This crowd are nothing if not prolific. Touchy seems the last person would know the slightest thing about dignity. I am in trepidation. Incidentally, does this word 'dignity' feature in either of the Testaments? Do any of the Church Fathers expound in detail upon it? Is the term a little overly on the humanist side? Is there a risk of human self-deification here? More worryingly, how is dignity to be defined? Is the quality to be extended to the likes of the behaviour recently witnessed in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York?
If this man really wanted to teach something about human dignity, he would move to a convent and spend the rest of his life praying and doing penance for the outrages and sacrileges he committed against Our Lord Jesus Christ. I can only see vanity and falsehood in this man.
In my minds eye I can see the document now, it will state in the first paragraph, , human dignity for those on the periphery! All of mankind intrinsically knows that humans on the periphery are, the slaughtered unborn children, the euthanised elderly, mentally compromised and disabled as well as the poor. But many are willing to turn a blind eye, for a better or uninfringed life. I hope Cardinal touchme Fernandez future April 2024 document addresses these atrocious human rights violations! and sticks it to the WEF, GAVI, WHO, PFIZER and the rest of this diabolical conglomerate. A great victory for the perennial truth Of Our Lords Catholic Church has been voiced. However if the touchme document infers that sodomites, podophiles, transgenders, adulterers, liars, murderers and slanderers are the poor periphery in need of human dignity , we know we have entered the 5th circle of hell! And this hell will be activated on earth at that time. Stay under the mantle of Our Lady. Pray each day, Do not think you are covered without prayer. Offer everything to Jesus. Surrender all to Jesus. These are just my thoughts,
Heretofore, Touchme's writings indicate little awareness of anyone or anything other than homosexuals and their behaviour. His is apparently a one-track mind.
Just read this again, spot on prophecy of Saint Francis, yet even in the glory of heaven, maybe he feels just a little sad about how some misappropriate his ministry as a Saint for ecology.
I notice that Papa Frankie has a hoibt of drawing people around him and giving them power people that are very bad and done bad things and so are easy to control. The former Cardinal Mc Carrick was a good example of the type. Fernandez of course was in the past under investigation by the Vatican and so has more than a few skeletons in his closet. Anyway black crows like to roost on the same tree. The Papal Posse is brilliant. I highly recommend it for the truth of things, if you want to know the truth of things. I will be trying to avoid reports on that horror of horrors, that abomination the so called synod on synodalities as much as I can for the good of my happiness and health. Sigh. What can we do but pray? I wish there were more but what, really can we do? The Devil is in the Driving Seat.
This is a truly horrible time for Faithful Catholics. But we have a Promise from Scripture, 'Those who remain Faithful to the End will be saved'.
Unfortunately, this nun is Catholic in name only. Her theological convictions are often opposed to the authentic teachings of Holy Church. Note: heretics can smile sweetly. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/...-sister-lucia-caram-and-religion-digital-team Lord have Mercy!
As my old Passionist spiritual director used to say every time we were parting, “Be at peace, man. Be at peace.” There’s light at the end of the tunnel. We’re almost there. Persevere. Be at peace.
I have just ordered a book on Padre Pio by Mary O' Regan. I have been listening to interviews with her and how Padre Pio has become her life's work.
I will maybe get it and read it. But I have read so many books about Padre Pio now I wonder if she can tell me anything new. The best book about him I ever read was this one: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/605181.Padre_Pio
View attachment 24430 That's an excellent and very thorough telling of Saint Padre Pio's life and mission, which I enjoyed reading many years ago. One of early, shorter books I read in the '80s about Padre Pio was The Friar of San Giovanni - Tales of Padre Pio by John McCaffery. It's written by someone who was part of the early group of helpers who were involved in making Padre Pio better known. He writes about those early days before Padre Pio and San Giovanni became 'famous' and the people who arrived there to help Padre Pio, including with the building of the hospital. I found it to be a wonderful, human portrait of the future Saint and am glad it was the one which helped to guide me closer to Padre Pio.
Yes John's book was amongst the first I ever read. He lived in Donegal and during the war he worked at a very high level for the Special Operations Executive, the forerunner of the present CIA. So he was no dope. He was a professional at telling the true from the false, for that was his profession. He came along at a time when Padre Pio was becoming well known outside Italy. At the close of the Second Waorlf War American Servicemen began to visit him and his story kind of took of around the World from there. I am old enough to remember Padre Pio when he was alive and being pretty well buried in slander. Slander from both within the Church and without. But my big takeaway was that it was ordinary Catholic layfolk who saw the truth, that the guy was a great saint when both the Vatican and his fellow clergy thought just the reverse.
The truth is always simple. It is lies that are complicated. The Synod on Synodality is the most complicated thing I ever heard of.
