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Gloria.TV News on the 7th of October 2015 Clarification: Yesterday, Pope Francis said at the Synod on the Family, that “Catholic doctrine on marriage was never put in discussion by last year’s Synod.…More
Gloria.TV News on the 7th of October 2015
Clarification: Yesterday, Pope Francis said at the Synod on the Family, that “Catholic doctrine on marriage was never put in discussion by last year’s Synod.” He also asked “not to reduce the themes of the Synod to Communion for remarried divorcees.”
Plenty Of Reasons: Catholic columnist Patrick Archbold sees plenty of reasons to suspect that Francis “wants the heretical innovators to prevail.” He remembers the selection of Cardinal Kasper to deliver the preparatory speech in February 2014 that put the question of communion for adulterers front and center. According to Archbold since then, Francis has not changed his course.
Discussion: Pro-homosex and pro-divorce Munich Cardinal Marx revealed to La Reppublica that homosexuality will be at the center of a specific discussion at the Synod. Quote: “This is an important topic.” Marx admitted that there is little interaction between the liberal Cardinals and the Catholic Cardinals.
Disturbing: US …More
Prof. Leonard Wessell
Gloria-tv, your disdain for the CIA and your atitude toward the complexity of American politics is as admirably consistent as it is woefullly ignorant. McCain is only one voice and the CIA is charged with realizing tasked put to it by the US administration (here Obama). Both proper parts of the body politic of a democratically organized country. The American interest in Assad stems from: Years ago …More
Gloria-tv, your disdain for the CIA and your atitude toward the complexity of American politics is as admirably consistent as it is woefullly ignorant. McCain is only one voice and the CIA is charged with realizing tasked put to it by the US administration (here Obama). Both proper parts of the body politic of a democratically organized country. The American interest in Assad stems from: Years ago, peaceful protests began against a "vile" dictator who THEN began bombing his own people and using poison gas -- a habit that reminds me of Saddam's gas attacks upon the Kurds in Irak (and taken personally by me as I have Kurdish friends). That bombing is a crime against humanity and should bring the man to a court (and should be roundly condemned by Bishop Hindo). Alas, Obama hestitated, as is his wont, though CORRECTLY stating that Assad must go (not that the Alawites must loose control). (Here is where knowledge of internal American politics becomes very complicated). In the meantime, after Obama's bungling, the war has intensified and the radical groups have formed, and here, Gloria.tv and Bishop Hindo, Assad is THE cause. The pitiful fact is that at times radical Sunnies happen to be on the side of America < Obama's incompetency (American retired Generals by the hundreds are critical). <-> I note that the US fought with Stalin's Russia against the Nazis as no other choice was possible,. Putin is now backing a war criminal on the level of Saddam because it is necessary for his expansionist interests -- and not a peep out of Gloria.tv and Bishop Hindo (for whom Assad's protection of Christians makes a vile Assad a necessity). <-> I will end here as the problematic facing American interests consists of a situation badly if not disasterously managed by Obama, whom I, as so many other Americans, condemn (though my opposition to Assad remains). Alas, instead of viewing the situation with objectivity, particularly in the comments, Gloria.tv rushes in with snide, propagandistic remarks.

I suspect that Gloria.tv's penchant for Putin derives in part because of his resistance to EU policies including the homosexual pursuits. I too appreciate that. (I do not appreciate his dictatorship, a part of his ideology, sensed when I am in Russia, the lack of a critical press, the persecution unto murdering of opposition. Putin is a dictator that happens to represents some values of worth. So that Gloria.tv and any of its readers might learn something about Tzar Putin's grand view of things I suggest reading the "objectively" and not polemically written article by Leon Aron, "Putinology" in The American Interest, Vol. XI, Sept./Oct 2015. Putin, influenced by Ivan Ilyn (and I fear also by Euroasianism or even the Neo-euroasianism of A. Dugin) has developed a view consisting of five points: emotional nationalism, authoritarianism at home, Russian ethnicity as the backbone of national identity, Russian Orthodox Church as arbiter and enforcer of national mores and THE reviving of the Soviet mythology of Russia surrounded by major enemies (the US and the West replacing Nazi Germany) -- i.e., America is a hostile enemy that must be fought. In addition (and here the influence of Putin's favorite writer out of the past, Ilyn) Russia is viewed as a "unique civilization", superior to others, particularly to the West with America as enemy #1. (This is a left-over from the "Third Rome" ideology of Tzarist Russia.) America is not at "war" with Russia, rather Russia under Putinology is at "war" with America.
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