Vatican Fails to Rebuke Iraqi Minister
We knew it would happen this way.
We had hoped, but did not except, that the pope would rebuke a man with blood on his hands.
We had prayed otherwise.
Instead, the pontiff blessed Tariq Aziz, the Iraqi deputy prime minister, and his nation.
We have no problem with John Paul II blessing the nation of Iraq. We pray, as he does, for all the innocent people of this poor nation.
But the true blessing would be for a complete change in Iraq's government.
A government not run by a madman and those, like Tariq Aziz, who, for profit, support genocide and anti-Semitic policies.
A government that does not give out payoffs to those who kill themselves in the name of “allah” and murder innocent victims.
Did anyone in the Church notice that while in Italy, Aziz refused to answer any questions from Israeli reporters? Given the fact that John Paul II is the first pontiff to truly embrace our Jewish brethren, why does he tolerate this behavior from such a lowlife like Aziz, who has the audacity to call himself a Catholic?
On top of all this, the reports of the possessed madman, saddam insein's son, odai, are not good and equally as evil. We all know saddam is a son of satan; saddam's son, therefore, is a child of the son of satan.
How can the Vatican justify, no matter how much we all desire peace, to shake hands with someone who claims to be a Catholic like Tariq Aziz and, yet, is so intimately involved in ensuring the continued power of satan's children? We are, in reality, shaking hands with the devil's aide.
The Lord has told us specifically in the Scriptures that everything that comes out of a man’s mouth will be judged.
He also told us that he did not come to give peace on earth but division.
We think there is also something else He intends to do with all of us when we are judged at the end of time.
We think He will judge the silence of the tongue.
This is why we all need Divine Mercy so badly. None of us can attain to the moral standards and spiritually of so Holy a God as our Lord.
Let no one mistake that we know we are guilty of all of the crimes a sinner can commit.
In our sinfulness, we rush to the Divine Mercy Feast each and every year and we thank John Paul II for his incredible spiritual wisdom to comprehend this blessing from the Lord and institute this great gift throughout the Universal Church.
While we need Divine Mercy for our human failings, we, however, are not the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. A Church that is the moral compass of the world. Unlike us, if the Church loses its way, as it has sometimes in the past, there is no one to pick up the pieces. To choose between the moral compass of the president of the United States or the pope of the Catholic Church is easy. The pope should be the leader. But the pope cannot do that by publicly ignoring, for the sake of politics and diplomacy, the immoral leadership of dictators, and their aides, in other nations.
The Saints would not tolerate it and certainly question it. As a lesson of history, the pope did not leave France to return to Rome because the Saints were silent on the matter. If the Saints had not spoken up, perhaps the pope would not be in Rome today and the world would be a far different place with dictatorial kings like Philip the Fair controlling the Church.
If the pope is to win the hearts and minds of American citizens for peace over the president's war plans, he must understand the interests of a people who have recently been attacked — a people who previously have saved the ideal of freedom for nations like Germany, Italy, France, etc. He must also put the interests of the Iraqi people first who are being oppressed by evil men every day. These interests are not served, no matter what the price of peace, by shaking hands with the devil's aide.
It is not just in the meeting between a man who has blood on his hands and our great pontiff’s desire for world peace that has us concerned. World peace can always be secured — but at what cost? Pax Romana ensured the peace of the world, except for those who crossed caesar’s path. The same can be said for Pax Iraq, except for those who cross saddam insein’s path. Is John Paul II, or any world leader for that matter, willing to take the chance that saddam insein will not aid islamic terrorists in their quest to murder more innocent victims in revenge for what they perceive as the American crime of supporting the state of Israel? A state that has its roots in the Holocaust.
We are not for war, but we are not for state-sponsored or islamic terrorism either. The rulers of Iraq, as well as their islamic allies, have long been engaged in this activity. If the pontiff does not wish to support America's president in his war plans, the very least he should be doing is publicly rebuking Iraqi government officials, especially those who have the audacity to call themselves, like Tariq Aziz, Catholics.
At the same time, while the Church struggles to maintain the peace on the global front, the continued ignorance (or self-aggrandizement) of our cardinals and bishops to engage in activities that promote the wrong agenda is astounding.
In Chicago, Catholics are up in arms over the appearance of Al Sharpton, a peacenik candidate for the presidency of the United States, at a Mass where he was allowed to speak from the pulpit. There is no mistaking that this man is a pro-choice candidate who preaches, like Tariq Aziz, a message that is against Catholic teaching. According to canon law, since Sharpton is not a priest or a deacon, he has no right to speak during the Mass. Who approved this heresy and will there be repercussions for it?
We have now reached the point where Catholicism has passed the 1 billion mark, a sign from God how many truly desire the gift the Lord has given the world in the Sacraments of the Church.
In that 1 billion, we can all be sheep who can be led astray because someone wears a red or purple hat. Or we can be sheep who insist that those who are our shepherds follow one Person and one Person only — the Good Shepherd.
Jesus did not shake hands with those who supported the evil rulers of his time. Unfortunately, and for reasons only the Lord Jesus comprehends, He allowed Judas to sit at His table with Him.
But we all the know the fate of the man who once called Jesus his Master.
The choice is ours. We can continue to be silent as the politicians in our Church lead us and Catholicism where we do not want to go. Our silence will only lead these leaders to believe they are leading us where we do want to go.
Or we can speak out and question the leadership of a Church whose moral compass, as proven in the pedophile crisis, is heading further south instead of north.
Unlike protest-ant biblical idiots who attack Mary because of the Church's obvious human failings, we intend to point out the difference. When the Church makes an error, it is not a reflection on the Truth of Mary as the Immaculate Conception or as the Queen of Heaven and Earth.
To make an equation like this between the Church's human failings and then, becaue of it, deny the unique role of Mary and Her rights as the Mother of God, is equivalent to the same ignorant argument people use to deny the existence of a loving God because there is evil in the world.
Therefore, we intend to continue to speak out and, hopefully, provide some balance.
We will speak out with love and thanksgiving for John Paul's spiritual leadership.
On the other hand, when the hierarchy fails, it is better for us to speak out as believers and inquire why we, the only Church that is the world's only true representative of Christ, needs to shake hands with any politician who shakes hands with the devil.
And in speaking out, we intend to continue to beg the One and only Person who can change the Church and the world for the better.
One who will not tolerate hypocrisy.
One who will not permit strange bedfellows.
One who will not bring war but true peace to the world.
One, who we ask, to take physical possession of that which He already rightfully owns.
This change that we are seeking will not come from another deputy; it can only come from the Owner of the Church and the World. He is the CEO, CFO and COO.
He is Jesus, the King of the Church, and the King of All Nations!
© 2003 Agnus Dei Presents!
odai insein,
is just as possessed
by the devil as his father,
saddam insein.
ABC News reports
his crimes include not only raping women, but
murder and torture
as part of his evil life.
In order to survive in
the Iraqi government,
people like Tariq Aziz,
who met with the pope,
must remain silent
on the evil activities
of saddam's son, odai.
By helping to keep men
like odai in power,
Aziz, in reality,
is the devil's aide.
