
“Three days after Ukraine’s Feast of Epiphany, the Ukrainian Catholic bishops of the United States urged people to “not look away” from the Eastern European nation as it’s threatened by an impending Russian attack. In a Jan. 22 statement from the Archeparchy of Philadelphia, the bishops made a thinly veiled comparison of Ukraine’s oppressor, Russian president Vladimir Putin, to the biblical King Herod (who sought the annihilation of the infant Jesus).
The bishops related:
Herod appears a homicidal tyrant craving hegemony, who massacres innocent children in Bethlehem in order to kill the Messiah — a vivid image of the lust for power. The Holy Infant, bringing salvation to all, was a menace to a tyrant pathetically clinging to his self-importance … is the Ukrainian people’s exercise of their God-given dignity a threat to a modern Herod’s thirst for power and hegemony?
The bishops further described how the human dignity God bestowed on mankind threatens those in power who seek the creation of empires and the domination of others. Political observers noted communist Russia once controlled Ukraine, the second-largest country (by area) in Europe after Russia, and speculated Putin aspires to regain control of the former Soviet satellite.”
ARTICLE: https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/catholic-ukrainian-bishops-implore-people-to-pray
World Over – 2018-05-03 – Cardinal Raymond Burke with Raymond Arroyo
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CARDINAL RAYMOND LEO BURKE, former prefect of the Apostolic Signature joins us to talk about his support for the \”Pastoral Appeal to the Bishops for an Apostolic Reaffirmation of the Gospel\”, an appeal by 15 American and European clergy for the world’s bishops to reaffirm Church teaching to combat confusion and division in the Church Universal.
SOURCE VIDEO IN FULL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J88_Fnz-UXU&t=918s
THE PAPAL POSSE…FR. GERALD MURRAY, canon lawyer and priest of the Archdiocese of New York and ROBERT ROYAL, editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing.org, discuss REJOICE AND BE GLAD, the new Apostolic Exhortation by Pope Francis released by the Vatican this week.
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