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I wonder if the heart of Pope Francis I would be softened by reading this story. Somehow I don't think so and I fear that this is true for all his friends. He would say that the nuns were doing too much penance ... as his appointed Sister Destroyer said about the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate. I wonder if he is the Pope spoken of in the Fatima circles as the "Pope under the influence of the devil" mentioned somewhere in Our Lady's messsage. Anyway, thank you for this beautiful sad true story. It's inconceivable that there are humans on this earth who can be so cruel. Never mind! There is Light and Glory ahead when Mary Triumphs in the world, and, Christ comes!
There's still saints living in the world. We just don't hear much about them. Thank you for publishing this.
Coming soon to a country near you!
I can't figure out if the cartoon. I think it's a pro-Catholic cartoon but not positive.
I just finished reading "Lord of the World" by Fr. Robert Hugh Benson. Written in 1907, "Lord of the World" is a "science fiction" novel set sometime in the future (assume mid 21st century) and Fr. Benson, an Englishman, wrote the novel to illustrate the rise of the Antichrist and how easily the world will turn against the Catholic Church. After reading this article about the plight of the Catholic orphanages in China it parallels exactly what Fr. Benson foretold in his novel. Secular humanists despise the Truth and the Faith. Look at what is happening in our world today; deviance is virtuous and virtue is now deviant. What used to be recognized as morally wrong and even outlawed by civil authorities is now celebrated and promoted. As surely as night follows day, soon the civil authorities in the "enlightened West" will turn their ire against that remnant of the Catholic Church that refuses to accept the lies and falsehoods of the modern world. In the 1930's Hitler used the Jews as the scapegoat for the economic failings of Germany, to justify his persecution of them and so in the not too distant future, Western Europe and the United States will use the Catholic Church as the scapegoat for the moral failings of the modern world. We already see the underpinnings of this as anyone who speaks out against the absurd and perverted idea that men can become women and women can become men is immediately vilified and excoriated in the press. How soon does it become like the Chinese communists against the nuns? Pray the rosary, pray the rosary, pray the rosary. Oh Mary conceived without sin, pray for us.
After decades--generations--of patient, deliberate subversion and perversion of every institution of learning, media, and government by Marxist propagandists (and of course they have wormed their way into the Church hierarchy, as our open eyes so inform us, if the testimony of Bella Dodd wasn't enough), the scenario that you describe is absolutely believable. We see the fertile ground for it all around us. There is no "moderate" middle ground between left and right; it has clearly become stark demarcation between Wrong and Right, and if you are a follower of Christ there can be no question of seeking any compromise with them. We have already witnessed the Stalinesque actions by the Skinny Little Kenyan (I can't bare to utter his name) as he phone-and-penned his various anti-Christian decrees--and got away with it. You know that their time will come again, and next time they will grab it all. That's when the persecutions will begin in earnest. The reason that the American Left is still shrieking like exorcised demons over a year after Trump's victory is because they had all the machinery in place for their permanent, irreversible takeover, ready and waiting for Hillary the Broomstick Pilot to grab the levers of power and begin her maniacal, vindictive reign.
I pray that Trump is as talented at dismantling as he is at building, for the functioning, churning, deep state still exists, and is not his friend, nor is it the friend of Christianity, either.
Read Fr Vince Micelli's book, "The Antichrist". The Church Fathers were almost universal in saying that the Antichrist will be a Jew. Remember, he will be worshiped in the rebuilt Temple.
Thank you, dear Sisters, for your blood, sweat and tears and for the shining example of your Faith.
I tremble at my lack of commitment when compared to your lives.
I think it important to highlight that the Chinese Communists focused on evolution. The hip and up to date Catholics, like the Protestant counterparts they love to ape, long ago decided that being Evolutionist was necessary to being accepted as sanely not retarded. This tale is yet another that marks the simple fact that the most vicious and brutal anti-Christ 'reformers' make evolution central to their friendly persuasion. They know that if people believe in evolution from single cells ultimately into mankind, then people will tend to lose faith in Christ, with those that remain believers usually compartmentalizing their faith so that it is impotent before a world marked by anti-Christ murder.
The Second Coming won't come soon enough for me.
JMJ
Semper Fi
It will come after the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the period of peace and the Antichrist.
The 'underground nun' at the end of the story secretly signaling.
It is like a knife in my heart.
These 'underground Catholics' have been betrayed by the Pope Himself to their own mockers and tormentors.
I sure do wish someone in the movie making business would read this article and make a movie about these courageous Christian women. This is a wonderful story.
Such a film would be denounced as HATE personified by all the standard 'civil rights' groups.
And there would be a deluge of Pope Francis type Catholics joining that chorus.
I hate to post this but...you're probably right (although it *would* make a good movie if TMM wrote the screenplay).
That’s probably true. Francis doesn’t have much good to say about traditional Catholicism.
When I was in my 20's I would go on retreat with my mother to the Columban Retreat House in Derby, NY. Father James O'Reilly, of Irish nationality, a former Columban missionary to China, was the retreat master. I wish I could remember his stories but I didn't write them down. He was tried and kicked out just like these sisters. He had nothing good to say about the Communists and would have stayed with his congregation if he could.
He probably didn’t want to say anything because he feared that people he cared for in China would be harmed.
This is the face of Marxism when it has consolidated its power and no longer has to worry about public opinion. This is what the pope and too many in the hierarchy have decided to snuggle with--in China and elsewhere. They cannot be ignorant of the many official condemnations that Church has already pronounced on Marxism/Socialism, any more than they can be ignorant of savagery of mohammedism which they continue to coddle as they watch it pollute what remains of Christendom.
But thank God for those beautiful, faithful, sisters who lived Christ's love regardless of the consequences. May the day again come when the Church, made again whole, and purged of the rot that now infects it, send forth its loving missionaries, the peaceful warriors for Christ, to help re-evangelize the world for Him and begin again the work of saving souls.
Thank you so much for saying what I thought and saying it so well. My heart breaks for our suffering Church and the thought of what is to come. God help us all.
My heart breaks as well. And it enrages me to see our churchmen playing kissy-face with our historic enemies: mohammedans, communists, what have you. We have many brothers and sisters who are so sickened by what they see they have jumped ship and have gone over to protestantism, Orthodoxy, or have simply dropped out altogether. May God give all of us the graces we need to hold fast and fight for the Church that Jesus so lovingly gave to us, however we can.
A most moving and inspiring account about the lives of these saintly women. That used to be the meaning of Catholicism ... Thank you to Theresa Marie Moreau for redressing the balance against the barrage of lies.
What can one say? The stupidity and cruelty of man seems to have no limits.
I guess Francis doesn't have to persecute the Chinese Catholics directly. He has the Communist government to do it for him by proxy.
Raymond Arroyo interviewed Cardinal Zen about the mess created by Pope Francis acquiescing to the commies. In describing the government approved bishops, I thought there's no difference between them and most of the American Bishops and Cardinals.
Imo, the American bishops wouldn't be so acquiescent.
Catholic Family News ran a story some years ago when Bishop Lori was still in CT. Two "Catholic" legislators sponsored legislation that would have effectively put the State of Connecticut in charge of the Church.
Bishop Lori "fought the good fight" (apologies to St. Paul). No compromise. No flattery. Give no quarter.
Maybe MJM could post a link to that CFN article. I can't find it on the CFN website.
'*and most* of the American Bishops and Cardinals.' However, Imo, most would acquiesce, whether from a little walkin' around money from the government or eventual physical threats. Apologies to Bishop Lori, but standing up to Connecticut is akin to Hollywood stars congratulating themselves at the Oscars for the 'brave' speech they gave denouncing Trump.
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Thank you for the link. The article was fantastic. I clicked the link to the Diocese of Bridgeport, and it gave me the general website not the statement from the Diocese.
Wow....I thought the VERY SAME THING! Basically, there is NO difference.
And Francis has abandoned millions more 'orphans' into the hands of butchers. God help them, and him.
What great examples of sainthood📿🌹