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DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION) TAKES OVER IRAQ WHICH HAS SPLIT INTO 3-SUNNI-KURD-SHIA PARTS-AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IS BROUGHT BACK TOGETHER-THE TWO LEGS OF DANIEL WESTERN LEG AND THE ISLAMIC LEG COMBINED AS 1)
10/30/2014 -VATICAN INSIDER-Schultz meets Pope ahead of visit to Strasbourg: It will be a unique occasion for everyone-Schulz meets Francis-The President of the European Parliament said that on 25 November European MPs will be welcoming a man who is a reference point not only for Catholics-Iacopo Scaramuzzi
vatican city-Today Francis held a forty-minute meeting with the German President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, ahead of the Pope’s visit to Strasbourg on 25 November.The visit “is a unique occasion for both parties,” Mr. Schultz told Vatican Radio. “The European Parliament will be receiving the man who at this moment in history is probably a reference point not just for Catholics but for so many people; he is someone who gives direction in an age in which many people feel disoriented by the fast pace the world is moving at, sometimes taking very risky paths. In this context, the Pope gives courage to people with his honest linearity. Meanwhile, the Pope will be meeting a European Parliament that is more confident, more aware and has gained in power and influence. Its 750 members represent 507 million people across 28 States: an auditorium that will allow his voice to resonate, reaching hundreds of millions of people. I think it will be an important moment.”Mr. Schultz was welcomed at the Apostolic Palace by fellow countryman, Georg Gänswein. After his audience with the Pope, Mr. Schultz was received by the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin. Given that he is not a head of state, the Holy See did not issue a statement at the end of the audience. Mr. Schultz was received by the Argentinian Pope once before, on 11 October 2013, when he invited Francis to visit the European Parliament 25 years after John Paul II’s visit. “I am honoured to welcome Pope Francis @Pontifex to the European Parliament in Strasbourg for an official visit on 25/11,” Mr. Schultz had tweeted when the visit was officially announced. “When I came here a year ago I invited the Pope, as many of my predecessors did, to visit the European Parliament and this time the Pope accepted,” Mr. Schultz commented during today’s visit. "We prepared the visit of the Pope to the European Parliament which I think is an exceptional moment for the European Parliament and we talked about the circumstances and the political framework the Pope will find when he delivers his address,” he added.Mr. Schultz pointed out the similarities between the issues the Pope has raised on a number of occasions and the decisions of institutions he (Mr. Schultz) heads: “If you look at the resolutions and decisions of the European Parliament, you will see that the subject of social justice, mass unemployment, particularly among young people – a threat to social cohesion – is a recurring issue in our debates.” I would like more Europeans to share this Latin American pope’s vision of Europe!” Mr. Schultz said. The way I understand it, Pope Francis sees the concept of Europe and the union of peoples, as an opportunity for a peace policy – this too of course –, he also sees Europe as an instrument, an opportunity, in this multipolar world we live in.”
10/24/2014 -“My visit to Turkey is a sign of the profound ties uniting the Sees of Rome and Constantinople”-Francis and Bartholomew I in the Holy Land last May-Pope Francis said this during his audience with the delegates taking part in an ecumenical pilgrimage, promoted by the Orientale Lumen Foundation. He remembered the figures of St. John XXIII and John Paul II and their “strong passion for Christian unity”-vatican insider staff
Rome-Referring to his meeting with the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I, during his forthcoming visit to Turkey at the end of November, Pope Francis described today’s meeting with members of the Orientale Lumen Foundation as “a sign of the profound ties uniting the Sees of Rome and Constantinople” and the desire “to overcome, through love and truth, the obstacles that still divide us.” Francis asked the pilgrims to pray for his ministry “in service of communion and Church unity”. The Pope also said this journey towards an interior renewal is “absolutely essential” in order to make progress along the road leading to reconciliation and full communion between all believers in Christ, Vatican Radio reports.In its report, Vatican Radio said the Pope “expressed joy that the Foundation’s ecumenical pilgrimage had chosen to commemorate the figures of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II and said this underlines the two Popes’ great contribution towards developing closer relations between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches. “The example of these two saints,” he continued, “always bore witness to a strong passion for Christian unity”.”
10/31/2014-VATICAN INSIDER-Burke: “There is a strong sense that the Church is like a ship without a helm”-In an interview with Spanish weekly “Vida Nueva” the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura hits out again, describing the Church as a “counter-cultural movement that is not popular”-ANDREA TORNIELLI
vatican city-After his criticisms about the Synod being manipulated and censored, the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, is continuing to raise concerns – in an increasingly distressed tone – about the direction the Church is taking, criticising the Pope, whilst at the same time claiming he does not wish it seem like he is speaking out against he Pope.” His latest interview with Darío Menor Torres was published by Spanish religious news weekly Vida Nueva.“Many have expressed their concerns to me. At this very critical moment, there is a strong sense that the Church is like a ship without a helm, whatever the reason for this may be; now, it is more important than ever to examine our faith, have a healthy spiritual leader and give powerful witness to the faith.”“I fully respect the Petrine ministry and I do not wish it to seem like I am speaking out against the Pope. I would like to be a master of the faith, with all my weaknesses, telling a truth that many currently perceive. They are feeling a bit sea sick because they feel the Church’s ship has lost its bearings. We need to set aside the reason for this disorientation because we have not lost our bearings. We have the enduring tradition of the Church, its teachings, the liturgy, its morality. The catechism remains the same.”“The Pope rightly speaks of the need to go out to the peripheries,” the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura said. “The people have responded very warmly to this. But we cannot go to the peripheries empty-handed. We go with the Word of God, with the Sacraments, with the virtuous life of the Holy Spirit. I am not saying the Pope does this, but there is a risk of the encounter with culture being misinterpreted. Faith cannot adapt to culture but , must call to it to convert. We are a counter-cultural movement, not a popular one.”
FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN
REVELATION 13:11-13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he (FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER) exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
REVELATION 17:1-5,9,15-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.(BOMB OR NUKE THE VATICAN)
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city,(VATICAN) which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
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JOHN 1:1-4,14
1 In the beginning was the Word,(JESUS) and the Word (JESUS) was with God, and the Word (JESUS) was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.(FATHER,HOLY SPIRIT)(TRINITY AT THE BEGINNING)
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
14 And the Word was made flesh,(JESUS) and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
GENESIS 1:1-31
1 In the beginning God(FATHER,SON JESUS) created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the(HOLY)Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.(THE TRINITY CREATED ALL IN THE BEGINNING)
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
SPEAKING OF HYPOCRITES.THE POPE SAYS CREATION AND EVOLUTION ARE THE SAME THING.THATS A HYPOCRITICAL LIE.GOD CREATED EVERYTHING.THE WORLD DID NOT COME INTO BEING FROM SCUM.IT WAS CREATED BY THE FATHER-SON-HOLY SPIRIT (GOD-THE TRINITY)(3 OFFICES-ONE GOD)
10/31/2014-VATICAN INSIDER-Syria: Christ’s followers, caught between Assad and the Caliphate-Maaloula - Assad visits a church in ruins (April 2014)-In a new book coordinated by Samuel Lieven, titled “The Black Book on the Condition of Christians in the World” and now on sale in Europe, Jean-Michel di Falco, Timothy Radcliffe and Andrea Riccardi attempt to document the scope of anti-Christian action around the world . The book is a collection of analyses by the world’s top scholars. Below is a preview of the chapter written by Italian journalist Domenico Quirico
Christians in Syria: I came into contact with them straight away, on the second day of my umpteenth visit to the land of the revolution which turned into a horrific and ferocious civil war. Yabroud is located just over the Lebanese border. Its mountains seem far away, bare, rocky, solemn peaks crowned by clouds. In order to complete the first leg of the journey which should take me to Damascus, I skirt around the mountainside with a Free Syria Army reinforcement team, above deep and scary, cloud-filled gorges. At sundown, the vast Yabroud plain and Qara further in the distance, appear submerged in glorious sunlight, with cultivated fields and orderly orchards stretching out across it in a carpet-like pattern. But it is the sentinels of the desert; behind them are the endless plains that lead to Damascus; its cliffs and sand make the faraway sky seem cloudy.This has been the land of Christians for centuries. They have held out against all odds: Crusades and the jihad, poverty and revolutions, fanaticism and indifference. Above all, they escaped the jaws of one unforgivable sin: desperation. On my previous four trips to Syria under rebellion I never paid much attention to the Christian community in the country ruled by Assad. They account for approximately 10-12% of the Syrian population but it is difficult to give precise estimates, as people’s religion is not stated on their personal identification documents. I confess that I saw it as a problem of secondary importance given the tragic abyss which 22 million Syrians, including Sunnis, Alawites, Arabs, Turkmens, Druses and Kurds, found themselves in. Of course I had noticed that the Christians in Free Syrian Army units were rather few. Certainly when I talked about it with the rebels many of their faces dropped just at the mention of them: “Christians have always been closely tied to Bashar out of interest and fear... They are suspicious of us revolutionaries and accuse us of being fundamentalists and fanatics. But in reality they are defending their interests, wealth and the social status they have gained. Fir this reason they see the regime as a safety net and us an unknown.” But, they added, “there will be no vendettas in Aleppo”, a martyr city and symbol of the revolution that has been split down the middle, with neighbourhoods that have been freed on the one hand and the regime’s strongholds on the other. “There will also be a place for Christians in the new State that we visualise as democratic, pluralistic and multidenominational.”Syrian Christians have traditionally always supported the Baath party and the nation-State. But they have also done so out of need. They see it as a way of holding back fundamentalism. Their Golden Age was the 1950’s, when they actively participated in the political and parliamentary life of a newly-independent Syria; in the 1954 elections they obtained 16 members of parliament. This was the only democratic election in the country’s entire history.The emir of the Al Nusra Front group that had taken me hostage for a period of ten days was a good looking Lebanese man with blue eyes who came from the villages on the border to fight the holy war in Syria and settle the score with Hezbollah’s Shiites. Apparently they had carried out a massacre in his village. It was this chain of events that led to the of the moloch that was the Syrian civil war. A monk who was a warrior, just like his young fighters, prayer and war, an ascetic life where there was no room for smiles, food or piety. He would pass by the stable where his group of fighters were living in poor conditions, when it was not yet daylight, as knock on the iron doors with a stick he always carried with him, shouting: “Wake up, mujaheddin. God is calling, it’s prayer time!” He had a clever and cruel look in his eye and he had things all worked out in his mind. When I asked him what future lay ahead for Syria if they managed to get rid of Bashar, he said without hesitation: we will establish the Caliphate here, according to the will of the great and merciful God. Sharia law will reign supreme. But this will only be the beginning... We will then throw all Jews into the sea, conquer Lebanon and overthrow the atheist and corrupt regimes in Jordan, Iraq... and then Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, al-Andalus, Spain and all of God’s lands. And the Caliphate will return to its former glory, in the sacred days when Islam was victorious. I asked him what would happen to Christians in the future Caliphate: they have been living here for centuries, this is their home... They will have a better fate than that of the Alawites, Bashar’s Satanic sect, which we will hunt down and exterminate, right down to the very last man, woman and child. If Christians obey, they will be able to stay here, but they will have to pay a tax, like all dhimmis. As citizens, they will never enjoy the same rights as true believers!-Over the past year, the nature of the Syrian civil war and its players have changed radically. The number of jihadist groups financed by Saudi Arabia and often made up entirely of foreign volunteers, have multiplied and are also stronger. In a land where the Free Syrian Army is no longer, these groups are the real opposition force that stands against the regular army. They have brought with them a fanaticism that was lacking in the first phase of the revolution. They see the regime’s overthrowal as the first phase in the process of re-establishing the Caliphate in a country that is a key player in the Middle East. Approaches to Christians vary: each katiba takes a more or less extremist stance depending on its composition – Chechens, Libyans, Tunisians, Tatars, Saudis and Europeans . Misinformation on both warring sides has given birth to numerous theories and myths. Western newspapers have collected and published terrifying stories about fundamentalist groups killing Christians and allegedly bottling their blood and sending it to the Saudis who finance their groups, to show that they are hard at work in this holy war! There has also been talk of Christian crucifixions based on videos from questionable sources. There are jihadist groups of dubious origin which may have been created or infiltrated by the regime’s secret services to spread confusion and conduct dirty military operations. For example, who shot Fr. Franz van der Lugt in the neck three times ? The Dutch Jesuit priest who agreed to stay in Homs’ old quarter which had been under siege for two years, despite the bombs and the lack of food, to show to the world that he “[did] not see Muslims or Christians” but “above all, human beings”. Was it the fundamentalists or the regular army that killed him to take revenge? Who kidnapped another Jesuit priest, Fr. Paolo Dall’Oglio, founder of the Mar Musa monastery – a place of extraordinary ecumenism where Muslims and Christians pray side by side – over a year ago? Unlike the Christian leaders he had often jad disagreements with, he had chosen to back the revolutionary side right from the start, against a regime which he denounced as corrupt and violent. Here we have a priest and revolutionary free from any contradictions and hypocrisy.Some are adamant – though there is no confirmation – that Fr. Dall’Oglio was kidnapped by one of the jihad’s most radical groups, ISIL, which controls the territories on the Syria-Iraq border where the Italian Jesuit priest went missing. Dall’Oglio’s revolutionary values are of no importance to these new rebel fanatics in the face of two other capital “sins”: being Western and above all, Christian.
10/27/2014-VATICAN INSIDER-Synod marks beginning of an era for the Church: Speaking frankly to make oneself understood-The Pope's message at the Synod-The path indicated by Francis is one of frank dialogue within the Church and careful listening outside it-Andrea Tornielli
vatican city-“We need to conquer this propensity toward clericalism which can be summed up in a piece of advice I received when I was young: ‘If you want to make progress, think clearly and speak obscurely.’ This was an invitation to hypocrisy which must be avoided at all costs.”These words, which Francis addressed to superiors of religious orders a year ago, contains the key to understanding all that was discussed at the recent Extraordinary Synod on the Family.This assembly was just the first leg of a long journey. It ended with some surprise expressions of solidarity toward “wounded” families and couples who form civil unions or cohabit. On the other hand, however, it failed to reach the two-thirds majority vote on a few hot issues, namely the possibility of readmitting remarried divorcees to the sacraments in certain cases and pastoral care for gay people. For the first time ever, participants at a Synod spoke with complete freedom, as Francis had requested at the start of the discussions.“People in the Church have always had different criteria and different outlooks on reality and theological and pastoral aspects,” Eduardo De Paola, an Argentinian priest who has know Bergoglio for many years, explained. “But this diversity was a deaf and silent current which moved through the Church unperceived but would occasionally surface – when pushed to by certain situations – in a timid manner, trying not to create conflict.” This time, however, no one’s opinions were muffled. All different stances emerged clearly after Francis invited Synod fathers to express themselves freely and fearlessly, without feeling that they needed to please the Pope. “The lid was lifted. But this is just the beginning, not everything has been said yet. First, all accumulated tensions, repressed ideologies and personal disputes need to come out,” Fr. De Paola explained. All the steam that remained compressed for so long needs to be let out and allowed to slowly dissipate.On the one hand there are those who claimed certain issues were not even open to discussion: the main voices behind this stance were Curia members such as the Prefect of the former Holy Office, Gerhard Ludwig Müller and the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, Leo Raymond Burke. During the discussions, this position received strong backing from the Prefect for the Congregation of Bishops, Marc Ouellet and the Vatican “economy minister” George Pell. On the other hand there were those who were in favour of the possibility of allowing remarried divorcees access to the sacraments in certain cases, proposing more understanding and welcoming attitude toward gay people. This side was represented by figures such as Cardinal Reinhard Marx who spoke on behalf of German bishops, The Cardinal of Vienna, Christoph Schönborn and Italian bishop, Bruno Forte. The homosexuality issue generally took a backseat in the Synod’s reflections on the challenges facing the family and in the preparatory texts it was mainly mentioned in relation to how families should treat children who are in same-sex relationships. But it ended up being the most controversial issue of the Synod because of the open attitude expressed in the mid-discussion document (an openness which did not adequately reflect the mood of the discussions) which was modified in the final version. The text provoked a strong reaction from African bishops.Francis drew a contrast between the “temptations” witnessed during the discussions and mentioned in his final speech – the “hostile inflexibility” of those who consider themselves “masters” of the doctrine and a “destructive do-goodery, which in the name of a false mercy bandages wounds without first curing and medicating them” – and “true pastors who wisely carry in their hearts the joys and the tears of their faithful people.”The parrhesia method, speaking frankly, that is, without reverential fears, and “listening humbly”, had an effect on Church; one which it was not used to. And this effect will necessarily be felt on a local level too. In fact it is hard to imagine a diocesan Synod that will not now ask for the same frankness and freedom of expression.The issue of pastoral care for families in difficult situations and of access to the sacraments for remarried divorcees is not new. It had come up during the Synod on the new evangelisation in 2012. At the World Meeting of Families which took place in Milan, inn June 2012, Benedict XVI – who is a far more complex figure than certain self-styled “Ratzingerians” would have us believe – spoke as a pastor, showing that he carried the joys and tears of faithful wisely “in [his] heart”. The situation of remarried divorcees is “one of the great causes of suffering for the Church today” and “there are no simple recipes,” he said.It would be wrong to interpret the Synod’s events according to criteria used to describe Parliamentary proceedings,” Fr. Antonio Spadaro, Editor-In-Chief of Italian Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica, told Vatican Insider. He was referring to minority and majority votes. The Church is not a Parliamentary Assembly is should not be interpreted in political terms. This applies to voting as well, because it has voted ever since it came into existence. Think of the Conclave. What it is important to note, is that there was a real exchange of different opinions that went on, there was full freedom of expression.” “Two approaches essentially emerged, two different visions of the Church and of the Church’s relationship with history and the world,” Spadaro concluded.
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
26 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-11-02 06:45:25 UTC-05:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-05:00)26 earthquakes in map area
4.3 119km S of Akureyri, Iceland 2014-11-02 06:12:13 UTC-05:00 8.2 km
4.4 112km SSW of Masachapa, Nicaragua 2014-11-02 04:26:41 UTC-05:00 46.7 km
4.7 93km SSE of Lorengau, Papua New Guinea 2014-11-02 04:20:28 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
2.8 7km WSW of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 2014-11-02 04:06:04 UTC-05:00 25.0 km
3.8 65km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 2014-11-02 02:55:11 UTC-05:00 123.0 km
3.8 78km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2014-11-02 02:18:34 UTC-05:00 121.5 km
2.7 51km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico 2014-11-02 01:01:53 UTC-05:00 51.0 km
4.7 182km E of Chichi-shima, Japan 2014-11-02 00:13:47 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.8 169km E of Chichi-shima, Japan 2014-11-02 00:05:58 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.3 285km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji 2014-11-01 23:31:06 UTC-05:00 651.6 km
3.5 56km W of Anchorage, Alaska 2014-11-01 22:22:23 UTC-05:00 54.5 km
4.2 80km W of Copiapo, Chile 2014-11-01 20:26:47 UTC-05:00 39.0 km
3.0 3km SE of Medford, Oklahoma 2014-11-01 19:58:37 UTC-05:00 1.6 km
4.6 121km SE of Mohean, India 2014-11-01 19:58:09 UTC-05:00 17.5 km
3.0 57km W of Marigot, Saint Martin 2014-11-01 19:29:30 UTC-05:00 29.0 km
4.5 117km S of Akureyri, Iceland 2014-11-01 19:27:04 UTC-05:00 6.7 km
2.7 20km ESE of Cape Yakataga, Alaska 2014-11-01 17:42:54 UTC-05:00 35.1 km
3.6 97km WSW of Middleton Island, Alaska 2014-11-01 17:42:12 UTC-05:00 34.5 km
5.4 51km SW of Honiara, Solomon Islands 2014-11-01 17:13:13 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
3.4 3km SSW of Brawley, California 2014-11-01 16:21:43 UTC-05:00 14.5 km
7.1 141km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2014-11-01 13:57:22 UTC-05:00 434.4 km
4.0 38km ENE of Calama, Chile 2014-11-01 13:19:51 UTC-05:00 109.9 km
2.9 59km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 2014-11-01 12:53:17 UTC-05:00 16.0 km
4.4 92km NNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia 2014-11-01 08:23:26 UTC-05:00 122.1 km
4.4 63km SSW of Champerico, Guatemala 2014-11-01 07:55:30 UTC-05:00 35.0 km
4.7 East of the Kuril Islands 2014-11-01 07:08:36 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION) TAKES OVER IRAQ WHICH HAS SPLIT INTO 3-SUNNI-KURD-SHIA PARTS-AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IS BROUGHT BACK TOGETHER-THE TWO LEGS OF DANIEL WESTERN LEG AND THE ISLAMIC LEG COMBINED AS 1)
10/30/2014 -VATICAN INSIDER-Schultz meets Pope ahead of visit to Strasbourg: It will be a unique occasion for everyone-Schulz meets Francis-The President of the European Parliament said that on 25 November European MPs will be welcoming a man who is a reference point not only for Catholics-Iacopo Scaramuzzi
vatican city-Today Francis held a forty-minute meeting with the German President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, ahead of the Pope’s visit to Strasbourg on 25 November.The visit “is a unique occasion for both parties,” Mr. Schultz told Vatican Radio. “The European Parliament will be receiving the man who at this moment in history is probably a reference point not just for Catholics but for so many people; he is someone who gives direction in an age in which many people feel disoriented by the fast pace the world is moving at, sometimes taking very risky paths. In this context, the Pope gives courage to people with his honest linearity. Meanwhile, the Pope will be meeting a European Parliament that is more confident, more aware and has gained in power and influence. Its 750 members represent 507 million people across 28 States: an auditorium that will allow his voice to resonate, reaching hundreds of millions of people. I think it will be an important moment.”Mr. Schultz was welcomed at the Apostolic Palace by fellow countryman, Georg Gänswein. After his audience with the Pope, Mr. Schultz was received by the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin. Given that he is not a head of state, the Holy See did not issue a statement at the end of the audience. Mr. Schultz was received by the Argentinian Pope once before, on 11 October 2013, when he invited Francis to visit the European Parliament 25 years after John Paul II’s visit. “I am honoured to welcome Pope Francis @Pontifex to the European Parliament in Strasbourg for an official visit on 25/11,” Mr. Schultz had tweeted when the visit was officially announced. “When I came here a year ago I invited the Pope, as many of my predecessors did, to visit the European Parliament and this time the Pope accepted,” Mr. Schultz commented during today’s visit. "We prepared the visit of the Pope to the European Parliament which I think is an exceptional moment for the European Parliament and we talked about the circumstances and the political framework the Pope will find when he delivers his address,” he added.Mr. Schultz pointed out the similarities between the issues the Pope has raised on a number of occasions and the decisions of institutions he (Mr. Schultz) heads: “If you look at the resolutions and decisions of the European Parliament, you will see that the subject of social justice, mass unemployment, particularly among young people – a threat to social cohesion – is a recurring issue in our debates.” I would like more Europeans to share this Latin American pope’s vision of Europe!” Mr. Schultz said. The way I understand it, Pope Francis sees the concept of Europe and the union of peoples, as an opportunity for a peace policy – this too of course –, he also sees Europe as an instrument, an opportunity, in this multipolar world we live in.”
10/24/2014 -“My visit to Turkey is a sign of the profound ties uniting the Sees of Rome and Constantinople”-Francis and Bartholomew I in the Holy Land last May-Pope Francis said this during his audience with the delegates taking part in an ecumenical pilgrimage, promoted by the Orientale Lumen Foundation. He remembered the figures of St. John XXIII and John Paul II and their “strong passion for Christian unity”-vatican insider staff
Rome-Referring to his meeting with the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I, during his forthcoming visit to Turkey at the end of November, Pope Francis described today’s meeting with members of the Orientale Lumen Foundation as “a sign of the profound ties uniting the Sees of Rome and Constantinople” and the desire “to overcome, through love and truth, the obstacles that still divide us.” Francis asked the pilgrims to pray for his ministry “in service of communion and Church unity”. The Pope also said this journey towards an interior renewal is “absolutely essential” in order to make progress along the road leading to reconciliation and full communion between all believers in Christ, Vatican Radio reports.In its report, Vatican Radio said the Pope “expressed joy that the Foundation’s ecumenical pilgrimage had chosen to commemorate the figures of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II and said this underlines the two Popes’ great contribution towards developing closer relations between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches. “The example of these two saints,” he continued, “always bore witness to a strong passion for Christian unity”.”
10/31/2014-VATICAN INSIDER-Burke: “There is a strong sense that the Church is like a ship without a helm”-In an interview with Spanish weekly “Vida Nueva” the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura hits out again, describing the Church as a “counter-cultural movement that is not popular”-ANDREA TORNIELLI
vatican city-After his criticisms about the Synod being manipulated and censored, the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, is continuing to raise concerns – in an increasingly distressed tone – about the direction the Church is taking, criticising the Pope, whilst at the same time claiming he does not wish it seem like he is speaking out against he Pope.” His latest interview with Darío Menor Torres was published by Spanish religious news weekly Vida Nueva.“Many have expressed their concerns to me. At this very critical moment, there is a strong sense that the Church is like a ship without a helm, whatever the reason for this may be; now, it is more important than ever to examine our faith, have a healthy spiritual leader and give powerful witness to the faith.”“I fully respect the Petrine ministry and I do not wish it to seem like I am speaking out against the Pope. I would like to be a master of the faith, with all my weaknesses, telling a truth that many currently perceive. They are feeling a bit sea sick because they feel the Church’s ship has lost its bearings. We need to set aside the reason for this disorientation because we have not lost our bearings. We have the enduring tradition of the Church, its teachings, the liturgy, its morality. The catechism remains the same.”“The Pope rightly speaks of the need to go out to the peripheries,” the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura said. “The people have responded very warmly to this. But we cannot go to the peripheries empty-handed. We go with the Word of God, with the Sacraments, with the virtuous life of the Holy Spirit. I am not saying the Pope does this, but there is a risk of the encounter with culture being misinterpreted. Faith cannot adapt to culture but , must call to it to convert. We are a counter-cultural movement, not a popular one.”
FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN
REVELATION 13:11-13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he (FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER) exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
REVELATION 17:1-5,9,15-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.(BOMB OR NUKE THE VATICAN)
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city,(VATICAN) which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
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JOHN 1:1-4,14
1 In the beginning was the Word,(JESUS) and the Word (JESUS) was with God, and the Word (JESUS) was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.(FATHER,HOLY SPIRIT)(TRINITY AT THE BEGINNING)
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
14 And the Word was made flesh,(JESUS) and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
GENESIS 1:1-31
1 In the beginning God(FATHER,SON JESUS) created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the(HOLY)Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.(THE TRINITY CREATED ALL IN THE BEGINNING)
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
SPEAKING OF HYPOCRITES.THE POPE SAYS CREATION AND EVOLUTION ARE THE SAME THING.THATS A HYPOCRITICAL LIE.GOD CREATED EVERYTHING.THE WORLD DID NOT COME INTO BEING FROM SCUM.IT WAS CREATED BY THE FATHER-SON-HOLY SPIRIT (GOD-THE TRINITY)(3 OFFICES-ONE GOD)
10/31/2014-VATICAN INSIDER-Syria: Christ’s followers, caught between Assad and the Caliphate-Maaloula - Assad visits a church in ruins (April 2014)-In a new book coordinated by Samuel Lieven, titled “The Black Book on the Condition of Christians in the World” and now on sale in Europe, Jean-Michel di Falco, Timothy Radcliffe and Andrea Riccardi attempt to document the scope of anti-Christian action around the world . The book is a collection of analyses by the world’s top scholars. Below is a preview of the chapter written by Italian journalist Domenico Quirico
Christians in Syria: I came into contact with them straight away, on the second day of my umpteenth visit to the land of the revolution which turned into a horrific and ferocious civil war. Yabroud is located just over the Lebanese border. Its mountains seem far away, bare, rocky, solemn peaks crowned by clouds. In order to complete the first leg of the journey which should take me to Damascus, I skirt around the mountainside with a Free Syria Army reinforcement team, above deep and scary, cloud-filled gorges. At sundown, the vast Yabroud plain and Qara further in the distance, appear submerged in glorious sunlight, with cultivated fields and orderly orchards stretching out across it in a carpet-like pattern. But it is the sentinels of the desert; behind them are the endless plains that lead to Damascus; its cliffs and sand make the faraway sky seem cloudy.This has been the land of Christians for centuries. They have held out against all odds: Crusades and the jihad, poverty and revolutions, fanaticism and indifference. Above all, they escaped the jaws of one unforgivable sin: desperation. On my previous four trips to Syria under rebellion I never paid much attention to the Christian community in the country ruled by Assad. They account for approximately 10-12% of the Syrian population but it is difficult to give precise estimates, as people’s religion is not stated on their personal identification documents. I confess that I saw it as a problem of secondary importance given the tragic abyss which 22 million Syrians, including Sunnis, Alawites, Arabs, Turkmens, Druses and Kurds, found themselves in. Of course I had noticed that the Christians in Free Syrian Army units were rather few. Certainly when I talked about it with the rebels many of their faces dropped just at the mention of them: “Christians have always been closely tied to Bashar out of interest and fear... They are suspicious of us revolutionaries and accuse us of being fundamentalists and fanatics. But in reality they are defending their interests, wealth and the social status they have gained. Fir this reason they see the regime as a safety net and us an unknown.” But, they added, “there will be no vendettas in Aleppo”, a martyr city and symbol of the revolution that has been split down the middle, with neighbourhoods that have been freed on the one hand and the regime’s strongholds on the other. “There will also be a place for Christians in the new State that we visualise as democratic, pluralistic and multidenominational.”Syrian Christians have traditionally always supported the Baath party and the nation-State. But they have also done so out of need. They see it as a way of holding back fundamentalism. Their Golden Age was the 1950’s, when they actively participated in the political and parliamentary life of a newly-independent Syria; in the 1954 elections they obtained 16 members of parliament. This was the only democratic election in the country’s entire history.The emir of the Al Nusra Front group that had taken me hostage for a period of ten days was a good looking Lebanese man with blue eyes who came from the villages on the border to fight the holy war in Syria and settle the score with Hezbollah’s Shiites. Apparently they had carried out a massacre in his village. It was this chain of events that led to the of the moloch that was the Syrian civil war. A monk who was a warrior, just like his young fighters, prayer and war, an ascetic life where there was no room for smiles, food or piety. He would pass by the stable where his group of fighters were living in poor conditions, when it was not yet daylight, as knock on the iron doors with a stick he always carried with him, shouting: “Wake up, mujaheddin. God is calling, it’s prayer time!” He had a clever and cruel look in his eye and he had things all worked out in his mind. When I asked him what future lay ahead for Syria if they managed to get rid of Bashar, he said without hesitation: we will establish the Caliphate here, according to the will of the great and merciful God. Sharia law will reign supreme. But this will only be the beginning... We will then throw all Jews into the sea, conquer Lebanon and overthrow the atheist and corrupt regimes in Jordan, Iraq... and then Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, al-Andalus, Spain and all of God’s lands. And the Caliphate will return to its former glory, in the sacred days when Islam was victorious. I asked him what would happen to Christians in the future Caliphate: they have been living here for centuries, this is their home... They will have a better fate than that of the Alawites, Bashar’s Satanic sect, which we will hunt down and exterminate, right down to the very last man, woman and child. If Christians obey, they will be able to stay here, but they will have to pay a tax, like all dhimmis. As citizens, they will never enjoy the same rights as true believers!-Over the past year, the nature of the Syrian civil war and its players have changed radically. The number of jihadist groups financed by Saudi Arabia and often made up entirely of foreign volunteers, have multiplied and are also stronger. In a land where the Free Syrian Army is no longer, these groups are the real opposition force that stands against the regular army. They have brought with them a fanaticism that was lacking in the first phase of the revolution. They see the regime’s overthrowal as the first phase in the process of re-establishing the Caliphate in a country that is a key player in the Middle East. Approaches to Christians vary: each katiba takes a more or less extremist stance depending on its composition – Chechens, Libyans, Tunisians, Tatars, Saudis and Europeans . Misinformation on both warring sides has given birth to numerous theories and myths. Western newspapers have collected and published terrifying stories about fundamentalist groups killing Christians and allegedly bottling their blood and sending it to the Saudis who finance their groups, to show that they are hard at work in this holy war! There has also been talk of Christian crucifixions based on videos from questionable sources. There are jihadist groups of dubious origin which may have been created or infiltrated by the regime’s secret services to spread confusion and conduct dirty military operations. For example, who shot Fr. Franz van der Lugt in the neck three times ? The Dutch Jesuit priest who agreed to stay in Homs’ old quarter which had been under siege for two years, despite the bombs and the lack of food, to show to the world that he “[did] not see Muslims or Christians” but “above all, human beings”. Was it the fundamentalists or the regular army that killed him to take revenge? Who kidnapped another Jesuit priest, Fr. Paolo Dall’Oglio, founder of the Mar Musa monastery – a place of extraordinary ecumenism where Muslims and Christians pray side by side – over a year ago? Unlike the Christian leaders he had often jad disagreements with, he had chosen to back the revolutionary side right from the start, against a regime which he denounced as corrupt and violent. Here we have a priest and revolutionary free from any contradictions and hypocrisy.Some are adamant – though there is no confirmation – that Fr. Dall’Oglio was kidnapped by one of the jihad’s most radical groups, ISIL, which controls the territories on the Syria-Iraq border where the Italian Jesuit priest went missing. Dall’Oglio’s revolutionary values are of no importance to these new rebel fanatics in the face of two other capital “sins”: being Western and above all, Christian.
10/27/2014-VATICAN INSIDER-Synod marks beginning of an era for the Church: Speaking frankly to make oneself understood-The Pope's message at the Synod-The path indicated by Francis is one of frank dialogue within the Church and careful listening outside it-Andrea Tornielli
vatican city-“We need to conquer this propensity toward clericalism which can be summed up in a piece of advice I received when I was young: ‘If you want to make progress, think clearly and speak obscurely.’ This was an invitation to hypocrisy which must be avoided at all costs.”These words, which Francis addressed to superiors of religious orders a year ago, contains the key to understanding all that was discussed at the recent Extraordinary Synod on the Family.This assembly was just the first leg of a long journey. It ended with some surprise expressions of solidarity toward “wounded” families and couples who form civil unions or cohabit. On the other hand, however, it failed to reach the two-thirds majority vote on a few hot issues, namely the possibility of readmitting remarried divorcees to the sacraments in certain cases and pastoral care for gay people. For the first time ever, participants at a Synod spoke with complete freedom, as Francis had requested at the start of the discussions.“People in the Church have always had different criteria and different outlooks on reality and theological and pastoral aspects,” Eduardo De Paola, an Argentinian priest who has know Bergoglio for many years, explained. “But this diversity was a deaf and silent current which moved through the Church unperceived but would occasionally surface – when pushed to by certain situations – in a timid manner, trying not to create conflict.” This time, however, no one’s opinions were muffled. All different stances emerged clearly after Francis invited Synod fathers to express themselves freely and fearlessly, without feeling that they needed to please the Pope. “The lid was lifted. But this is just the beginning, not everything has been said yet. First, all accumulated tensions, repressed ideologies and personal disputes need to come out,” Fr. De Paola explained. All the steam that remained compressed for so long needs to be let out and allowed to slowly dissipate.On the one hand there are those who claimed certain issues were not even open to discussion: the main voices behind this stance were Curia members such as the Prefect of the former Holy Office, Gerhard Ludwig Müller and the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, Leo Raymond Burke. During the discussions, this position received strong backing from the Prefect for the Congregation of Bishops, Marc Ouellet and the Vatican “economy minister” George Pell. On the other hand there were those who were in favour of the possibility of allowing remarried divorcees access to the sacraments in certain cases, proposing more understanding and welcoming attitude toward gay people. This side was represented by figures such as Cardinal Reinhard Marx who spoke on behalf of German bishops, The Cardinal of Vienna, Christoph Schönborn and Italian bishop, Bruno Forte. The homosexuality issue generally took a backseat in the Synod’s reflections on the challenges facing the family and in the preparatory texts it was mainly mentioned in relation to how families should treat children who are in same-sex relationships. But it ended up being the most controversial issue of the Synod because of the open attitude expressed in the mid-discussion document (an openness which did not adequately reflect the mood of the discussions) which was modified in the final version. The text provoked a strong reaction from African bishops.Francis drew a contrast between the “temptations” witnessed during the discussions and mentioned in his final speech – the “hostile inflexibility” of those who consider themselves “masters” of the doctrine and a “destructive do-goodery, which in the name of a false mercy bandages wounds without first curing and medicating them” – and “true pastors who wisely carry in their hearts the joys and the tears of their faithful people.”The parrhesia method, speaking frankly, that is, without reverential fears, and “listening humbly”, had an effect on Church; one which it was not used to. And this effect will necessarily be felt on a local level too. In fact it is hard to imagine a diocesan Synod that will not now ask for the same frankness and freedom of expression.The issue of pastoral care for families in difficult situations and of access to the sacraments for remarried divorcees is not new. It had come up during the Synod on the new evangelisation in 2012. At the World Meeting of Families which took place in Milan, inn June 2012, Benedict XVI – who is a far more complex figure than certain self-styled “Ratzingerians” would have us believe – spoke as a pastor, showing that he carried the joys and tears of faithful wisely “in [his] heart”. The situation of remarried divorcees is “one of the great causes of suffering for the Church today” and “there are no simple recipes,” he said.It would be wrong to interpret the Synod’s events according to criteria used to describe Parliamentary proceedings,” Fr. Antonio Spadaro, Editor-In-Chief of Italian Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica, told Vatican Insider. He was referring to minority and majority votes. The Church is not a Parliamentary Assembly is should not be interpreted in political terms. This applies to voting as well, because it has voted ever since it came into existence. Think of the Conclave. What it is important to note, is that there was a real exchange of different opinions that went on, there was full freedom of expression.” “Two approaches essentially emerged, two different visions of the Church and of the Church’s relationship with history and the world,” Spadaro concluded.
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
26 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-11-02 06:45:25 UTC-05:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-05:00)26 earthquakes in map area
4.3 119km S of Akureyri, Iceland 2014-11-02 06:12:13 UTC-05:00 8.2 km
4.4 112km SSW of Masachapa, Nicaragua 2014-11-02 04:26:41 UTC-05:00 46.7 km
4.7 93km SSE of Lorengau, Papua New Guinea 2014-11-02 04:20:28 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
2.8 7km WSW of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 2014-11-02 04:06:04 UTC-05:00 25.0 km
3.8 65km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 2014-11-02 02:55:11 UTC-05:00 123.0 km
3.8 78km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2014-11-02 02:18:34 UTC-05:00 121.5 km
2.7 51km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico 2014-11-02 01:01:53 UTC-05:00 51.0 km
4.7 182km E of Chichi-shima, Japan 2014-11-02 00:13:47 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.8 169km E of Chichi-shima, Japan 2014-11-02 00:05:58 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.3 285km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji 2014-11-01 23:31:06 UTC-05:00 651.6 km
3.5 56km W of Anchorage, Alaska 2014-11-01 22:22:23 UTC-05:00 54.5 km
4.2 80km W of Copiapo, Chile 2014-11-01 20:26:47 UTC-05:00 39.0 km
3.0 3km SE of Medford, Oklahoma 2014-11-01 19:58:37 UTC-05:00 1.6 km
4.6 121km SE of Mohean, India 2014-11-01 19:58:09 UTC-05:00 17.5 km
3.0 57km W of Marigot, Saint Martin 2014-11-01 19:29:30 UTC-05:00 29.0 km
4.5 117km S of Akureyri, Iceland 2014-11-01 19:27:04 UTC-05:00 6.7 km
2.7 20km ESE of Cape Yakataga, Alaska 2014-11-01 17:42:54 UTC-05:00 35.1 km
3.6 97km WSW of Middleton Island, Alaska 2014-11-01 17:42:12 UTC-05:00 34.5 km
5.4 51km SW of Honiara, Solomon Islands 2014-11-01 17:13:13 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
3.4 3km SSW of Brawley, California 2014-11-01 16:21:43 UTC-05:00 14.5 km
7.1 141km NE of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2014-11-01 13:57:22 UTC-05:00 434.4 km
4.0 38km ENE of Calama, Chile 2014-11-01 13:19:51 UTC-05:00 109.9 km
2.9 59km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 2014-11-01 12:53:17 UTC-05:00 16.0 km
4.4 92km NNW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia 2014-11-01 08:23:26 UTC-05:00 122.1 km
4.4 63km SSW of Champerico, Guatemala 2014-11-01 07:55:30 UTC-05:00 35.0 km
4.7 East of the Kuril Islands 2014-11-01 07:08:36 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
