The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition - BBC 1994

I too shall resist! - Vox

From Rorate Caeli Blog

Source: 13h15 le dimanche, Sunday program of French public television network France 2, broadcast on Sunday, February 8, 2015 (title "N'oubliez pas de prier pour moi" - "Do not forget to pray for me"). 

Transcript begins at 8:17 and ends at 14:55. [Updated: see video below]

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[Presenter:] Since then [the Christmas Address to the Curia dedicated to the "infirmities" of the Roman Curia], the Cardinals have receded into silence, but some remain with a heavy heart. One of the most influential of these has finally accepted to receive us. Cardinal Burke is an American, ultra-conservative, and close to former Pope Benedict XVI.

- [Interviewer:] We are very glad to meet you, that you could grant us a little bit of your time! You are a great admirer of Benedict XVI?

- [Burke, in French:] Oh, yes!

- [Interviewer:] You have his complete works?

- [Burke, in French:] Of all the qualities of Benedict XVI, I think that the greatest is the one of being a master of the faith. / [In Italian:] When there is confusion, protest, I always turn towards him, towards his writings on the liturgy, but also on other doctrinal matters. Now I must get used to a new pope and -

- [Interviewer:] Is it difficult? Sincerely.

[Presenter:] The Cardinal is not seen favorably [lit. "in odor of sanctity"] in the eyes of the new pope. He was in the room on the day Francis threw his darts against the Curia.

- [Burke, in Italian:] I have heard here and there some jokes among the cardinals: "how many infirmities do you have?" It will be remarked upon for some time.

[Presenter:] The opposition between both men goes back to the month of October, at the time of the Synod on the family. In the order of the day, some matters provoke turmoil among the bishops, such as communion to remarried divorcees or the recognition of homosexual couples.

[Recording of Francis in the Synod:] "A cardinal wrote to me saying, 'too bad that some cardinals have not had the courage to say certain things. This is not good. This is not synodality. Because it is necessary to say all those things that, in the Lord, it is felt that must be said."

[Presenter:] Several conservative cardinals take up a crusade in order to defend the traditional family - among them Müller, Brandmüller, and Caffarra. As for Cardinal Burke, he takes the helm of the rebels. The debates are very lively, heated.

-[Burke, in Italian:] I cannot accept that communion be given to a person who is living in an irregular union, because it is adultery. On the matter of persons of the same sex, this has nothing to do with matrimony. This is a suffering that some persons have, of being attracted - against nature, sexually - to persons of the same sex. Those people, we must help them to live chastely. But there is no relation to marriage and family, it is a separate issue.

[Presenter:] The response to the Supreme Pontiff is clear: it is a rejection of what Francis had said in July 2013.

[Recording of Francis in the Airplane interview of July 2013]: "If someone is gay, and he searches the Lord, and has good will, who am I to judge him?"

-[Interviewer:] How do you intend to place pope Francis on the good path?

-[Burke, in Italian] On this, also one must be very attentive regarding the power of the pope. The classic formulation is that, "the Pope has the plenitude, the fullness, of power." This is true. But it is not absolute power. His power is at the service of the doctrine of the faith. And thus the Pope does not have the power to change teaching, doctrine.

-[Interviewer:] In a somewhat provocative way, can we say that the true guardian of doctrine is you, and not pope Francis?

-[Burke, in Italian:] [Smiles, shakes his head] We must, let us leave aside the matter of the Pope. In our faith, it is the truth of doctrine that guides us.

-[Interviewer:] If Pope Francis insists on this path, what will you do?

-[Burke, in Italian:] I will resist. I cannot do anything else. There is no doubt that this is a difficult time, this is clear, this is clear.

-[Interviewer:] Is it painful?

-[Burke, in Italian:] Yes.

-[Interviewer:] Worrisome?

-[Burke, in Italian:] Yes.

-[Interviewer:] According to you, today, is the Catholic Church under threat as an institution?

-[Burke, in Italian:] The Lord assured us, as he assured Saint Peter in the Gospel, that the forces of evil will not prevail -- non praevalebunt, we say in Latin. That the forces of evil will not achieve, let us say, victory over the Church.

-[Interviewer, looking at a portrait of Francis in the Cardinal's study:] Well then, Francis is your friend?

-[Burke, in Italian:] [Laughter] I would not want to make of the pope an enemy, certainly!

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[Update (Feb. 9): thanks to the reader who included our words above as subtitles in the video below:]

BREAKING : Catholic Civil Rights League - response to Supreme Court decision in favour of physician assisted suicide

The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) decries the Supreme Court's 9-0 decision in Carter striking down Criminal Code provisions against physician assisted suicide - Canada enters a new era of 'suicide relativism'.

TORONTO, ON February 6 2015 - The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) warns of the dangers of a new era of 'suicide relativism' in Canada, following the Supreme Court's 9-0 decision in Carter to strike down the Criminal Code provisions against physician assisted suicide.

The Supreme Court's ruling now leaves legislatures and provincial health disciplinary mechanisms to sort out the messy business of competing conscience claims, let alone the parameters of 'medical aid in dying'.

By this decision, the Court has re-asserted its claim to the title 'Policy Maker of the Year', as recognized by the MacDonald-Laurier Institute in December, 2014.  The Supreme Court has moved our country from a position where suicide was opposed outright, to a jurisdiction where suicide is to be made available on request, subject to future unknown conditions.

The Court overruled its previous decision from 1993 in Rodriguez, in which the same provisions of the Criminal Code were upheld, by a 5-4 majority, asserting in today's ruling that the law and factual matrix have changed in the past 22 years.

The Court failed to mention that nine different motions or legislative attempts have been raised in Parliament in that time frame, with six separate votes on the issue, all of which rejected efforts to change the law, recognizing the risks to the most highly vulnerable.  In fact, in 2011 and in 2012 Parliament gave its near unanimous support for a national anti-suicide prevention policy.  The Supreme Court has now undercut such legislative enactments.

Given that history, Parliament will need to give serious consideration to the Charter's notwithstanding clause, to allow further time for serious reflection on the merits of what has been introduced as a new regime in Canada.  A one year suspension in an election year is unreasonable.

While the Court has suspended its decision for one year to allow legislatures and provincial health care professional Colleges time to consider legislative changes, that time frame may be insufficient to allow all of the various public institutions to address the challenging demands involved.

The CCRL sought that clear language be provided by the Court to assert the primacy of conscientious rights of healthcare professionals.  The Supreme Court stepped back from making any such pronouncement, preferring to allow a future 'reconciliation' of competing rights claims.

Such concerns are not limited to healthcare professionals.  Chaplains, lawyers, and other counselors will be confronted with how to deal with requests for assistance on suicide in the months ahead.

The Court has struck down these provisions of the Criminal Code with severe limitations on any new provisions to re-criminalize particular forms of assisted suicide. The court has asserted that any future law must accept situations based on irremediable medical conditions and where there may be intolerable suffering.  In its reasons, the Court stated, 'We make no pronouncement on other situations where physician?assisted dying may be sought'.  However, as has been seen in other jurisdictions, efforts to impose safeguards rarely limit the availability of assisted suicide. By its own language, the Supreme Court leaves open the likelihood of further challenges to any draft legislation.

For example, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association supported the decriminalization of these provisions primarily on the basis of personal autonomy - i.e. if a competent patient sought to be killed, the medical professional should assist, regardless of the underlying medical condition. 

In the state of Washington, research has shown that the introduction of physician assisted suicide quickly is enlarged over time, such that individuals who may have years to live are encouraged to take their life prematurely.  Assisted suicide regimes lead to abuse of the aged, especially from those who stand to inherit. Will the next push be to expand euthanasia to non-terminal individuals, or the allowance of individuals other than doctors to prescribe death drugs?

The Court also awarded the BC Civil Liberties Association full indemnity costs, such that taxpayers are obliged to pay what will likely exceed $1 million for this challenge at three court levels.

The focus of section 241 of the Criminal Code is on the person who assists in a suicide.  The CCRL's intervention emphasized that most Canadian healthcare providers consider physician-assisted death immoral or unethical for reasons of science, conscience or religion. These healthcare providers may now be confronted by demands that they directly or indirectly participate in what they consider to be immoral actions.

Medical Colleges in Saskatchewan and Ontario are currently in the process of addressing such demands, including the contentious issue of mandatory referral by objecting physicians to another doctor, which the CCRL has asserted requires an objecting physician to participate in 'wrong'.  Other provincial Colleges have already mandated such referrals, exposing doctors to professional disciplinary charges.  Can migration from the profession in Canada be far behind?

At a minimum, the CCRL asserts the need for robust protection for the freedoms of everyone who declines or opposes physician-assisted death, or refuses to refer patients for such procedures, for reasons of conscience or religion.

About the CCRL

Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) (www.ccrl.ca) assists in creating conditions within which Catholic teachings can be better understood, cooperates with other organizations in defending civil rights in Canada, and opposes defamation and discrimination against Catholics on the basis of their beliefs. The CCRL was founded in 1985 as an independent lay organization with a large nationwide membership base. The CCRL is a Canadian non-profit organization entirely supported by the generosity of its members.

For further information:

Christian Domenic Elia, PhD

Executive Director,

416-466-8244;

celia@ccrl.ca

https://ccrl.ca/

@CCRLtweets 

When did Catholics become so stupid?

An anonymous comment was left in the box at a "Sad state of affairs in Aurora." 

I really want to be charitable, but I'm finding it difficult. Perhaps you may wish to explain it to our poor friend.

Anonymous said...Guess what? This isn't the 1700's. We are in 2015 and the world changes and so will churches. If the church doesn't change the catholic population will continue to decline. Is it a bad thing that people and children enjoy church? A bunch of crazies on this site that need serious help. To sit there and pass judgement on situation it sounds like you have no personal experience with is a sin. Do you remember when black people were not allowed in churches. Is it ok that they changed those rules?

Friday, 6 February 2015 at 21:31:00 GMT-5  

When did Catholic become this stupid?

Petition to the Parliament of Canada to STOP Euthanasia!

Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

(1) Parliament or the legislature of a province may expressly declare in an Act of Parliament or of the legislature, as the case may be, that the Act or a provision thereof shall operate notwithstanding a provision included in section 2 or sections 7 to 15.

(2) An Act or a provision of an Act in respect of which a declaration made under this section is in effect shall have such operation as it would have but for the provision of this Charter referred to in the declaration.

(3) A declaration made under subsection (1) shall cease to have effect five years after it comes into force or on such earlier date as may be specified in the declaration.

(4) Parliament or the legislature of a province may re-enact a declaration made under subsection (1).

(5) Subsection (3) applies in respect of a re-enactment made under subsection (4).

PETITION

https://www.lifesitenews.com/petitions/stop-assisted-suicide-in-canada/305105

To: Canada's Members of Parliament and Senators

I urge you to stand up for vulnerable Canadians and oppose the Supreme Court's dreadful ruling overturning Canada's prohibition on physician-assisted suicide.

Canadians pride themselves on being a caring, welcoming nation, a country that defends the vulnerable, yet this ruling sends the message to the weak and infirm that their lives are not worth protecting.

This Supreme Court ruling is merely the first step down a slippery slope that leads to the heinous practices we've seen increasingly in places like Belgium and the Netherlands. In Belgium, euthanasia is now permissible even for children. Please don't let that happen to our country.

I urge you to use your parliamentary authority to invoke section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the "notwithstanding clause") and overrule the Supreme Court decision. Canada needs a law that will protect all Canadians.

Sincerely,

[The undersigned]

Tell Canada’s Parliament to block Supreme Court ruling legalizing assisted suicide by using 'notwithstanding clause’: petition

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Canada’s Supreme Court has just overturned the country’s ban on assisted suicide, meaning that doctors will now be allowed to actively participate in bringing about the deaths of their patients.

If the colleges of physicians in places like Ontario and Saskatchewan have their way, doctors could very well be forced to end their patients' lives.

This shocking ruling goes against the clear will of Parliament, which overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to legalize euthanasia in 2010 by a vote of 226 to 59.

The Supreme Court has given Parliament a year to enact a new law. But Parliament has the power to act right now - by invoking the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ little-used “notwithstanding clause,” which allows Parliament to override a court ruling.

We need to urge Parliament to invoke the “notwithstanding clause” and craft a law that will protect vulnerable Canadians from this heinous ruling.

BREAKING: Canada's activist Supreme Court forces approves medical murder

At a meeting of the Catholic Civil Rights League in December, we were warned that the writing seemed to be on the wall for this decision. It was not expected until May. Once again, Canada's Supreme Court judges have decided that which should be in Parliament's domain. These activist judges have forced upon this country abortion, threatened to do so with sodomite and lesbian "marriage", prostitution and now, euthanasia.

The Constitution of Canada and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms of Pierre Elliot Trudeau has been interpreted by leftists and activists to undermine our nation. 

There is buried within it an out; a Notwithstanding Clause to overturn the decision. Any bets on whether the government will find the fortitude to stand up to these bastards?

Happy now Michael?

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-canadas-top-court-rules-doctors-can-help-kill-patients

BREAKING: Canada’s top court rules doctors can help kill patients

 Assisted Suicide , Euthanasia

OTTAWA, February 6, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) — In a momentous ruling this morning, Canada’s highest court unanimously ruled to open the door to a doctor helping kill someone nearing the end-of-life stage, a ruling comparable to the sweeping Morgentaler ruling 27 years ago that allowed a doctor to kill someone at the earliest pre-born stage of life. 

In Carter v. Canada, the Court overturned a previous law prohibiting assisted suicide, in effect reversing the previous 1993 Rodriguez decision in which it said the state’s obligation to “protect the vulnerable” outweighed the rights of the individual to self-determination. The ruling makes Canada join the ranks of Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Belgium, as well as Oregon and Washington, in allowing assisted suicide. 

Father Bulus Ya'qub, Rest in Peace with Christ good priest

World Council of Arameans [Syriacs]

IRAQ | Bestial ISIS jihadis behead another Aramean Christian, according to eye witnesses and local media. The priest Bulus Ya'qub, who was kidnapped 7 months ago and whose church was blown up, has been executed this week in the Ghazlani Camp south of Mosul. ISIS, which converted the Syriac Orthodox Cathedral in Mosul into a mosque, has already removed the crosses from at least 30 churches in Mosul.

Don't you agree that it is conspicuous, strange and unethical that the world media barely report about such atrocity crimes when it concerns defenseless Aramean Christians who lack the voice and the support of a country? It is time for the Aramean people to stand up and reclaim their dignity, human rights and freedom.

In the absence of a state, we ask you to support the WCA that will continue to raise the ignored voice and combat the human rights violations against the Aramean people in their occupied homelands. Click here for your support: http://www.wca-ngo.org/support

Obama justifies ISIS barbarism - refers to Crusades and Inquisition canards

Sometimes you read something and are left to gasp if it was truly said.

"Unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ," Obama said Wednesday. "And in our home country, slavery, and Jim Crow, all too often was justified in the name of Christ." Barack Hussein Obama.

Yes, he really did say that. Today. At the National Prayer Breakfast.

Do I have to shout it out Obama?

The Crusades were to free Christians from Muslim persecution. As for that old canard about the Inquisition, this Muslim Brotherhood sympathiser in the White House has proven by these two statements that he is manipulative, lying, deceitful and anti-Christian. 

The Inquisition was defensive against the Moors and heretics to a united Christian Europe. In five hundred years there are no more than 5000 executions that could have been due to the various Inquisitions. 

You wish to draw a moral equivalence?

Clearly, with Barack Hussein Obama, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. To have the absolute temerity to equate ISIS savagery with whatever excesses occurred centuries and millennia ago is evil and disgusting. Is he justifying the beheadings of children and innocents and the burying alive of people, the murder, the burning alive of a trapped man in a cage?

Tantumblogo provides a solid take on it at Dallas Area Catholics.

Meanwhile ... this is the man he wants "removed" and the people of this same land he wants slaughtered under a lie that Basser Al-Assad is persecuting his people and needs to be overthrown by America. Assad is shown here with his wife Asma during a visit to the Saint Takla Monastery in Maloula in 2014, before it was destroyed by Islamists funded by Barack Obama and urged on by John McCain. 

This is the man, President Sisi of Egypt, who showed up at Christmas Mass in the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo - the first time in modern Egyptian history that a President of Egypt has not only wished his beautiful lands Christians a Blessed Christmas but actually went into a Coptic Church to cheers and tears of joy by the people. He has vowed to rebuild churches destroyed by the Islamists under the Obama supported Muslim Brotherhood takeover!

A priest, Father Polous Yacoub has been beheaded in Mosul. Where is the outrage from this Obama?

Has America gone insane?

Do you have any idea what is coming upon you and the rest of us because of this man, Obama? 

Barack Hussein Obama has to be called out as an enemy of Catholics and Christians everywhere. 

He is an enemy to America and a danger to the security of our lands.

God help us.

Obama revealed his true colors at Prayer Breakfast, and true ignorance of history

Written by Allen West on February 6, 2015

There is grave danger in statements supporting moral equivalency and religious relativism. What happens is horrific behavior is excused because you have a certain recalcitrance in admitting the existence of evil.

President Barack Obama had the chance to affirm our Judeo-Christian faith heritage at the National Prayer Breakfast just days after the world was exposed to the savage and barbaric actions of ISIS in the burning to death of the captured Jordanian fighter pilot. But he did not.

As we reported yesterday, instead the Islamapologist-in-Chief attempted to find moral equivalency between the brutality of ISIS and Christianity, saying that violence rooted in religion isn’t exclusive to Islam, but has been carried out by Christians as well.

“Unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ,” Obama said. “In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”

Obama also denounced Islamic State terrorists for professing to stand up for Islam when they were actually “betraying it.” “We see ISIL, a brutal vicious death cult that in the name of religion carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism,” he said criticizing them for “claiming the mantle of religious authority for such actions.”

Now, being a simple student of history, I’d like to share a simple analysis — and please, I ask all the Islamapologists reading this to sit down and take a deep breath.

First of all, Pope Urban II called for the Crusade in response to Muslim brigands and raiders who were attacking Christian pilgrims in the Holy Land. I find it rather odd that Obama would refer to something that is over 900 years old in order to make a statement of relativism. The sad truth is that no one is running around in Knights Templar white robes declaring “God wills it.” However, the same enemy that Pope Urban II saw as a threat exists to today and still declares, “Allahu Akhbar.”

As for the Spanish Inquisition, consider that this came after the expulsion of Muslim domination on the Iberian Peninsula for some 700 years.

As a matter of fact, Islamists still refer to Spain as “Al Andalusia” which means to this day still consider it Muslim land — after all it was part of their caliphate conquest. Good thing ol’ Charles “The Hammer” Martel turned back an invading Muslim Army in 732 AD at the Battle of Tours — just as was done by the Venetian fleet at Lepanto in 1571 — just as done by the heroic European Knights at Vienna in 1683. Yes, the Inquisition was horrible and severely affected the Jewish population in Spain. It was however, an overreaction to ensure that Catholicism reigned superior and was never again subjugated as it had been under the Moors of North Africa.

You see religious relativism in this case dismisses the actions of ISIS who is actually more closely following the exploits of Mohammad.

If you study history and begin at the Medina phase, approximately 622 AD, you’ll find a murderous warlord who used terror and “religious manipulation” as he led almost 25 combat raids, the first being the Nakhla raid, circa 622 AD. This all came after the “peaceful” first phase of Islam, just 12 years in length.

The world has been exposed to the brutality of militant Islam for some 1400 years – a theocratic-political totalitarian ideology that spread by way of the sword, not peaceful proselytization. Hence why the flag of Saudi Arabia has a koranic verse above the sword of Mohammad.

And if you understand the Koran and the hadiths you’ll find the history laid out here corresponds to a shift in the verses and traditions towards violence — which the latter verse under the premise of “nakeesh” (abrogation) supersede the previous “peaceful” verses — yet all are still held in equal regard as the words of Allah as revealed to Muhammad.

Lastly, as we shared yesterday, Obama should be careful in equivocating slavery and Jim Crow to the actions of ISIS — after all it was those righteous Democrat Christians who supported such heinous actions as lynchings.

I have a simple recommendation for President Obama — don’t attend any more National Prayer Breakfasts. The angst created by these ill-conceived words is just not worth it — better to just not be there, than to be there and call into question your loyalties to the Judeo-Christian faith heritage of America.

Obama once again attempted to lecture us and failed miserably. ISIS is Islamic, they are militant Islamists and they represent an evil that came from a man who went rogue and used a religious belief as a means to an end — power. Now, that should have been the crux of Obama’s comments, but I suppose those “undisclosed” Muslim leaders with whom he met had a different idea.

Mr. President, true, you are not running again, and true, you did win twice. But even truer, you are damning your reputation as a president and may never hold any regard or esteem of the American people. Then again, perhaps that was always your aim, as you fundamentally transform our beloved Constitutional Republic.