Friday, May 2, 2014

University of Bristol like the Diocese of Lancaster is suppressing information about the Catholic Church and misrepresenting Vatican Council II

Even after being informed there are no corrections or apologies.
There is still no reply from the University of Bristol to these blog posts which I have sent them. The professors designated as 'experts' for the students to consult, are not replying.Neither is there a denial from the Offices of the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor. As I have mentioned in a previous blog post eveb the professors of theology also will not defend the university.
 
 If the video on the websites of the University of Bristol and the Conference of Catholic Bishops of England and Wales did not promote an irrationality and cite alleged text in Vatican Council supporting this irrationality,then Prof.Gavin D'Costa would have to say that the Catholic Church teaches,according to Vatican Council II (Ad Gentes 7), that all the members of  the Bristol University Islamic Society and all the Protestant members of the university's Christian Union are on the way to Hell, unless they convert into the Catholic Church.There is no clarification from the university.
 
Since the University of Bristol cannot prove me wrong they need to affirm the Catholic Faith honestly. They need to apologize for suggesting that Nostra Aetate was an exception to the dogma on extra ecclesiam nulla salus, Ad Gentes 7 and the traditional Catholic teaching on other religions and salvation.
 
There have been  so many critical reports and the public relations department at the University of Bristol like that of the Catholic Diocese of Lancaster has nothing to say.There is no correction made. The error is not admitted. Instead the Catholic Faith is being suppressed and Vatican Council II being misrepresented.

Prof.Gavin D'Costa and the Bishop of Lancaster are providing false information on what constitutes Church. They are doing this even after being informed.
The Diocese of Lancaster is suppressing information about the Catholic Church.It is also providing incorrect information, even after being informed.No one is commenting on these blog posts sent to them.The bishop has also placed restrictions on Deacon Nick Donnelly and has suppressed free discussions about  the Catholic Faith, on Donnelly's Protect the Pope blog. 

On the official website of Lancaster, there is a  section titled The Church. Bishop Michael Campbell makes no mention of the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation and the need for all people to enter the Church with 'faith and baptism' (AG 7) to go to Heaven and avoid Hell.This is an omission.
 
Like the Conference of Bishops of England and Wales website he could be assuming that Nostra Aetate 2 refers to known exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.

There is no reference in Nostra Aetate to known cases saved with 'a ray of that Truth'. That a person can be saved as such is hypothetical. It is a possibility known only to God. Nostra Aetate does not suggest that this is a known reality.So NA 2 does not contradict the traditional teaching on other religions and Christian communities.If this is inferred by Bishop Campbell then it is wrong.The text of Vatican Council II does not make this claim.
 
To infer that NA 2 contradicts the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus is irrational. It implies we can see the dead- saved with 'a ray of that Truth' and these cases are explicit exceptions to Tradition.

I have mentioned this in quite a few blog posts with reference to the Diocese of Lancaster and neither the bishop nor any one else responds.

They are suppressing information on this issue and misrepresenting the Catholic Church and us Catholics.The Diocese of Lancaster is not providing honest information about the Catholic Church and their priorities could be politically motivated.For political reasons they are promoting an obvious falsehood.

There have been so many reports critical of the website statement on other religions and ecumenism, including the work of Deacon Nick Donnelly and the Catholic Truth Society - and the Bishop has nothing to say ?
 
I have been saying that Vatican Council II does not contradict the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. So the Council does not contradict the traditional teaching on other religions.The bishop is using a false premise in the interpretation of Nostra Aetate.Vatican Council II appears to contradict the traditional teaching on exclusive salvation in the Catholic Church with the use of the visible-dead premise.This irrationality is also taught by the priests and Deacons of the diocese.It is approved by Bishop Michael Campbell. 

Usually Feeneyism is a scapegoat as I have mentioned before.Perhaps the diocese is also ready to use this  propaganda. Does the bishop consider being saved with the baptism of desire as being a known exception to the literal interpretation of Fr.Leonard Feeney ? Is being saved in invincible ignorance (LG 16) an explicit exception to the literal interpretation of Fr.Leonard Feeney ? If it is ,then did the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 make an objective mistake, for the Diocese of Lancaster?The Magisterium made a mistake in thinking the baptism of desire was relevant to the traditional interpretation of extra ecclesiam nulla salus?
 
If Fr. Leonard Feeney was correct or wrong, Nostra Aetate does not contradict extra ecclesiam nulla salus.If Fr.Feeney was correct or wrong ,'imperfect communion with the Church(UR 3) is still not an exception to the traditional teaching on other religions.
The Diocese of Lancaster is providing false information about the Catholic Church by (1) not citing Ad Gentes 7 which states all need faith and baptism for salvation and (2) not mentioning that Nostra Aetate 2 etc do not contradict Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II.The Catechism of the Catholic Church 846 is not contradicted by CCC 847 and 848 as is suggested in Lancaster.
-Lionel Andrades
 

Islamic honor killing in UK: Muslim murders wife for being “too Westernized”

Islamic honor killing in UK: Muslim murders wife for being “too Westernized”

By on May 1, 2014 
Rania AlayedThis article, like most about honor killings, never once mentions Islam. This steadfast and universal refusal to identify the root cause of honor murders only ensures that there will be more of them.
Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, says that “retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.” However, “not subject to retaliation” is “a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring.” (‘Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2). In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law. In this case, of course, the victim was the murderer’s wife, a victim to the culture of violence and intimidation that such laws help create.
The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, but “the new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honour ‘provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.’” And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that “Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.”
“Rania Alayed case: ‘Westernised’ wife ‘murdered by husband,’” BBC, April 30, 2014:
A mother of three from Manchester was murdered by her husband for becoming “too westernised” and “establishing an independent life”, a court has heard.
Rania Alayed, 25, went missing last June but her body has never been found.
Ahmed Al-Khatib admits causing her death, claiming he was “possessed of a spirit” when he pushed her, causing her to stumble, fall and bang her head.
Al-Khatib, of Gorton, and his brother Muhaned Al-Khatib, of Salford, both deny murder.
Syrian-born Ms Alayed went to drop off her children at the flat of the defendant’s brother where she was said to have been murdered.
‘Comply or be killed’
Muhaned Al-Khatib, 38, left the address with the children some 45 minutes later and shortly afterwards her husband, Ahmed Al-Khatib, 35, walked out wearing some of her traditional clothing with a suitcase containing her corpse, the Manchester Crown Court jury was told.
Muhaned Al-Khatib said he was not present at the time that any violence was used against Ms Alayed and did not bear any responsibility for her murder, the court heard.
It is alleged that in the early hours of the next day the two brothers, and another sibling, drove the body from the Manchester area to North Yorkshire where she was buried.
The prosecution told the jury the mother of three, from Cheetham Hill, had been “in fear of her husband” Al-Khatib and “believed he might one day kill her”.
She had sought help from the Citizens Advice Bureau, the police and eventually a solicitor which had angered her husband’s family, the court heard.
Tony Cross QC, prosecuting, said: “The family of the defendants were insulted that she had gone to the law. They wanted her and her children back within the family fold.
“They believed that she was establishing an independent life, perhaps with another man. Therefore, it was decided that she should either be forced to comply or be killed.”
He added that in her husband’s eyes she “began to become a little too westernised and had friends, male and female”.
“This was all too much for the first two defendants,” he said.
Al-Khatib and and his brother admit intending to pervert the course of justice by transporting and concealing the body of Ms Alayed.
A third brother, Hussain Al-Khatib, 34, of Knutsford Road, Gorton, denies the latter charge.
The trial continues.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/islamic-honor-killing-in-uk-muslim-murders-wife-for-being-too-westernized

Pakistan: Tribal council marries off 8-year-old girl to 26-year-old man

Pakistan: Tribal council marries off 8-year-old girl to 26-year-old man

By on Apr 30, 2014 
jirgaFew things are more abundantly attested in Islamic law than the permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated the marriage:
“The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death)” (Bukhari 7.62.88).
Another tradition has Aisha herself recount the scene:
The Prophet engaged me when I was a girl of six (years). We went to Medina and stayed at the home of Bani-al-Harith bin Khazraj. Then I got ill and my hair fell down. Later on my hair grew (again) and my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girl friends. She called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me. She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house. I was breathless then, and when my breathing became Allright, she took some water and rubbed my face and head with it. Then she took me into the house. There in the house I saw some Ansari women who said, “Best wishes and Allah”s Blessing and a good luck.” Then she entrusted me to them and they prepared me (for the marriage). Unexpectedly Allah”s Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age. (Bukhari 5.58.234).
Muhammad was at this time fifty-four years old.
Marrying young girls was not all that unusual for its time, but because in Islam Muhammad is the supreme example of conduct (cf. Qur’an 33:21), he is considered exemplary in this unto today. And so in April 2011, the Bangladesh Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini declared that those trying to pass a law banning child marriage in that country were putting Muhammad in a bad light: “Banning child marriage will cause challenging the marriage of the holy prophet of Islam, [putting] the moral character of the prophet into controversy and challenge.” He added a threat: “Islam permits child marriage and it will not be tolerated if any ruler will ever try to touch this issue in the name of giving more rights to women.” The Mufti said that 200,000 jihadists were ready to sacrifice their lives for any law restricting child marriage.
Likewise the influential website Islamonline.com in December 2010 justified child marriage by invoking not only Muhammad’s example, but the Qur’an as well:
The Noble Qur’an has also mentioned the waiting period [i.e. for a divorced wife to remarry] for the wife who has not yet menstruated, saying: “And those who no longer expect menstruation among your women, if you doubt, then their period is three months, and [also for] those who have not menstruated” [Qur"an 65:4]. Since this is not negated later, we can take from this verse that it is permissible to have sexual intercourse with a prepubescent girl. The Qur”an is not like the books of jurisprudence which mention what the implications of things are, even if they are prohibited. It is true that the prophet entered into a marriage contract with A’isha when she was six years old, however he did not have sex with her until she was nine years old, according to al-Bukhari.
Other countries make Muhammad’s example the basis of their laws regarding the legal marriageable age for girls. Article 1041 of the Civil Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran states that girls can be engaged before the age of nine, and married at nine: “Marriage before puberty (nine full lunar years for girls) is prohibited. Marriage contracted before reaching puberty with the permission of the guardian is valid provided that the interests of the ward are duly observed.”
Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini himself married a ten-year-old girl when he was twenty-eight. Khomeini called marriage to a prepubescent girl “a divine blessing,” and advised the faithful to give their own daughters away accordingly: “Do your best to ensure that your daughters do not see their first blood in your house.” When he took power in Iran, he lowered the legal marriageable age of girls to nine, in accord with Muhammad’s example.
“Jirga gives minor girl in vani to settle dispute,” by Nisar Ahmad Khan, Dawn, April 27, 2014 (thanks to Halal Pork Shop):
MANSEHRA: A local jirga in Shamali area of Battagram has decided to marry off an eight-year-old girl to a 26-year-old man to settle a dispute between two families.
Local sources said that the jirga was held last week to settle a dispute, which was result of the second marriage of the father of the minor girl. They said that father of the minor girl eloped with a married woman few years ago.
The custom of handing over women to rival party for settling a dispute is called vani in the area. The practice is still common in remote parts of upper Hazara.
“We have registered an FIR against a cleric, who solemnised the marriage of Farnaz Bibi with Sadiq Shah, and 12 other people including family members of both the bride and bridegroom,” said Jehanzeb Khan,” the district police officer of Battagram, on Sunday.
He said that Meherban Shah, the father of victim girl, contracted second marriage with the wife of Sadiq Shah some three years ago and fled the area.
The official said that local elders convened a jirga to settle the feud in accordance with the local tradition last week. The jirga issued a decree to hand over the minor daughter of Meherban Shah to the former husband of his second wife, he said, adding the knot was tied in the same jirga.
The official said that Syed Mehboob Shah, the maternal uncle of the victim girl, approached police to register an FIR on Saturday.
He said that FIR was registered against 13 people including Maulvi Ghufran Shah, Sadiq Shah, Nanga Shah, Mudasser Shah, Syed Ali Shah, Mehtab Shah, Akbar Shah, Zubair Khan, Younas Shah, Yousaf Shah, Bashir Shah and Meherban Shah.
Mohammad Rafique, the SHO of Shamlai police station, told journalists that raids were being conducted to arrest the people, nominated in the FIR.
Mr Rafique said that though nikah of the minor girl was performed in the jirga yet the wedding ceremony was scheduled to be held after some time.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/pakistan-tribal-council-marries-off-8-year-old-girl-to-26-year-old-man

Syria: Islamic jihadists apply Qur’anic punishment of crucifixion

Syria: Islamic jihadists apply Qur’anic punishment of crucifixion

By on Apr 30, 2014 
crucifixion2This is in accord with the Qur’an: “Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment.” — Qur’an 5:33
Al Qaeda-linked jihadists accused of hanging victims on crosses,” by Lisa Daftari, FoxNews.com, April 29, 2014 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
Al Qaeda-backed jihadists are hanging the bodies of executed enemies on crosses crucifixion-style in a town in Northern Syria, according to a Syrian opposition group.
The executions reportedly took place Tuesday in Raqqa, where the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, an Al Qaeda-linked network, has taken over the city, according to Abu Ibrahim Alrquaoui, who identifies himself as a founder of a group called Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently.
Alrquaoui said those killed were rebels that had previously fought against the Syrian government of Bashir al-Assad. “It’s very dangerous,” Alrquaoui, told FoxNews.com in an interview. “They threaten us directly and want to kill us.”
Alrquaoui said he witnessed the executions himself, and took photographs that have since been posted on the group’s Facebook page, and are now being circulated on the Internet.
The series of photographs show different men bound to crosses in what appears to be a public square area, though it could not be independently confirmed that the subjects were dead or, if they were, by what means the executions had been carried out. The pictures do not show any apparent signs of the men nailed to a cross, nor are there any obvious, visible signs of fatal wounds.
ISIS has ruled over Raqqa for the last year, killing its remaining rebel population and demolishing national relics, according to multiple reports. “They want to stay in control. Everything they do is to scare people,” Alrquaoui said. “That’s why they kill people publicly.”
Jihadists operating in Syria have previously been accused of shooting people in the head, then affixing them to crosses. In this latest case, the ISIS charged the seven men with espionage and attempted assassination of the group’s leaders, according to Alrquaoui.
Many Syrian cities like Raqqa have fallen into the hands of Islamic terrorists. More than 150,000 people have died since the civil war began in March 2011.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/syria-islamic-jihadists-apply-quranic-punishment-of-crucifixion

‘Million-woman march’ in Nigeria to protest Boko Haram kidnappings

‘Million-woman march’ in Nigeria to protest Boko Haram kidnappings

 
Catholic World News - April 30, 2014
A “million-woman march” has been organized in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, to protest Boko Haram’s recent abduction of over 200 schoolgirls from Chibok, a town in the northeastern portion of the nation.
L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s newspaper, placed news of the march at the top of the front page in its April 30 edition.
World Watch Monitor, which reports on the persecution of Christians, described Chibok as a “mainly Christian enclave” in Borno State, which is largely Muslim.
Citing testimony from a local leader, Agence France-Presse and BBC reported that members of the Islamist terrorist organization sold the girls as brides to fighters.

CATHOLIC PROPHECY FROM APPROVED SOURCES

 
In the very early 1960's [or late 50's] --- he met Padre Pio ...who told him "You belong to the Devil" & refused his confession ...he went away shattered and broken for 1 month then returned for a full conversion. He then spent 6 months in a Cistercian Monastery in the Alps [? France] ...He was European & fluent in many languages....After this time... he left and spent time traveling around Europe speaking to Mystics who were receiving messages ...he interveiwed them for 100's of hours...- Apparently he could have written volumes, many thousands of messages... warnings ... - He moved to Australia in the 1960's got married ...
- Now we are left with his beautiful testimony ..."NOW YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED PROPHETIC EVENTS TO COME"
~ Henry Ferro RIP. Pray For Us...
*** 'Every Sinner has a past; every Saint a future" *
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http://ourladysresistance.org/prophecy.html


Italian Bishop's Conference(C.E.I) in MISSIO does not cite Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church

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 I came across a copy of a magazine today morning.The Catholic Bishops Conference of Italy (C.E.I) in its publication MISSIO ( May 2013) has articles by Mon.Ambrogio Spreafico, Pierpaol Baini, Carmelo Dotolo, Rosanna Virgili, Guido Benzi, Donatella Scaiola, Luciano Meddi and Luca Moscatelli.
In none of the articles on Evangelization, Mission, Proclamation etc have they quoted Vatican Council II, Ad Gentes 7, which says all need faith and baptism.
 
Not a single article!
 
There are no references to the Catechism of the Catholic Church 846 (Outside the Church No Salvation), Dominus Iesus 20 or the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's Notification on Fr.Jacques Dupuis S.J.
 
According to Vatican Council II (AG 7) non Catholics including Protestants are on the way to Hell unless they convert into the Catholic Church. This is the same message of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (846). Doctrinally Vatican Council II and the Catechism (1993) indicate that  the majority of  people are going to Hell, not having  Catholic Faith and the baptism of water.
The kergyma refers to the proclamation of Jesus' Death and Resurrection and  salvation which is offered in the first community, the first Catholic community. The Early Christians are traced to the one  Church founded by Jesus. So there cannot be a kergyma which does not mention exclusive salvation in the Catholic Church.
The ordinary, general means of salvation is 'faith and baptism' in the Catholic Church.If a Protestant or Orthodox Christan is saved in his religion it would not be known to us and so would not be an exception to the ordinary means of salvation.A possibility is not a known exception to Ad Gentes 7.
 
I found copies of this magazine at the Church of Santa Anastasia.Fr.Alberto Pacini , the Italian Rector of the Church,in his homilies, will not proclaim Ad Gentes 7 and say Jews and Muslims need to convert to avoid Hell.Possibly even the writers of the articles for MISSIO are afraid  to cite Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic on other religions and salvation.
-Lionel Andrades