Roman Catholicism: The New Medievalism/Neo Feudalism

According to Avles:

http://z13.invisionfree.com/THE_UNHIVED_MIND/index.php?showtopic=25346

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The principles of Catholicism are based on the denial of the rights of men. In the Feudal Middle Age you had not something like a ‘right’ which belonged to you ‘naturally’ and ‘from the birth to death’.

You were a simple TOOL of your master. This is the goal of RC church and Jesuits. Kommunism and Nazifascism were only a disguised forms for the realization of this plan, the return to middle age. [such as stuff as this]

According to a paper SPIRITUAL GEOPOLITICS: FR. EDMUND WALSH AND JESUIT ANTICOMMUNISM, by Gearóid Ó Tuathail / Gerard Toal, Department of Geography, Virginia Tech:

By the early twentieth century, the leadership of the Catholic Church was at war with the modern world. The tone was established by the papal declarations of Pius X condemning "Americanism" in 1899 and repudiating the heresy of "modernism" in 1907. Within the Jesuits, the anti-modernist creed was lead by Father Wlodimir Ledochowski who governed the society as its Superior General from 1915 to his death in 1942. The son of Polish nobility serving the Habsburg court, Ledochowski embodied the reactionary sentiments of old regime Catholicism (MacDo nough 1992, 65-68). Writing after the collapse of the Habsburg empire in 1919 he argued that "all is tottering in modern society..., modern society resembles in its wretchedness the poor paralytic of Bethsaida in that it has no strength within itself to rise from its sick bed..." (Ledochowski in Schmidt 1945, 380). "Freethinkers," those with a contempt for God and religion, "promised that science would solve all the problems of life, becoming the provident and generous dispenser of happiness to the generations of mankind so thirsty for perfect happiness." However, science and the state have proved to be false gods. Now "the souls of men are feeling ever more and more the terrible void created by the conspiracy of governments to tear away modern generations from Christ and His Church" (Ledochowski in Schmidt 1945, 382).

Note that Ledochowski uses terms as “God and religion” and “Christ and His Church” as synonyms for the Roman Catholic Church, he decries the independence of secular governments from the Roman Catholic Church, and for freethinkers.

Wlodimir Ledochowski- 26th Jesuit Order Superior General
born October 7, 1866

elected February 11, 1915 - served until his death December 13, 1942

A Buried Standard
New UN General Assembly President: About The Black And The Red
Wlodimir Ledochowski: Goals Via Goals

A Beholden Doctrine

Tim Russert's Power Spin

Mouthpiece for the Washington, D.C./ Jesuit power structure against electoral choice- particularly the decentralizing Libertarian Party

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kramer/kramer16.html

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Predictably, Russert was lauded by the entire political and media establishment for his career: for being an icon; for being impartial; for not being afraid to ask tough questions.

In my last column, I wrote that politics at high levels of government basically consists of a symbiotic relationship between politicians, bureaucrats, and journalists and the ruling elite, where the politicians, bureaucrats, and journalists earn higher incomes than they could elsewhere on the market through voluntary trade (and receive other perks which, depending on what they’re after, include things like celebrity; prestige; influence; and indulging their control-freak personalities by forcibly running others’ lives), in exchange for perpetuating the system (such as the military-industrial complex, the pharmaceutical-industrial complex, and the Federal Reserve) by which the elite profit at the expense of the average person.

Perhaps nobody profited from that relationship more than Tim Russert. The very fact that the establishment media is praising him – and that he reigned over a mainstream, influential program like Meet the Press for 17 years, is proof that the praise of what a great journalist he was is false. As Lew Rockwell quipped, rather than asking tough questions of politicians, Russert acted more like their butler or valet.

Any LRC reader who’s been around since last year remembers how Russert treated Ron Paul last Dec., when he had him as a guest, after ignoring him all year, only when Ron’s popularity grew to the point that he could no longer be ignored. Instead of mixing in the usual softball questions, he pelted Ron with rapid-fire questions for 30 straight minutes, sometimes not even letting Ron finish answering one question before interrupting him with the next. He rarely (if ever) looked Ron in the eye. He cast Ron’s advocacy for amending the constitution as being inconsistent for a constitutionalist. When Ron called the so-called Civil War unnecessary, Russert claimed we’d still have slavery without it. In short, Ron was treated quite differently than most of Russert’s guests.

What some newer LRC readers may not know is that something like that happened before.

"I resent the question."

Harry Browne, nominee of the Libertarian Party in 2000, was (also reluctantly) invited by Russert to be on Meet the Press that year – which, to the best of my knowledge, is the first time, before or since, that the LP candidate has appeared on the program.

With all of this talk about Russert the past few days, I couldn't resist digging up my tape and revisiting what happened.

First, the background information: Russert gave third-party candidates Ralph Nader of the Green Party and Pat Buchanan of the Reform Party each an entire half-hour segment on Meet the Press earlier in 2000.

Like Ron Paul in 2007–2008, Harry had received literally 1–2% as much mainstream media coverage in 1999–2000 as the major candidates, and Lexxus-Nexxus reported at one point late in 2000 that Buchanan had received 60 times more coverage than Browne that year, and Nader had received 80 times more. Browne also had about $2 million to spend, while Buchanan had $12 million – partially because Buchanan accepted the federal matching funds the party had earned from Perot’s 1996 showing, while Browne refused what he had earned from 1996, although it was significantly less than Buchanan’s amount.

Despite all of those disadvantages, Harry was the most popular candidate on the Internet that year (which admittedly meant less in 2000 than it does now) and – more importantly – was tied or above Buchanan (who always polled lower than Nader) in almost every major poll all year. By Sept., Harry was not only at least tied with Buchanan nationwide (depending on the poll), but he was out-polling both Nader and Buchanan in several states, and was also polling higher than the margin of error between Bush and Gore in several states.

During an Oct. edition of Meet the Press, Russert announced that he was holding a third-party debate on the program the following Sunday between Nader and Buchanan.

Given his accomplishments that year, Harry set out to discover why he hadn’t been invited too, which he described thusly in his campaign journal, which was sent regularly throughout the year to about 30,000 subscribers, "This morning the campaign released an email on LibertyWire, telling supporters that we've been rebuffed by Meet the Press. The program has scheduled a debate for this Sunday between Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan, and didn't include me. When Jim Babka, our very able press secretary, called Meet the Press to plead our case, he was rebuffed by the show's producer – who said it just wasn't ‘in the cards’ that I would ever be on the show, even though I'm running even with Buchanan in the polls. When Jim asked what we had to do to qualify to be on the show, she said she resented the question.

"Our email message asked people to blitz the show with emails and phone calls, requesting my presence. The first day at least 600 emails reached the show, and the phone calls overloaded the voice mail system.

"On top of that, a week ago Tim Russert was on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. During the show, Brian Lamb mentioned that C-SPAN had received over 150 emails from viewers wanting to ask Tim Russert why he didn't have me on his show. He gave the usual lame explanation that they couldn't have all 255 registered presidential candidates on, and so they focused on the two with the most support. Then a caller pointed out that only seven candidates were on enough state ballots to win, and that I had as much support as Buchanan does."

That was a shockingly dishonest answer by Russert, and no one in his position could possibly be that stupid: Yes, there were about 250 presidential candidates officially recognized by the FEC in 2000, which meant only that they had filed the necessary paperwork. But only 15 of those were on the ballot in even one state; only five besides Bush and Gore were on enough ballots to mathematically be able to win the Electoral College; and Browne was on 49 state ballots – more than any other third-party candidate.

Harry continued, "Apparently, the powers-that-be decided to throw in the towel – sort of. Two days later, the producer called Jim Babka and invited me on the show. But instead of having a half-hour to myself, as Nader and Buchanan have each had during the campaign, and instead of being on with Nader and/or Buchanan, I would be on with Howard Phillips and John Hagelin. This allows Meet the Press to say they've given me a platform, while at the same time making the point that I'm in the bottom tier of candidates – making their decision to have Buchanan and Nader on alone seem justified.

"So here I am. Although I've done two debates with Hagelin and Phillips this year, this is the first show that's treated me as one of three lower-level candidates – something that happened regularly in 1996."

Harry didn’t mention that Hagelin and Phillips, with whom he was forced to share his time, were each polling at 0.1–0.2%, while, again, he was polling 1–2% nationally – at least tied with Buchanan, and 3–5% – in third place behind Bush and Gore, in some individual states. (I’m not arguing against Russert having Hagelin and Phillips as guests; in fact, as presidential candidates who were on enough state ballots to mathematically be able to win the Electoral College, he should have. The point is that Browne clearly had much more support than them, and if he was going to be lumped together with anyone, it should’ve been with Nader and Buchanan.)

What follows is a transcript of Harry’s appearance on Meet the Press on Oct. 22, 2000. While not all of Russert’s questions were hostile or misleading, some of the questions show how misleading he could be, and I’ve included them all for completeness and because Harry was so magnificent. The segment was 19 minutes; as with Ron Paul last year, there were no commercials. I didn’t watch it with a stopwatch, but it seemed like the time was roughly divided equally between the three candidates. If that’s accurate, then Harry got less than seven minutes – about one-third of what Buchanan and Nader got if their segments had commercials and less than one-fourth if theirs didn’t (which is more likely).

RUSSERT: "This is from your party brochure: ' . . . widespread gun ownership will make neighborhoods safer.'

'It's time to re-legalize drugs and let people take responsibility for themselves.'

"Some Americans watching that will step back and say, 'Is he really for gun-toting people roaming the streets providing free drugs for everyone?' "

BROWNE: "Well, we have gun-toting people roaming the streets; they're called criminals. They have no regard for gun laws whatsoever. They don't buy their guns in ways that involve background checks, or registration, or licensing, or any of these things. Those gun laws apply only to you, and me, and to other innocent citizens. I want to live in a neighborhood where a criminal has to fear that somebody in the neighborhood owns a gun when he starts deciding which house he's going to break into.

"As far as the drug laws are concerned, before we had drug laws in America, we didn't have the widespread drug problems we have today, because the pharmaceutical companies ran the drug business – not criminal gangs in the inner cities. All the Drug War has brought us is widespread drug use, with gangs preying upon children at schools; all the Drug War has brought us is a hundred or two-hundred thousand innocent people in prison who have no business there, making it impossible to keep the murders, rapists and child-molesters in prison, so they get out on early release and plea-bargains."

RUSSERT (interrupting): "So if anybody wanted heroin, or speed, or marijuana, they could have it?"

BROWNE: "When it was perfectly legal for a child to walk into a store and buy heroin, children didn't walk into stores and buy heroin, because number one: it wasn't forbidden fruit; and number two: nobody was preying upon them in schools; they no interest in it whatsoever. Bayer sold heroin in this country as a pain-reliever and sedative. It was perfectly safe. But once it was turned over to criminals, it became a very dangerous drug – just as bathtub gin was a very dangerous drug in the 1920s, when gin was illegal. Prohibition doesn't work, it has never worked; all it does is tear our country apart, and we have got to end it. If I'm elected president somehow, on my first day in office, I will pardon unconditionally everyone who's in federal prison on a non-violent drug offense."

RUSSERT: "The defense budget is about $290 billion a year. How much would you spend?"

BROWNE: "About $50 billion a year could defend this country better than it does now. But we would not have the gigantic national offense. We would not have the ability to annihilate other countries. We would not have the ability to meddle in other countries' affairs, and we would not be putting your children at risk of fighting and dying in a foreign war, or terrorists attacking your city. We would be the beacon of liberty for the entire world, and not the world's policeman."

"We have a $1.8 trillion government. Government at all levels is taking nearly half the national income. It's meddling in your bank account. It's monitoring your e-mail. And the question people need to ask is, 'Do you want smaller government?' And if you want smaller government, all of these grand proposals to reform our schools, to reform our healthcare system, are not going to work, and you know they're not going to work. And you know that we're not going to be able to close the borders, that people are going to get into this country no matter what the government does; the government hasn't kept drugs out, it hasn't stamped out poverty – "

RUSSERT (interrupting): "So open up the borders to immigration completely?"

BROWNE: "The borders are open! Why is it so hard for people to understand that anyone who wants to get into this country today gets into this country?"

RUSSERT (interrupting again): "And anyone who is here illegally you would make a citizen?"

BROWNE: "I don't care whether or not they're citizens; what I care about is that, if we do have programs to close the borders, once again it will affect you more than it will affect the immigrants. They will make you carry an identity card. You will be stopped by policemen and asked to prove that you are a citizen. Your employer will be sanctioned for inadvertently letting an illegal immigrant go to work in your company. It will not keep the immigrants out, but it will be one more nail in the coffin of freedom in the United States for American citizens."

"The answer is to shut down the welfare state. Shut down the welfare state, and people will filter themselves out. They will only come here for the land of opportunity. If we leave the welfare state intact but close the borders, then we're going to have less freedoms in the United States, and we're still going to have a welfare state, and we're still going to have big government, and were still going to have government prying into every aspect of our lives, as we do now. The answer is to reduce government. We never solve problems through government. We haven't solved the education problem. We haven't solved the healthcare problem. We haven't solved the drug problem. We haven't solved the poverty problem. We haven't solved any of these problems. What makes anybody think that now we're going to close the borders and we're going to solve the immigration problem?"

RUSSERT: "Mr. Browne, abortion?"

BROWNE: "I want to abide by the constitution. The federal government has no business legislating on common crimes of any kind; there should be no federal laws against murder, rape, hate crimes, discrimination, any of these things, because law enforcement was meant to be a state and local function. And what we need to do is to get the federal government completely out of this question; it should not subsidize abortions; it should not outlaw abortions; this should be left to the states, and people can gravitate to the states that they find most compatible."

RUSSERT (addressing the wasted vote question): "Mr. Browne, would it make a difference to a libertarian if either George Bush or Al Gore was president?"

BROWNE: "No. You know, I know, everybody watching this show knows that four years from today, whichever of them is elected, government will be bigger, more expensive, more obtrusive, and more oppressive. If you vote Republican or Democrat, you are giving up. You’re saying ‘I’m never going to be free. America will never be a free country again. I will never get smaller government. So I’m just going to vote for the one I think will take me to hell at the slowest-possible rate.’"

It’s perfectly legitimate for Russert to challenge anyone, including Harry, on his views – although, had Harry been on for 30 minutes, Russert would’ve had time to engage in more of a conversation and make sure none of his questions sounded too hostile or one-sided – had Russert wanted to do that.

But to be the great journalist his memorials purport him to be, he would’ve had to similarly play Devil’s Advocate with all of his guests. When does anyone remember Russert ever challenging a statist, establishment politician not on their personal inconsistencies; nor with trivial, contradictory evidence to their views; but with fundamental questions about their support for, and the legitimacy of, things like the Drug War; the income tax (or having a federal government the size it was at the time he was conducting the interview, regardless of how it was funded); Social Security; the military-industrial complex; the pharmaceutical-industrial complex; the Federal Reserve; etc.? To ask the question is to answer it.

The assertions about Russert doing thorough homework on each guest, looking for inconsistencies; and about him not appearing partisan in favor of either Republicans or Democrats, are true to the best of my knowledge. But they’re also not very important; the appearance of two parties is an illusion, and grilling a certain candidate or politician on previous inconsistencies may call into question the integrity or consistency of that particular person, but it doesn’t raise fundamental questions about the system. That allowed Russert to maintain the illusion of being a "tough interviewer" while no more fundamentally challenging the system, which his career was built on perpetuating, than any other journalist.

Harry wrote about his appearance in his campaign journal, "When the show ends, for some reason all four of us remain seated at the table on the set. A waiter brings in orange juice and several selections of food. Russert starts eating and there's some small talk. I decide to light into Russert, asking him ‘So why didn't you have me on with Nader and Buchanan – knowing that I had as much support as Buchanan?’

"In the give and take that follows, I get the expected responses from Russert: ‘You're here now, aren't you?’ ‘We can't have five guests on at once.’ (Courtesy restrains me from saying that he knows and I know that Phillips and Hagelin don't count.) ‘I'm the only Sunday host who's given any attention to third parties.’ And so on.

"I say he's overlooking the one authentic man-bites-dog story of this campaign. A celebrity candidate, Pat Buchanan, has received $16 million in taxpayer money and wide press coverage, while a complete unknown who turned down federal money and has about 1/50 the press coverage is running even with him in the polls. Isn't that news? Russert says it is, and that's why I'm here. (It isn't why I'm here; if it were, he would have said something about it on the air.)

"Finally, I ask him why he doesn't point out publicly that the only reason America seems to be a two-party country is because the two parties in power have maintained that power by using the force of government to impose ballot-access laws, limit campaign donations, raid the government treasury to run their campaigns, and exempt the Debate Commission from campaign and income-tax laws so it can promote the politics of the two main parties. Russert agrees whole-heartedly but doesn't answer my question as to why he never points this out on the air.

"I tell him that I bear no hard feelings but that I'm baffled as to how Meet the Press makes its decisions regarding what is news."

I’m not: Harry Browne raised fundamental questions about the system. Russert’s job as an establishment gatekeeper was to distract people with trivialities; personal foibles of individual candidates; and the phony right-left, Republican-Democrat paradigm; and to make sure that views like Browne’s never got a mainstream hearing. When, as happened with Ron Paul last year, Harry proved to have enough support to cajole Russert into having him as a guest, Russert’s job then was to give him as little time as possible, make him seem as fringe as possible, and make him and his views seem as nutty and disreputable as possible.

Avles Beluske Renewed

After being blocked for some 16 months...

http://avlesbeluskesexposed.blogspot.com/

AFTER MORE THAN A YEAR......

TODAY 24th JUNE I RE-GAINED THE POSSIBILITY TO USE MY BLOG.

I could use the entry password for the last time on the 3rd February 2007. I think it was for 80% a problem of censorship as the contents were and are too much disturbing for the Italian Provincial Francesco Tata and the Vatican Inquisitorial regime of the Apenine peninsula. I will continue to write on this blog exsclusively in English language, to give a possibility for the not Italian users to see the Novo Ordo Seclorum through a point of view INSIDE its the same bulwark, the North Adriatic region of Catholand.... more

Avles, excellent work!

Please activate your blog's comments feature.

And please use the comments feature at 'Continuing Counter Reformation' and at my other blogs that I have linked to.

After all, since they -- aka the Romish-Masonic criminal apostate shadow government -- can read our emails, why not then make our intellectual communiques publically open?

Tim Russert No Friend of the 4th Amendment

Jesuit Tool was an apologist for Georgetown University's 'PATRIOT' Act FISA Tel Co Treason against 4th and 1st Amendment

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/10/28/tim-russert-accuses-senator-dodd-of-using-fisa-hold-for-political-purposes/

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"... on Meet The Press Tim Russert, armed with all the Bush talking points, ambushed Dodd and directly accused him of using the FISA issue for purely political purposes."

Subverting the 4th Amendment Subverts the 1st Amendment via creating a climate of fear.

New UN General Assembly President: About the Black and the Red

By Avles

http://z13.invisionfree.com/THE_UNHIVED_MIND/index.php?showtopic=57895

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Vatican is at the opposite of the human freedom, so the destruction of the private property (= 'communism') is the denial of a fundamental right i.e. freedom of the men. The Bolshevism/Marxism is only a covert realization of the Roman Catholic Novo Ordo Seclorum, and this is not a novelty. But the work of Marx has not been yet fully understood by the truth seekers. Marx introduced the concept of the progress, the time line with an 'archaic' past that have to be surpassed/denied by the 'modernity'. Whitout Marx the same Mussolini and Hitler couldn't exist. They were the Black communists, they had nostalgy of the old - and coherently with Marx - estinguished feudal ages, and horror of the new age troubled with the social questions of the subjects who haven't a landlord above them. At the opposite the Red communists are happy that the old feudal order is dead, and supports the new modern age. Blacks and Reds both agree on the fact that the feudal order is disappeared and has been substituted by a new one, so they both are: Marxists. But the first have nostalgy, the second a despise. And this is the only field where they fight one against the other.

It is interesting to note how the Jesuits, thanks to Nietschze and especially to Richard Wagner, introduced the concept of decadence/Kalijuga/Ragnarök in the Black field. This was a psychological-emotional programming in order to prepare the Nazi/Fascio to the programmed defeats. Jesuits had to keep always on fire their Black kommies, but at the same time always in a ethernal looser condition. The 'Wagnerian decadence' of the ages is the best device fitted to train the little brain of the Black chimps. Yesterday I saw pieces of a docu about Spanish civil war in the 1930', and they showed how just before the departure of aircraft German squadron to help Franco, there was an important Wagnerian concert in the Wagner temple at Bayreuth, near Nurenmberg. So the Black chimps had and have the role to push forward 'history'. Their desire to restore the 'old good ages' and their fucking knigts have to be always defeated, as the 'old ages' saw feudal monarchies always in war with the Vatican whose first dream was and always will the one to suppress every form of monarchy - to let the Universal Monarch to be the only king on earth See Boniface VIII Unam Sanctam).

Usually the steps are (Italian example of early XX century): economical crisis, purportedly created (as the one of today), fire the workers who join then the Reds; the Reds then are moved in order to threaten the Bourgeoisie and to make then fall under the Black control of the economy. At the same time cause dictatorships, wars, civil wars, both fields, the Bourgeoisie one and the proletarian one, are purged by the opponents. The s.c. class war is only an alibi to wipe away from every social layer the human obstacles of the Novo Ordo Seclorum. I remember that in Italy during the '68 movement and the Warm Autumn (after the first a period of time consisting of very hard workers' protests succeeded and was called Warm Autumn ) it was known how many priests joined the protests cause the 'social doctrine of the church', as also some Jesuits went in the street taking the side (= spying and controlling) the workers' demontrations.

Best regards from a North Adriatic Anti-roman-catholic and Anti-islamic isolationist

avles

"They elected a priest." So says Father D’Escoto Brockmann, as the UN’s top pick for president of the General Assembly last Wednesday. But they really didn’t. They elected a leftist revolutionary of the Nicaraguan Sandinista regime. To put it more accurately, they elected a communist.

THE --- RED FLAG --- OF THE --- BLACK POPE ---: PURSUING THE NOVO ORDO SECLORUM THROUGH THE DIALECTIC CLASH OF THE OPPONENTS

From the above posts - I repeat some excerpts, as they reveal the true essence of the Jesuits and of their controlled Roman Catholic church, especially if accompained with the pics below:

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COMMENTARY: "They elected a priest." So says Father D’Escoto Brockmann, as the UN’s top pick for president of the General Assembly last Wednesday. But they really didn’t. They elected a leftist revolutionary of the Nicaraguan Sandinista regime. To put it more accurately, they elected a communist. D’Escoto’s past ordination as a priest is a bit of an aside, really. He’s canonically barred from public ministry by the Roman Catholic Church. The Wall Street Journal is correct in publicizing the priest’s Marxist/Leninist proclivities. But that’s about all they got right. (....) He was admonished, and one other like him, in 1983 by then Pope John Paul II, for his role in the Sandinista regime. He served as Nicaragua’s foreign minister in the 1980s in the Sandinista government. Since 1985 his canonical status as a priest is one of "irregularity." He has no faculties that allow him to celebrate the Mass and confer the sacraments publicly. In other words, he is forbidden to exercise his priestly functions. He has been asked to cease and desist his political activities, and to once again regularize his status with the Vatican. Catholic priests are forbidden by Canon Law to serve in any official political capacity whatsoever. But far worse than his disobedience to the legitimate authority of the church that ordained him is D’Escoto’s not only acceptance, but adherence to and promotion of, Marxist Liberation theology.

More from Avles:

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Marx introduced the concept of the progress, the time line with an 'archaic' past that have to be surpassed/denied by the 'modernity'. Whitout Marx the same Mussolini and Hitler couldn't exist. They were the Black communists, they had nostalgy of the old - and coherently with Marx - estinguished feudal ages, and horror of the new age troubled with the social questions of the subjects who haven't a landlord above them. At the opposite the Red communists are happy that the old feudal order is dead, and supports the new modern age. Blacks and Reds both agree on the fact that the feudal order is disappeared and has been substituted by a new one, so they both are: Marxists. But the first have nostalgy, the second a despise. And this is the only field where they fight one against the other. (...) Usually the steps are (Italian example of early XX century): 1) economical crisis, purportedly created (as the one of today), 2) to fire the workers who join then the Reds; 3) the Reds then are moved in order to threaten the Bourgeoisie and to make then fall under the Black control of the economy. 4) At the same time cause dictatorships, wars, civil wars, both fields, the Bourgeoisie one and the proletarian one, are purged by the opponents. The s.c. class war is only an alibi to wipe away from every social layer the human obstacles of the Novo Ordo Seclorum

http://continuingcounterreformation.blogsp...d-standard.html

"....This Church of the Gesu altarpiece by Jesuit artist Andrea Pozzo, S.J. (1642-1709), featuring Ignatius Loyola with his Red Standard, and reported by an article in the June 14, 2008 New York Times, was effectively buried about 1908, shortly prior to the rise of various 20th century political movements employing this Standard of a Red Flag....."

(Pics from the same blog - I tried to find other pics, with a better definition, about the Black pope with Red flag, using Italian language Google search engine, but practically I found: nothing. Just a censorship?)

Freemasonry watch is a very interesting site with interesting information, I just chose one that fits with this thread - and allow to explain it better (see also Hugo Chavez-Don Juan Carlos connection etc. - Jun 22 2008, 04:51 AM:
http://z13.invisionfree.com/THE_UNHIVED_MI...992&st=15&#last ):

http://www.freemasonrywatch.org/recently_initiated.html

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Crossed Tools A photograph of the roof of the Grand Lodge of Cuba Headquarters Building/Temple in central Havana on Salvador Allende Street. The Temple at 11 stories is the second tallest building in Central Havana, and is located directly across the street from the tallest, by a few feet, the Roman Catholic Cathedral. Allende's socialist ideology and friendship with Cuban president Fidel Castro made him deeply unpopular within the administrations of successive U.S. presidents, from John F. Kennedy to Richard Nixon; they believed there was a danger of Chile becoming a communist state and joining the Soviet Union's sphere of influence; according to the Mitrokhin Archives, Allende had been codenamed "LEADER" as a KGB contact, and had been supplying the KGB with information since the 1950s. Allende was a Freemason, along with also, as it is strongly suspected, Fidel and Raoul Castro and many of the leadership of the Cuban Communist Party. The Catholic Church in Cuba retains little rights and all political party's and gatherings outside the Cuban Communist Party remain illegal and punishable by lengthy prison sentences or capitol punishment. The Grand Lodge of Cuba is fully recognized as being 'regular' by all U.S., U.K., Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and South African Grand Lodges. 'Regular' Freemasonry. Many of the leadership of the Russian Bolshevik revolution in 1917 were also Freemasons, members of the Grand Orients of France and Russia, so-called and supposed 'Irregular' Freemasonry. After murdering the Tsar and his family, the Nobility, and much of the Orthodox Christian Priesthood the central leadership body created to oversee the new 'illuminated' state was named the Grand Orient of Soviet Peoples. The symbol these Freemasons 'crafted' to represent the Communist Party? The Star with Hammer and Sickle, a stylised Masonic Square and Compass. Crossed Tools. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity...

Anyway you surely noted that they don't recognize the Jesuit essence of the (Free)masonry army and especially the 4th degree oath of Jesuit Castro - It is impossible that people like the ones behind this site doesn't know the real power of the Jesuits' Society, so they are co-adjutor of the black pope and their task is to blame the masonry puppets to cover the Society of Loyola.
Free or not, the Masonry is another tool of the Jesuits to realize the Novo Ordo Seclorum of Rome on the planet. Jesuits' logo + Masonic hammer:

http://picasaweb.google.com/ilirski/Triest...500595804395154

FATHER D'ESCOTO BROCKMANN, THE SOLDIER OF THE BLACK ARMY RAISES A RED JESUIT FLAG ATOP THE WORLD'S REICHSTAG OF ROME, THE U.N.

44 years before the appointment of Father D’Escoto Brockmann (exactly 43 years and 6 months before) you had the address of co-adjutor Guevara at the United Nations:

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(Wikipedia) "...This epic before us is going to be written by the hungry Indian masses, the peasants without land, the exploited workers. It is going to be written by the progressive masses, the honest and brilliant intellectuals, who so greatly abound in our suffering Latin American lands. Struggles of masses and ideas. An epic that will be carried forward by our peoples, mistreated and scorned by imperialism; our people, unreckoned with until today, who are now beginning to shake off their slumber. Imperialism considered us a weak and submissive flock; and now it begins to be terrified of that flock; a gigantic flock of 200 million Latin Americans in whom Yankee monopoly capitalism now sees its gravediggers.....”. — Che Guevara, to the U.N. General Assembly, December 11 1964. [65

And now again the truth (as the example above coming from a site which hides the Jesuits' hand) from one of the most powerful mouths of the SMOM's financial world system:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1212794975...=googlenews_wsj

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Your U.N. at Work – IV June 7, 2008; Page A10 The General Assembly of the United Nations voted this week to elect Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann as its new president. Readers with a long memory will recall Father D'Escoto (he's a Catholic priest) as Nicaragua's foreign minister during the Sandinista regime of the 1980s. He's also the winner of the 1985 Lenin Prize. Only at the U.N. does that count as a recommendation. The U.N. also voted to name the government of Burma – which otherwise has been busy preventing humanitarian assistance from reaching hundreds of thousands of its own needy victims of last month's devastating cyclone – as one of the Assembly's vice presidents. Only at the U.N. is this not considered an embarrassment. If that weren't enough, a U.S. official was present for the vote – which was by acclamation – when the U.S. could have at least protested the choice with an empty seat. Nor did the State Department make any effort to offer an alternative to Father d'Escoto, who ran unopposed. Somehow, we don't think this would have happened had John Bolton still been ambassador. Speaking after his election, Father d'Escoto called for greater "democracy" at the U.N. – an odd remark coming from a former servant of a communist dictatorship. He also called for the U.N. to take a stand against "acts of aggression, such as those occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan." That would be American aggression, not the Taliban's, the Mahdi Army's or al Qaeda's. A former Lenin Prize winner as General Assembly president and cruel Burma as vice president – another sick joke from the U.N.

Yes, the SMOM's tongue called "Wall Street Journal" is a brilliant tongue the same Evil use to spread the truth in order to get you confused i.e. refusing and despising it. What is the Lenin prize our friend d'Escoto won?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin_Prize

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Lenin Prize From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Lenin Prize (Russian: Ленинская премия) was one of the highest awards in the Soviet Union. It was created on June 23, 1925 and was awarded until 1934. In the period from 1935 to 1956, the Lenin Prize was not awarded. On August 15, 1956 it was reestablished, and continued to be awarded on every even year until 1990, on April 22 (Lenin's birthday), to individuals in the fields of science, literature, arts, architecture, and technology. The Lenin Prize is different from the Lenin Peace Prize, which was awarded to foreign citizens rather than to citizens of the Soviet Union, for their contributions to the "peace cause." Also, the Lenin prize should not be confused with the USSR State Prize or the Stalin Prize. Some persons were awarded both the Lenin Prize and the USSR State Prize.

D'Escoto won the Lenin PEACE prize. Congratulations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_d%27Escoto

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D'Escoto was ordained a Roman Catholic priest for the Maryknoll congregation, before engaging in politics. He was a key figure in the founding of the Maryknoll imprint, Orbis Books, in 1970, and was an official with the World Council of Churches. As an adherent of liberation theology, he secretly joined the Sandinistas.

This Orbis books is not the quarterly edited by the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) where Declan Ganley writes papers - in any case the same Latin word meaning "circle" speaks about the occult converging goals and masters as the symbol of U.N.

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(Wikipedia) Orbis Books, is an American imprint of the Maryknoll order, that has been a small but influential publisher of liberation theology works, founded by Nicaraguan Maryknoll priest Miguel D'Escoto with Philip J. Scharper in 1970. It was the first to publish Gustavo Gutiérrez's seminal work A Theology of Liberation in the United States. It also published Ernesto Cardenal's The Gospel in Solentiname, and Richard Millett's Guardians of the Dynasty, a study of Nicaragua's National Guard. In 1976, they became the first publisher of future anti-apartheid activist Allan Boesak, and published Sebastian Kappen's Jesus and Freedom in 1977. In the 1980s, they carried titles by Daniel Berrigan and Phillip Berryman. Later authors include Haiti's Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the South African missiologist David Bosch. Currently, its editor-in-chief is Robert Ellsberg.

Some excerpts about the authors who, thanks the 'key figure' of d'Escoto, could write their works:

A) >>> Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino
"...O.P. (born 8 June 1928 in Lima) is a Peruvian theologian and Dominican priest regarded as the founder of Liberation Theology. He holds the John Cardinal O'Hara Professorship of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He has been professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and a visiting professor at many major universities in North America and Europe. He is a member of the Peruvian Academy of Language, and in 1993 he was awarded the Legion of Honor by the French government for his tireless work. He has also published in and been a member of the board of directors of the international journal, Concilium.
He has studied medicine and literature (Peru), psychology and philosophy (Leuven), and obtained a doctorate at the Institut Pastoral d'Etudes Religieuses (IPER), Université Catholique in Lyon...."


B ) >>> Ernesto Cardenal Martínez
".....In July 1950, he returned to Nicaragua, where he participated in the 1954 "April Revolution" against Anastasio Somoza García's regime. The coup d'état failed and ended with the deaths of many of his associates. Ernesto Cardenal subsequently entered the Trappist Monastery of Gethsemani (Kentucky, United States), under the other poet-priest Thomas Merton, but in 1959 he left to study theology in Cuernavaca, Mexico (Note of avles: the bishop of Cuernavaca was then awarded by 4th degree oath Jesuit Fidel Castro). Cardenal Had visited India and met the Hungryalist poets of Kolkata who had to undergo 35 months tortuous trial for writing poetry.[citation needed]

Cardenal was ordained a Catholic priest in 1965 in Granada.[1] He went to the Solentiname Islands where he founded a Christian, almost monastic, mainly peasant community, which eventually led to the founding of the artists' colony. It was there that the famous book El Evangelio de Solentiname ("The Gospel of Solentiname") was written. Cardenal collaborated closely with the Marxist Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (Sandinista National Liberation Front, or FSLN), in working to overthrow Anastasio Somoza Debayle's régime.
Many members of the community of Solentiname engaged with the process of the Revolution, in the guerrilla warfare that the FSLN had developed to strike the regime. For this matter, 1977 was a crucial year to Cardenal's community since Somoza's National Guard, as a result from an attack to the headquarters stationed in the city of San Carlos, a few miles from the community, raided Solentiname and burned to the ground the community, with Cardenal fleeing to Costa Rica. On 19 July 1979, immediately after the Fall of Managua, he was named Minister of Culture by the new Sandinista regime. He occupied this office until 1987, when his ministry was closed owing to economic reasons. When Pope John Paul II visited Nicaragua in 1983, he openly scolded Cardenal, who knelt before him on the Managua airport runway, for resisting his order to resign from the government. The Pope admonished Cardenal: Usted tiene que arreglar sus asuntos con la Iglesia ("You must make good your dealings with the Church")....".


C) >>> Sebastian Kappen (January 4, 1924 - November 30, 1993),
".....was a renowned Jesuit theologian from Kerala, India. He received his doctorate in 1961 from the Gregorian University, Rome, with a thesis on Praxis and Religious Alienation according to the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of Karl Marx.

His subsequent studies had been geared to the requirements of transformative social action in India. This led him to an investigation into the liberative and humanizing potential of the original teachings of the historical Jesus as well as of Indian religious traditions, particularly the tradition of dissent represented by the Buddha and the medieval Bhakti Movement. He has written and lectured extensively on the cultural restructuring of Indian society.....".

D ) >>> Daniel Berrigan, S.J. (born May 9, 1921)
"..... is a poet, American peace activist, and Roman Catholic priest. Daniel and his brother Philip were for a time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for committing acts of vandalism including destroying government property.
(....)
Daniel Berrigan was born in Virginia, Minnesota, a Midwestern working-class town. His father, Thomas Berrigan, was a second-generation Irish-Catholic and proud union member. Tom left the Catholic Church, but Daniel remained attracted to the Church throughout his youth. He joined the Jesuits directly out of high school in 1939 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1952. From 1966 to 1970 he was the assistant director of Cornell United Religious Work (CURW), during which time he played an instrumental role in the national peace movement.[1] He now resides in New York City and teaches at Fordham University in addition to serving as its poet in residence.

Berrigan appears briefly in the 1986 film, The Mission, directed by Roland Joffé and starring Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons. He plays a Jesuit priest and also served as a consultant on the film...."..

E ) >>> Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born July 15, 1953)
"..... is a Haitian politician and former Roman Catholic priest who was President of Haiti in 1991, again from 1994 to 1996, and then from 2001 to 2004. Aristide was the second elected leader of Haiti and was popular among its poor inhabitants. He was overthrown twice, first in a military coup d'état in September, 1991, and subsequently in a February 2004 rebellion in which former soldiers prominently participated. After being deposed a second time he maintained from exile in the Central African Republic that he was still the legal and legitimate president and that United States forces had kidnapped him.[1]...".

Ok stop. Are buzzing in your brain web pages similar to these ones:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s

Finally, the Maryknoll order:

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(Wikipedia) Maryknoll or, the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, is a U.S.Catholic Society of Apostolic Life which has, throughout its nearly hundred-year history, had an exclusive emphasis on ministry and missionary work overseas, particularly East Asia, in China, Japan, Korea, Latin America, and Africa. Maryknoll Missioners include Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers ("the Society"), Maryknoll Sisters ("the Congregation")[1], and Maryknoll Lay Missioners ("the Association").[2] The three entities are canonically separate but work in partnership. The headquarters for all three entities are located just outside the town of Ossining, New York[1], thirty-two miles (50km) north of New York City on the Hudson River. (....) This order was founded by Fr. James Anthony Walsh of Boston and Fr. Thomas Frederick Price of North Carolina, who met at the 21st Eucharistic Congress in Montreal, Canada (7th – 11 September 1910). Maryknoll was established in 1911 as the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America by the Archbishops of the United States with the commission to recruit, send and support U.S. missioners in areas around the world. On June 29, 1911, Pope Pius X blessed the founding of Maryknoll. Maryknoll's first missioners left for China in 1918.

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http://continuingcounterreformation.blogsp...d-standard.html "....This Church of the Gesu altarpiece by Jesuit artist Andrea Pozzo, S.J. (1642-1709), featuring Ignatius Loyola with his Red Standard, and reported by an article in the June 14, 2008 New York Times, was effectively buried about 1908, shortly prior to the rise of various 20th century political movements employing this Standard of a Red Flag....."

Lenin helped the Society of Jesus to return in Russia and helped them to realize their Roman Catholic revenge on the heretic Romanov family who expelled the soldier of Loyola in 1813 - ten years before the magical spectacle of the Jesuits was retired and hidden in the dark stores of the Order of Loyola. Seven years before the Maryknoll congregation was founded.

27 years after the heretic Orthodox Romanov family was slaughtered by the Inquisition of Rome: again the Red flag of the Black order was hoisted on a destroyed capital of an heretic martyred country of North Europe


Reagan opened the doors of America to the Beast of Rome in 1983 after a century long period of time of broken diplomatic relations with the Vatican monarchy. Today, when the magic spectacle of the Novo Ordo Seclorum of the Jesuits has been restored after 100 years in their Sacro Cuore del Gesù church, the Red flag of the Black order has been again hoisted by one of their soldiers on the most visible institution of the planet earth.




Best regards from a North Adriatic Anti-roman-catholic and Anti-islamic isolationist

avles

From The Wall Street Journal:

Your U.N. at Work – IV
June 7, 2008; Page A10

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121279497528053595.html?mod=opinion_main_review_and_outlooksJune%207,%202008;%20Page%20A10

The General Assembly of the United Nations voted this week to elect Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann as its new president. Readers with a long memory will recall Father D'Escoto (he's a Catholic priest) as Nicaragua's foreign minister during the Sandinista regime of the 1980s. He's also the winner of the 1985 Lenin Prize. Only at the U.N. does that count as a recommendation.

The U.N. also voted to name the government of Burma – which otherwise has been busy preventing humanitarian assistance from reaching hundreds of thousands of its own needy victims of last month's devastating cyclone – as one of the Assembly's vice presidents. Only at the U.N. is this not considered an embarrassment.

If that weren't enough, a U.S. official was present for the vote – which was by acclamation – when the U.S. could have at least protested the choice with an empty seat. Nor did the State Department make any effort to offer an alternative to Father d'Escoto, who ran unopposed. Somehow, we don't think this would have happened had John Bolton still been ambassador.

Speaking after his election, Father d'Escoto called for greater "democracy" at the U.N. – an odd remark coming from a former servant of a communist dictatorship. He also called for the U.N. to take a stand against "acts of aggression, such as those occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan." That would be American aggression, not the Taliban's, the Mahdi Army's or al Qaeda's.

A former Lenin Prize winner as General Assembly president and cruel Burma as vice president – another sick joke from the U.N.

See all of today's editorials and op-eds, plus video commentary, on Opinion Journal.

About John Bolton's successor Alejandro Wollff:

Alejandro Daniel Wolff

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Alejandro Daniel Wolff

Alejandro Daniel Wolff is an American diplomat who was the acting U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations ^[1][2] until Zalmay Khalilzad was appointed as permanent representative. He was made the representative after the resignation of John Bolton on December 9, 2006. Previously he had been the Deputy U.S. representative to the United Nations.

He graduated from UCLA in 1978. He has been a member of the U.S. Foreign Service since 1979, and deputy U.S. Chief of Mission in France from 2001 to 2005. He is married, with two children, and speaks French and Spanish.

References

1. ^ White House announces John Bolton's resignation. International Herald Tribune (2006-02-13). Retrieved on 2006-12-04.
2. ^ President Bush Accepts Ambassador John Bolton's Resignation as U.S. Representative to the United Nations. White House, Office of the Press Secretary (2006-12-04). Retrieved on 2006-12-04.

Thanks, Tim Russert, from my father and his son

By PETER T. KELLY -- pedrokelly@gmail.com
-- director of Student Services at St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami Gardens.

AP Photo/Meet The Press, Alex Wong

http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/inbox/story/574642.html

Luke Russert, son of Tim Russert, touches the empty chair that was his father's on the set of "Meet the Press" on June 15 at the NBC studios in Washington, D.C.

In the fall of 2005, during halftime of the Boston College-Florida State football game, I sought shelter underneath BC's Alumni Stadium. It was not an ideal autumn day for football in New England. The skies were overcast and there had been a steady rainfall throughout the first half. At halftime under the stands, I was a wet spectator among a sea of maroon ponchos and yellow raincoats.

A few feet away -- standing equally alone and wet, checking messages on his cellphone and caring little about his unkempt appearance -- stood a man who on first glance looked like someone I knew. It was Tim Russert -- whom of course I didn't know at all, but I felt like I did. Like so many others who watched Meet the Press religiously on Sundays, I felt some connection to Russert.

A fellow Irish-Catholic and unabashed BC supporter like Russert, I felt the urge to walk over to him and introduce myself. I figured I could tell him how much I enjoyed reading his recent book, Big Russ & Me. I figured I could tell him that I read his book in December 2004, a difficult period for my family -- the first holiday season since my mother succumbed to ALS in July 2004. Understandably, my father, a widower after almost 40 years of marriage, was still not dealing well with the loss of Mom. But Russert's book was helpful to both of us.

I distinctly remember reading aloud to Dad what Father John Sturn, prefect of discipline at Russert's Jesuit high school, said to the future host of Meet the Press: ''Russert, mercy is for God. I deliver justice.'' I figured Russert would enjoy hearing how hard my father, himself a product of a Jesuit education, laughed when he heard this line.

I figured I could tell Russert how helpful his chapter entitled ''Loss'' was to both my father and me. I could tell him that I had paraphrased his own words in asking my father, 'Dad, if God had come to you 40 years ago and said, `Bob, I'm going to make you an offer. I will give you a beautiful wife for 40 years, and together you will have a wonderful family and happy life, but then it will be time for Mary to come home.' You would have made that deal in a second, right?'' My father didn't need to respond; the answer was evident in his slight smile and watery eyes.

I could have taken the opportunity that day in September 2005 to relate to Russert my conversations with my own father. I could have thanked him for helping to be my father's counselor without even knowing it. I chose not to, however, because he seemed content in the moment, quietly texting messages on his phone. He was there, after all, simply as a football fan and a father -- for all I knew, he was exchanging notes on the first half with his son, Luke, then a Boston College sophomore.

With Russert's sudden passing on Friday, I thought again of my chance to meet and thank him. But I don't regret that I left Russert alone that day. Sometimes we all deserve the occasional quiet moments to ourselves.

According to published reports, a television reporter asked Russert at his son's graduation from BC last month whether he was interested in commenting on the recent news that Sen. Edward Kennedy had been diagnosed with a brain tumor. The proud father declined, saying simply, ``Today I just want to be a dad.''

I'd like to send a belated thank you to a father whose words of wisdom helped two strangers at their time of loss. Thanks, Tim Russert, from my father and his son. May our gratitude be of some comfort to your family at their time of loss.

About the St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami Gardens:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Thomas_University_(Florida)

(excerpt)

The St. Thomas University School of Law is one of only three accredited Catholic law schools south of Georgetown University’s School of Law in Washington, DC. The School of Law at St. Thomas was fully accredited by the American Bar Association in February 1995, and offers the Juris Doctor degree (J.D.) as well as the Masters of Law (LL.M).

St. Thomas has given its graduates the confidence and skills necessary for success in a variety of fields. Among notable graduates are: Alex Penelas, the former Mayor of Miami-Dade County; Andy Elisburg, Vice President of Operations for the Miami Heat; Christina Fernandez, Chief Marshall for the Southern Region U.S. Marshals Service; and John Dooner, CEO of Interpublic Group of Companies.

St. Thomas has an enrollment of 2,520 students - 1,171 in the traditional undergraduate program, 731 in its graduate program and 618 in the law school. Students come to St. Thomas from 42 states and nearly 50 foreign countries. As of 2008 St. Thomas University has an endowment that stand at $23.4 million.[1]

St. Thomas' Sports Administration programs was one of the first in the country. The program has produced many of the leaders in the world of sports.

The college itself was established by the Augustinian Friars order.

Tim Russert was a friend to the Jesuits

From The Dallas Morning News

http://religionblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/06/tim-russert-was-a-friend-to-th.html

2:48 PM Fri, Jun 20, 2008 | Permalink

Bruce Tomaso E-mail News tips

Tim Russert was a graduate of two Jesuit educational institutions -- Canisius High School in Buffalo, N.Y., and John Carroll University in Cleveland.

The Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest and author, writes on the American magazine blog that the late NBC newsman "was a great friend of the Society of Jesus, and one of those alums of whom we were the most proud. ... Russert seemed to embody a certain ideal of Jesuit education: the working-class youth who, through hard work and faith, contributed to his family, to his church and to the common good, doing it all with a sense of humor... "

Russert, he writes, received honorary degrees "from seemingly every Jesuit college and university, including Boston College, Fordham University, Loyola College in Maryland, Santa Clara University, The College of the Holy Cross..."

Russert, he adds, was "perhaps the most popular of all commencement speakers in the Jesuit world."

Tim Russert According to Wolf Blitzer CNN

From CNN Anchor Wolf Blitzer

Watch CNN's Wolf Blitzer and David Bohrman discuss what transpired between Sens. Obama and McCain at Tim Russert's funeral mass Wednesday.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/18/blitzer-russert-funeral-brings-presidential-foes-together/

WASHINGTON (CNN) – It was a pretty amazing sight. John McCain and Barack Obama came to Tim Russert’s funeral mass today here in Washington. The fact that they took time out from their campaigns to do so was already impressive, and certainly a lovely tribute to Tim. But they also did more. They wound up sitting right next to each other during the 90 minute service.

Before the service started, they were chatting rather amiably and intensely for 15-20 minutes. Those of us who were invited to the Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown were impressed that Tim, even in his tragic and untimely death, was able to bring these two presidential candidates together.

It was a powerful statement of Tim’s unique role here in Washington.

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who presided over the gathering, warmly welcomed McCain and Obama. He spoke eloquently about Tim’s faith, family and journalistic profession.

So did Tim’s remarkable 22-year-old son, Luke, who delivered some beautiful Words of Remembrance. He told them what his dad would have told them: the American public wants their presidential candidates to discuss the most important issues of the day and not get bogged down with trivial personal attacks.

Luke also said that his dad was often so irritated when politicians refused to acknowledge they had changed their minds on important policy issues. There’s nothing wrong, Luke said, in someone’s changing his or her mind. He’s right of course. Obama and McCain were clearly paying attention.

I suspect those strong words will have an impact on these two presidential candidates in the coming weeks and months.

Filed under: Barack Obama • John McCain • Wolf Blitzer

Tim Russert According to GW Bush

Tim Russert Honorary Jesuit

By James Martin, S.J. at America: The National Catholic Weekly

http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&id=9C29EA3D-5056-8960-32A609F09CD28D83

In the midst of the avalanche of news coverage of Tim Russert's death comes the inevitable reference to his "working-class" Catholic background, his early education by the Sisters of Mercy, as well as his Jesuit education at Canisius High School in Buffalo, New York and John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. One commentator the other night said he was "raised by Jesuits," which not only unfairly neglects his own remarkable parents, but also makes it sound suspiciously like "raised by wolves."

What may not be known by the average reader is the enormous esteem in which Mr. Russert was held within the Jesuit world. This is not hyperbole. Indeed, this weekend I attended a good friend's Final Vow ceremony, presided over by the New England Provincial, who added Mr. Russert's name in the Prayers of the Faithful. No one was surprised by the mention of his name at Mass: he was a great friend of the Society of Jesus, and one of those alums of whom we were the most proud.

As a testimony to that affection, Russert was a regular recipient of honorary doctorates from seemingly every Jesuit college and university, including Boston College, Fordham University, Loyola College in Maryland, Santa Clara University, The College of the Holy Cross, and on and on, as well as perhaps the most popular of all commencement speakers in the Jesuit world.

This weekend one Jesuit recounted that Russert once told him that one of his favorite activities, after watching the Buffalo Bills play, was giving commencement addresses at Jesuit schools.

Russert seemed to embody a certain ideal of Jesuit education: the working-class youth who, through hard work and faith, contributed to his family, to his church and to the common good, doing it all with a sense of humor, even about his own Jesuit past. He delighted in recounting the comment of John Sturm, S.J., prefect of discipline at Canisius. When the young Russert asked Fr. Sturn for mercy after a minor infraction, the prefect said, "Mercy is for God. I deliver justice!"

The "man for others" to quote Pedro Arrupe, S.J., is an oft-used expression to describe the ideal Jesuit alumnus. (Today it's the "man and woman for others" or the "man and woman for and with others.") Father Arrupe, the former superior general of the Society of Jesus, meant this is as a real challenge: it was not simply about "being nice" but being a person of self-sacrifice, a person who tried his or her best to emulate Christ in his labors and loves.

Russert seemed to embody this ideal in his profession and his personal life. He wasn't perfect, but he sacrificed and worked diligently to serve his country, his family, and his God.

It seems fitting today that his funeral Mass will be celebrated at the Jesuits' Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown. Presiding at Mass will be another graduate of a Jesuit high school and college, Theodore Cardinal McCarrick.

R.I.P.

James Martin, SJ

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Tim Russert Started Young

http://goodjesuitbadjesuit.blogspot.com/2008/06/i-deliver-justice-canisius-high-school.html

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/chc/wmy2008/Celebrities/tim_russert.html

In the seventh grade at St. Bonaventure School in Buffalo, New York, Sister Mary Lucille, a Sister of Mercy, was both impressed and yet concerned by--shall we say--my excessive energy in class. She expressed that in her words, "We have to channel that energy, Timothy," because I was prone to mischief. One day she told me, "I'm going to start a school newspaper and you're going to be the editor. This means that you have to give out assignments, you have to edit the copy, you have to write your own articles, you have to go around and interview students, teachers, and administrative people, and publish the paper. You have to distribute it. You have to decide whether you're going to charge for it, or if you're going to have a fundraiser to underwrite the cost." It became this extraordinary project that I threw myself into and so did all my friends. If left us little time to get in trouble because we were so devoted to the paper, called The Bonette after St. Bonaventure School. Then she said, "If you don't keep up your grades we're not going to be able to do the second edition of the newspaper." That made us all committed to studying harder. It became a real class project.

On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated. We did a special edition of the paper and sent a copy to the new president, President Johnson; to Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy; and to Robert Kennedy, the attorney general. Some months later we received personal responses from all of them, which changed our lives. Here we were, only months ago with nothing and wondering whether or not school was worth our while--whether school could be fun, whether school was meaningful--and along came this young nun who created this entity called a school newspaper that we became deeply involved in. We learned how to report, how to communicate, how to write; and then, on top of all that, people we watched on television, people who were so far removed from our ordinary lives, suddenly acknowledged not only our existence, but our work. From that day forward I was determined that I would have a career in journalism/public service...

We continued our newspaper in eighth grade. I was going on to high school and Sister Lucille suggested I go to Canisius High School, the Jesuit school in Buffalo. I said, "Sister, it's downtown, where all the rich kids go, sons of doctors and lawyers." My dad was a truck driver and left school in tenth grade to fight in World War II...Sister Lucille insisted that I take the entrance exam, which I did. I won a partial scholarship that helped with the tuition because we couldn't afford it...

The person who became most important to me at Canisius High School was Father John Sturm, the Prefect of Discipline. He was a former Golden Gloves boxer who entered the Jesuits, and he was tough. He would focus on the few kids who came from the south side of the city--there was only a handful of us from South Buffalo. Once when I got in trouble I said, "Father don't you have any mercy?" He grabbed me and replied, "Russert, mercy's for God. I deliver justice." I remember it like it was yesterday. Although I knew how to write, how to report, how to observe, I learned that unless one has discipline, all of it can be lost, and Father Sturm taught me discipline.

So now I have created the Sister Mary Lucille/Father Sturm Award, a cash prize that is provided to a Buffalo Catholic school teacher each year who has made a difference in a child's life by acting as a mentor...

I know that if I had not had the intervention and support of Sister Lucille and Father Sturm, I would not be the moderator of Meet the Press.

Excerpted from The Person Who Changed My Life: Prominent Americans Recall Their Mentors. Matilda Raffa Cuomo, Editor, with foreword by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.