You really believed that Trump was going to prosecute me?
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday appeared to back away from his campaign trail vow to pursue criminal charges against former rival Hillary Clinton over her email server and family foundation, with a senior Trump adviser saying his White House will not seek a criminal investigation.
Hours later, Trump himself said that he was no longer committed to prosecuting Clinton, telling editors and reporters at the New York Times that he doesn’t “want to hurt the Clintons, I really don’t. She went through a lot and suffered greatly in many different ways.”
Who doesn't love the title given to the POTUS elect by some on the Alt-Right: The God Emperor of the Cherry Blossom Throne. The name is funny AND it reveals that his supporters will not be too disconcerted with his broken campaign promises - especially this one. Well, adults ought know that men whoring for votes in America will say and/or do anything and the voters - enticed by the promises - are expected to almost immediately prepare their own selves to convince their own selves that We knew he didn't mean that!! when proof of the whoring lies becomes incontestable. Caution, don't step on the broken promises... And, of course, he didn't mean he was really going to prosecute Hillary for her high crimes because this is America and we have a tradition of not jailing the powerful for their crimes because blind justice and rule of law. YAY America!!!
The main Catholic church on Santorini is the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist, located in Fira and ABS and The Bride went there for Confession and while we were waiting, we listened to recordings of Gregorian Chant and ABS thought to his own self -OK, this is a Catholic Church and there is Gregorian Chant to be heard; tomorrow's Lil' Licit Liturgy just may be more than tolerable. Wrong!! As people from all over the world - Santorini is impossibly beautiful, thus making it a must see for world travelers - began to assemble for Mass (Yes, of COURSE there was loud babbling) a Deacon appeared and told us all to please say the responses in our native tongue (Yes, Latin was effectively declared dead in the church because Babel) and so whenever one reads some proclamation or assertion from a Bishop of Santorini, one must remember what is most important to him and it is not a solemn, beautiful, true, good and dignified Sacramental Re-presentation of the Holocaust. Bishop of Santorini attacks the Faithful: http://www.onepeterfive.com/head-greek-bishops-accuses-four-cardinals-heresy-apostasy-schism/
VATICAN CITY — Support for migrants is so central to Pope Francis’ vision for the church that he has made welcoming them a potential test for those seeking entry to Heaven on Judgment Day.
The pontiff’s advocacy for refugee rights faces a diplomatic test Wednesday when he begins a five-day visit to Poland, where a populist government has slammed the door on most asylum-seekers.
Francis is scheduled to meet Polish President Andrzej Duda in Krakow’s millennium-old castle atop Wawel Hill where, in the neighboring cathedral, Polish national heroes for centuries have been laid to rest. He then will hold a question-and-answer session with Poland’s bishops behind closed doors.
Ahead of the pope’s arrival, Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Blaszczak defended the ruling Law and Justice party’s opposition to immigration by citing the Bastille Day truck massacre of 84 people in Nice, France. Blaszczak argued that such violence was an inevitable consequence of multiculturalism.
The pope suggests that reluctance or refusal to shelter newcomers in need conflicts with the parable of the Good Samaritan, who offered aid to a robbed, wounded stranger.
Addressing the faithful earlier this month in St. Peter’s Square, Francis said that ultimately “we will be judged on the basis of works of mercy.”
“The Lord will be able to say to us: ‘Do you remember? That migrant, who so many wanted to kick out, was me.’”
Seeking to inspire by example, Francis in April brought 12 Syrians back with him to Rome after visiting a migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, where tens of thousands were stranded after perilous crossings from nearby Turkey in often overcrowded boats.
The Rev. David Hollenbach, a professor of ethics at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Affairs in Washington, said the pope’s championing of migrants is “politically important and socially important, but also religiously important to the identity of Christianity.” Hollenbach, who like Francis is a Jesuit, said in a telephone interview that the treatment of migrants and foreigners is “central in the Bible.”
It’s also intrinsic to the pope’s definition of a Christian.
Returning in February from a pilgrimage to Mexico, Francis told reporters aboard his plane: “I think that a person who thinks of building walls and not bridges isn’t Christian.” The pope was responding to a question about Donald Trump, the Republican U.S. presidential candidate, who says he wants to build a border wall to bar Mexicans from the United States.
A Polish commentator, Adam Szostkiewicz, said he expected the pope to raise Poland’s opposition to aiding refugees during this week’s visit because “this is the central theme of his pontificate in Europe. This is a European problem.”
Szostkiewicz said he expected the pope to argue against Poland’s policy, which he compared to Pontius Pilate’s attitude to the crucifixion of Jesus: “We wash our hands. This does not concern us.” But he forecast that any papal appeal would spark only a momentary stir, not any shift in government policy.
“It will be good if he says it, and it will be commented on, but it will soon be forgotten,” he said….
Well, well, speaking of Mahometan immigrants and how they enrich the culture of Italy
Ver. 43.—And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, This day shalt thou be with Me in Paradise.That is, in a place of pleasure where thou mayest be in the beatitude and beatific vision of God, i.e. To-day I will make thee for ever happy; I will make thee a king reigning in the kingdom of glory with me this day. So S. Cyril of Jerusalem (Catechet. Lect. c. 13); S. Chrysostom (Hom. ii. de Cruce et Latrone); S. Gregory of Nyssa (Serm. on the Resurrection); S. Augustine (Tract. III on John). He explains paradise by heaven, that is celestial beatitude. It is certain that Christ on the day on which He died, did not go up to heaven with the thief, but went down into the Limbus Patrum (S. Augustine Lib. ii. de Genese ad litt. chap. 34; and Maldonatus by paradise here understand Abraham’s bosom), and imparted to them the vision of His Godhead and thus made them blest, changing the order of things; for He then made limbus to be paradise, and the lower parts the upper, so that hell should be heaven. For where Christ is, there is paradise; where, the vision and beatitude of God, there, heaven. For, as to what Euthymius and other Greeks say, denying that the souls of the saints see God before the judgment and are happy: by paradise they understand an earthly place; that to which Enoch was carried. But it cannot be so—for it is of the faith that Christ, shortly after His death went down in infernum—that is, the limbus of the Fathers, but He did not go into any earthly paradise. It is, moreover, uncertain whether, after the Deluge, there be any earthly paradise remaining. But grant that there be such, it is the happy and joyful habitation, not of souls, but of bodies only. Hence it is plain from this passage, against the Greeks, Calvin, and the other innovators, that the souls of the saints, when thoroughly purged from sin, do not sleep till the day of judgment, but there behold God, and are beatified by a vision of Him.
ABS' daughter (just moved to town) wanted to bring her husband to meet the Pastor and so he dutifully went steeled for the noise and the questionable sermon. Upon entering the Church, he saw this
and thought, Hey, maybe things have changed. Nope.
What was once a Real Mass has been upended, turned sideways (if not upside down), and has become a loud and proud worship of our own selves with the Pastor promising all in attendance that everyone would be going to Heaven, just like the good thief.
Were the ethos of today's American Catholic have prevailed at Calvary, there would have been a picnic at Calvary and if there had been talk of a Limbus (Today you will be with me in Paradise) Limbus would have had an American anthropocentric interpretation.
