@Joe Raymond Adams You can also find in Wikipedia a description of the deplorable conditions of the Palestinians living in the Gaza strip, which has now been absolutely decimated under Israel military action.

As the article notes, there are close to 2 million Palestinians packed into the equivalent of an "open air prison" in Gaza, in a territory just 5 miles wide on average, by 25 miles long.....many suffering from famine, unutterable poverty and denial of employment (unemployment among youth is 70%, and 46% among the general population...destroying lives and futures).

Many humanitarian groups say it is a crime against humanity.

I personally know a Prioress at a monastery in the Holy Land who said they have daily witnessed genocide of the Palestinians for decades and that they have to hide any Palestinians who want to work for them in the trunks of their cars in order to get past checkpoints. It's absolutely barbaric and inhuman.

WIKIPEDIA:

[D]uring the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel captured and occupied the Gaza Strip, initiating its decades-long military occupation of the Palestinian territories.[11][12]

[...]

In 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew its military forces from Gaza, dismantled its settlements, and implemented a temporary blockade of Gaza. The blockade became indefinite after the 2007 Hamas takeover, supported by Egypt through restrictions on its land border with Gaza.[17]

Despite the Israeli disengagement, the United Nations (UN), the International Committee of the Red Cross, and many human-rights organizations continue to consider Gaza to be held under Israeli military occupation, due to what they consider Israel's effective military control over the territory; Israel disputes that it occupies the territory.[18][19][20]

The current blockade prevents people and goods from freely entering or leaving the territory, leading to Gaza often being called an "open-air prison."[21][22]

The UN, as well as at least 19 human-rights organizations, have urged Israel to lift the blockade.[23] Israel has justified its blockade on the strip with wanting to stop flow of arms, but Palestinians and rights groups say it amounts to collective punishment and exacerbates dire living conditions,[24] which have resulted in an ongoing famine.[25]

The Gaza Strip is 41 kilometres (25 miles) long, from 6 to 12 km (3.7 to 7.5 mi) wide, and has a total area of 365 km2 (141 sq mi).[26][27] With around 2 million Palestinians[28] on approximately 365 km2 (141 sq mi) of land, Gaza has one of the world's highest population densities.[29][30]

More than 70% of Gaza's population are refugees or descendents of refugees, half of whom are under the age of 18.[31] Sunni Muslims make up most of Gaza's population, with a Palestinian Christian minority. Gaza has an annual population growth rate of 1.99% (2023 est.), the 39th-highest in the world.[32]

Gaza's unemployment rate is among the highest in the world, with an overall unemployment rate of 46% and a youth unemployment rate of 70%.[17][33]

Despite this, the area's 97% literacy rate is higher than that of nearby Egypt, while youth literacy is 88%.[34] Gaza has throughout the years been seen as a source of Palestinian nationalism and resistance.[35][36][37]

I think you're missing a very basic point. Israel only came into existence because they committed genocide against the Palestinians to establish it. Palestinians aren't just Arabs....they were Christians....! More and more Christians have had to leave the region for survival.

They drove close to a million Palestinians (Christian and Arab alike) off their ancestral lands into the walled Gheto of Gaza to establish Israel. It was a completely arbitrary, politically established state in the region; driving existing Palestinians out of their homes and lands. And they keep taking more and more land. You must know the historical facts to understand what is driving the hostilities in that region.

QUESTION...Have you seen the videos of Orthodox Jews in Israel spitting at Catholic Religious they encounter in the streets? I have.

QUESTION....if someone drove you out of your home and into a walled ghetto where you live in desperation for generations to come, not permitted even to come and go....would you be angry about it?

When you cause hostility through brutality, you should not be surprised that hostility is acted out.

Learn the history of the "1948 Palestinian Expulsion". It's even in Wikipedia. And if you look at the revision history on the article, the article has been heavily "sanitized" since October 2023 to leave out the weighty facts. The article previously stated that at least 700,000 Palestinians were driven off the land. That fact has been removed from the article along with other troubling facts surrounding the establishment of the State of Israel.

Beautiful story of conversion....just like Saint Mary Magdalene...! The beauty of the churches in Italy that converted her is exactly why the Modernists destroyed such churches under a demonic impulse.

I once read that Our Lord revealed to one of the desert Fathers and said of her that when Mary Magdalene wept at Our Lord's feet and dried them with her hair "When Mary Magdalene rose from My feet, she was more venerable than the purest of Virgins....."

@andrew24157 The thing is, just hearing what LP wrote is enough to show it's diabolical. Her unspeakably immodest accounts of her relationship with Our Lord were absolutely shocking and horrifying.

Then the unduly familiar and virtually impudent manner in which she addresses Our Lord and the Blessed Virgin as though she were Their equal -- all of this shows the source.

I was so aghast at the utterly self-centered manner in which LP dealt with Our Lord and Blessed Mother that I couldn't bear to listen to another word of her writings.

It wasn't even Father Mawdsley's critique that convinced me something was wrong. It was the passages he was quoting from LP's writings that absolutely horrified me and gave me a sense of great darkness, spiritual and theological disorder. I couldn't listen to any more quotes from her works, so I stopped listening.

There isn't a single other Saint about whose writings that can be said. The writings of the Saints are luminous and filled with perfect spiritual, theological and moral rectitude. They inspire virtue, not "elitism"; nor do they leave in souls a feeling of unrest, unease and darkness, and LP's writings do for so many.

Saint John of the Cross taught that the hallmark of all divine operations in a soul is to humble and annihilate it in the Presence of God and before others.

Saint John of the Cross said this humility would be the outstanding mark of truly divine communications and it will be the primary effect in the soul.

We see just the opposite in LP's writings, which is what this Exorcist Priest said. He said it is a diabolical deception that takes hold of the soul and so blinds them that they can no longer see the truth of the matter.

All I know is that when I listened to Father Mawdsley's theological analysis of LP's writings I was absolutely horrified. Some of the things she wrote were

1) so vile,
2) so vainglorious, and
3) so completely at odds with the Church's revelation and bi-millennial deposit of Faith...

that I could not even finish listening to Father's talks, because just hearing what LP wrote in her manuscripts filled me with such a deeply disturbing sense of a diabolical darkness near at hand that was trying to penetrate the fortress of my Catholic Faith with grave error. As soon as I stopped listening, my peace and inner light returned.

Nothing in genuinely divine private revelation should ever be capable of causing such darkness in souls...as many have attested they find the writings deeply troubling, dark and filled with pride. The devil's tail can always be seen.

NOTE: I know a wonderful, devout, Exorcist Priest. He said the revelations are diabolical in nature and that when he tries to help souls who are in their grip, they have become impenetrable, and he finds all means useless in trying to rescue them from the control which these revelations have over them in a false and dangerous spirituality.

The problem is that he is too honest to embrace a dishonest "pretend" Modernist Church. I have heard he criticized the Modernist compromises on doctrine and moral teaching, which he found deeply disturbing, dangerous and contradictory to the Church's moral authority and mission. He is a highly intelligent man and he sees right through the terrible flaws in the post-Conciliar Church.

He deeply appreciates the sanctifying influence that grace is having on his wife, but he doesn't share the willingness to enter a Church he clearly sees is at war with itself. I have no doubt that before Vatican II under different circumstances he would have quite willingly entered the Catholic Church as that is where truth and honesty always leads.

Well, Canada is a socialist economy, which explains everything. I had that impression while I visited Canada a few times. We live in the U.S. which lunatics are trying to turn into a socialist economy...where it's becoming impossible to move out of congested urban areas and make a life for yourself surrounded by trees and safety. That was always possible in the U.S. until leftist Democrats started pushing their Socialist agendas. That's why Catholic Social Teaching has always condemned socialism and communism. But apparently Pope Francis thinks it's a good idea now.

Singing in the Sanctuary with their backs to Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of Heaven and Earth, Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, Truly Present in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. Absolutely insulting desecration and desacralization of the Holy Sanctuary. Is it any wonder that Catholics are virtually no different than Protestants in their beliefs and in the manner in which they use their "churches"...?

I am wondering if they will even allow a Presidential election to take place. I read elsewhere that a former CIA member anticipates that they will raise a cyber emergency that will be used to forestall an election.

With Biden running it's clear they don't have a serious candidate, nor one capable of holding the Office; and yet they don't replace him; so what are they up to?

Since Trump's election in 2016, so much corruption has come to light I have come to realize the United States is no longer the country it once was, nor what we thought it was.

@Pierre Henri I'll finish watching the documentary if that's what it's about; but after the first few minutes of heartbreaking footage of the Holocaust, all I could think of is the 2 million innocent Palestinians (many of whom are Christians!) in Gaza whose homes have been destroyed, whose hospitals have been decimated, and whose children are dying of hunger, and I couldn't bear to watch another moment.

The Holocaust was an unspeakable, diabolical crime against humanity. So why....WHY....are the Jews in Israel committing the same crime against innocent Palestinians? Even Orthodox Jews themselves decry the Zionist movement for this reason. It must be recognized for what it is. And the unspeakable hypocrisy of committing genocide against the Palestinians after having experienced this crime themselves is unimaginable. I personally know a monastic community in the Holy Land who have witnessed this Palestinian genocide for years and told me about it as far back as 20 years ago. One cannot expect peace when persecuting an entire ethnic group of innocent people on lands their families had inhabited for 2 millennia.