The fire destroying Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris erupted after hundreds of attacks against Catholic churches and objects in France during last year, Kazakhstan Bishop Athanasius Schneider wrote on LifeSiteNews.com (April 17).
Therefore he doesn't exclude the existence of “a plot to destroy the cathedral.” Admitting that there is so far no evidence for this he adds, “Yet one is left with a queasy feeling inside.”
Schneider remarks that French politics and media are both tightly controlled by “anti-Christian" and "Free Masonic" powers.
The fire is for Schneider a divine warning for the bishops and a symbol of what happened in the life of the Church over the last 50 years, namely a "conflagration" of Catholic faith, liturgy and morals.
Due to these betrayals, the Catholic hierarchy has to “repent or will perish” (Lk 13), Schneider adds.
Schneider lists among the betrayals the betrayal of Christ’s explicit command to evangelize all nations without exception, "first among them the Jewish …More