tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post7055822706979227107..comments2023-06-01T09:22:18.917+01:00Comments on Liturgiae Causa: Migrants or Moochers?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-17605093102206401462015-09-08T01:01:59.057+01:002015-09-08T01:01:59.057+01:00Scheuer is spot on with his assessment of the Mosl...Scheuer is spot on with his assessment of the Moslem invasion of Europe. George Bush began this catastrophe with his invasion of Iraq in 1990, his son completed the job as he attempted to justify his father's failed policy by murdering Saddam Hussein.Prior Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15676817526437140998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-83250690716350432512015-09-07T21:54:09.313+01:002015-09-07T21:54:09.313+01:00Readers sympathetic with my view might also feel e...Readers sympathetic with my view might also feel encouraged to read the thoughts of Dr Michael Scheuer on this matter:<br /><br />http://non-intervention.com/1801/u-s-nato-military-interventions-caused-europes-migrant-disaster/Patrick Sheridanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995907911415177074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-61641397376909413152015-09-07T11:39:46.289+01:002015-09-07T11:39:46.289+01:00There is no place in our world which is not missio...There is no place in our world which is not mission territory. Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05013873413042957148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-78904166404906166062015-09-07T11:26:54.755+01:002015-09-07T11:26:54.755+01:00You clearly don't understand my position. I...You clearly don't understand my position. I'm not made of stone! My position is this: to turn compassion into public policy on this massive scale will be ruinous in the long term. If you do not understand the enormity of the consequences that will come of this, in social, political, religious, cultural and linguistic terms then I don't know what to say.<br /><br />I take it as axiomatic that charity begins at home. If you want to be swamped with missionary work at home (I see that you are interested in missionary work now), that's up to you. But most people don't and are quite content with living out the Christian faith in their parishes, and with their friends and neighbours.Patrick Sheridanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995907911415177074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-10039886884293129832015-09-07T10:36:09.808+01:002015-09-07T10:36:09.808+01:00Hello there Patrick, text book liberal here!
I wo...Hello there Patrick, text book liberal here! <br />I wonder, are you familiar with the writings of Hugo Rahner, more specifically on the Devotion to the Sacred Heart? <br />If so, you would be very familiar with the meaning of the theological term "Splangnezomai".<br />You see, a basic tenet of the Christian faith is about having compassion for the oppressed, the unloved, those on the fringes. This is not a new teaching, this is very simply mirroring the same compassion that Christ showed to humankind in the scriptures. <br />For us to show compassion towards those who are less fortunate than ourselves is in itself prayer as "expressing God, not simply addressing him" (Martin Buber), we as co-creators with God are repairing the damage of the heartlessness in the places whence they have travelled from and we join in the liberation and empowerment of our fellow human beings. <br />When Christ showed Compassion to the world, it wasn't about a patronising pity, but a gutsy solidarity, Splangnezomai. Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05013873413042957148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-17823765675682954012015-09-07T09:32:23.665+01:002015-09-07T09:32:23.665+01:00Our Labour MP here in Cambridge (where the housing...Our Labour MP here in Cambridge (where the housing shortage is so acute and housing costs so astronomically high, it is a disaster for working-class residents) led a big "refugees welcome" rally over the weekend. Taste some of his verbal diarrhoea:<br /><br />"Through the collective mire of disparagement from the Tories towards those refugees fleeing war and corrupt government, the people of Cambridge have once again shown their belief in a progressive solution to this crisis.<br /><br />"Call on the Government to allow us to welcome those people in Calais to our city to contribute towards the amazing diversity."<br /><br />Apparently all the different colours and genders have to do is hold hands together and everything will be so *amazing*! See: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COEj_K8WwAEV2j7.jpg:largeGeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02204199533749851084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-17415642875236746442015-09-07T09:27:19.579+01:002015-09-07T09:27:19.579+01:00Correction: I said "Samaritarianism," wh...Correction: I said "Samaritarianism," when clearly I meant "Samaritanism." Although I'm not even sure if that's a real word.Patrick Sheridanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995907911415177074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-80089046134137149032015-09-07T06:59:37.576+01:002015-09-07T06:59:37.576+01:00If anything the CofE is even more gung-ho about it...If anything the CofE is even more gung-ho about it. The Rev. Giles Fraser published a piece in the Guardian insisting that the Bible requires us to take all comers, case closed. And if some of them blow up Fraser's own St Paul's Cathedral? No matter...Geraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02204199533749851084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-24050041265233943922015-09-07T05:50:01.729+01:002015-09-07T05:50:01.729+01:00I've read "The Camp of the Saints" a...I've read "The Camp of the Saints" at least three times, and given copies of it to friends and family members. It is the most prophetic dystopian novel of the twentieth century, in my opinion. It's author is a traditionalist Roman Catholic, many of whose other novels call for a restoration of the French monarchy (which dynasty, I don't recall off the top of my head). Gerry T. Nealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12137796641408373451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-68660086708388260222015-09-07T00:36:21.837+01:002015-09-07T00:36:21.837+01:00I'm not familiar with the novel but the excerp...I'm not familiar with the novel but the excerpted quotes are spot on.Prior Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15676817526437140998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-51630469614584349562015-09-07T00:27:55.998+01:002015-09-07T00:27:55.998+01:00Interesting quotes here on the post You and Your P...Interesting quotes here on the post You and Your Pity (6th Sept) from:<br />http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.co.uk/<br />The quotes are from a 1973 French apocalptic novel "The Camp of the Saints". Never read it, but the Wiki entry sounds interesting. Anyone know the book?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-54789023831261307302015-09-06T23:08:41.124+01:002015-09-06T23:08:41.124+01:00Quite. I know they're highly unpopular to-day ...Quite. I know they're highly unpopular to-day but I tend to view the Catholic Monarchs as true saints of the Church. I've noticed that support for untrammelled immigration to this country, and for these migrants, has come from some Roman Catholic traditionalists; people who have no love for this country. It's a very Guy Fawkes tendency.Patrick Sheridanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995907911415177074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-88206633740600979562015-09-06T22:56:58.783+01:002015-09-06T22:56:58.783+01:00I went to mass and no surprise heard this propagan...I went to mass and no surprise heard this propaganda somehow fitted into Christ and the dead man of Naim. A hurricane of deception. I'm seeing many including most bishops and pastors subtly implying to the naive flock that this is Christian Syrians fleeing Muslim terror; when it's actually nearly entirely Muslim Sudanese, general Middle Eastern, Afghan, Indian subcontinent, etc. young men pouring in looking for jobs and benefits. The actual Christians are stuck where they are; the honest reporting on the ground the UN camps/migration system is usually run by Muslims/Muslim sympathizers.<br /><br />If Christianity is this esoteric doctrine of self-destruction it's certainly curious it never appeared as such for millennia. Were Arthur, Aetius, Charles Martel, El Cid Campeador, all vile reprobates? <br /><br />It's sickening and demoralizing.Dagonethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14199187848876122502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-24194236376849955362015-09-06T22:09:51.926+01:002015-09-06T22:09:51.926+01:00How true! Here's a quote from Peter Hitchens o...How true! Here's a quote from Peter Hitchens on the very timely and pertinent blog, OldJamestownChurch.Com.<br /><br />"Actually we can’t do what we like with this country. We inherited it from our parents and grandparents and we have a duty to hand it on to our children and grandchildren, preferably improved and certainly undamaged.<br /><br />It is one of the heaviest responsibilities we will ever have. We cannot just give it away to complete strangers on an impulse because it makes us feel good about ourselves. . . .<br /><br />As William Blake rightly said: ‘He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars. General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.’. . . .<br /><br />Our advantages depend very much on our shared past, our inherited traditions, habits and memories. Newcomers can learn them, but only if they come in small enough numbers. Mass immigration means we adapt to them, when they should be adapting to us.<br /><br />So now, on the basis of an emotional spasm, dressed up as civilisation and generosity, are we going to say that we abandon this legacy and decline our obligation to pass it on, like the enfeebled, wastrel heirs of an ancient inheritance letting the great house and the estate go to ruin? . . . .<br /><br />Can we stop this transformation of all we have and are? I doubt it. To do so would involve the grim-faced determination of Australia, making it plain in every way that our doors are open only to limited numbers of people, chosen by us, enduring the righteous scorn of the supposedly enlightened.<br /><br />As we lack the survival instinct and the determination necessary, and as so many of our most influential people are set on committing a sentimental national suicide, I suspect we won’t.<br /><br />To those who condemn reasonable calls for national self-defence as bigotry, hatred and intolerance (which they are not), I make only this request: just don’t pretend you’re doing a good and generous thing, when you’re really cowardly and weak."Prior Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15676817526437140998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-19303093590552160792015-09-06T22:02:50.867+01:002015-09-06T22:02:50.867+01:00There comes a point when you have to distinguish b...There comes a point when you have to distinguish between leftism and Christian benevolence; between Samaritarianism and being a fool; between love of our neighbour, and "the stranger," and legitimate defence of the remnants of our civilization.<br /><br />We seem to be ruled by our emotions nowadays, and ad hoc ethics. Helping several thousand of these migrants might tick the do-gooder checklist of the average champagne socialist, but what happens when they don't go back? What happens when the parents want to send their children to your local schools? What happens when they can't learn, or have no intention of learning, English? What about our already over-crowded doctors surgeries, and the unacceptable waiting times? What about the cost of living, and wages? We've already off-shored important manufacturing jobs since the 1980's to China, India and elsewhere; what about minimum wage? People don't think of the long term consequences of their actions when they hold up placards saying "migrants welcome."Patrick Sheridanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995907911415177074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-31294098310524406922015-09-06T21:41:45.430+01:002015-09-06T21:41:45.430+01:00When St. Jorge the Brown of Buenos Aires opens the...When St. Jorge the Brown of Buenos Aires opens the papal apartments to these pitiful "Moslem refugees" we can reconsider our position. Until then "Charity begins at Home". Moslem Arabs and Africans are incompatible with Western Christian Culture and should be expelled in mass.Prior Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15676817526437140998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-75782159123747570582015-09-06T21:29:45.503+01:002015-09-06T21:29:45.503+01:00"one day when, not long from now, I am forced..."one day when, not long from now, I am forced to flee, like many a Christian Englishman, from this once homogeneous, white Christian land."<br /><br />Of course the $64 question is, where would you flee?Geraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02204199533749851084noreply@blogger.com