SOLEMNLY PROMULGATED BY HIS HOLINESS
POPE PAUL VI
ON NOVEMBER 21, 1964

http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html



RIP Mariam [Surname excluded]




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Pope solidifies conservatives at the Vatican | "New Evangelization" Appointment isn't an endorsement of a softer view on abortion

Related: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2010

Will lax, incompetent, dissident bishop head Pope's new body designed to re-Christianise the West?

http://southafricancatholic.blogspot.com/2010/06/will-lax-incompetent-dissident-bishop.html

FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2009

Brazil: Archbishop José Cardoso Sobrinho joins accusations against Vatican based paper: of anti-life "bias"

http://southafricancatholic.blogspot.com/2009/06/brazil-archbishop-jose-cardoso-sobrinho.html


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Quick Note Article by Marc Aupiais

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With the replacement of Cardinal Re, who supported the excommunication in the Recife incident, and the appointment of Fisichella to the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelisation, it may be suggested that Benedict XVI sided with Fisichella in their spat, where Fisichella was accused of seeming to support therapeutic abortion.

After all, Fisichella's statements prompted a clarification by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: saying that abortion in the case of rape was still immoral, when the former head of the Pontical Academy for life, Fisichella criticised a bishop for applying canon law against those practitioning therapeutic abortion in the case of rape.

However, Re's replacement is Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, P.S.S., Archbishop of Québec and Primate of Canada, an even more outspoken opponent of abortion, even in radically leftest French Quebec. In fact, he directly opposes abortion in the case of rape, the place where Re's nemesis, Fisichella was accused of dissidence. Ouellet is a staunch loyalist to Pope Benedict XVI's more conservative views. He said that the church will not baptise the adopted children of same-sex couples (gays), and holds many loyalist views which will insure that the pope's future bishops will be more compliant to his reformation of the church after the John Paul II papacy. Ouellet has also been appointed to the Pontifical Commission for Latin America: a post retiring Re held before him, in which Re was competent to speak of the Recife affair.

And, Fisichella was long expected to be quietly moved elsewhere, due to the loss of public confidence in his capacity to head the Pontifical Academy For Life. The Pontifical Council for New Evangelization, focusses on evanglising Europe, but is likely to be a small body, and any errors it makes could well be substituted by the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the Church's general evangelization body.

It seems that the church is acting much like the South African government, in appointing Fisichella to Europe where he fits in better with the groups the church wants to fight, and Ouellet to ensure loyal bishops, and to Latin America where his views will be welcome in fighting the socialist governments there on abortion and gay marriage: while his views will be of great benefit to Benedict XVI.

Fisichella's replacement, in the Church's pro-life body is Mgr. Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, a Spanish born member of loyalist group Opus Dei, who is a physician and moral theologian. Opus Dei is a loyalist organization, with a strong fidelity to the dogma of the church on all issues including abortion.



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Will lax, incompetent, dissident bishop head Pope's new body designed to re-Christianise the West?

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Article summary: Pope shows interest in defeating secularism; May appoint bishop who is out of favour with the (pro-life, orthodox Catholic church-going) public to head new diacastery for this; Bishop's fiasco in his last job may be seen as not incapacitating him for evangelisation, a different job where a perceived lack of loyalty to Canon Law is oft tolerated by the Church. Some see the possible appointment as a shelving of this bishop, without necessarily a shaming of him.
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Pope solidifies conservatives at the Vatican | "New Evangelization" Appointment isn't an endorsement of a softer view on abortion

http://southafricancatholic.blogspot.com/2010/06/pope-solidifies-conservatives-at.html


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"Pope launches mission to re-evangelise the West" - Europe, World - The Independent:

"At one of the last vespers' service [sic: services] before the Vatican shuts down for the summer break, the Pope announced the creation of a Pontifical Council for the promotion of New Evangelisation which would be dedicated to what he described as 'a grave crisis in the sense of the Christian faith'.

The creation of the council is a stark reminder of just how far secularisation has progressed in an area that was once called Christendom and is a tacit admission that the Church's recent attempts to reinvigorate Christianity in Europe have not succeeded.

The 83-year-old pontiff admitted that while there were many areas of the world that were still ripe for missionaries, Europe and North America have suffered from an 'eclipse of a sense of God' and needed to be re-evangelised."

UK Independent (Secular and secularist; British; Independent) 30 / 06 | June / 2010

One unfortunate possibility for head of this body involves a bishop who criticized another bishop for upholding Canon Law, and the teaching of the Church:

"From French blog Osservatore Vaticano:
In the past year, the Pontifical Academy for Life has been under the spotlight - including the ambiguous support of its chairman, Archbishop "Rino" Fisichella, for "therapeutic" abortion, in the sordid and painful Recife affair (Brazil).

Increasingly persistent rumors tell us that Bishop Fisichella will soon leave his post. [Rorate adds: but perhaps moved upwards?... Hopefully not!]"

Rorate Caeli (Catholic; Independent; Traditional leaning) 23 / 06 | June / 2010

Archibishop Fisischella, is thought to be the bishop to get the nod, either today or on Thursday (What Does The Prayer Really Say? [Catholic; Independent; American; Conservative leaning] 28 / 06 | June / 2010 ). Our own service has noted how the Archbishop has been accused of blatant fiasco as regards his attacking of a bishop who upheld Canon law to the letter, by declaring the already active automatic excommunications of doctors and one adult who caused the elective abortion / artificial termination of pregnancy of a nine year old girl, who the adult's life-partner allegedly raped.

John L. Allen JR. a noted observer of the Vatican and writer for the very liberal USA National Catholic Reporter says of the appointment:

"Benedict did not give a formal name for the new office, but reports indicate it will be called "Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization." Its job, according to the pope, will be to resist an "eclipse of the sense of God" in secular cultures.

Though Benedict did not reveal his choice to lead the enterprise, it’s widely expected that the new Vatican department, known as a “dicastery,” will be entrusted to Italian Archbishop Rino Fisichella, currently President of the Pontifical Academy for Life and a former chaplain to the Italian parliament.

If so, the move would amount to a papal vote of confidence for the embattled Fisichella, who has come under fire in his current post by pro-life groups for allegedly taking too soft a line on the question of excommunication for those involved in abortions [sic: Evangelisation and Abortion are two separate issues, the church often places liberals in positions involving evangelisation, and conservatives in place on social issues].

When Ratzinger was elected to the papacy five years ago, many cardinals at the time said they had turned to him because they regarded him as the figure best equipped to respond to the crisis of secularization in the West, especially in Europe. His choice of name, “Benedict,” was in part a reference to St. Benedict, the founder of European monasticism.

In the intervening five years, a series of controversies and scandals during Benedict’s pontificate – most recently, the global sexual abuse crisis swirling around the Catholic church – has often obscured that aim, and arguably made it far more difficult to realize, at least in the short term. Nevertheless, the creation of a new council suggests that Benedict has not thrown in the towel.

[...]

Aside from the overt logic of the new department, the creation of the new Council and Fisichella’s appointment to head it are striking for two other reasons.

First, the decision to create the new Pontifical Council is another indication of Benedict XVI’s fondness for the Communion and Liberation movement. The idea for a “Council for the New Evangelization” was first floated by Fr. Luigi Giussani, founder of the Communion and Liberation movement, in the early 1980s, but was not taken up by Pope John Paul II. More recently, Cardinal Angelo Scola of Venice, himself close to the Communion and Liberation movement, represented the idea to Benedict XVI.

Benedict’s affinity for the movement is well known. Then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger delivered the homily at Giussani’s funeral Mass in 2005, and a group of consecrated women who are part of the Memores Domini group within Communion and Liberation run Benedict’s papal household.

Second, if Fisichella indeed becomes the first president of the new council, it would be a show of papal support for compassion in pressing the church’s pro-life argument [sic: the appointment is to a role involving evangelisation after many rumours that the pope was soon to remove the bishop from his role heading the Pontifical Academy for Life]

[...]

Fisichella is also an ambivalent figure, however, for some of the church’s most staunchly pro-life forces, as a result of his role in a 2009 controversy from Brazil involving an abortion for a nine-year-old girl. The girl had become pregnant after reportedly being raped by her stepfather, and her mother arranged for an abortion. Archbishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho of Olinda and Recife, upon learning of the case, announced that the mother, the doctor, and others involved in the abortion were excommunicated.

Sobrinho’s position aroused widespread protest in Brazil and around the world, but drew swift backing from Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops. Fisichella, however, then penned a front-page essay in L’Osservatore Romano that appeared to criticize Sobrinho.

“Before giving thought to excommunication, it was necessary and urgent to safeguard the innocent life of this girl [sic: SACNS: noted at the time of the fiasco that the church had played an active role in attempting to aid the girl, and her parish priest went to great effort to attempt to assist her, and to give her dignity], and return her to a level of humanity of which we, men of the church, should be expert heralds and teachers,” Fisichella wrote.

What is needed now, he added, “is the sign of a testimony of closeness with the one suffering, an act of mercy that, even while firmly maintaining the principle, is able to look beyond the juridical sphere.”

That article brought protests both from bishops in Brazil and from pro-life activists all over the world, resulting in a July 10 “clarification” from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith indicating that church teaching on abortion has not changed and will not change.

Within the Pontifical Academy for Life, a group of members led by Belgian Monsignor Michel Schooyans wrote a lengthy letter calling for Fisichella’s removal, arguing that he had falsely invoked the concept of “compassion” to justify actions contrary to Christian morality.

Nonetheless, Fisichella has remained on the job … and now appears headed for a new one, obviously close to the pope’s heart."

28 / 06 | June / 2010

As I have noted on Va-Browser before: “referendarius” (formal expert advisor) to the Apostolic Signatura, which Thomas Peters of American Papist calls the highest court in the Catholic Church, Edward N. Peters JD JCD, states that the canonical plea of necessity, can only be mitigating at best when the oppressor has committed a delict which by its nature is intrinsically evil, such as the delict of abortion. He did this in referring to a case where doctors claimed a mother's life was in danger, although it is possibly uncertain whether her condition was related to her pregnancy. (Va-Browser Editorial 02 / 06 | June / 2010)

As the excommunication was automatic (i.e. had happened even without the statement of the Brazilian Bishop) in the case of those (other than the 9 year old) aiding in the abortion of the 9 year old, and as excommunication is designed to be pastoral: to call the person excommunicated to repentance and to prevent others from following their course:

The possible new head of a body designed to evangelize nations which increasingly endorse what the Church Dogma considers the mortal sin of masturbation (homosexual acts) and elective abortion (considered the worst form of murder by the church), is one who is not a touch enforcer of church rules, and caused a spread of pro-abortion sentiments during his position in a body which was set up to ensure the protection of human life from conception until natural death.

Vatican observers have noted that without a tough ally in the Congregation for Bishops, Benedict XVI may continue to find he must choose from different relative dissidents, or those he does not know well within the bishops of the church for many of his more important positions. While the Liberal American National Catholic Reporter suggests that the new body would be an endorsement of the bishop's de facto failure at combating abortion while heading the Pontifical Academy for Life, Benedict XVI is a pragmatist, and it is highly likely that any appointment would be because of any past experience the bishop in question has with Evangelization, a field where the church often puts its more liberal bishops and priests.




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Quick Note: USA Supreme Court did not permit Vatican to be sued

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Phil Lawler of Catholic Culture, has noted that media headlines that the USA (United States of America) Supreme Court has allowed the Vatican (Vatican City State/Holy See) to be sued de jure (by right of law), are incorrect. Instead it chose not to decide on the matter as yet, a slightly different move.

Here are the more that obvious results, and I may note that in South African Law, at least with the Anglican church in Province of the Church of Southern Africa, Diocese of Cape Town v CCMA et al, it was found that the priest was not even an employee of the diocese:

"By declining to hear the case, the Supreme Court did deal a minor legal setback to the Vatican, which had sought to have the case summarily dismissed. But the Oregon court’s ruling—which the Supreme Court let stand—only gives plaintiff the opportunity to argue that the Pope and the Vatican can be included as defendants. That argument is far from resolved.

In their effort to include the Pope as a defendant, the plaintiff faces an uphill struggle. The Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act protects the Holy See from liability unless the plaintiff can demonstrate that the priest who abused him was acting as an employee of the Vatican. By any of the normal legal standards—who signed his paycheck, who was his direct supervisor, who gave his assignments—the priest was working for the diocese, not the Vatican. Any effort to draw a connection between diocesan policies and Vatican directives would run into a further obstacle: the historical (and very prudent) reluctance of the American courts to become involved in the internal affairs of a religious body.

Even if an American court did give plaintiffs the right to take testimony from the Pope, the Pope would not be bound by that ruling. The Pope is not subject to American law-- nor to any other system of civil law. He is sovereign; in Vatican City he is the law.

Bottom line: If an American plaintiff takes testimony from the Pope, it will be because the Pope chose to give testimony—not because a court compelled it."

Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture (Catholic; Independent; American) 29 / 06 | June / 2010



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British Scientists warn Reuters: oil spill clean-up worse than spill

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Article by Marc Aupiais

British Marine biologists say that the (banned in Europe I believe) chemical cleaning methods used by BP and the Obama administration, with its attempts to "find out who [Obama] must kick in the ..." is doing more harm to the gulf of Mexico than good. Natural bacteria otherwise would have cleared the oil, but they say that is not politically expedient. This is nothing new, I wrote about it at va-browser a while ago

in reference to: Analysis: Doing nothing might have been best for oil spill | Reuters (view on Google Sidewiki)

A few daily thoughts: what is admiration?

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“They’re all more shocking that the next, really, all trying to outdo each other in being more the slut!” my friend said: speaking of the new music videos of Lady Gagga, Christina Agulera, and Kylie Minogue.

“I mean, at least Lady Gagga doesn’t pretend to be anything else: Christina Agulera, basically is having sex with another woman in her music video,” I was silent, I expected as much from Britney Spear’s contemporary, who promoted an unjust expansion of gay rights via her song Beautiful and other actions, and promoted female looseness. But I hadn’t seen any of their videos: then again all already had a reputation for dressing like sluts.

Granted, South Africans love to skinder about the immoral Americans, about how bad their country is, how they invade other countries unjustly, about how few clothes they wear, about how fat Americans are, how paranoid, we love to repeat STOMPI’s about their presidents, about their laws, their actors and singers, to skinder about how they cannot spell, and have no manners. I only have about one or two not poverty struck friends who actually like America, and don’t assume the worst about anyone bearing that nationality. Poor people seem to like America.

Granted, I agreed, the same people who had always worn too few clothes were in my opinion going way to far once again. And I wasn’t about to watch their immoral videos, I trusted my friend.

That having been said, there is good gossip and bad gossip, in South Africa we even give these their own names. Eves dropping or bad gossip, is often referred to as picking up STOMPI’s, STOMPI, being a formula to write sentences in Afrikaans, gossip is often also referred to as skinder-ing, again borrowed from multilingual South Africa. Now, speaking of people not there is hardly gossip, we all do that, as with relating another’s bad deeds: also isn’t gossip: the bible does that, all the time in fact. Granted, telling the world of another’s sins with no reason, or finding oneself talking all the time about someone’s house or clothing is certainly sinful if there is no good cause to do so. No, the sin of gossip: lies in passing off untrue or unwarranted information as fact, or passing it around maliciously, with no good purpose, or good achieved. It is not wrong to condemn someone: the saints did this often, as did Saint Peter to those who pretended to give everything to the church, in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible, the bible: often condemns, and most of the saints do: even Jesus says: My Words will condemn those who don’t believe.

What is condemned is absolute judgement with relative facts: is judging finally when one only has prima facie: on the face of it evidence. For instance, life in prison versus the death penalty: unless there is a just war or emergency, such as self defence: it is never acceptable to judge and take another life. If God hasn’t taken the life of a so-called vegetable: since when do we have the right: as with a baby whose birth might endanger the life of her mother. I treat people of different races, religions, nationalities and worldviews very differently: it is how the world is: but if I find I have misjudged a person’s culture or their worldview or beliefs, I react accordingly.

Now, many South Africans think America and Americans incapable of good, we, like the French, like to look down on Americans, to whisper behind their back if we see a patriotic tourist. We like to joke about America’s customs, and condemn their wars. We call them shallow: and rightly condemn their need for a pledge of allegiance, and their insane need for flags everywhere. And if I say something good about an American, another South African will almost always give me their predictions on that American’s future, none of them are ever bright futures if South Africans’ guesses are correct. Americans are often seen as incapable of morals: with few if any exceptions; and access to American films and television and music hasn’t helped the perception, of a Nation many in the world see as plainly stupid and without morals or values, or plain and simply stupid sheep.

As I write this, I know that many of my readers are Americans, and they don’t share South Africa’s stereotypes, stereotypes their media has sold about them throughout the world, and ones based on South Africans who become too loud and active after spending time in America, among those overeating monstrosities, not using cups/glasses to drink milk.

Now, I think that is wrong. You see, people are being judged on mere appearances without any real effort to find out the truth of the matter, and isn’t this the same as gossip: where there is not really enough evidence or where no good is achieved by our words, but grave harm is. My sins are no business of the world, only of those they affect. Yes, I may avoid a poor person for fear of armed robbery, but that is judgement with good cause, rational, realistic judgement.

The sin of gossip is a lack of effort to insure one is a person who judges rightly. We condemn judgement and do judge, we thus judge wrongly. When the righteous person condemns wrong judgement and judges more carefully, thus a righteous person may well speak of another behind their back or do similar things.

Granted a lawyer or actor, or actress is likely to be immoral due to stresses, and to go to hell, materially: due to the nature of their industries: but that does not mean it is assured: we are not prescient; I am studying law: will I go to hell?

God is truth, therefore, when dealing with people: we should treat shady information as just that and present it as such, unless otherwise warranted: though one should never lie, and sometimes keep silent, and act on it as what it is: preferably researching the truth of the matter. So often I read untruth in the news media, and hear it everywhere: a magazine or newspaper isn’t God.

That said, if we observe or another observes immoral behaviour for money in the public realm, then it can well be their duty to talk of it as wrong. And if we deal in facts our word is more reliable. Will I search for the reported immoral videos on YouTube: no: I refuse to give them my time of day: it doesn’t do much in any case: if they were good people being talked of I might research it further. They have pasts, and I’d hardly doubt my source.

So, if we are to read of celebrities and claim we admire them: then surely we should devote time to praying for them. You see, gossip comes from jealousy, from envy: from desiring that another lose what they have, while admiration is being glad they have that and wanting to be more like them. My personal celebrity as you already know is Selena Gomez: I pray and self mortify due to her, and I truly love her, as God has commanded me: as a person, not as an actress, singer etc!

If you say you admire someone then aim at their full good: and think also of this: God would have you speak of people as his children: harshly if need be to protect them or others, but with a certain amount of wisdom and the right sprinkling of salt. If you admire those better than you, you cannot be envious. Therefore admire God and the saints first, and anyone who lives a Godly life: especially among the hedonistic heathens! Before I decide I admire a celebrity, I research them mostly, and if I want news, I prefer to check the source, and how accurate it is. What you put in your mind stays there: be careful least you admire for money or for beauty: which both fade: but righteousness lasts forever: love, truth and hope: last forever in Love! Know that all we have can be gone in an instant: and suddenly you will focus on you first. God says: take the pole out of your eye, before attending to the splinter in your neighbour's eye. Thus: focus on being righteous yourself, and thus you will be able to make your neighbour righteous! Judge yourself first, and then you will be better able to judge your fellow man. Save yourself first: then you may save another.

We look down on people who make poor people embarrass themselves before giving them some change: therefore: entertain yourself with more moral television and film and theatre et al: and not that which degrades the divine human form, and thus God, who lifted its value to that of divine, by becoming Human. Notice, God, in lowering himself, and lifting himself does so with a purpose. We must tend our own garden, God will provide, least Jesus be a liar.




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Recent Visits: divided by most popular locations

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Percentage recent visits: USA 33; Unknown 27; RSA | South Africa 13; Australia 4; Germany 4; Canada 2; India 2; United Kingdom 1; Angola 1; Argentina 1; Brazil 1; Cote D'Ivoire | Ivorcy Coast 1; Chile 1; France 1; Nigeria 1; Philippines 1; Qatar 1; Sweden 1; Uganda 1; Holy See | Vatican City State 1; Vietnam 1; Dominican Republic 1;

Says our current percentage statistics!

Percentage of continents: Recent Visits: North America 35; Unknown 27; Africa 17; Europe 8; Asia 5; South America 4; Oceana/Australia 4;

Says our current Percentage statistics!

Percentage of Languages: Recent Visits: English 89.2 ; German 4.3; Portuguese 2.2; Spanish 2.2; Italian 1.1; French 1.1

According to our latest Percentage statistics!

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Republishing: Asynchronisity: a God of Chaos: who sees Chaos in Order/ Order in our own Chaos

Article by Marc Aupiais

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2008

aSynchronisity (Article originally scrapped, but republished: with editing: on receipt of an email, I was sent: which encouraged me in reworking it)
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(Journey in a Broken World)

Article by Marc Aupiais

Chaos is to the benefit of the prescient, and those who can predict better than apposing personages: as it happens: by order, we predict the future. Chaos, is that which causes confusion, to those not understanding it. Those who know where an ambush is laid can avoid it, those who understand a routine can use it. Utter chaos is the field where they, who know the future best: outwit all.


Confusion, mystery, chaos: imagine this: fire on water, and war all around, gun shots blast, and sirens blare. Blueness covers the scene, a hidden, not always noticed blue. Perhaps that of the sirens, but not. Red dots, yet this is not a battle between police and robbers. Somehow, the mind must understand, and make order to know what they are dealing with. What makes the red dots: are these vague images lights?


There is a battle going on, a small scene in a great chaos of conflict. One feels the stream, currents of time and space, and move slightly between carnage, and chaos: as bullets spray, and things all of a sudden explode. The sand is muddy now, one is fleeing, one is crawling on scrapping knees, and jumping, and rushing. The heat begins to beat so fast, yet one is guided, one escapes.

Imagine this, and how such casualties are struck, and death wrought all over, as one pauses and moves, like a guerrilla in the woods, or a woodsman hidden in a known forest, or kayaking boatman in the ocean, rowing between icebergs, and whales. It is a complete image which hits me, it always is as an author, and such images combine, and are woven, and altered like clay in my softly moving hands: to create novels: coming in day and sleep. Yet, while such chaos may benefit, none moral would make it through evil: that does not mean that those who are moral and in a situation of such: will not use chaos to their advantage. How much more is it certain: that while free will allows for evil: yet that which is order itself: will use the chaos from such hostility: for the good of all who love Him. In fact, they right thing can well be to tolerate some evil at times: yet call it account when it is best: because immediately smiting one may hurt the innocent: like God, we to only tolerate evil while in a time, and place where it is of benefit to good to do so temporally.

Chaos, and order in this temporal phase of the universal stages: are illusions of sorts, or rather: in the perspective of the beholder, they don't really exist, not here in any case: or else: they exist, but in a way which the ordinary man does not fully comprehend; but which the saint can see: whereby order exists, and chaos: but these are different from normal everyday uses of these connotations to sound. Order refers to control, but only so far as it is needed because control of events by that which is stuck in temporal time: needs to rely on predictability, even cause it. In other words; to order that something be done: is to try to cause a sequence of events where it occurs: orders are there to create order, or an order of benefit to the one making them, or which such thinks of benefit.

We cannot by our perception alone: know the future, or why God does as he does; mystery creates a special "chaotic" code, which only in the seeing of truth, we can understand of all. God is not temporal, but eternal, not even aeviternal, as "rational" souls are. Yes, perhaps the body of Jesus is aeviternal: and that which leaves his form is temporal: but in his divine nature he is eternal, his human nature: I am not qualified to say this: but perhaps it contained temporal or aeviternal parts; yet in such a way as that which is divine could possibly have this: Jesus was fully human: perhaps then his human soul is only aeviternal.


God is eternal: that means he can be none but basis of the fabric of time and space, the little bubble of necessity: we walk and breathe in. Outside of God, there is nothing, there is but darkness: he is the blue bubble which causes the flickering spark of life, caressing all: yet as a lover, not an enemy. He is not the chair I sit on, nor my DNA, yet he is the power in which these are supported; in which all reality rests: against which; ever for now: sin falls against in rebelling, with destruction: breaking death loose on the world! Evil, fighting this power creates false perceptions, so that we neglect to see order in the chaos: and therefore are hit by it and harmed. Even as we admit that a sort of chaos is the order of the universe: we must admit that a good God would create a way for even us to conquer the chaos: this is the purpose of ethics, and virtue: that which is good is compliant to the "chaos" which is God's plan. Morality is simply a dance of sanity: which keeping us safe beyond any prediction's extent. It is sanity which acts morally. We do not pretend to understand time and distance, or fully: the life after death. We do understand that it, which is compliance to the Chaos of God: keeps us alive as breath cannot, beyond death; when we obey God to every extent. Chaos is simply us admitting we cannot control the world. We mourn the pain of animals, and our own pain: and though this is why often some attack God when animals are hurt due to elements of time and space: it is because we are like them; and fear: yet God does no matter of moral evil or anything he considers evil: to man; either evil causes death: as sometimes, it seems: occurs; or in fact: death is not an end; only a doorway to the next sections of our consciousness: that final place: when we are alive or illusion and of death. Indeed: death is the responsibility of God, even the Greeks put this to their Gods: the three "Fates": to disobey God is the route which all sin takes: and whereas morality is the peak acting of sanity: sin: is the slow loss of such needed sanity.

Imagine Him we worship: walking now, by a lake, yet what does that mean? What mystery incarnate: that infinite being: appearing to be, or even being aeviternal in a way, with even perhaps temporal parts: such seems chaos: such energy in but a small form. It is the goodness which makes what seems chaos to be order, and which conquers all illusion which is the actual chaos: this ability to comprehend, and conquer chaos: is the gift which is given. Our salvation lies in the child: Jesus, a man at this time: who walked by and on the lake. Showing he is in control, he walked on such lake against our predictions. Such is "chaos", is it not?

Yet, he is as much a human as a God, even now, he is both: and a human made order of chaos: not by taking the chaos away: but by giving meaning to it, and all things, so that we could be sane, and calm in chaos: collected: and able to exist forever.

God is not a God of contradiction or chaos, but God is also not only a three dimensional being, but a three personed being, yet not three Gods, but one. Our ways are in order, and prediction, his is in a higher mysterious order, sometimes appearing to be chaos and his ways are in knowing, and doing true things. The war between God and evil is between Reality and falseness. God is reality, the very DNA of time and space, or rather: something more elemental than that.

We rightly think God is order, he is not then simply our order: simply put, unlike His rational soul: we are not entirely sane. He is a God who created order: but that is for us, and of his nature, by which we are ordained to be born, he is a God who is logical, but that is because he is the fabric of the universe: that one which all relies upon, on which the fabric of the universe relies, and rests. He is not all things, but all things need him to exist. That which is real relies on him, yet all things cannot include evil. Evil does not technically exist, but is a misfiring, something, a madness which choice allows man: which sucks his very life from him, like the merciless tide of the unforgiving seas. God is "chaos" in a way, but ordered chaos. The chaos which is evil is that without meaning: it is the slaughter of the good; it is evil. Evil: is that which makes us less real: if God is Reality: evil is Illusion, while it does not exist: the void where it is does: so that one truly disobeys by sinning. Evil is a lack of Good: of Reality, of God.

Every Just War, or Just Uprising, is also an unjust war and unjust battle. Those fighting on one side are fighting a Just War, those on the other, an Unjust War.

Is God Chaos in his eyes: no: yet that which is aeviternal cannot fully comprehend that which is eternal: at least not yet. Chaos, in fact is what we use to denote a situation in which we are unable to predict far enough ahead, so as to handle it. Chaos is dangerous. It is how one may well describe many things: it is danger, and fear all at once. It is when: if we could predict its source, we could well survive.

So; if the universe is chaos: it is dangerous: how then is survival adequate except in Love: the key to all things. To comprehend love is to begin to understand God. Love believes the Gospel, it believes the faith: because of the source giving the truth; which is truth. Love, is in fact the meaning in the madness: and by it we can make the right move to stay in key with the music of God... What seems to atheists as insanity in a Righteous God: is not insanity, but love: God's chaos may not be comprehensible to man: but its meaning: love: is.

Love explains all: it is our mentorship in times, and oceanic bouts. Love is deeper than romance: which itself is not love. As yet imperfect: human love; oft wrought with evil illusion: this nature of a higher force: tells us of the perfect Devine love. Waves in the ripple tank reflect the mammoth monsters of the ocean, which hide sharks, and monsters, and powers, and wonders.

God is not chaos but Order: this we know because in some things we understand his ways: especially in matters of love... at least we can understand such. Lust: which tries to falsely appear as, and substitute for love: is a reason many are denied comprehension of the chaos of life.

We do not understand the ocean, not either do we entirely comprehend, nor understand: the spiritual. That which is seen is influenced by unseen horrors, like a boat in the ocean, and protected all around by unseen deity, and goodness: that of Jesus, and the entirety of the Triune God, is that which orders things to protect. Each person has a guardian: an angel to aid; and we each can ask of a Patron; our sister who watches us like a lover, and bride. Yet, our safety is in God, in that which sees order in the chaos, and protects us: heart and soul.

Odd, or convenient, or simply informing for us: that the antonym of "Chaos" is "Order": and when we speak of commands we say it is "orders". We admit that by "authority": "chaos" is fought, or that commands maintain a status quo: yet this is to say that orders which increase meaningless chaos are meaningless: that society and commands are only justified when rational and ordered to the true nature of God. Orders, are that which attempt to combat chaos.

Our way to predict the world's actions is to understand that which causes them. The relation of Reality to us: is what we study, and we know that like in the ocean, jumping before or as waves break like walls, and fall; by mimicking the tides of time and space via what Christians call love, truth, sanity, and faith: we are able not to see God's actions as "Chaos", but as Love, and in this in Sanity, which is the only sane action: we in fact dance with God; meaning that we are safe.

That we have a word: "chaos"; this alone proves such fact of our inadequacy, and of our need of God, and saints, and angels and such: our perception alone is inadequate to maintain our life-force: yet Love, Truth, Reality Himself: offers us an opportunity; not simply to predict today, or ten thousand decades of millennia, if those even shall come to pass: but rather: the cause of the ripples, the love of God asks that we join him forever as saints; he asks this through the living and the Aeviternal saints and angels, and His Son. Here, his prediction, and nature, and the nature of the universe itself preserves us!

To say that the universe is chaotic is to admit we are unable to understand it fully: and to admit that we are not self-sufficient to handle our live here: we die, do we not? If our aim is life, then we are in need of life, so how can God not be needed..? He is needed!

The reason all living people, this even (as shown by the incident at the temple:) including Jesus, when he was incarnated as a child: make mistakes: this reason is that God realized that we would have a choice. We can live in chaos or order: but order lies not simply in handling chaos: one must conquer chaos to have order, and God is not only the God of what appears chaotic; he is the God of Order: order which to those as yet incapable of managing it: appears chaotic.

Now, to those not understanding a culture, or procedure: is it not all just chaos? Yet God gives us guidance: his hand is out, he is waiting, and moving backwards: we must look beyond the swaying waves: of the moving crowds, which do so simply frame his image: we must see beyond "chaos" into the true order, by which we tame the earth with order: we must see God; if we ever want safety. For the purpose of predicting the future; by all our statistics: is self preservation: and preservation of man, and his interests: and yet; the universe, while made with the aim of aiding man: was made for man and God to share: as a place where God has company with man and man's right desires: perhaps even Animals' temporal souls also exist in heaven: in another way than here. Truth is, if they do: it is for our enjoyment.

Somehow, suffering: and things which cause such fear in my heart: these are often the place and time where I turn to trust, and sane action. What is sane in the universe: is that which complies with the true order of it: morality, and religion: Catholic Religion: under Christ him self’s rule from the heavenly king's power: his power: his own truth in his kingship of all: to truth: to love.

So, while one sanely suffers small pain to avoid calamity, as with going to a dentist, or for surgery: we endure "great" pains here in exiled chaos of the mind: but this is nothing, and no thing's power: if we are to live forever in bliss. Chaos is a term which only the limited, finite beings, and perhaps that which empathises with them: can comprehend. Pain: when seen in the light of love: is small compared with the promise it carries for the Just men.

Love, while seeming madness: has meaning: making it somewhat predictable: at least in its purpose. God is not Chaos, but love: and what makes love sane: is a basis in truth!




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Bones/Relics of a Saint go on Display: St Therese Carmel Benoni

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Article by Marc Aupiais


Perhaps a bit airy for some, the bones/relics of St. Thérèse the Carmelite nun, of Lisieux, France known as The Little Flower have arrived in South Africa's most powerful city, Johannesburg.

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Here are some photographs of the visit so far, supplied to South African Catholic News Service, by the Archdiocesan News, Archdiocese of Johannesburg, with the usual permission for us to publish them:

Two monks, a priest a businessman and a coffin? St. Therese in a open boot of a motorcar!

Pall Bearers? Knights of Da Gama carry St. Therese's bones!

A mass of nuns Gather to hear a priest say mass? By Saint Therese!

Read Out Loud? Yes, everyone is reading: what happened to memorising, and can they all read the lines? All pertinent questions! And if you want some of them answered: you may want to attend a similar event at your parish!

No bone to pick: the public worship Saint Therese, touch the glass covering protecting her [In Catholic doctrine the word Worship is used for high respect: such as that given living and dead saints, or to a good person, while the phrase Adoration refers to the Worship/Latria: due only God]!

Never too young to pray over old bones: a young girl child and two adults pray, as Saint Therese' coffin's glass covering is touched lightly in apparent prayer: and veneration.

Saint Therese should come to a parish near you: follow the Facebook link to confirm your presence, and for the itinerary, and additional important details. Remember to check that the itinerary has not changed, with your local parish, if it is listed!




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Watching Selena Gomez, a Catholic actress- Celebrity Spotlight

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Showing more than a little cleavage with a light blue bikini, Selena Marie Gomez goes to the beach in France on Friday. Certainly showing off more big assets than her smile, though just covering certain parts of her bosom. While quite revealing, the costume isn't risqué, in fact it looks like it is a bit small for her, and is uncomfortable, hence her putting on a shirt afterwards perhaps.





She recently tweeted that she could live in Paris, as it was so gorgeous, and is in France to shoot teen audience movie Monte Carlo. From appearing as a French maid in a music video, to her trademark short skirts, and the slightly racy pics on her website www.selenagomez.com , Selena has always been on the edge on over the line, on what is too much for chastity. She informed left leaning Vanity Fair that she worships the magazine, and she is fascinated with fashion: especially of past eras. When asked if she would like to do a younger version of something like Sex and The City, she said that was not the direction she wants her acting to go in.

Wikipedia: so the picture may change!

Wikipedia: so the picture may change!

Wikipedia: so the picture may change!

When asked to play a role in High School Musical 3, she once again emphasized she wants to be a serious actor in turning down the role. In her Japanese album she looks Japanese, in the American, she is slightly more racy and edgy, in her European/South African album, she looks cute, and cuddly.

Selena is happy to tell her fans she made the cover of Sugar Magazine in Great Britain: saying: "Boys haven't always been nice to me", appearing among their other main articles: about a dad with breast implants and a so-called "sex change", whether to kiss a boy, and about a person has been seen naked by everyone they know. None the less, she seems proud of the publicity, or her website's web master is in any case!

Selena also took to twitter/facebook to thank fans for getting Unicef a contract with another organization, both of which allegedly use funding to promote abortion. Kiwanis, the group Unicef had won a contract with had a choice between several projects and had put it to an online poll: which Selena got her fans to use to insure Unicef got the business, she said that her fans could make a difference in a world, as proven by the contract gotten by Unicef. The project aims, with donations to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT).. Selena is Roman Catholic, she said in an interview with Scholastic kids news, when just newly famous. The Catholic church considers abortion always intrinsically evil. Selena's own position on abortion and other social issues, is an arcanum known by herself and few others if at all, especially after she stayed out of the recent USA election, saying she didn't know enough about politics, but involving herself in a voter education programme, to get young people to vote in a fake election, and educate them about issues. She did post a link to Dear Mr President: a song by Pink which attacked George W. Bush on his opposition to abortion, and legally recognised homosexual unions a.k.a. De Jure "Gay Marriage", as well as attacking him on poverty. Interestingly, the link was made during the Obama presidency, when Obama had yet to, and still is yet to fulfil his hefty campaign promises.



Selena's favourite band is Paramore (perhaps a pun on paramour: an illicit lover), and her favourite snack is pickles. She loves children and often puts them in her tweets or online videos, she claims she loves her job because she can make children laugh. She also says she doesn't want to take adult roles too quickly, going from Children's roles, to Teen roles, and then to roles for a more general audience. This is in stark contrast to Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Christina Agulara, and her contemporaries, Ashley Tisdale, Vanessa Hudgesons and infamous Miley Cyrus, who have all been churned into what they are after working for Disney.



Selena is world famous, and has over 2 million followers on twitter, and over 5 million on Facebook. She is best known for her roles in Hannah Montana as Makaila, Wizards of Waverly Place and Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie as Alex Russo, up-coming Monte Carlo, Disney strait-to-DVD: Another Cinderella Story, Barney, The Suite Life of Zac and Cody, where she had her first kiss playing a girl in love with Zac, and Princess Protection Program. Monte Carlo, where her character is mistaken for an heiress, and a million dollar necklace goes missing, is her first major step out of the Disney Family, as a Fox 2000 film.




Selena's new album's first single: Round and Round, has just been released, and Selena has told her fans of it on twitter and facebook, in it she is a spy, it ends with one of the spy hunters falling to their doom.




Selena has enjoyed much success in music and in acting, and her fashion line, Dream Out Loud is expected to do well.



Rumours about her attachment to any one man have never been conclusively proven, and she refuses to talk of her love life, she has previously said that she plans to wait until marriage to have sex, but does not want to obligate her fans to keep their virginity, or make a pledge via a chastity ring. She has said that she is half Mexican and half Italian genetically during an interview on being Latino, and that she was born in Grand Prairie, just outside Houston Texas in an interview when about 7 years of age, although her official sites say she was born in Houston, Texas.




She reportedly prays before every performance, and posted a video of herself and others praying before Wizards of Waverly Place, saying she does it before every show: she says they and their producers always pray, in the 2008 video. She is very active in charity, and is definitely a Texan born American actress, but says she is also influenced from growing up later in California. Her next album is expected to hold a old style Britney Spears vibe, says Selena, who was named after her namesake.








A wholesome image, at least as far as American standards are concerns has helped Selena greatly, and may be why she remains in the business, she has done advertising for Sears/K-Mart (Which previously was on a list of abortion provider Planned Parenthood sponsors), as well as for Bordon Milk. Her parents are divorced, and her mother is remarried, but she credits her strong friends and family with her ability to be as grounded as she is, and says that one need only have a few good friends. Her show, Wizards of Waverly Place, besides winning an Emmy is watched by persons of all ages: including adults and university students. Selena Gomez is one of my favourite actresses.




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