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He shall set up a standard to the nations (Isa. 11:12).
...when Christian institutions and morality decline, the main foundation of human society goes together with them. Force alone will remain to preserve public tranquillity and order (Sapientiae Christianae 3)
Christians are, moreover, born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God aiding, the triumph (Sapientiae Christianae 14).
"I am worried by the Blessed Virgin's messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a divine warning against the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soul. … I hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse for Her historical past.
"A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, 'Where have they taken Him?'"
- Roche, Pie XII Devant L'Historie, p. 52-53
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Our Lady's Electronic Newsletter: March 2008
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Anti-Christian Violence in India:
Shocking Reports from the Fatima Peace Conference
Just before the opening of Only Way to World Peace conference in Chennai, India, the Fatima Center was warned that the conference might be targeted by the same fanatical Hindu groups who were responsible for anti-Christian violence last December and January. Such religious terrorism has risen to a crescendo in recent years, especially in the states of Orissa in the east and Gujarat in the west.
Catholic and Protestant missionaries, are accused of proselytizing, and therefore violating the identification between India and Hinduism asserted by intolerant Hindu nationalists. These are the same militant Hindus who were not long ago allowed by the Rector of the Fatima Shrine to desecrate this holy place with their ceremonies and worship of idols, all in the name of "ecumenism".
In fact, the numbers of Christians in India are actually declining. Although only 2.5% of the general population, Christians run one of every five elementary schools in India, one of every four houses for widows and orphans, and one out of three houses for lepers and AIDS patients. The Immaculate Heart of Mary Orphanage
established by the Fatima Center at Hyderabad is just one example of how the tiny Christian community aids the hundreds of millions of destitute. And, of course, Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta is India's pride...except among fanatical Hindus.The latest explosion of anti-Christian violence that took place in Orissa did not even spare the Sisters and Brothers of Mother Teresa. Last Christmas three of their houses in the district of Khandhamai were attacked by an enraged mob armed with swords, axes, iron rods, and clubs. The Sisters and Brothers had to flee into the woods.
The aggressors vented themselves by devastating Christian houses and chapels. This wave of aggression against Christians began on Christmas Eve and continued during the following days in various locations, with attacks on churches, the burning of houses, and destruction of shops.
After visiting the terror-stricken Christians of the area, Telesphore Cardinal Toppo told AsiaNews the horror he had seen: "An expanse of ashes is what remains in the areas stricken by anti-Christian violence at Christmas in Orissa. It was diabolical; churches desecrated and houses burned. The villages upon which the extremist Hindu violence fell are today a vast cremation ground."
At the end of January, Raphael Cheenath, the Catholic Archbishop of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar, the diocese hardest hit, numbered the victims at 6 dead and 5000 homeless. No fewer than 70 churches had been destroyed, he said, along with 6 convents, 3 seminaries and 600 houses belonging to Christians.
In his report, Archbishop Cheenath points the finger at the promoters of aggression against Christians: the ideologues of intolerant Hinduism, ensconced in the group Vishva Hindu Parishad, and the members of the high castes, who are unfavorable toward the social advancement of the Dalits ("untouchables") -- the poorest, the outcast and "impure" -- many of whom are converts to Catholicism.
Fifteen priests from Orissa were scheduled to attend Only Way to World Peace
in Chennai in February. Sadly, only two actually made it to the conference. The other thirteen had to stay with their parishioners, who were still hiding in the countryside from the marauding Hindus. India and the whole world need the period of peace that was promised to us by Our Lady of Fatima. That peace includes not just freedom from war, but freedom from persecution and religious terrorism -- just two of the errors of Russia which have now spread throughout the world, particularly Asia. The false ecumenism of Cardinals Bertone and Kasper, which invites our persecutors into our churches and shrines, will not bring peace. Only Our Lady can help us!
"Orissa Riots: A Trail of Destruction and Agony", by the Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, Raphael Cheenath, SVD,
Report of Archbishop Raphael Cheenath,
from L'Osservatore Romano 2/2/08 (in Italian),"Mother Teresa's Sisters Are Also Hostage to Fanatic Hinduists" ,
by Sandro Magister,"Fatima Peace Conference in India: Most Successful Ever!"
- report from the Fatima Center,
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