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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
Meet Saint Bartolo Longo: A Satanist Freed by the Rosary
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Bartolo Longo was born in 1841 in the Italian village of Latiano. His parents were devout Catholics and prayed the Rosaryevery day.
A Young Radical
However, the sympathy of the young Bartolo lay with the revolutionary Italian nationalists. This radical group advocated atheism and Masonic practices. They viewed the Catholic Church as an obstacle to the unification of Italy. The sovereignty of the pope in the Vatican was a thorn in their side. The nationalists, therefore, wanted to abolish the papacy altogether.
Supported by many intellectuals and inspired by the military victories of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the nationalists gained prestige among students. One of them was the law student, Bartolo Longo.
The nationalist struggle against the Church in the 1860s had a spiritual aspect. Occultism was advancing. Séances invoking the spirits of the deceased gained popularity. Longo participated in these practices. Eventually, he had himself ordained as a satanic priest. The fight against Catholicism dominated his life.
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Bartolo Longo was born in 1841 in the Italian village of Latiano. His parents were devout Catholics and prayed the Rosary every day. A Young Radical However, the sympathy of the young Bartolo lay with the revolutionary Italian nationalists. This radical group advocated atheism and Masonic...
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Hunt for Brown University shooting suspect underway
- By DaisyDay
- News & Current Events (Articles Required)
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All the while, the Director of the FBI has spent his time tweeting misinformation, attending a WH Christmas party and going on Katie Miller's podcast with his young singer girlfriend. Priorities, folks.
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On Sunday, the FBI director made a lengthy post boasting about the bureau’s efforts to detain a person of interest in the Brown University shooting on Saturday night that killed two and wounded nine.
“Early this morning, FBI Boston’s Safe Streets Task Force … detained a person of interest in a hotel room in Coventry, RI, based off a lead by the @ProvidenceRIPD. We have deployed local and national resources to process and reconstruct the shooting scene—providing HQ and Lab elements on scene,” Patel wrote, attaching pictures. “We set up a digital media intake portal to ingest images and video from the public related to this incident. And the FBI’s victim specialists are fully integrating with our partners to provide resources to victims and survivors of this horrific violence. This FBI will continue an all out 24/7 campaign until justice is fully served.”
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Then on Sunday, FBI Director Kash Patel posted a lengthy statement in which he boasted that a person of interest had been detained due to the bureau’s efforts. Local authorities later said at a press conference that the person of interest had been detained based on an FBI tip but clarified that there was no evidence that person was connected to the shooting. The person was released from custody, but not before their name, photo, and biographical information were widely reported.
Kash Patel Makes Another Major Error on Brown University Shooting
The FBI director has once again prematurely announced details about the suspect.
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On Sunday, the FBI director made a lengthy post boasting about the bureau’s efforts to detain a person of interest in the Brown University shooting on Saturday night that killed two and wounded nine.
“Early this morning, FBI Boston’s Safe Streets Task Force … detained a person of interest in a hotel room in Coventry, RI, based off a lead by the @ProvidenceRIPD. We have deployed local and national resources to process and reconstruct the shooting scene—providing HQ and Lab elements on scene,” Patel wrote, attaching pictures. “We set up a digital media intake portal to ingest images and video from the public related to this incident. And the FBI’s victim specialists are fully integrating with our partners to provide resources to victims and survivors of this horrific violence. This FBI will continue an all out 24/7 campaign until justice is fully served.”
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Kash Patel attended the White House Christmas Party with his girlfriend as the Brown University shooter still remains at large... He thinks he’s a celebrity instead of a failed podcaster, has no...
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Kash Patel podcast release during Brown University manhunt sparks fury
The FBI is assisting in the hunt for the gunman in the Brown University mass shooting on Saturday night which left two students dead and nine others injured.
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Suspect arrested after Walmart customers report finding hidden razor blades in purchased bread
- By Michie
Camille Benson allegedly tampered with loaves across multiple Walmart locations
A woman accused of placing razor blades in multiple loaves of bread at two Walmart stores in Mississippi was arrested Tuesday, officials said, according to Fox 26 Houston.
The Biloxi Police Department identified the suspect as 33-year-old Camille Benson, of Texas, who was charged with attempted mayhem, the local station said. She is currently in jail with a bond set at $100,000, the outlet added.
Over the course of more than a week, several customers reportedly found razor blades in their purchased bread at two nearby locations, a Walmart Supercenter and a Walmart Neighborhood Market.
The first complaint was made on Dec. 5 at the Supercenter, where a customer told employees that they had found a razor blade in their purchased loaf, The Associated Press (AP) reported. A similar complaint followed at the Neighborhood Market on Dec. 8, the outlet added.
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Suspect arrested after Walmart customers report finding hidden razor blades in purchased bread
Texas woman Camille Benson arrested for placing razor blades in bread at Mississippi Walmart stores, charged with attempted mayhem in disturbing case.
Date of authorship of Revelation
- By Jan001
- Eschatology - Endtimes & Prophecy Forum
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I think all inspired Scripture is already written in the two canons; however, I know we don't understand all of these inspired Scriptures. Chat GPT is not an expert on Scripture.Yes they were hidden by God. I made a post about How God hides things. Ask chat GPT to show all the bible verses about God hiding things, and why. It is so only wise people come across it not swine/unworthy. The word apocrypha means hidden. Thanks for the positive comment.
Parables were written to confound the obstinate unrighteous.
Matthew 13:35
This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.”
Mark 4:11
And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables; 12 so that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand; lest they should turn again, and be forgiven.”
Luke 8:10
he said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God; but for others they are in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
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Heroic Couple Disarmed Muslim, Then Got Shot; Died in Each Others Arms
- By Michie
Warning: video contains prolonged violence.
A couple killed in the Bondi Beach shooting tried to stop one of the alleged attackers by grabbing his gun, dramatic dashcam footage shows.
Boris Gurman, 69, and his wife Sofia, 61, courageously stepped in to try and protect others before being shot themselves, their family said in a statement.
Video of the incident shows Mr Gurman, who was retired, wrestling with one of the gunmen and taking the weapon off him, before they both fall onto the road.
Mr Gurman then gets up and appears to hit the attacker with the gun. The attacker is then thought to have got another gun which he used to kill them.
"While nothing can lessen the pain of losing Boris and Sofia, we feel an overwhelming sense of pride in their bravery and selflessness," the couple's family said.
“This encapsulates who Boris and Sofia were - people who instinctively and selflessly tried to help others."
The Gurman couple, who were Jewish, were the first two people killed in Sunday's attack, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
At least 15 people have been confirmed dead in the shooting, which happened during an event to mark the first day of Hanukkah.
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A couple killed in the Bondi Beach shooting tried to stop one of the alleged attackers by grabbing his gun, dramatic dashcam footage shows.
Boris Gurman, 69, and his wife Sofia, 61, courageously stepped in to try and protect others before being shot themselves, their family said in a statement.
Video of the incident shows Mr Gurman, who was retired, wrestling with one of the gunmen and taking the weapon off him, before they both fall onto the road.
Mr Gurman then gets up and appears to hit the attacker with the gun. The attacker is then thought to have got another gun which he used to kill them.
"While nothing can lessen the pain of losing Boris and Sofia, we feel an overwhelming sense of pride in their bravery and selflessness," the couple's family said.
“This encapsulates who Boris and Sofia were - people who instinctively and selflessly tried to help others."
The Gurman couple, who were Jewish, were the first two people killed in Sunday's attack, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
At least 15 people have been confirmed dead in the shooting, which happened during an event to mark the first day of Hanukkah.
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Boris and Sofia Gurman: Hero couple tried to stop gunman before being killed in Bondi attack
Boris Gurman, 69, "charged straight towards the danger" and grabbed one of the attacker's guns, a witness said.
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Does Jesus actually want us to 'hate' our family members?
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Christ tells us the cost of discipleship: not only must we carry our cross, but we must 'hate' father, mother, wife and children—even our own life. But what did he mean?
Editor’s Notes
This is the last part of the chapter which deals with the episodes read at Mass on the Second and Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost. It deals with the challenging words of Christ:Was Christ really saying, in this Gospel episode, that we must actually hate our family members?
No, he was not – nor is this how the Church has understood it.
The fourth commandment requires us to honour our parents, and the idea that Christ enjoined a violation of this commandment is as unthinkable as him enjoining a violation of the first commandment, or the fifth, sixth, or any other.
Further, we have natural duties of love and piety towards those who are closest to us in the so-called “ordo amoris.” We also have many examples of the saints who did indeed love their family members.
However, there is an important lesson to be learnt here. Fr Coleridge explains what Christ’s teaching meant, and how it has been understood by his Church ever since.
For more context on this section, and its place in the Gospel and the Liturgy, see Part I.
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Does Jesus actually want us to 'hate' our family members?
Christ tells us the cost of discipleship: not only must we carry our cross, but we must 'hate' father, mother, wife and children—even our own life. But what did he mean?
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Ufology and Mysticism Are on the Rise
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Exotic mystical beliefs have always been a mark of pagan culture. So what does it mean when these obsessions go mainstream in formerly Christian nations?
In 2017, I became fiercely interested in the subject of UFOs or UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena). This began for me with a New York Times article revealing Pentagon videos of an encounter between U.S. Navy jets on a training exercise and an anomalous object off the coast of San Diego. Initially, my thought was that this represented a kind of novel propulsion breakthrough, the “phenomenon” being a cover story to shield black budget programs.
Then, whistleblower and Air Force officer David Grusch testified to Congress that the government had actually recovered and was reverse-engineering craft of “unknown origin.” (It is also important to note that Grusch has since told members of Congress that he believes some of these “beings” are living among us.) As of this past month, other senior U.S. Government officials have reiterated the existence of nonhuman intelligence in a documentary titled The Age of Disclosure. Some notable appearances include Secretary of State Marco Rubio, former DNI director James Clapper, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, and Sen. Mike Rounds.
Flying saucers and alien bodies are admittedly a tall order, and while I am not a journalist, an interesting interaction with an aerospace contractor convinced me that enough was there to do some investigating of my own. Over several years, I attended scientific conferences and met with officials and journalists who all were seriously interested in the subject. I sourced FOIA documents and discovered—among other things—a slew of accounts pertaining to activity around sensitive U.S. military installations as early as the late 1940s. These were reports from employees at nuclear stockpile sites and power plants that described various objects of different shapes and sizes interfering with security systems and missile readiness.
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In 2017, I became fiercely interested in the subject of UFOs or UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena). This began for me with a New York Times article revealing Pentagon videos of an encounter between U.S. Navy jets on a training exercise and an anomalous object off the coast of San Diego. Initially, my thought was that this represented a kind of novel propulsion breakthrough, the “phenomenon” being a cover story to shield black budget programs.
Then, whistleblower and Air Force officer David Grusch testified to Congress that the government had actually recovered and was reverse-engineering craft of “unknown origin.” (It is also important to note that Grusch has since told members of Congress that he believes some of these “beings” are living among us.) As of this past month, other senior U.S. Government officials have reiterated the existence of nonhuman intelligence in a documentary titled The Age of Disclosure. Some notable appearances include Secretary of State Marco Rubio, former DNI director James Clapper, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, and Sen. Mike Rounds.
Flying saucers and alien bodies are admittedly a tall order, and while I am not a journalist, an interesting interaction with an aerospace contractor convinced me that enough was there to do some investigating of my own. Over several years, I attended scientific conferences and met with officials and journalists who all were seriously interested in the subject. I sourced FOIA documents and discovered—among other things—a slew of accounts pertaining to activity around sensitive U.S. military installations as early as the late 1940s. These were reports from employees at nuclear stockpile sites and power plants that described various objects of different shapes and sizes interfering with security systems and missile readiness.
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Ufology and Mysticism Are on the Rise
Exotic mystical beliefs have always been a mark of pagan culture. So what does it mean when these obsessions go mainstream in formerly Christian nations?
crisismagazine.com
When the Vicar of Christ Joins the Media Scrum
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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What are the advantages, perils and unwanted consequences of Pope Leo XIV’s Tuesday evening ‘doorstep’ exchanges with the press at Castel Gandolfo?
It has become a new papal convention.
Every Tuesday evening, as Pope Leo XIV departs for the Vatican after his now routine day of rest at the papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo just outside Rome, he will stop and chat with the press.
Reporters ask the Holy Father questions relating to whatever is in the news, usually to do with world politics or the Catholic Church, and the Pope spontaneously responds with unrehearsed answers. The format resembles a “doorstep scrum” or “press gaggle,” which is common for politicians or celebrities when engaging with the media.
For a pope, however, this is a first. No supreme pontiff, not even Pope Francis, who liked to be interviewed as pope, has stopped to speak to the press in such an ad hoc way. In-flight papal press conferences, begun by Pope St. John Paul II, are similar but they are infrequent and more controlled.
Pope Leo’s own motives for taking this media approach remain unclear. He first started the practice in June when journalist Ignazio Ingrao from Italy’s state broadcaster RAI collared the Holy Father as he left Vatican Radio territory near Rome.
The Holy Father seemed comfortable answering Ingrao’s questions, especially as they were on topics that interest him: sustainability, the environment and threats to world peace. But the exchange was striking in that, for the first time outside of a papal trip, it removed a certain recognized distance the pope naturally enjoys as the Vicar of Christ.
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It has become a new papal convention.
Every Tuesday evening, as Pope Leo XIV departs for the Vatican after his now routine day of rest at the papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo just outside Rome, he will stop and chat with the press.
Reporters ask the Holy Father questions relating to whatever is in the news, usually to do with world politics or the Catholic Church, and the Pope spontaneously responds with unrehearsed answers. The format resembles a “doorstep scrum” or “press gaggle,” which is common for politicians or celebrities when engaging with the media.
For a pope, however, this is a first. No supreme pontiff, not even Pope Francis, who liked to be interviewed as pope, has stopped to speak to the press in such an ad hoc way. In-flight papal press conferences, begun by Pope St. John Paul II, are similar but they are infrequent and more controlled.
Pope Leo’s own motives for taking this media approach remain unclear. He first started the practice in June when journalist Ignazio Ingrao from Italy’s state broadcaster RAI collared the Holy Father as he left Vatican Radio territory near Rome.
The Holy Father seemed comfortable answering Ingrao’s questions, especially as they were on topics that interest him: sustainability, the environment and threats to world peace. But the exchange was striking in that, for the first time outside of a papal trip, it removed a certain recognized distance the pope naturally enjoys as the Vicar of Christ.
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When the Vicar of Christ Joins the Media Scrum
COMMENTARY: What are the advantages, perils and unwanted consequences of Pope Leo XIV’s Tuesday evening ‘doorstep’ exchanges with the press at Castel Gandolfo?
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