The Catholic Diocese of Orlando defended the priest in a statement posted online. “The woman forcefully placed her hand in the vessel and grabbed some sacred Communion hosts, crushing them,” part of the statement said. “Having only one hand free, Father Rodriguez struggled to restrain the woman as she refused to let go of the hosts.... When the woman pushed him and reacting to a perceived act of aggression, Father Rodriguez bit her hand so she would let go of the hosts she grabbed. The woman was immediately asked to leave.... Further, while the Diocese of Orlando does not condone physical altercations such as this, in good faith, Father Rodriguez was simply attempting to prevent an act of desecration of the Holy Communion, which, as a priest, Father Rodriguez is bound by duty to protect.”
and those commenting on annalthouse think the priest should have let her get away with it because Jesus is compassion.
what is worse is all the news articles that do not seem to know what the Eucharist is about. Guess no Catholics on their staff.
(the mother opts for assisted suicide, available in Switzerland)("She had a three-pronged rationale... The world was going to hell, and she did not want to see more; she did not get joy out of the everyday pleasures of life or her relationships; and she did not want to face the degradations of aging").
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The banality of evil, in a new, family-friendly format. "Mom, it's your last day on earth, don't worry about the subscriptions !" Is the family enabling, or just psycho?
this is the next fad that will be pushed on the elders, just like the trans fad. Fear of nursing homes of course: the alternative? caregivers. Or maybe making nursing homes more friendly.
Of course, 20 years ago at a conference, one of the docs there said a lot of his patients were storing up pills for suicide. I think he said they had attended a meeting on end of life, or maybe just they are their friends talked about it. That was when Soros Open Soeiety was pushing end of life discussions, pretending they were not going to be pro euthanasia, but only discussing it as one of many choices.
But even saints said painful dying would tempt one to kill themselves.
But of course this isn't about painful dying: It is about a culture where useless people are made to feel they should kill themselves.
A total of 21,716 people died at home alone between January and March, and about 80 percent of them were 65 years old or older, according to figures released on May 13.
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During the first three months this year, 17,034 people who died at home alone were seniors. The deaths, including suicides, were based on reports that police received from doctors and others....
A total of 21,716 people died at home alone between January and March, and about 80 percent of them were 65 years old or older, according to figures released on May 13......
The estimate noted that today’s elderly people who live alone are likely to have siblings and children who live separately.
But in 2050, there will be a sharp increase in the number of elderly people living alone with no children, siblings or other close relatives.
Japan has a secret tradition of taking grannies up the mountain so they can die. Like abandoning unwanted children, it is not murder of course: someone could save them.
But in these modern times, it will soon become a problem because it is not out of -poverty that this will be done, but because no one cares.
And yes, some Japanese professor actually suggested this should become public policy. Of course, he was working in the USA, (Yale) where he can say such things and not be shamed.
A Yale professor suggested that Japan's old people should kill themselves in a mass suicide, and it made him a celebrity
A Yale professor said in an interview that mass suicide could solve Japan's aging population issue.
His controversial opinions have made him popular with Japan's youth, per The New York Times.
Yusuke Narita now has a large social media following and even appeared in an energy drink advert.
Sigh.
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and during covid, a lot of the nursing home deaths in the UK were end of life protocol instead of treating them.
54. The care home thought that they should give her a mild sedative to stop her getting up and down so much and help her sleep through the night and keep the cannula in. My mum agreed to that but if she had known what the sedative was she would have said no as she was a retired nurse and, they (care home) should not have asked her anyway as she was not authorised to approve this.
55. At this point my grandmother was eating and drinking by herself, moving to the toilet herself, that there was
only mild symptoms and that they were giving her the nasal oxygen just as a precaution as her stats were a little low but, with the cannula in, she was fine. Her stats had actually improved
65 I was provided with a document at a meeting I had with one of the solicitors. The document was the DNR but this had my name written on it. I was shocked as this was the first time I had seen this document and did not even know it existed.
Also from day 15
Direct link to this witness statement
January 19, 2024: "My Relationships Have No Clothes/I have no moral objection to infidelity. ("If I had to wait until he had no other partner, we would have missed out on this relationship, which is 90 percent TV jokes and 'Mad Men' quotes. We never would have the pride it brings each of us when we make the other laugh out loud").
Although the fact the kid she stole adopted in Malawi who had a father and was not an orphan, we now read he is going around with her in a dress. So in the eyes of God, that is a bigger sin than simple blasphemy. Madonna meet millstone?
As her sweep of Rio de Janeiro shows got underway this week, the pop superstar and her legions of devoted fans were greeted by the wide-open arms of the world’s most-famous Christ statue, sporting a projected image of a Swift-inspired T-shirt...On social media, Swifties asked Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes to project onto the statue a likeness of the "Junior Jewels" shirt from Swift's “You Belong with Me” music video. Their plea went viral. Paes, who once called the singer the “Madonna of our times,” said he'd take the matter to the Rev. Omar Raposo, the rector of the sanctuary.
The 125-foot Christ the Redeemer was illumi
The priest's excuse: He asked the fans to raise money for the poor, which they did.
Ah but who is feeding the souls of the poor? Man does not live by bread alone.
I hadn't been paying attention to the Christians who warned that she is also into the demonic, but after reading that I sort of believer it.
when the movie Gangs of New York came out, it was about the Irish trying to survive against prejudice in the slums of NYC.
The irony? A lot of the stars and the director (Martin Scorsese) were Italian, and they saw it as their story too, because a generation later it was the Italians facing poverty and prejudice.
Fast forward a generation: and the movie Cabrini tells the stories of those Italian immigrants via the bio of a nun, Mother Cabrini, who helped the Italians of the next generation of immigrants by building schools, hospitals and orphanages at a time when Italians were seen as different, and even the Catholic church was not especially welcoming these Italians, whose approach to church and religion was quite different.
That is the background of the recently released film Cabrini.
Like the previous film from Angel Studio Sound of Freedom, about a rogue US cop working with the Colombian police to stop child trafficking, this film shows people willing to face obstacles to help those who often languish in the shadows.
And unlike the usual religious themed pap one sees promoted with cardboard characters, this one breaks all the cliches of the left and right: because it is pro feminist, pro immigrant, and pro Christian.
Cabrini reminds one that the problems faced by immigrants is nothing new, and indeed a lot of what is being said about the Italians in the film is the exact same thing is being said right now about immigrants on right wing discussion boards. They are different, they dilute the race, they will never assimilate, they will never become true Americans because their culture/religion is different from the good folk of America.
So the film is countercultural, in a Catholic way.
And quite well done: the actress playing Mother Cabrini Cristiana Dell'Anna should win an award for her role.
But of course she won't: Because this will be ignored because the woke hate religion.
And I have already read bad reviews by religious reviewers saying it isn't religious enough, because the deep belief in God that inspires Mother Cabrini is not shoved into your face with pious platitudes.
Sigh
In many ways it is a Catholic film: Because when confronted with poverty, sickness, or the other miseries of life, the approach of Catholicism (and indeed that of mainstream Christianity) is to go out and help. For most of us this is done in the circle of one's family and neighbors (50 million caregivers can't be wrong) or if one is lucky enough to work in the helping professions (nurses, teachers, social workers) it is done by direct action.
Not as glamourous as protesting but hey, it is real and meaningful.
with the unregulated influx of immigrants and refugees all over the world, the problems Cabrini confronted are going on right now in many countries.
In some ways, the refugees will have it easier in the USA than in other countries because the Yanks have been there before.
I had to laugh at the end of the film when Cabrini reminds the mayor that maybe the powers that be might see her as a trouble maker, and the Italians as unwanted outsiders, but in the future that Italians could very well run the city as the Irish were doing at the time: and even reminding him those Italians she is helping are proud Americans and they vote
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