More of the Vatican archives becomes available online

More of the Vatican archives becomes available online

An Italian news outlet is reporting that more of the Vatican archives will be digitized such as the oldest version of the Gospels of Luke and John, there is the Canzoniere of Petrarch written by the hand of the poet or the Divine Comedy by Dante illustrated by Botticelli. Overall, it is about 80,000 manuscripts, 150,000 prints, drawings and matrices, 9,000 incunabula and much more.

The Daily Best reported; “Digitization is one of the new frontiers of museums all over the world. Today, with just a few clicks, we can download Leonardo da Vinci’s human anatomy directly from the Royal Collection Trust website in London, all the MOMA catalogs in New York or the documentaries from the Prelinger archive. The patrimony of the Vatican Museums is now added to the list.

We are obviously talking about one of the oldest and most precious heritages in the world. Just to give some examples: there are papyri that contain the oldest version of the Gospels of Luke and John, there is the Canzoniere of Petrarch written by the hand of the poet or the Divine Comedy by Dante illustrated by Botticelli. Overall, it is about 80,000 manuscripts, 150,000 prints, drawings and matrices, 9,000 incunabula and much more.

Collection of polyphonic hymns 1538-1539 digitavaticana.org/ – Collection of polyphonic hymns 1538-1539

In 2013 an ambitious digitization project was inaugurated in order to preserve these texts and make them available to anyone wishing to consult them online. A few days ago the Vatican Digita, the non-profit organization that takes care of the project and collects funds to bring it forward, announced that it had reached 10% of the archive.

At the moment, 9,000 manuscripts have been digitally ejected, of which about 7,000 are already on the digitavaticana.org website. Through the internal search engine you can browse the current catalog looking for the author, the title or the signature, or organize a search in more detail by introducing the words you need or the phrases with which start certain pages.

According to what was communicated on the site of Digita Vaticana, for the project to be completed requires an investment of 50,000 million euros and a work of about fifteen years. Given the pace at which they are proceeding, however, it is conceivable that they will need at least twice as much.

Satanists Comment on the New Religious Liberty Task Force

Satanists Comment on the New Religious Liberty Task Force

Some of the followers of Satan are on edge.

The Christian Big Boys in Washington are up to something and this something, many of the Satanists suspect means nothing good for their cult.

Possibly, Satanism is one of the underground movements that Attorney General Sessions had warned the U.S. public about when he announced the Religious Liberty Task Force on July 30, 2018 that, “a dangerous movement, undetected by many, is now challenging and eroding our great tradition of religious freedom.”

This movement, he left unnamed. Open to conjecture and internet interpretations.

This is mine…

One of the big questions the Satanists are asking is, “Just whose religious liberty will this task force protect?”

It’s a good question.

Let me remind some of you that Attorney General Sessions is a Christian and member of the United Methodist Church (UMC) which is a mainline Protestant denomination.

Simply put, he is as conservative as you can get and he follows the teachings of the bible which is the same book that he was sworn into office on.

His comrades, Vice President Pence and many other members of the Trump administration are also Christians with strong ties to the Christain Churches and communities across the nation.

A nation that has on its dollar bill, “In God We Trust” which was placed there in the 1950’s as a result of the advocacy of the U.S. Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus.

A church who it is well known in the Roman built West as one of the world’s oldest Christian Churches of whom we know that Satan is their Adversary – an Apostate of the Faith.

I’m sure I do not have to inform you all that these guys – the elite U.S. Christians have a lot of money, big guns, armies, mercenaries and God on their side.

They don’t F around with underground movements threatening and eroding all the hard work they have put in building this nation.

With that said, the facts are that many of the competing religious organizations and cults such as Satanism are up in arms over this news of this Religious Liberty Task Force and for good reason.

Reasons which I listed in this article.

Here are some quotes from the Satanists corner;

The Church of Satan had tweeted the same day the task force was announced;

 

Yes, the very fallen angels (evil demons) who hellishly flourish at the expense of sacrificing your own children to Moloch and they have now taken their war to Twitter for the final Babylonian battle of this “Age of Heretics.”

This is the exact place they were expected to voice their ignorant opinions 280 character tweets at a time about things they have no knowledge (Gnosis) about and the creators of the Religious Liberty Task Force could not be more joyed. After all, every word is being recorded and categorized by the Deep State and as the famous Gnostic, St, John had revealed to them,

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/twitter-sessions-religious-liberty-task-force_us_5b5f92bae4b0b15aba9bfcff

U.S. Department of Justice Creates New “Religious Liberty Task Force”

U.S. Department of Justice Creates New “Religious Liberty Task Force”

On July 30, the United States Department of Justice hosted the “Religious Liberty Summit” in order to announce the new creation of a special unit called the “Religious Liberty Task Force,” which will be tasked with protecting and defending the religious rights of Americans.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says that everyone in the U.S. has the right to practice his or her religion freely which we define as religious liberty for all kinds of beliefs and all peoples – including Christianity, Islam, and even Paganism and Satanism.

Speaking at the summit, U.S. Attorney General, Jeff Sessions issued an ominous warning when he stated, “a dangerous movement, undetected by many, is now challenging and eroding our great tradition of religious freedom.”

Sessions called freedom of religion “indeed our first freedom being the first listed right in the First Amendment” and said that the Trump administration is “actively seeking to accommodate people of faith.”

The new unit will aid the department in fully implementing the religious liberty legal “guidance” issued last year under President Donald Trump’s direction, Sessions said in a speech at the Justice Department’s Religious Liberty Summit in Washington.

The attorney general charged that the freedom to practice religion in America has come “under attack” in the nation’s current “cultural climate.”

Here is a complete copy of the DOJ press release titled, “Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks at the Department of Justice’s Religious Liberty Summit” – Washington, DC ~ Monday, July 30, 2018

Thank you, Beth, for that generous introduction and thank you for your outstanding leadership at the Office of Legal Policy.

I want to thank Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and our acting Associate Attorney General, Jesse Pannuccio, for their leadership, as well.

Thank you to Dorothy Williams from the Civil Rights Division for sharing your beautiful voice with us and singing our national anthem.

And thank you to Archbishop Kurtz, my good friend Senator Lankford, as well as all of our panelists: Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore, Kerri Kupec, Derrick Max, Professor McConnell, Asma Uddin, Shay Dvoretzky, Emilie Kao, and of course Jack Phillips.

I want to thank all of you for your courage and insight to speak out for religious liberty.

Let us be frank.

A dangerous movement, undetected by many, is now challenging and eroding our great tradition of religious freedom. There can be no doubt. This is no little matter. It must be confronted and defeated.

This election, and much that has flowed from it, gives us a rare opportunity to arrest these trends.  Such a reversal will not just be done with electoral victories, but by intellectual victories.

We have gotten to the point where courts have held that morality cannot be a basis for law; where ministers are fearful to affirm, as they understand it, holy writ from the pulpit; and where one group can actively target religious groups by labeling them a “hate group” on the basis of their sincerely held religious beliefs.

This President and this Department of Justice are determined to protect and even advance this magnificent heritage.

Freedom of religious is indeed our “first freedom”—being the first listed right of our First Amendment.

This has been a core American principle from the beginning.

It is one of the reasons that this country was settled in the first place.

The promise of freedom of conscience brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, the Catholics to Maryland, the Quakers to Pennsylvania, the Scot-Presbyterians to the middle colonies, and Roger Williams to Rhode Island.

Each one of these groups and others knew what it was like to be hated, persecuted, outnumbered, and discriminated against.

Each one knew what it was like to have a majority try to force them to deny their natural right to practice the faith they held dear.

Our Founders gave religious expression a double protection in the First Amendment.  Not only do we possess freedom to exercise our beliefs but we also enjoy the freedom of speech.

Our Founders’ understanding of and commitment to religious freedom was truly brilliant as well as historic.

It arose in large part from the principals delineated in the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom—and its effective advocates: Madison and Jefferson.

These guys were ferocious. This weekend, I was rereading Gary Will’s fabulous book, Head and Heart, in which he quotes extensively from the Jefferson’s Statute, as he refers to it.

I commend all of it to you; but one line stood out in particular to me, “That almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested His supreme will that free it shall remain, by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint.”

Of course, this is entirely consistent with another of my favorite Jefferson quotes that you will find at his memorial just across the mall from where we are today:

“For I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” This is what our Founders believed.

They clearly recognized that an individual’s relationship to God is a natural right and precedes the existence of the state, and is not subject to state control.

These concepts were placed into our Constitution and laws and formed a national consensus that has greatly militated against religious hostility and violence—and has helped us to this day to be one of the world’s most diverse religious people.

There can be no doubt that we are stronger as a nation because of the contribution of religious Americans.

Every day across America, they feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, educate our young people, and care for the sick.  They do so not because the government tells them to, but because they want to.  They do these things because of their faith.

Their faith provides something the state can never provide—meaning and purpose and joy in their life.

But in recent years, the cultural climate in this country—and in the West more generally—has become less hospitable to people of faith. Many Americans have felt that their freedom to practice their faith has been under attack.

And it’s easy to see why.  We’ve seen nuns ordered to buy contraceptives.

We’ve seen U.S. Senators ask judicial and executive branch nominees about dogma—even though the Constitution explicitly forbids a religious test for public office.  We’ve all seen the ordeal faced so bravely by Jack Phillips.

Americans from a wide variety of backgrounds are concerned about what this changing cultural climate means for the future of religious liberty in this country.

President Trump heard this concern.

I believe this unease is one reason that he was elected.  In substance, he said he respected people of faith and he promised to protect them in the free exercise of their faith.  He declared we would say “Merry Christmas” again.

The Department of Justice has settled 24 civil cases with 90 plaintiffs regarding the previous administration’s wrong application of the contraception mandate to objecting religious employers.

Last month, a district court in Colorado issued a permanent injunction in the case involving the Little Sisters of the Poor, a group of nuns who serve the elderly poor.

This is a permanent injunction and a major victory for the Little Sisters of the Poor and religious freedom.

The government has no business telling the Little Sisters that they must provide an insurance policy that violates their sincere religious beliefs.

And since day one, this administration has been delivering on that promise.

Soon after taking office, President Trump directed me to issue explicit legal guidance for all executive agencies on how to apply the religious liberty protections in federal law.  Our team embraced that challenge.

I issued that guidance in October, and it lays out 20 fundamental principles for the Executive Branch to follow.

Those include the principle that free exercise means a right to act—or to abstain from action.

They include the principle that government shouldn’t impugn people’s motives or beliefs.

We don’t give up our rights when we go to work, start a business, talk about politics, or interact with the government.

We don’t give up our rights when we assemble or join together.  We have religious freedom as individuals and as groups.

In short, we have not only the freedom to worship—but the right to exercise our faith.  The Constitution’s protections don’t end at the parish parking lot nor can our freedoms be confined to our basements.

Under this administration, the federal government is not just reacting—we are actively seeking, carefully, thoughtfully and lawfully, to accommodate people of faith.  Religious Americans are no longer an afterthought.

We will take potential burdens on one’s conscience into consideration before we issue regulations or new policies.

And this Department of Justice is going to court across America to defend the rights of people of faith.

First of all, we are aggressively and appropriately enforcing our civil rights laws, our hate crimes laws, and laws protecting churches and faith groups.

Since January 2017, we have obtained 11 indictments and seven convictions in cases involving arson or other attacks or threats against houses of worship.  Our Civil Rights Division has also obtained 12 indictments in other attacks or threats against people because of their religion.

And we are not slowing down.

Three weeks ago, we obtained a jury verdict against a man who set fire to a mosque in Texas and sentenced for a man from Missouri for threatening to kill members of a mosque.

In addition to protecting the safety of people of faith, we are also protecting them against unjust discrimination.

In January, we filed a brief in a Montana court to defend parents who claim that the state barred their children from a private school scholarship program because they attend a religious school.

We also filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., which was refused advertising space for having a religious message—including “joy to the world” on Merry Christmas.

And, of course, we were proud to file a brief in support of Jack Phillips.

We are taking steps to become even more effective.

In June I announced the Place to Worship Initiative.  Under this initiative, the Department of Justice is holding public events across America and improving training for federal prosecutors about legal protections for houses of worship.

When I was in the Senate, we passed a law called the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, or RLUIPA.  Under RLUIPA, the Department of Justice can file a civil action in court when religious groups are discriminated against in zoning laws.

Under my tenure as Attorney General, we have not hesitated to use this tool when necessary.

In June, we filed suit against a town in New Jersey that had refused over and over again—for eight years—to let an Orthodox Jewish congregation buy land for a synagogue.

And just last week we filed a brief in federal court supporting the case of a Hindu temple in Maryland that claimed to have suffered discrimination in its attempts to purchase land.

We are going to keep going to court.  And I believe that we’re going to keep winning.

Today I am announcing our next step: the Religious Liberty Task Force, to be co-chaired by the Associate Attorney General and the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy—Jesse and Beth.

The Task Force will help the Department fully implement our religious liberty guidance by ensuring that all Justice Department components are upholding that guidance in the cases they bring and defend, the arguments they make in court, the policies and regulations they adopt, and how we conduct our operations.  That includes making sure that our employees know their duties to accommodate people of faith.

As the people in this room know, you have to practice what you preach. We are also going to remain in contact with religious groups across America to ensure that their rights are being protected.  We have been holding listening sessions and we will continue to host them in the coming weeks.

This administration is animated by that same American view that has led us for 242 years: that every American has a right to believe, worship, and exercise their faith in the public square.

This approach has served this country well. We are perhaps the most religiously developed nation in the world and can take pride in respecting all people as they fully exercise their faiths.

It is clear that these policies have furthered peace, prosperity, freedom, lawfulness, and clarity.

As our nation grows order, we must not let it depart from this magnificent tradition.

Now I have the pleasure of introducing Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, someone who is an expert on these matters.

Archbishop Kurtz was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Allentown in 1972.  Over the next two decades he served in a variety of capacities in the Diocese, including teaching at two seminaries.

He was named a Monsignor in 1986 and appointed a pastor in 1988.

In 1999 Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Knoxville and in 2007 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Archbishop of Louisville, where he now leads the oldest inland diocese in the United States and the oldest Archdiocese West of the Appalachias.

In 2010 he was elected Vice President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and then served as President from 2013 to 2016.

In 2017 he was elected chairman of the Conference’s Committee for Religious Liberty.

Please join me in welcoming Archbishop Joseph Kurtz.

SOURCE LINK: https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-sessions-delivers-remarks-department-justice-s-religious-liberty-summit

The Church of Satan claims that there was never a real person named Satan. I disagree…

The Church of Satan claims that there was never a real person named Satan. I disagree…

Here is a recent Twitter exchange I had with the Church of Satan and its current High Priest, Peter Gilmore. My tweet was directed to their Church because they claim that there was never a person who was named and or represented Satan and that it is a fairy tale.

I even tagged the current Pontifex Maximus, Pope Francis in the tweet with the hopes that he would add his Satanic wisdom to the conversation. But I assume he was too busy dealing with the scandals created by the legions in his midst of whom he said this week the “the Great Accuser has been unchained and is attacking bishops.”

If you are interested in the reading the origins of Satan from the Christian Churches perspective, you can read a few of my previous articles such as, Who is Satan?Why Saint Peter is Called Satan by Jesus, and Why Saint Peter is Called Satan by Jesus where I explain the true history of Satan and the fact that he was a real person.

Pope Francis says the Great Accuser has been unchained and is attacking bishops

Pope Francis says the Great Accuser has been unchained and is attacking bishops

Pope Francis said on Tuesday, September 11, “In these times, it seems like the ‘Great Accuser’ has been unchained and is attacking bishops,” according to the Vatican.

Pope Francis gives the homily as he celebrates morning Mass in the chapel of his residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae, at the Vatican Sept. 11. The pope said the devil seeks to reveal sins in order to scandalize the people of God. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) See POPE-HOMILY-ACCUSER-SATAN Sept. 11, 2018.

Francis made the remarks at Mass in the Casa Santa Marta inviting Roman Catholic bishops to overcome the “Great Accuser”, who seeks to create scandal, through prayer, humility, and nearness to God’s people.

The Pope said, “True, we are all sinners, we bishops. He tries to uncover the sins, so they are visible in order to scandalize the people. ”

The ‘Great Accuser’, as he himself says to God in the first chapter of the Book of Job, ‘roams the earth looking for someone to accuse’. A bishop’s strength against the ‘Great Accuser’ is prayer, that of Jesus and his own, and the humility of being chosen and remaining close to the people of God, without seeking an aristocratic life that removes this unction. Let us pray, today, for our bishops: for me, for those who are here, and for all the bishops throughout the world.”

Archbishop Georg Gänswein, Secretary of Benedict XVI, had said how the date of September 11 is now associated with countless victims at a book signing this week, according to the Italian media publication Ansa.it;

“Today is September 11th, the date of an apocalyptic disaster, and also the Church is in the whirlwind of news in recent weeks and all the more following the publication of the report by the grand jury of Pennsylvania, we look in shock at our own September 11th, even if our catastrophe is unfortunately not associated with a single date but so many days and years and countless victims.”

Gaenswein further stated, “that during his papacy, Benedict repeated denounced the gravity of pedophilia, calling it an attack on the Church from within. On Monday Pope Francis’ nine top cardinal advisers said the Holy See was preparing the “necessary clarifications” about accusations that the pontiff was among top Vatican officials to cover up sexual misconduct by a former cardinal in the United States.”

Gnostic prophets are rewriting genesis in the halls of the Vatican

Gnostic prophets are rewriting genesis in the halls of the Vatican

The former head of the Vatican Bank recently told the media, “To transform the divine genesis into a gnostic genesis, and to do this at the Pontifical Academy inside the Vatican would be their masterpiece.”

Yes, these are Gnostic times…

The quote above was made by Italian economist and banker Ettore Gotti Tedeschi in July while speaking at the first international conference of the John Paul II academy for human life and the family.

Tedeschi said those currently advising the “top of the Church are population control advocates such as Paul Ehrlich, Jeffrey Sachs, and the former UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon — people he had claimed are the “gnostic prophets.”

He states that there are efforts to decrease the world’s population by globalist elites have set in motion a series of predictable and intended economic, geo-political, and social catastrophes meant to “persuade” people around the world to accept a global “political vision” that would eliminate national sovereignty and institute “gnostic environmentalism” as its “universal religion.”

So what can the Church do? “The Church will either collide or be isolated,” he said. But “something has happened that should worry a lot of people,” he added referring to recent actions taken, in particular, by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

“We are near” to this happening, he added. “This should worry everyone.”

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