By L'menexe ( - 171.208.42.77) on Saturday, >January 22, 2000 - 08:20 am:

>hoo-hah!
>talk about "no point talking to you any further"
>....why bother talking at all to someone who
>uses phrases like "illuminati/masonic/jewish
>regime"?
>that puts this person as the same company as
>the looniest of american loonies.
>mind you, said american loonies would kick this
>"furriner" fellow's butt and toss him out the door.

---

St. John Chrysostom says: "How dare Christians have the slightest
intercourse with Jews! They are lustful, rapacious, greedy, perfidious
bandits: pests of the universe! Their sysnagogue is a house of
prostitution, the domicile of the devil, as is the soul of the Jew. As a
matter of fact, Jews worship the devil; their religion is a disease, their
synagogue a an abyss of perdition. The rejection and dispersion of the
Jews was done by the wrath of God because of His absolute abandonment of
the Jews. God HATES the Jews, and on JUdgement Day will say with those who
sympathize with them: "Depart from Me, for you have had intercourse with my
murderers!" Flee, then, from their assemblies, fly from their houses, and
hold their synagogue in hatred and aversion."

St. Augustine says: "Our Lord Jesus Christ referred to Himself as "the
Stone" (St. Mt. 21:44). Lying on the ground, it shakes whoever falls over
it; coming from on high, it crushes the proud. The Jews have already been
shaken by their previous stumble/ What awaits them is to be crushed by His
Coming."

St. Barnabas says: "Do not add to your sins by saying that the Covenant is
boththeirs and ours. Yes it is ours, but they lost it forever."

St. Vincent Ferrer says: "Since His spouse, the Synagogue, refused to
receive Him, Christ answered: "This is a harlot!" and gave her a bill of
divorce."

Pope Gregory IX says: "Ungrateful for favors and forgeful of benefits, the
Jews return insult for kindness and impious contempt for goodness. They
ought to know the yoke of perpetual enslavement because of their guilt.
See to it that the perfidious Jews never in the future grow insolent, but
that they always suffer publicly the shame of their sin in servile fear."

Pope Innocent III says: "Crucifiers of Christ ought to be held in continual
subjection."

St. Thomas Aquinas says: "It would be licit, according to custom, to hold
Jews in perpetual servitude because of their crime."

Pope Leo VII says: "Let the Gospel be preached to them and, if they remain
obstinate, let them be expelled."

St. Augustine says: "The Jews wander over the entire earth, their backs
bent over and their eyes cast downward, forever calling to our minds the
curse they carry with them."

Pope Innocent III says: "As wanderers, they (the Jews) must remain upon the
earth until their faces are filled with shame and they seek the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ."

"Thou shalt eat bread and cover it with the dung that comes out of a man.
Thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread all filthy among the
nations wither I will cast them out, saith the Lord." (Ezechiel 4:12-13)

"The Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and have
persecuted us, do not please God, and they have become adversaries to all
men, to fill up their sin always; for the wrath of God has come upon them
to the end." (I Thessalonians 2:14-16)

St. Vincent Ferrer says: "One who dies a Jew will be damned."

St. Justin the Martyr says: "Those of the seed of Abraham who live
according to the Law of Moses and who do not believe in Christ before death
shall not be saved; especially they who curse this very Christ in the
synagogues; who curse everything by which they might obtain salvation and
escape the vengeance of fire."

St. Agobard says: "Jews are cursed and covered with malediction. The curse
has penetrated them like water in their bowels and oil in their bones.
They are cursed in the city and cursed in the country, cursed in their
coming in and cursed in their going out. Cursed are the fruits of their
loins, of their lands, of their flocks; cursed are their cellars, their
granaries, their shops, their food, the very crumbs off their tables!"

"If any man love not Our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema." (I
Corinthians 16:22)

St. Ambrose says: "O Jewish hearts, harder than rocks!"

"For all the House of Israel is a hard forhead and an obstinate heart."
(Ezechiel 3:7)

St. Bernard says: "O intelligence coarse, dense, and cow-like, which did
not recognize God even in His own works! Perhaps the Jew will complain
that I call his intelligence bovine, but his intelligence is LESS than
bovine: "The ox knows his Owner, and the ass knows his Master's crib, but
Israel has not known Me, and My people have not understood" (Isaiah 1:3)
You see, O Jew, I am easier on you than your own peophet!"

St. Bernardine of Feltre says: "Canon Law forbids all intercourse with
Jews."

The Council of Elvira declared: "Indeed, if any one of the clergy or
faithful has taken a meal with Jews, he is to abstain from Communion so
that he may be reformed."

St. Augustine says: "Judaism, since Christ, is a corruption; indeed, Judas
(Iscariot) is the image of the Jewish people: their understanding of
Scripture is carnal; they bear the guilt for the death of the Savior, for
through their fathers they have killed Christ. The Jews held Him; the Jews
insulted Him; the Jews bound Him; they crowned Him with thorns; they
scourged Him; they hanged Him upon a tree."

St. Gregory of Nyssa says: "Jews are slayers of the Lord, murderers of the
prophets, enemies and haters of God, adversaries of grace, enemies of their
fathers' faith, advocates of the devil, a brood of vipers, slanderers,
scoffers, men of darkened minds, the leaven of Pharisees, a congregation of
demons, sinners, wicked men, haters of goodness!"

"Woe to the sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a wicked seed,
ungracious children. They have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the
Holy One of Israel, they have gone away backwards. And when you stretch
forth your hands, I will turn away My eyes from you, saith the Lord; and
when you multiply prayer, I will not hear, for your hands are full of
blood." (Isaiah 1: 4,15)

St. Basil the Great says: "And such are the prayers of the Jews, for when
they stretch forth their hands in prayer, they only remind God-the-Father
of their sin against His Son. And at every stretching-forth of their
hands, they only make it obvious that they are stained with the blood of
Christ. For they who persevere in their blindness inherit the blood-guilt
of their fathers, for they cried out: "His blood be on us AND ON OUR
CHILDREN" (St. Mt. 27:25)"

St. Alphonsus Liguori says: "Poor Jews! You invoked a dreadful curse upon
your own heads; and that curse, miserable race, you carry upon you to this
day, and to the End of Time you shall endure the chastisement of that
innocent blood!"

By L'menexe ( - 171.208.42.77) on Saturday, January 22, 2000 - 08:20 am:

hoo-hah!
talk about "no point talking to you any further"
....why bother talking at all to someone who uses phrases like "illuminati/masonic/jewish regime"?
that puts this person as the same company as the looniest of american loonies.
mind you, said american loonies would kick this "furriner" fellow's butt and toss him out the door.

---

Excerpted from Pope Leo XIII Encyclical on Freemasonry April 20,
1884.

The race of man, after its miserable fall from God, the Creator and
the Giver of heavenly gifts, "through the envy of the devil,"
separated into two diverse and opposite parts, of which the one
steadfastly contends for truth and virtue, the other for those things
which are contrary to virtue and to truth. The one is the kingdom of
God on earth, namely, the true Church of Jesus Christ; and those who
desire in their heart to be united with it, so as to gain salvation,
must of necessity serve God and His only-begotten Son with their
whole mind and with an entire will. The other is the kingdom of
Satan, in whose possession and control are all whosoever follow the
fatal example of their leader and of our first parents, those who
refuse to obey the divine and eternal law, and who have many aims of
their own in contempt of God, and many also against God.

This twofold kingdom St. Augustine keenly discerned and described
after the manner of two cities, contrary in their laws because
striving for contrary objects; and with a subtle brevity he expressed
the efficient cause of each in these words: "Two loves formed two
cities: the love of self, reaching even to contempt of God, an
earthly city; and the love of God, reaching to contempt of self, a
heavenly one." At every period in time each has been in conflict
with the other, with a variety abd multiplicity of weapons, and of
warfare, although not always with equal ardor and assault. At this
period, however, the partisans of evil seem to be combining together,
and to be struggling with united vehemence, led on or assisted by
that strongly organized and widespread association called the
FREEMASONS. No longer making any secret of their purposes, they are
now boldly rising up against God Himself. They are planning the
destruction of Holy Church publicly and openly, and this with the set
purpose of utterly despoiling the nations of Christendom, if it were
possible, of the blessings obtained for us through Jesus Christ our
Savior. Lamenting these evils, We are constrained by the charity
which urges Our heart to cry out often to God: "For lo, Thy
enemies have made a noise; and they that hate Thee have lifted up the
head. They have taken a malicious counsel against Thy people, and
they have consulted against Thy saints. They have said, 'Come, and
let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation.'"

At so urgent a crisis, when so fierce and so pressing an onslaught is
made upon the Christian name, it is Our office to point out the
danger, to mark who are the adversaries, and to the best of Our power
to make head against their plans and devices, that those may not
perish whose salvation is committed to Us, and that the kingdom of
Jesus Christ intrusted to Our charge may not only stand and remain
whole, but may be enlarged by an ever increasing growth throughout
the world.

The Roman Pontiffs Our predecessors, in their incessant watchfulness
over the safety of the Christian people, were prompt in detecting the
presence and the purpose of this capital enemy immediately it sprang
into the light instead of hiding as a dark conspiracy; and moreover
they took occasion with true foresight to give, as it were, the
alarm, and to admonish both princes and nations to stand on their
guard, and not allow themselves to be caught by the devices and
snares laid out to deceive them.

The first warning of the danger was given by Clement XII in the year
1738 and his Constitution was confirmed and renewed by Benedict XIV.
Pius VII followed the same path ; and Leo XII, by his Apostolic
Constitution, "Quo graviora," put together the acts and
decrees of former Pontiffs on this subject, and ratified and
confirmed them forever. In the same sense spoke Pius VIII, Gregory
XVI, and many times over Pius IX.

For as soon as the constitution and the spirit of the Masonic sect
were clearly discovered by the manifest signs of its action, by cases
investigated, by the publication of its laws, and of its rites and
commentaries, with the addition often of the personal testimony of
those who were in the secret, this Apostolic See denounced the sect
of the FREEMASONS, and publically declared its constitution, as
contrary to law and right, to be pernicious no less to Christendom
than to the State; and it forbade anyone to enter the society, under
the penalties which the Church is wont to inflict upon exceptionally
guilty persons. The sectaries, indignant at this, thinking to elude
or to weaken the force of these decrees, partly by contempt of them,
and partly by calumny, accused the Sovereign Pontiffs who had passed
them either of exceeding the bounds of moderation in their decrees or
of decreeing what was not just. This was the manner in which they
endeavored to elude the authority and the weight of the Apostolic
Constitutions of Clement XII and Benedict XIV, as well as of Pius VII
and Pius IX. Yet in the very society itself there were to be found
men who unwillingly acknowledged that the Roman Pontiffs had acted
within their right, according to the Catholic doctrine and
discipline. The Pontiffs received the same assent, and in strong
terms, from many princes and heads of governments, who made it their
business either to delate the Masonic society to the Apostolic See,
or of their own accord by special enactments to brand it as
pernicious, as, for example, in Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Spain,
Bavaria, Savoy, and other parts of Italy.

But what is of highest importance, the course of events has
demonstrated the prudence of Our predecessors. For their provident
and paternal solicitude had not always and everywhere the result
desired; and this, either because of the simulation and cunning of
some who were active agents in the mischief, or else of the
thoughtless levity of the rest who ought, in their own interest, to
have given to the matter their diligent attention. In consequence
the sect of FREEMASONS grew with a rapidity beyond conception in the
course of a century and a half, until it came to be able, by means of
fraud or of audacity, to gain such entrance into every rank of the
State as to seem to be almost its ruling power. This swift and
formidable advance has brought upon the Church, upon the power of
princes, upon the public well-being, precisely that grievous harm
which Our predecessors had long before foreseen. Such a condition
has been reached that henceforth there will be grave reason to fear,
not indeed for the Church - for her foundation is much too firm to be
overturned by the effort of men - but for those States in which
prevails the power, either of the sect of which we are speaking or of
other sects not dissimilar which lend themselves to it as disciples
and subordinates.

For these reasons We no sooner came to the helm of the Church than We
clearly saw and felt it to be Our duty to use Our authority to the
very utmost against so
vast an evil. We have several times already, as occasion served,
attacked certain chief points of teaching which showed in a special
manner the perverse influence of Masonic opinions. Thus, in Our
Encyclical Letter, "Quod Apostolici muneris," We endeavored
to refute the monstrous doctrines of the Socialists and Communists;
afterwards, in another beginning "Arcanum," We took pains to
defend and explain the true and genuine idea of domestic life, of
which marriage is the spring and origin; and again, in that which
begins "Diuturnum," We described the ideal of political
government conformed to the principles of Christian wisdom, which is
marvelously in harmony, on the one hand, with the natural order of
things, and, on the other, with the well-being of both sovereign
princes and of nations. It is now Our intention, following the
example of Our predecessors, directly to treat of the MASONIC society
itself, of its whole teaching, of its aims, and of its manner of
thinking and acting, in order to bring more and more into the light
its power for evil, and to do what We can to arrest the contagion of
this fatal plague.

There are several organized bodies which, though differing in name,
in ceremonial, in form and origin, are nevertheless so bound together
by community of purpose and by the similarity of their main opinions,
as to make in fact one thing with the sect of the FREEMASONS, which
is a kind of centre whence they all go forth, and whither they all
return. Now, these no longer show a desire to remain concealed; for
they hold their meetings in the daylight and before the public eye,
and publish their own newspaper organs; and yet, when thoroughly
understood, they are found still to retain the nature and the habits
of secret societies. There are many things like mysteries which it
is the fixed rule to hide with extreme care, not only from strangers,
but from very many members also; such as their secret and final
designs, the names of the chief leaders, and certain secret and inner
meetings, as well as their decisions, and the ways and the means of
carrying them out. This is, no doubt, the object of the manifold
difference among the members as to right, office, and priveledge - of
the received distinction of orders and grades, and of that severe
discipline which is maintained. Candidates are generally commanded
to promise - nay, with a special oath, to swear - that they will
never, to any person, at any time or in any way, make known the
members, the passes, or the subjects discussed. Thus, with a
fraudulent external appearance, and with a style of simulation which
is always the same, the FREEMASONS, like the Manichees of old,
strive, as far as possible, to conceal themselves, and to admit no
witnesses but their own members. As a convenient manner of
concealment, they assume the character of literary men and scholars
associated for purposes of learning. They speak of their zeal for a
more cultured refinement, and of their love for the poor; and they
declare their one wish to be the amelioration of the condition of the
masses, and to share with the largest possible number all the
benefits of civil life. Were these purposes aimed at in real truth,
they are by no means the whole of their object. Moreover, to be
enrolled, it is necessary that the candidates promise and undertake
to be thenceforth strictly obedient to their leaders and masters with
the utmost submission and fidelity, and to be in readiness to do
their bidding upon the slightest expression of their will; or if
disobedient, to submit to the direst penalties and death itself. As
a fact, if they are judged to have betrayed the doings of the sect or
to have resisted commands given, punishment is inflicted on them not
infrequently, and with so much audacity and dexterity that the
assasin very often escapes the detection and penalty of his crime.


But to simulate and wish to lie hid; to bind men like slaves in the
very tightest bonds, and without giving any sufficient reason; to
make use of men enslaved to the will of another for any arbitrary
act; to arm men's right hands for bloodshed after securing impunity
for the crime - all this is an enormity from which nature recoils.
wherefore reason and truth itself make it plain that the society of
which we are speaking is in antagonism with justice and natural
uprightness. And this becomes still plainer, inasmuch as other
arguments also, and those very manifest, prove that it is essentially
opposed to natural virtue. For, no matter how great may be men's
cleverness in concealing and their experience in lying, it is
impossible to prevent the effects of any cause from showing, in some
way, the intrinsic nature of the cause whence they come. "A good
tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor a bad tree produce good
fruit." Now, the MASONIC sect produces fruits that are
pernicious and of the bitterest savor. For, from what We have above
most clearly shown, that which is their ultimate purpose forces
itself into view - namely, the utter overthrow of that whole
religious and political order of the world which the Christian
teaching has produced, and the substitution of a new state of things
in accordance with their ideas, of which the foundations and laws
shall be drawn from mere "Naturalism."

What We have said, and are about to say, must be understood of the
sect of the FREEMASONS taken generically, and in so far as it
comprises the associations kindred to it and confederated with it,
but not of the individual members of them. There may be persons
amongst these, and not a few, who, although not free from the guilt
of having entangled themselves in such associations, yet are neither
themselves partners in their criminal acts, nor aware of the ultimate
object which they are endeavoring to attain. In the same way, some
of the affiliated societies, perhaps, by no means approve of the
extreme conclusions which they would, if consistent, embrace as
necessarily following from their common principles, did not their
very foulness strike them with horror. Some of these, again, are led
by circumstances of times and places either to aim at smaller things
than the others usually attempt, or than they themselves would wish
to attempt. They are not, however, for this reason, to be reckoned
as alien to the MASONIC federation; for the MASONIC federation is to
be judged not so much by the things which it has done, or brought to
completion, as by the sum of its pronounced opinions.

Now, the fundamental doctrine of the Naturalists, which they
sufficiently make known by their very name, is that human nature and
human reason ought in all things to be mistress and guide. Laying
this down, they care little for duties to God, or pervert them by
erroneous and vague opinions. For they deny that anything has been
taught by God; they allow no dogma of religion or truth which cannot
be understood by the human intelligence, nor any teacher who ought to
be believed by reason of his authority. And since it is the special
and exclusive duty of the Catholic Church fully to set forth in words
truths divinely received, to teach, besides other divine helps to
salvation, the authority of its office, and to defend the same with
perfect purity, it is against the Church that the rage and attack of
the enemies are principally directed.

In those matters which regard religion let it be seen how the sect of
the FREEMASONS acts, especially where it is more free to act without
restraint, and then let any one judge whether in fact it does not
wish to carry out the policy of the Naturalists. By a long and
persevering labor, they endeavor to bring about this result - namely,
that the office and authority of the Church may become of no account
in the civil State; and for this same reason they declare to the
people and contend that Church and State ought to be altogether
disunited. By this means they reject from the laws and from the
commonwealth the wholesome influence of the Catholic religion; and
they consequently imagine that States ought to be constituted without
any regard for the laws and precepts of the Church.

Nor do they think it enough to disregard the Church - the best of
guides - unless they also injure it by their hostility. Indeed, with
them it is lawful to attack with impunity the very foundations of the
Catholic religion, in speech, in writing, and in teaching; and even
the rights of the Church are not spared, and the offices with which
it is divinely invested are not safe. The least possible liberty to
manage affairs is left to the Church; and this is done by laws not
apparently very hostile, but in reality framed and fitted to hinder
freedom of action. Moreover, We see exceptional and onerous laws
imposed upon the clergy, to the end that they may be continually
diminished in number and in necessary means. We see also the
remnants of the possessions of the Church fettered by the strictest
conditions, and subjected to the power and arbitrary will of the
administrators of the State, and the religious orders rooted up and
scattered.

But against the Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff the contention of
these enemies has been for a long time directed. The Pontiff was
first, for specious reasons, thrust out from the bulwark of his
liberty and of his right, the civil princedom; soon he was unjustly
driven into a condition which was unbearable because of the
difficulties raised on all sides; and now the time has come when the
partisans of the sects openly declare, what in secret among
themselves they have for a long time plotted, that the sacred power
of the Pontiffs must be abolished, and that the Pontificate itself,
founded by divine right, must be utterly destroyed. If other proofs
were wanting, this fact would be sufficiently disclosed by the
testimony of men well informed, of whom some at other times, and
others again recently, have declared it to be true of the FREEMASONS
that they especially desire to assail the Church with irreconcilable
hostility, and that they will never rest until they have destroyed
whatever the supreme Pontiffs have established for the sake of
religion.

If those who are admitted as members are not commanded to abjure by
any form of words the Catholic doctrines, this omission, so far from
being adverse to the designs of the FREEMASONS, is more useful for
their purposes. First, in this way they easily deceive the simple-
minded and the heedless, and can induce a far greater number to
become members. Again, as all who offer themselves are received
whatever may be their form of religion, they thereby teach the great
error of this age - that a regard for religion should be held as an
indifferent matter, and that all religions are alike. This manner of
reasoning is calculated to bring about the ruin of all forms of
religion, and especially of the Catholic religion, which, as it is
the only one that is true, cannot, without great injustice, be
regarded as merely equal to other religions.

But the Naturalists go much further; for having, in the highest
things, entered upon a wholly erroneous course, they are carried
headlong to extremes, either by reason of the weakness of human
nature, or because God inflicts upon them the just punishment of
their pride. Hence it happens that they no longer consider as
certain and permanent those things which are fully understood by the
natural light of reason, such as certainly are - the existence of
God, the immaterial nature of the human soul, and its immortality.
The sect of the FREEMASONS, by a similar course of error, is exposed
to these same dangers; for although in a general way they may profess
the existence of God, they themselves are witnesses that they do not
maintain this truth with the full assent of the mind or with a firm
conviction. Neither do they conceal that this question about God is
the greatest source and cause of discords among them; in fact, it is
certain that a considerable contention about this same subject has
existed among them very lately. But indeed the sect allows great
liberty to its votaries, so that to each side is given the right to
defend its opinion, either that there is a God, or that there is
none; and those who obstinately contend that there is no God are as
easily initiated as those who contend that God exists, though like
the Pantheists, they have false notions concerning Him: all which is
nothing else than taking away the reality, while retaining some
absurd representation of the divine nature.

When this greatest fundamental truth has been overturned or weakened,
it follows that those truths also which are known by the teaching of
nature must begin to fall - namely, that all things were mjade by the
free will of God the Creator; that the world is governed by
Providence; that souls do not die; that to this life of men upon the
earth there will succeed another and an everlasting life.

When these truths are done away with, which are as the principles of
nature and important for knowledge and for practical use, it is easy
to see what will become of both public and private morality. We say
nothing of those more heavenly vitrues, which no one can exercise or
even acquire without a special gift and grace of God; of which
necessarily no trace can be found in those who reject as unknown the
redemption of mankind, the grace of God, the sacraments, and the
happiness to be obtained in heaven. We speak now of the duties which
have their origin in natural probity. That God is the Creator of the
world and its provident Ruler; that the eternal law commands the
natural order to be maintained, and forbids that it be disturbed;
that the last end of men is a destiny far above human things and
beyond this sojourning upon the earth: these are the sources and
these the principles of all justice and morality. If these be taken
away, as the Naturalists and FREEMASONS desire, there will
immediately be no knowledge as to what constitutes justice and
injustice, or upon what principle morality is founded. And, in
truth, the teaching of morality which alone finds favor with the sect
of FREEMASONS, and in which they contend that youth should be
instructed, is that which they call "civil," and
"independent," and "free," namely, that which does
not contain any religious belief. But how insufficient such teaching
is, how wanting in soundness, and how easily moved by every impulse
of passion, is sufficiently proved by its sad fruits, which have
already begun to appear. For whenever, by removing Christian
education, the sect has begun more completely to rule, there goodness
and integrity of morals have begun quickly to perish, monstrous and
shameful opinions have grown up, and the audacity of evil deeds has
risen to a high degree. All this is commonly complained of and
deplored; and not a few of those who by no means wish to do so are
compelled by abundant evidence to give not infrequently the same
testimony.

Moreover, since human nature was stained by original sin, and is
therefore more disposed to vice than to virtue, for a virtuous life
is absolutely necessary to restrain the disorderly movements of the
soul, and to make the passions obedient to reason. In this conflict
human things must very often be despised, and the greatest labors and
hardships must be undergone, in order that reason may always hold its
sway. But the Naturalists and FREEMASONS, having no faith in those
things which we have learned by the revelation of God, deny that our
first parents sinned, and consequently think that free will is not at
all weakened and inclined to evil. On the contrary, exaggerating
rather our natural virtue and excellence and placing therin alone the
principle and rule of justice, they cannot even imagine that there is
any need at all of a constant struggle and a perfect steadfastness to
overcome the violence and rule the passions of our nature. Wherefore
we see that men are publically tempted by the many allurements of
pleasure; that there are journals and pamphlets with neither
moderation nor shame; that stage-plays are remarkable for license;
that designs for works of art are shamelessly sought in the laws of a
so-called realism; that the contrivances for a soft and delicate
life are most carefully devised; and that all the blandishments of
pleasure are dilligently sought out by which virtue may be lulled to
sleep. Wickedly also, but at the same time consistently, do those
act who do away with the expectation of the joys of heaven, and bring
down all happiness to the level of mortality, and, as it were, sink
it in the earth. Of what We have said the following fact,
astonishing not so much in itself as in its open expression, may
serve as a confirmation. For since generally no one is accustomed to
obey crafty and clever men so submissively as those whose soul is
weakened and broken down by the domination of the passions, there
have been in the sect of the FREEMASONS some who have plainly
determined and proposed that, artfully and of set purpose, the
multitude should be satiated with a boundless license of vice, as,
when this had been done, it would easily come under their power and
authority for any acts of daring. What refers to domestic life in
the teaching of the Naturalists is almost all contained in the
following declarations. That marriage belongs to the genus of
commercial contracts, which can rightly be revoked by the will of
those who made them, and that the civil rulers of the State have
power over the matrimonial bond; that in the education of youth
nothing is to be taught in the matter of religion as of certain and
fixed opinion; and each one must be left at liberty to follow, when
he comes of age, whatever he may prefer. To these things the
FREEMASONS fully assent; and not only assent, but have endeavored to
make them into a law and institution. For in many countries, and
those nominally Catholic, it is enacted that no marriages shall be
considered lawful except those contracted by the civil rite; in
other places the law permits divorce; and in others every effort is
used to make it lawful as soon as may be. Thus the time is quickly
coming when marriages will be turned into another kind of contract -
that is, into changeable and uncertain unions which fancy may join
together, and which the same when changed may disunite. With the
greatest unanimity the sect of the FREEMASONS also endeavors to take
to itself the education of youth. They think that they can easily
mould to their opinions that soft and pliant age, and bend it whither
they will; and that nothing can be more fitted than this to enable
them to bring up the youth of the State after their own plan.
Therefore in the education and instruction of children they allow no
share, either of teaching or of discipline, to the ministers of the
Church; and in many places they have procured that the education of
youth shall be exclusively in the hands of laymen, and that nothing
which treats of the most important and most holy duties of men to God
shall be introduced into the instructions on morals.

Then come their doctrines of politics, in which the Naturalists lay
down that all men have the same right, and are in every respect of
equal and like condition; that each one is naturally free; that no
one has the right to command another; that it is an act of violence
to require men to obey any authority other than that which is
obtained from themselves. According to this, therefore, all things
belong to the free people; power is held by the command or permission
of the people, so that, when the popular will changes, rulers may
lawfully be deposed; and the source of all rights and civil duties is
either in the multitude or in the governing authority when this is
constituted according to the latest doctrines. It is held also that
the State should be without God; that in the various forms of
religion there is no reason why one should have precedence of
another; and that they are all to occupy the same place.

That these doctrines are equally acceptable to the FREEMASONS, and
that they would wish to constitute States according to this example
and model, is too well known to require proof. For some time past
they have openly endeavored to bring this about with all their
strength and resources; and in this they prepare the way for not a
few bolder men who are hurrying on even to worse things, in their
endeavor to obtain equality and community of all goods by the
destruction of every distinction of rank and property.

What therefore the sect of the FREEMASONS is, and what course it
pursues, appears sufficiently from the summary We have briefly given.
Their chief dogmas are so greatly and manifestly at variance with
reason, that nothing can be more perverse. To wish to destroy the
religion and the Church which God Himself has established, and whose
perpetuity He insures by His protection, and to bring back after a
lapse of eighteen centuries the manners and customs of the pagans, is
signal folly and audacious impiety. Neither is it less horrible nor
more tolerable that they should repudiate the benefits which Jesus
Christ has mercifully obtained, not only for individuals, but also
for the family and for civil society, benefits which, even according
to the judgement and testimony of enemies of Christianity, are very
great. In this insane and wicked endeavor we may almost see the
implacable hatred and spirit of revenge with which Satan himself is
inflamed against Jesus Christ. --So also the studious endeavor of the
FREEMASONS to destroy the chief foundations of justice and honesty,
and to co-operate with those who would wish, as if they were m

Antonio,
I came to see the last comment on the chechen conflict.

Khattab gave an interview to the TV of Qatar. Asked by the journalists for how long the Mujahideen would be able to resist the Russians, Khattab answered a more fitting question would be for how long the Russians would be able to resist the Mujahideen.
Khattab strictly denied any Chechen responsibility for the blasts in Russia and accused Putin of being responsible for these acts of terrorism in Russia.

In the mountains it is snowing. A captured Russian paratrooper told that 3 Russians have frozen to death near the Deaths' Village. According to him the situation for the Russians is critical – the bad moral and physical shape of the Russian soldiers makes their officers to claim the evacuation of the Russian positions there.
A week ago scuffles and a shooting took place among the Russian – 2 men died, 7 were wounded.