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Priest Beheaded in France

je suis charles martle

 

Past time for a crusade:

 

An 86-year-old priest has been ‘beheaded’ by two ‘ISIS’ knifemen who cut his throat after bursting into a French church and taking nuns and worshippers hostage before being shot dead by police.

Five people including the priest, two nuns and two parishioners were held by assailants who raided the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen in Normandy at 9am.

The clergyman, named as Jacques Hamel, is believed to have been beheaded during the attack while another hostage is ‘hovering between life and death’ in hospital.

The two attackers have been ‘neutralised’ by elite marksmen in a dramatic police operation while the building is being searched for possible explosives. French president Francois Hollande said the men claimed to be from’ ISIS. 

There were reports the attackers shouted ‘Daesh’ – an alternative name for ISIS often used by the French government – as they ran into the church. At least one of the men was dressed in Islamic clothing, according to French media reports, and an anti-terrorist unit has already taken up the investigation.

It comes as it emerged that the place of worship was one of a number of Catholic churches on a terrorist ‘hit list’ found on a suspected ISIS extremist last April.

Go here to read the rest.  In response to this latest act of naked barbarity, the Pope, once again, has denounced the violence as “absurd” and  Archbishop Lebrun of Rouen had the following statement:

“I cry out to God, with all men of good will. And I invite all non-believers to unite with this cry … The Catholic Church has no other arms besides prayer and fraternity between men.”

 

 

In regard to the Pope, the Jihadists clearly do not view this violence as absurd.   It is part of an ongoing strategy to destabilize the West and it is working.  Holy Father, respectfully, if you have nothing useful to say, just pray for the dead and please otherwise shut up.  In regard to the Archbishop, no other arms?  We Catholics invented the Crusade!   Can we now round file the neo-pacifism that has infested the Church before it slays us all?

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bill bannon
bill bannon
Tuesday, July 26, AD 2016 6:34am

March 28,2016 to hundreds of children at the Vatican, Pope Francis says and has them repeat, ” Immigrants are not a danger…immigrants are in danger.”
I like Francis’ heart and have contempt for his mind….and I would leave no child alone with him for any teaching experience except the tango…maybe…..he might screw that up too.

Elizabeth Fitzmaurice
Elizabeth Fitzmaurice
Tuesday, July 26, AD 2016 6:53am

O/T: In the upper right of the page, there’s a box “Follow The American Catholic” with links to your Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. pages. When I click on the Twitter icon, it does not go to your Twitter page. At least not that I can see. When I click on the Twitter icon, it goes to a Twitter feed called @TheAmrcnCthlc (which seems to be a solar panel company).

How do I get to your real Twitter page?

bill bannon
bill bannon
Tuesday, July 26, AD 2016 7:40am

Bukhari:Vol.4/Book52/No.256 “The Prophet passed by and was asked whether it was permissible to attack infidels at night with the probability of exposing their women and children to danger. The Prophet replied, ‘Their women and children are from them.’”

Meaning…you need not worry about them. Bukhari is not just hadith. He is canonical hadith meaning inerrant as is the Koran. From the passage you can see how the Nice truck driver could kill all in his path but one report said many victims were muslims. ISIS though regards even the Muslim Brotherhood as infidels. It takes little stretching of the above hadith….to get to bombing the innocent in cafes.

Pinky
Pinky
Tuesday, July 26, AD 2016 8:12am

I’m not sure that their objective is to destabilize the West. It may be that they’re killing people because their objective is to kill people. “Terrorism” may not be the right word any more.

BobTanaka
Tuesday, July 26, AD 2016 8:16am

“The Catholic Church has no other arms besides prayer and fraternity between men.”

Your Grace, St. Louis and St. Joan of Arc would disagree with you on that.

CAM
CAM
Tuesday, July 26, AD 2016 8:24am

Two thoughts – Catholics are not Quakers. God helps those who help themselves.

June Rose O'Connor-English
June Rose O'Connor-English
Tuesday, July 26, AD 2016 8:39am

Sickening atrocity! This has to end and we have got to step up and do whatever we have to do!

Judy
Judy
Tuesday, July 26, AD 2016 8:52am

The cardinal will now be complicit in the deaths of other French citizens by muslims.

bill bannon
bill bannon
Tuesday, July 26, AD 2016 8:53am

Years ago Mark Shea in a debate with me on probably the death penalty….called my exampled hero…Jehu…the most blood thirsty man in the Bible. The last three Popes would have sided with Shea because Jehu slaughtered the house of Ahab (because God ordered him to). And Jehu ordered the two eunuchs to throw Jezebel from the balcony after which he trampled her with a chariot…. and dogs ate her carcass. Shea and three Popes would frown on the passages without knowing the ending….actually reading the OT made all four of them hurl. God appeared to Jehu afterwards and said this in 2 Kings 10:30 New American Bible
30 ” The Lord said to Jehu: Because you have done well what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in my heart, your sons to the fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel.”

Fuquay Steve
Fuquay Steve
Tuesday, July 26, AD 2016 9:32am

If the Pope was at the Gates of Vienna all this would be mute for there would be nothing to defend. It is apparent the the Pope is not interested in defending the Faith and the faithful as well. This will not end well.

bill bannon
bill bannon
Tuesday, July 26, AD 2016 9:38am

No….the debate was on lying and Jehu used a lie to ambush the idolaters and Aquinas ( and Shea) said the lie was a sin and St. Jerome said (with me) that the lie was not a sin. Aquinas ignored God’s actual words…YOU HAVE DONE WELL….not “don’t lie next time”. War allows ambushes e.g. which are a type of lying in actions.

Foxfier
Admin
Tuesday, July 26, AD 2016 9:46am

There were reports the attackers shouted ‘Daesh’ – an alternative name for ISIS often used by the French government – as they ran into the church.

If they were actually yelling Daesh, they’re recruits, not members sent in from the main group; the reason that I and the Iraqi Kurds use Daesh is because the blood thirsty unspeakables will kill you if you call them that.

Foxfier
Admin
Tuesday, July 26, AD 2016 9:48am

And here I thought I was being silly last week when I gamed out the routes of attack for our crying room and the area I walk when the kid’s too enthusiastic even for that.

Philip
Philip
Tuesday, July 26, AD 2016 10:28am

“Absurd.”-pf

Those silly Islamist.
Ya just can’t seem to understand their wacky behavior huh Pope?
Let’s not become islamophobes….not until the caliphate has seized the Vatican…then the parable of the good Samaritan might be saved for another time.

I’m praying for the victims and our Church.

Phillip
Phillip
Tuesday, July 26, AD 2016 11:04am

Is Shea now calling for knife control? He should if he wants to be consistent and in line with the Pope and Archbishop Lebrun. There is also precedent for such calls:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4581871.stm

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Tuesday, July 26, AD 2016 11:32am

“… The Catholic Church has no other arms besides prayer and fraternity between men.”

The Church used to be more muscular.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Tuesday, July 26, AD 2016 12:07pm

Bill Bannon’s early comment included, ” Immigrants are not a danger…immigrants are in danger.”
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My uncle Tom (RIP) was a tanker with Patton in North Africa and Sicily. Then, he went ashore at Salerno and was still fighting in the Po Valley when it ended. He got into Rome and was in St. Peter’s Square for a Papal audience. I bet Pope Pius XII didn’t tell them “Nazis are not a danger…Nazis are in danger.”
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Peace and justice file: Uncontrolled/unlimited immigration and “refugeeism” could destroy the ruling class. Look on the bright side . . .

Penguin Fan
Penguin Fan
Tuesday, July 26, AD 2016 1:57pm

Pelayo, Queen Isabel the Catholic Servant of God, Don Juan of Austria, Charles Martel (the Hammer), King San Fernando, John Sobieski…….they would spit on the feet of pacifists.

bill bannon
bill bannon
Tuesday, July 26, AD 2016 2:46pm

The uk Telegraph says both attackers were killed by police which is good because Pope Francis is against life sentences and he might have stuck his nose in the matter some months hence to get attention for the Church and from the Nobel jury.. The attackers are obviously picking out beautiful dark eyed houri right now as they enter paradise for killing an unarmed man in his 80’s….Koran 52:20…. “and we shall wed them to Houri with dark lovely eyes.”
Or not….they could be in hell right now and they could meet Muhammed there and try to kick his ass for ruining their lives. Or we could find that they repented as they died and God graced them like Saul/Paul another killa….and are doing the painful severe purgatory period but hopeful one. There could have been a Carthusian praying for all terrorists. But….they still might be in hell right now because God is still the only One who decides and knows for sure.

Mary De Voe
Wednesday, July 27, AD 2016 7:05am

The murderer, in the first degree, is brought to Justice by his own citizenship in the state, It is the murderer whose Justice and citizenship is used in power of attorney who executes the condemned murderer in the first degree.
Aiding, abetting and giving comfort to the enemy in time of war is treason. Our Lady promised a third world war of unimaginable proportions.

Mary De Voe
Wednesday, July 27, AD 2016 7:09am

Bill Bannon: What are the attackers going to use in heaven with their 77 virgins unless they have a human body? True human sexuality gives life. Besides, addiction to lust and sodomy is boring, Can anyone imagine having sex without love for eternity…boring.

bill bannon
bill bannon
Wednesday, July 27, AD 2016 7:52am

Mary De Voe,
Check in more often. We worry when you vanish for weeks. The hadiths…the sunna…the traditions….say that each muslim man will have a tent so big that his wife in one corner will not know about houri in the other corner. That is one big tent. Seriously I believe its the sufi and liberal muslims who take the houri as metaphors….but all militants and traditionalists take the houri as literal. ISIS people never experience love in sex….that’s why they enslave Yazedi women and others.

Dan Curry
Dan Curry
Wednesday, July 27, AD 2016 8:19am

Read the Koran. Read history. Read about the religion from Mohammed to now. It teaches and has done what this thug did !!

Philip
Philip
Wednesday, July 27, AD 2016 11:04am

@Mary DeVoe.

I agree with bill b.
Your missed.

Love is everything gratifying if Love is void of Love, agape love. So yes to the assertion that ISIS is unaware of true love since True Love is sacrificial and not selfish. Ottoman empire revisited, less Turkey, more Islam. This battle will be won by Our Lady of the Holy Rosary and of Victory. We must, Must have a solid prayer life first, then action. Contemplation first, Sanctification of self second and thirdly complete indwelling of the Holy Spirit. To be overshadowed by the Holy Spirit is surrender of self to complete abandonment. Once attained doesn’t mean always attained, but by continuous acts of mortification and acceptance of graces bestowed one can truly be ready for anything and everything.

These are the times which YOU have been called to service.

Stay close to God in His Sacraments, Adoration and Our Lady’s Rosary.
Scapula is ownership rights. If you are enrolled in the Brown Scapula, you are our Lady’s property. Servitude is Love.

Philip
Philip
Wednesday, July 27, AD 2016 11:12am

Silence begets prayer.
Prayer begets Faith.
Faith begets Love.
Love begets Service.
Service begets Peace.
-Blessed Mother Theresa of Calcutta.

Peace be to you.

Mary De Voe
Wednesday, July 27, AD 2016 12:31pm

@Philip “you are our Lady’s property. Servitude is Love.” Our Lady’s will is in perfect conformity to God’s will in time and in eternity. It is a privilege. God has a patent and copyright on persons which God uses to set us free. Do not worry. Pray or me. I will come as often as possible. I miss you greatly, too.

Philip
Philip
Wednesday, July 27, AD 2016 12:32pm

I’m praying for you now.
Peace my beloved sister from another mister.
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Christine
Christine
Wednesday, July 27, AD 2016 7:38pm

I found his use of the adjective ‘absurd’- well, absurd.
If ever there were anything as clear, obvious, purposeful and even logical as what those two jihadis did to the priest and others, PF missed it and misinterpreted it. This is wha jihadis do. Nothing absurd about it. Oh- was he suffering from air-sickness again? Maybe he should just stay home.

bill bannon
bill bannon
Wednesday, July 27, AD 2016 7:49pm

Christine,
Pope Francis on the plane said all religions are peaceful but here is Muhammed himself in chapter 8 of the Koran speaking of attacking infidels at Mecca from Medina and cutting off their heads:

Quran (8:12) – “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.

I think Pope Francis never read more than four minutes of the Koran if that. I suspect he read a synopsis by a liberal muslim who actually never mentions the violent passages.

Mary De Voe
Friday, July 29, AD 2016 6:47am

One rosary for you Philip and Bill.

Philip
Philip
Friday, July 29, AD 2016 7:37am

Isaiah 52:7 is my prayer to you Mary DeVoe.
Oh how beautful upon the mountains are the feet of him/her who brings good tidings….

Please seek this out, for you bring all of us the truth, for “your God is ruling.”

Mary De Voe
Friday, July 29, AD 2016 7:42pm

Isaiah 50:8-9 “My vindicator is here at hand. (TRUTH and JUSTICE) Does anyone start proceedings against me? Then let us go to court together. (HABEAS CORPUS) Who thinks he has a case against me? (NO TRIAL IN ABSENTIA; TRIAL BY JURY) Let him approach me. (TO BE FACED BY ONE’S ACCUSER; THE FIFTH AMENDMENT)
The Lord Yahweh is coming to my help, who dare condemn me? (THE SOVEREIGN PERSON’S CIVIL RIGHT TO EQUAL JUSTICE) They shall all go to pieces like a garment devoured by moths.”(PERJURERS IN THE FABRIC OF SOCIETY, THE CLOTH OF SOCIAL ORDER)
We need God to be God, (PERFECT JUSTICE and THE WHOLE TRUTH)
It is the Glorious Mysteries for you, Philip and the Joyful Mysteries for Bill Bannon

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