Sunday

Part 1: Muslim Aggression toward Catholics, since the 7th Century.

This is Part 1 of a five part series:  Part 2 is found, by clicking on the link below:


It's 1683 and it's exactly one-thousand, forty-nine years after the Muslim Religion first sent troops to attack and decimate all that is Christian and all who refused to pay the extortion tax called the Jizya. 

In fact, 131 years prior, 2,000 Hungarian Catholics had to defend themselves against a Muslim invasion force of 35,000 to 40,000 armed men, ever so ready to take female slaves after the killing of ample Catholic males.  Yet, the Hungarians defeated the Ottoman Turks, at a price of 400 to 600 Hungarians making the ultimate sacrifice in the victory.

The Intrusive Islamic Jihad against Christendom has been an Ongoing Enterprise of the Muslim, dating as far back as 634 CE

Perhaps you remember.  Barack Obama made it sound as if the Muslims were in Jerusalem, polishing their holy holy halos, when all of a sudden, these evil evil white guys in armor came riding into town ... as if no Christian had ever been in Jerusalem before.   

Uhmmmm, Christianity, as was lead by Saints Peter, Andrew, John, and James, along with the rest of the dedicated witnesses of Jesus the Nazarene, began in Jerusalem on Pentecost Sunday.  

Many who were there, at the Jerusalem Pentecost,  ended up dying for their faith unarmed ... ~while NOT performing a suicide bombing on a Tel Aviv bus, ... ~and while NOT flying a hijacked jetliner into a New York City skyscraper filled with unarmed office workers.

Only AFTER 461 years of relentless & obsessive Muslim Military Aggression upon Christian lands did the first Crusade even begin

Those centuries of Muslim Aggression were the one continuous reason for finally embarking on the Crusades, in the first place.  And of course, Barack Obama did NOT tell you this. 

Note:  The list above left out the Invasion of Gaul, in 719.
The list below does not.  By the way, Gaul is present-day France.

The Year 2025 minus the Year 634 = 1,391 years of Muslim Aggression, committed by those sometimes named, the Ishmaelites, "the Believers," "the Saracens," "the Fatimids," and/or the "Mohammedans."

Then there was the matter of Muslims invading Zoroastrian lands with full military attacks.  That began in 633 AD.  By 651, the Muslims had destroyed the Sasanian Empire of the ancient Iranians.

In 638, Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab decreed that Christians would be given protection from violence when in Jerusalem.  Such a thing is allowed IF the non-Muslims pay the Jizya.  Such a thing is a steady income.  Jews were allowed to return there, too.  These civil rights were signed in the "Assurance of Umar."

As time proceeded, the Jews ended up having amicable relations with the Muslim Moors, in Granada Spain.  Again, Muslims were making money off of non-Muslims.  This relationship caused the Spanish Crown to conclude that the Jews were accomplices in the Muslims' control of Spain for 700+ years.  This is why Isabella ordered all non-convert Jews to leave Spain, as soon as Spain finally became liberated in full.  

Isabella was afraid that Jews would conspire with the Moors and retake Spain.   And of course, Spain was liberated in 1492.  This is why Columbus embarked on his expedition on the Atlantic Ocean in that same year.  

At the time, everyone acknowledged that Planet Earth was as round as is the Sun and the full moon.  It's just that Columbus thought that Planet Earth was a lot smaller than it was and that India was closer to Spain than it actually was.  Spain was having race for India, against Portugal.  In 1498, Vasco da Gama & Portugal won the race. 

The Year 1085

Now, in 1085, Catholic forces under Alfonso VI, recaptured Toledo, being that Toledo was part of a small Muslim kingdom within the larger Moorish kingdom.  Such a mini-kingdom is a "Taifa."  Thus, 1085 can be regarded as the prelude to the Crusades which officially started in 1095.  

The first crusade was a success for the Catholics who needed to stop the westward march of Muslim Aggression which was headed toward toward Greece yet again.  The first Crusade achieved the goal of enabling Christians the ability to travel-to their prime place of pilgrimage, without being harassed and even abducted.  

Of course, their prime place of pilgrimage was the land where Jesus the Nazarene performed his miracles, and where Elijah and Elias performed their miracles.

 
Then came the events of the Year 1095

In mathematical review, the Middle Eastern Crusades began in 1095 (CE).  Muslim aggression upon Christian lands began in 634 (CE).  In as much ... 1095 minus 634 = 461.  

All in all, 461 years of Muslim Military Aggression occurred before the first Crusade even began.  Below is a list of 11th Century Muslim attacks upon Christian lands which gave reason for the specific Crusade which began at the end of the 11th Century.


Connect the Dots ... Geographic regions attacked by the Muslims BEFORE ANY POPE EVEN ADVERTISED FOR A CRUSADE. 
Above:  'tis posted pursuant to 17 USC 107.   The red dots are places where the Muslims invaded and then engaged in warfare ... from 633 to the Year 1080.  Take note that the European Crusades did not begin until the Year 1095.
Now, if you capture a staging area, you prevent a major invasion.  So, the ultimate motive for the Crusades was to safeguard Greece.  Thus, territories in the Middle East needed to be taken away from the Muslims.  This included Jerusalem, a place which also had sentimental value for any Christian.  After all, at one time, in centuries prior, Jerusalem was a part of the Catholic Byzantine Empire.

Concurrence

Below is the video of Iranian-born Goldie Ghamari.  She was a member of the Ontario Canada provincial parliament until January 2025.  Her video explains the Crusades in general ... in brevity.  

She is the one who said that the Crusades were a response to the Islamic Jihad.  She also said that, if it were not for the Crusades, every person of European ancestry would be speaking Arabic, and every European woman would be wearing a burka as a requirement.
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And yes, approximately 50,000 of the 75,000 Iranian mosques have been closed, due to lack of interest amongst the Iranians.  Thus, the Liberation of Persia/Iran isn't an impossibility.

Once again, the link to Part 2 of this five part series is directly below:

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Saturday

Part 2: Muslim Aggression toward Catholic & Others, since the 7th Century

This is actually Part 2 of a five part series.  Part 1 is found through the link below:


Now, you know whom & what the Muslims have targeted for destruction,
ever since the 600s CE.  Well, we're tired of it, squared & cubed.
In this series, Ishmaelites, Saracens, Fatimids, Muhammadans, and Muslims are defined as one in the same, in terms of religious beliefs & practice.

The major difference in the Islamic world is the Shiite Muslim vs the Sunna Muslim.  Now, both sects believe that a man named Mohammad existed and was chosen by God to be the last and decisive prophet.  

In as much, the Shiites believe that only descendants of the first Muslim can be the leaders of the Muslim Religion.  The Sunnis believe that Muslims are to vote for their leader.  And of course, their religion is Islam, and it means "Submission."

In fact, the word, Muslim, means, "one who submits."  Thus, a Muslim is one who seeks to get everyone to submit to his doctrine and beliefs, in the name of his definition of the Supreme Being whom the Muslim calls, Allah.  More specifically, Allah is Al-ilāh.  The "ilāh" part of  Al-ilāh means, "the Deity."

The War Within the Muslim Religion ... going back to the start

The conclusion is that, even within the Muslim religion there was no unity, due to the decisive debate between the Shiites and the Sunnis.  In fact, the Sunni Ottomans of TΓΌrkiye and the Shiites of Persia fought 11 wars between each other, from 1505 to 1823.  Both sides won 5 wars, lost 5 wars, and tied the same one war.

Then comes the Sufi Muslims who are said to be the sect magnetized toward peacefulness.  There is also the Ibadi Muslim sect which believes that any man who achieves holiness can be made a ruling caliph, despite his ancestry and despite the votes of the people.  Even though Ibadi Muslims are seen as extremists, they also have a degree or two of democratic tendencies.  

The Sunnis are the vast majority of Muslims, at approximately 85%.  The Shiites are second in population.  The Sufis & Ibadis are extreme minorities. 

All in all, the Muslim religion has a track record of invasion, violence, looting, and enslaving others.  Violence & Slavery is the Muslim Religion in practice.  This includes something known as "honor killings."  

The irony is that one of the Five Pillars of Islam is charity to those in need.  However, as soon as the politically reformed Muammar Gaddafi was tortured to death in 2011 ... with President Obama, VP Biden, and Sec of State Hillary looking the other way ... the slave trade had a resurgence in Muslim Libya.  Such a thing is the opposite of charity to those in need.

Nuch alowed in the Muslim religion is the opposite of charity to the needy/  This includes "killing the infidel who refuses to pay the Jizya which is equivalent to paying Mafia henchmen a "protection fee."  Even in 2025, Christians were heavily persecuted by Muslims.  This persecution is not a matter of dusty history books.  It's a matter of Current Events.  


Barack Obama called 2011 "the Arab Spring."  No.  It was a continuation of the 1,400 year old Muslim trend which began as follows and which also included centuries of slave-trading & slave-holding:

          Firstly, there was the invasion of Persia, in 633.   Then: 

In addition, it was in 846 AD (or CE) when Muslims attacked the outskirts of ROME.  Then, in 902 CE, the Muslims successfully captured parts of Southern Italy and Sicily.  

In summary, the events of the 7th to 11th Century, alone, show that the Muslims were never nice people who believed in the motto, "Live and let live."  Their message was, "Submit or die!"  

So, after a plea was made by the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I to the Vatican, at the latter half of the 11th Century, it was surmised that some counter-measure against a constant military aggressor had to be done east of Rome.  It was a necessity, lest Greece be fully conquered, with Venice or Malta being next on the Muslim invasion list ... and with the Vatican being attacked after that.


This Muslim Aggressor included the 1456 Ottoman Siege of Belgrade which the Roman Catholic "Black Army" eventually won.  This also included the Muslims' 1529 failed Siege of Vienna which would be followed by the second failed Siege of Vienna, in 1683.

Incidentally, Vienna was very influential in the Holy Roman Empire.  Therefore, an attack on Vienna was an all-out attack on Roman Catholicism itself.

This trend of Muslim Aggression furthermore included the most emotionally dramatic historic event one can find, namely the 1565 Siege of Malta which included 40,000 Muslim attackers, 6,500 of whom were the elite Janissary Troops.  Those troops were all carried on 200 Muslims ships.  Barack Obama never told you this, either.

Of course, Malta was the second ultimate prize for the Muslims, with the Vatican being Muslim Prize Number One.  Prize #3 was Vienna.  

Christians were repeatedly the victims of the Muslims throughout the centuries.  They had to fight back, being that, time after time, Muslims invaded their countries ... as well as having pirated their ships ... even into the 1400s, the 1500s, and the 1600s.   After all, what would you do, if some gang constantly broke into your house, trying to rape your wife, steal your valuables, and sell your children into slavery, while keeping your house for themselves?

Coincidence or not?

As a point of curiosity, the Algerian naval commander, Turgut Reis, died on September 11th, marking the end of the Siege of Malta.  He is also known as Admiral Dragut. 

Furthermore, the SECOND SIEGE of Vienna was started by the Muslim forces on September 11, 1683.  Plus plus plus, the Battle of Zenta occurred on September 11, 1697.  That was when a Roman Catholic prince intercepted & defeated a Muslim army that was intent on recapturing Roman Catholic Hungary, for the Ottoman Empire.  In as much, did you ever wonder why the NYC Trade Tower Terrorists chose September 11th as their Target Day for Destruction?  

Six Years after the failed siege of Malta, the Muslims 
attacked Christendom with 67,000 military men, by sea

Shortly after the Malta Siege came the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, where the Roman Catholic Holy League decimated the advancing Ottoman fleet, in the Gulf of Patras.  This specific invasion of European Christendom included 278 ships, 222 of which were Muslim Galleys, and 56 of which were Muslim Galliots.  Needless to say, Barack Obama NEVER told you this aspect of Muslim history, either. 

The link to Part 3 is directly below:

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Friday

Part 3: Muslim Aggression toward Catholics & Others, since the 7th Century

This is Part 3 of a five part series.  Part 2 is found here:

https://www.bluemarblealbum.com/2025/12/muslims-attacked-first-part2.html

Barack Obama neglected to mention the Trans-Sahara & Maghreb Slave Trading Enterprises, in Northern Africa



In the Catholic World,  Slavery was banned in FOUR SPECIFIC RULINGS AND/OR DECREES.

Three individual popes issued documents condemning slavery, attaching to the transgressors loss of all privileges in and from Europe, as well as in and from the Catholic Church.  Then, in 1542, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, banned slavery in the New World, to the point of declaring all indigenous People of the Americas FREE PERSONS.  

Then came Pope Gregory XIV.  He issued a Papal Bull ... which is to be understood as a Papal Bulletin and which had the effect of an encyclical and a decree.  In 1591, by the force of law invested in Gregory XIV, the slaves of the Philippines were declared free in every legal level.

Previously, in 1526 Clement VII condemned the slavery in the Cape Verdi Islands, off the coast of Northwestern Africa.  Then, in 1541, Pope Paul III also condemned the enslavement of the indigenous people of the Americas.  

Next came Emperor Charles V, mandating the abolition of slavery in the Americas, with the power invested in him as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire & King of Spain. 


Sixtus V, in 1588, also condemned the enslavement of indigenous people in the Americas.  This was followed by Gregory XIV freeing on paper ... and in canonical law ... the indigenous people of the Philippines.  

Of course, there were no Swiss Guard Troops in the Philippines and in the Americas to enforce papal bulletins and decrees.  Yet, there was the matter of depriving the transgressors of all Catholic, all Spanish, and all Holy Roman Imperial privileges.

As a note for 2025/2026, the nation with the largest population of Roman Catholics in the world is the Philippines.

Just like the future NUREMBERG DEFENDANTS in the '40s

As a review, there were actually 13 distinct Nuremberg Trials.  As one of many results, a major Nazi propagandist was one of the defendants who ended up being put to death for his newspaper which did little more than incite murder and massive theft.  

In as much, people in the present-day mainstream media need to study that specific part of the trials, as well as studying the Tokyo Rose Trial.  You Race Warmongers and defamers of heads of state out there are NOT immune to your mouths and your typewritten articles.  This includes you editors, campaign managers, and CEO's of network TV.   Most important is the long-term observation that HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.  

Part 4 is found here:

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Part 4:

This is Part 4 of a five part series.  The link to Part 3 is located directly below:

https://www.bluemarblealbum.com/2025/12/muslims-attacked-first-part3.html

Now remember, the FIRST & SECOND COUNTS of the introductory NUREMBERG TRIALS was CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT WAR OF AGGRESSION, as well as committing WAR OF AGGRESSION.  This was otherwise known as Crimes Against the Peace.  

Well, Muslims have been committing such crimes of aggression since its very beginning.  Zoroastrian Persians were attacked.  Indian Hindus were attacked, too.  And of course,  Catholics were attacked, attacked again, and attacked some more, century after century after century.  

All in all, from its beginning, Islam has been a brutal menace to mankind.  As far back as 711 AD (or CE), the Muslims attacked Catholic Spain.  Then, for 700+ years they controlled the provinces of ~AlmerΓ­a, ~CΓ‘diz, ~CΓ³rdoba, ~Granada, ~Huelva, ~JaΓ©n, ~MΓ‘laga, and ~Seville.  Spain was not fully liberated until 1492.  That's 781 years of Occupation & Oppression ... done by Muslims upon the victimized Roman Catholics in Spain.
 
All in all, Christianity had to either counterattack the Muslim Aggressors or completely die.  On occasion, they were given the opportunity to be those second class citizens, called Dhimmi, who had to pay a submission tax, called the Jizya.   This option was basically the SLOW DEATH.

This Jizya was basically protection money and/or extortion.  Sometimes, it was regarded as a tribute.  It was forced upon Christians and other non-Muslims, under penalty of attack and death.  

As another example of early Muslim Aggression, the Muslims were violently trying to bring France into submission as far back as the 700s, during the days when the western part of the land was called Aquitaine.

Odo the Great ... Duke of Aquitaine ... and Charles Martel ... the powerful Mayor of Paris ... saved Catholicism in Western Europe from Muslim Military Expansionism.  Yet, Spain remained a captive of the very Muslim Moors who were a part of the Umayyad Caliphate. 

See:  The 721 Battle of Toulouse and the 732 Battle of Tours, when you have the time and the curiosity to do so. 

Step by step, Spain regained its independence.  None the less, even into & including the Year 2024, Muslim nations outright persecuted Christians.  This included the Catholics and Protestants in Nigeria today.  Meanwhile, western nations welcomed their Muslim persecutors into their high-tech nations which had been based on Christianity throughout the centuries.  

In addition, the Muslims did fail to occupy Constantinople in 717 AD, but they finally conquered it in 1534 AD.  As a result, Russians decided to build a new city, far away from the Muslims.  The Russians called that city, the New Rome.  That city is MOSCOW ... "Москва."   It was named after the Moskva River.

Now, in the Year 1066, the Muslims invaded and conquered Toledo, SPAIN.  Then came the Battle of Manzikert, in 1071, when the Muslims once again attacked a Christian land and occupied it.  This was in Southeastern TΓΌrkiye.  

This triggered the need for some type of Crusade which was said to have begun in 1095 CE.  The reality is that the successful Crusades began in 1085, when Catholic forces liberated Toledo SPAIN from Muslim rule.  This is something that Barack Obama never told you, when he was perniciously damning Catholics.  The Muslims invaded & attacked the Catholic lands first ... for hundreds of years.


In the late 11th Century, the long history of Muslim Expansion was thought to be taking its course back toward Greece.  After all, the Muslims already successfully attacked Byzantine territories in Anatolia, in 634.  They also conquered Cypress in 649.  

Then, in 717, the Muslims placed Constantinople under siege.  Yet, they failed.  So, Greece ... aka Byzantium ... was still a target for the Muslims.  In as much, there was a correct reason for Byzantine Emperor Alexios I to ask Pope Urban II for help, even though the Greek bishops split from Rome in 1054.  That split is called the Great Schism.  Schism means "the scissoring."

The Vicious Irony today

The irony is in a Jewish mayor welcoming Somali Muslims who are taught that Allah commands Muslims to rise-up and kill all Jews everywhere ... including the Useful Idiot Mayor of Minneapolis.  

In fact, it was Somali gunmen who shot an Italian nun/nurse to death six days after Pope Benedict XVI's Regensburg Lecture, where he quoted a Byzantine emperor who mentioned that forcing religion upon a people at the point of a sword, as did the Muslims since 633 CE, was evil.   This murder occurred in the Year 2006, outside of a children's hospital.

That martyred nun, Sister Leonella Sgorbati, was beatified at the Vatican in 2018.  Her bodyguard was also killed in Mogadishu by Somali gunmen, in the same incident.  Sr. Leonella's Memorial Day ... aka Feast Day ... is September 17th.

Below:  Other instances of Deadly Muslim Aggression upon unarmed Catholics 
who were forced to betray their faith in Christ, under penalty of death.  

Those people chose death over betraying the Miraculous Nazarene who happened to have been born in Bethlehem.  By the way, Bethlehem means, "House of Bread" in Hebrew.

The Roman Catholic religious order that paid ransom to Muslims, for the release of Christian Captives, as far back as the 13th Century.

The Muslims took a lot of captives as a part of their looting.  Then came 1218, when a Roman Catholic religious order was founded in Barcelona Spain, solely to rescue Catholic captives.  It was known centuries later as the Order of Our Lady of Ransom, being that paying ransom, in order to liberate captive Catholics, was the principle technique of the religious order.  

At the time of its founding, that particular religious order was officially named the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy.  It's members were-and-are the Mercedarians.
In Catholic religious orders, the members live by three vows, namely the vows of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience.  Well, the Mercedarians took a fourth vow ... that of offering one's self as a replacement hostage/captive, in order to obtain the freedom of an already existing hostage.  It was known as the "blood vow," because it included giving up your life, to free a hostage, if necessary.

Today, in 2025, that religious order still exists in 17 different nations, specifically in the Philippines, the United States, Spain, Italy, and in certain Latin American nations.  

The Fourth Vow

Now, the Mercedarian Fourth Vow has been revised.  In my personal interpretation of the modernized Fourth Vow, it's to basically speak out against social injustice, becoming subject to a number of types of RETALIATION which includes being killed for standing-up for what is right.  

The revised vow furthermore emphasizes coming to the assistance of those close to losing the Faith ... because of threats, harassment, discrimination, lying propaganda, social rejection, persecution, etc.  The revised vow is something similar to this, thereby making that religious order worth existing. 

The link to Part 5 is located directly below:

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Wednesday

Part 5: Muslim Aggression toward Catholics & Others, since the 7th Century

This is a Part Five of a five part series.  The link to Part 1, if you need to start from scratch, is directly below:


If you came from Part 4 and need to go back and check something, the link to that part is directly below:

 
This Muslim aggression included:  ~Somalis dragging dead Americans down the streets of Mogadishu.  It also included the  ~September 11th, 2001 Airborne Terrorist Attacks in the American skies, as well as the  ~Mumbai India Massacres, in addition to the  ~Boston Marathon Sabotage and the ~12 murders of comic illustrators in Paris, on January 7, 2015, as if Muslims are allow to walk into anywhere they please, and start killing at will.   

The colored drawing above is posted pursuant to 17 USC 107;  the Fair Use Act.
It depicts the First Barbary War, when white people were hijacked from ships, by Muslims,
and then sold into slavery ... by Muslims.  This included American women being sold into sex slavery ... by and for Muslims, of course.

 ... to the shores of Tripoli

In the 1780s, as soon as America gained independence from England, Algerian Muslim pirates started boarding American ships, commandeering the ships,  stealing property on board, and kidnapping Christian sailors and passengers alike.  This was because these Barbary Corsairs knew that the American ships were no longer protected by the Imperial British Navy. 

At the time, America could only afford to attempt to resolve the ongoing assaults, by diplomacy.  This included paying "tributes" to Muslims.  


Then came the Thomas Jefferson presidency, when the US president stopped paying tribute to these Muslims. North African Muslim pirates, under Muslims lords, kept pirating American ships and taking American hostages, some of whom became sex slaves.  


This resulted in the US Marines being sent to Northern African ... in 1805 ... to liberate the kidnap victims and to subdue the power of the Kingdom of Tripoli.  All in all, at the very beginning of the United States, it was being attacked by traditional MUSLIM MILITARY AGGRESSION. 


In summary ...

...  the Muslim Religion ... aka Islam ... has been a Plague of Locusts upon Christendom, from the start.  The Muslim Religion is an anti-Christian religion, because it's "adherents" spent over 1,391 years trying to destroy Christianity in every way possible ... or trying to make Christians second class citizens who had to pay extortion to Muslims, in the JIZYA .   For the Muslims, it was a matter of attack, attack, and keep on attacking.  

Now, Barack Obama made Catholics look like the demons from Hell.  HOWEVER, no Roman Catholic group ever hi-jacked multiple airliners and flew them into the skyscrapers of a Muslim land.  No Roman Catholic team ever performed 12 mass-shooting attacks in a three-day period, in a large Indian city such as Mumbai.  And no Roman Catholic duo ever performed a bombing at the Boston Marathon.

Concerning this, here is a great contradiction:  In September of 2001, when two hijacked jets crashed into the NYC Trade Towers, how many people within them were Muslim?   That is to ask, when suicide bombers did their many bombings, how many Muslims got caught in the deadly explosions?

Roman Catholic military knight orders started as a response to already-existent attackers of Catholics.  Even though the Teutonic Knights were founded in Acre (Akko) ... which is 80 miles north of Jerusalem ... they were sent to protect people from Lithuanian pagan forces.  Then, after the Lithuanians converted to Catholicism, the Teutonic Knights were eventually disbanded.

Unarmed Missionaries were the ones who expanded Christendom, as in "the blood of the martyrs are the seeds of the Faith."  Saints Boniface, Odilia, and Ursula are example of true martyrs killed for their Faith in Christ.

It's a lie to claim that military forces were sent to expand Christendom.  MISSIONARIES were sent out to expand Christendom, and you cannot deny that the Catholic Church had a lot of unarmed martyrs who were spreading the Faith.  

Catholic military forces were sent to prevent Christendom from being invaded, conquered, and decimated.  Or else they were sent to win back invaded land that was occupied by anti-Catholics.

Becoming Catholic was and is a relatively long process that involves the Catechumenate.  No one instantly becomes a Catholic convert.  Ask today's Catholic converts.  

All in all, putting a sword to someone's neck does NOT result in the person becoming Catholic.  You have to prove that you understand the basic doctrines of the faith and the basic moral precepts of the Church.  You then have to show that you actually want to become Catholic.  That is known as "consent."  

Plus, in Catholicism there is excommunication.  Thus, there were some people whom the church didn't want to join them, until such people reformed for the better.  Thus, it's a lie to claim that Catholics were shoving the Faith down people's throats, at the point of swords.  That's the Muslim Religion that does that.  

Catholics are taught that it's a sin to hijack an airliner and then fly it into a skyscraper filled with unarmed office workers.  Catholics are also taught that it's a sin to explode a bomb at the Boston Marathon.

Catholics are furthermore taught that it's a mortal sin to shoot at Jews who are celebrating Hanukkah in Australia. 

There was a time when becoming a citizen of the United States was a long process.  Well, converting to Catholicism is simply becoming a citizen of the Kingdom of God which "is at hand."  And to those who do NOT believe in Catholicism in any capacity, you have to explain away all of those miracles in the Catholic Church.  

This included the October 13th, 1917 Fatima Portugal Miracle of the Sun, when a rain-drenched region suddenly dried, after people saw the Sun perform a colorful and even slightly terrifying phenomenon.

The fact that everything outdoors dried instantly proves that there was no "mass hallucination" transpiring.  Newspaper reporters went, with the intention to prove a fraud amongst three shepherd children, and then to mock Catholicism.  They ended up reporting the miraculous event with respect.

Oh, and then there is the matter of bleeding hosts, a couple of which were scientifically analyzed, at least in at least three specific hosts which were consecrated at Catholic masses, in the modern era.  The blood on the hosts were found to be AB blood.  

The Shroud of Turin has AB blood on it, too.  However, the rh factor on the shroud was not reported.  This means that the reports didn't mention if the Shroud of Turin blood were AB Positive or AB Negative.
Note:  There are a lot of officially recognized miraculous hosts.  Not merely four.   Such host phenomena date back to 750 CE, with some of the hosts on display, usually in a shrine setting or other consecrated structure.  More than one had cardiac muscle, and more than one had AB blood, presumably AB positive blood.

Jesus said, if you don't believe my words, then believe my works.  These miraculous phenomena are regarded as Christ's works which actually give a message..

And then there is the miraculous Tilma of Guadalupe which contains an image of the Virgin Mary.  The miracles occurred on December 12, 1531, and it was witnessed by a bishop.  

Science found that it has zero brush strokes on it and that it was not sketched in any way.  It looks as new as it was in 1531.  So look up the whole story, before flaring off more atheistic diatribes ... or anti-Catholic rants, etc.

Before 1531, there were about 10,000 native converts in Mexico.  In the immediate years after the 1531 miracle, there came to be 6 to 8 million natives converting to the "Faith of Peter & Paul," and getting baptized in the Catholic Church.

Keep in mind that it was in 1520 to 1521 when Small Pox in Mexico reached the pandemic stage.  Our Lady made her presence known to the traumatized Mexicans ten years later.  

This account began, when the bishop in Mexico city wrote a super important letter to the King of Spain, mentioning the Conquistadors' abuse of the natives.  In prayer, the bishop asked to be given a sign that the king actually read the letter.  The bishop asked for roses to be the sign.  

Well, when Juan Diego returned to the bishop, he had roses in his tilma.  He opened up the tilma, so that the roses could fall on the bishop's desk.  Then the bishop saw the miraculous image.  

Roses didn't bloom in December in Mexico City, during the Mini Ice Age which lasted from 1284 CE to 1840 CE.  The bishop received his message in 1531.   December 12th is still honored ... and/or celebrated ... in Latin America.

Part 1 of this five part series is located via the link below:


Concurrence

Below is the video documentary on Whites having been slaves.  Such a thing is not too difficult to believe.  After all, the history of mankind ... the sad history of mankind ... has mostly been WAR & SLAVERY, in addition to the fight to survive the elements.  In as much, the most accomplished slave traders & owners in history were allegedly none other than . . . the Ottomans . . . allegedly, of course.

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Tuesday

Catholic Doctrines about the Virgin Mary & the Reason Why


The Gospel of St. John expressly reminds the reader that not everything is in the Bible.  After all, the Infinite God cannot be contained.  Yet, Protestantism ignored St. John.  That particular 16th Century religion bases itself on a very fatal and tunnel-visioned belief in Sola Scriptura.  In light of this, Protestants demand a Biblical reference that justifies Marian devotion.  

Actually, they asked this arrogantly, assuming that there is nowhere in the Bible justifying and/or ratifying Marian Devotion.  Well, Marian Devotion is most certainly in the Bible that the Protestants stole from the Roman Catholics.   The source is the Gospel of St.  Luke, where Mary said:

My soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my 
Savior, because he has looked upon his handmaid's lowliness.  
Henceforth,  all generations shall call me blessed,  because 
he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is 
his name.

And of course,  And of course, when anyone recites the Rosary, that person repeatedly says, "BLESSED are you among women, and BLESSED is the fruit of your womb, Jesus.  In doing so, you are fulfilling the Biblical prophecy which stated that all subsequent generations of humanity will call Mary blessed.

Those who do not call her blessed are NOT Christians.  They are only pretenders lodged in heretical sects that rejected many precepts and doctrines which trace back to the original apostles and the miraculous St Paul of Tarsus.  Once again and in review Once, devotion to Mary consists in being part of All Succeeding Generations calling Mary blessed as was prophesied in the Bible.  It's that simple.  

Concerning simplicity, it is written,  "From  the mouths of babes come perfect praise."

Thus, a child praying the Rosary is fulfilling Sacred Scripture in sending forth perfect praise.  People who have trouble accepting this are spiritual gluttons never satisfied with anything but that which is vain and overbearingly gaudy.  The irony is that embracing a devotion as humble as the Rosary results in the devotee having lights and a colorfulness equal to a multi-faceted gem which is very clear, as opposed to muddy and muddled.

In addition, there is the account in the Gospel of John, where Christ, while dying on the Cross, said to John, "Behold.  Your mother."  Devotion to the woman given to mankind as its mother honors Christ in the pain and death he endured.  

Add to the Biblical sources the words of God the Father, spoken through the Archangel Gabriel:  "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you.  Rejoice oh highly favored daughter."  Devotion to God's highly favored daughter honors the God who created her.  It also shows a common interest that you and God both hold.

There is also the matter of the Acts of the Apostles' account of the Pentecost.  Now, it was a product of St. Luke who was a student of Saint Paul.  Thus, St. Paul ... and Luke ... made sure that the reader would know that, at the beginning of the Church, when the Holy Spirit made his arrival, Mary the mother of Jesus was there, in the Cenacle.  Neither Luke nor Paul, nor John the Evangelist ignored Mary.

1]  What is the essence of Marian Devotion?

Response:  To start, Mary is NOT a brain dead road sign who merely says, "Do whatever he says."  Rather, she, unlike any creature of God, brings Jesus to you.  In as much, Marian Devotion consists in Mary taking Jesus and placing him in your arms.  Then, when you die, Mary takes you and places you in Jesus' arms.  It's that simple.  It is the essence of sacredness.  Only the arrogant are completely incomprehensive to this reality.
Painted by an Australian friend.

2a]  Isn't looking at a painting or statue of the Virgin Mary idolatry?

Response:  Do you have photos of your loved ones at home?   When you look at those photos, are you worshiping the people within the frames?   In fact, do you have photos of sports heroes, war heroes, peace heroes, singing stars, or movie stars?  Do you worship those people as if you actually believe that they created all that is seen and unseen?   Religious images are reminders.   They are study guides that help you recollect something pertinent about the event or person depicted in the image upon which you are meditating.

Such images are a view to a scene or a person.   They let you experience the person or the event to some degree.   When you view and make conscious note of an image of the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, or the Ascension, it places your considerations and realizations at the event represented.

Religious images have symbolism attached to them.  The symbolism for martyrs includes the article of execution used upon the martyr, as well as a palm branch to remind the viewer that the saint represented in the image was a martyr.   Thus, in images of Saint Jude, you will see clubs.  In images of Saint Andrew, you will see an X-shaped  cross.  In as much, images of the saints are blessed picture books.  The stained glass versions of such images helped the illiterate tremendously. 

3a]  Where in the Bible does it state that the
        Virgin Mary was conceived without sin?

Response:  It was mentioned at the Annunciation when the Archangel Gabriel said,  "Hail, full of grace. The Lord is with you."  Technically speaking, Gabriel said, "Rejoice, oh graced one."  And of course, such a title is a description of totality.

Now, to be full of one thing is to be free of its opposite.  Therefore, to be full of grace is to be free of sin.  Furthermore, to be full of grace is different than being filled with the Holy Spirit .  To be filled with the Holy Spirit still requires the person to receive stipends of grace, so that sin will not be out of control weeds in the soul.  To be full of grace is to be in a state where all sin is always crowded out.

The church came before the New Testament.  If it were not for the apostles and the faith of the early Christians, there would be no series of written texts called the New Testament.  Therefore, the Bible was made for man --- not man for the Bible.   The New Testament came forth from Tradition.  Tradition existed first.

The Bible has a limited number of pages, meaning that it's finite.  It was written in the service of the Infinite God.  Thus, not everything is in the Bible, being that finite pages cannot contain knowledge of the Infinite.  Therefore, it wasn't required for the Bible to state that the Virgin Mary was conceived in an immaculate state of soul.  In fact, John stated in his Gospel,  "There are also many other things that Jesus did, but if they were to be described individually,  I don't think that the entire world would be able to contain the books that would be written."  Therefore, a writer of the Bible stated that not everything is in the Bible.  Quite frankly, hardly anything is in the Bible.

The Bible is merely the Beginner's Book.   It's training wheels compared to what the angels know about the subject, as well as what you'll personally experience in your interaction with God, the angels, the saints, and even people in this life.   Your education will be the result of the Holy Spirit infusing knowledge into you and into the others who will share their knowledge with you.  This type of thing happens whether the person given the infused knowledge ever read the Bible or not.  Reading the Bible does not guarantee holiness.  Satan  knows the Bible far more than anyone of us.  Knowing it didn't make him a saint.

3b]  The Bible said that, "In Adam, all have sinned."  
        Isn't the Virgin Mary a member of this "all?"

Response:  Mary wasn't in Adam.  She was in the Holy Spirit.  This is why God the Father gave the impulse to the archangel Gabriel which resulted in him appearing to Mary and defining her as "Full of Grace"  ("Oh Graced One.")  Never before and never after did God the Father instruct any angel to appear to anyone on earth and recognize her as being  the graced one ... the one full of grace.

A handful of  people in scriptural passages were described as being full of the Holy Spirit, but this is different than being full of grace.   

To be full of grace is to possess all of the graces existing in the treasury of the Holy Spirit, to the point where you can wield them as if there were yours.  To be full of the Holy Spirit still places the person in need of the Holy Spirit conveying specific needed graces to him/her.   

To be full of the Holy Spirit is to be in possession of sanctifying grace.   To be full of grace is to be in possession of all actual internal graces without having in your soul a component that acts against those graces.  Any component within the soul that acts against grace is an element of original sin. 

3c]  But what empowered God to create Mary Immaculate?

Response:  The foreseen merits of Christ and Christ's rights as Savior of mankind did so.  Jesus is the perfect savior.  He has the right to save souls in every spectrum of life, from the beginning to the end of life.  He was empowered to save a person who jumped off a bridge, in giving that person the unfailing grace to make a perfect act of contrition or of love before that person hit the water.   He was empowered to save from their sins those on their death beds, moments away from eternity.  Thus, he had the right to save one person from even falling into sin, in the first place. 

What he did to Mary the first moment she was created was equivalent to catching someone before she falls into the mud.  The fact that he would one day perform the priestly sacrifice that only he could do was all that was needed to empower him to save Mary from falling into the state of original sin.  Christ is more dynamic than what he is presently made out to be.  He only looks like a buffoon when buffoons talk about him.  People equate him with the buffoons who talk about him on TV evangelist shows..

4]  The idea of Original Sin sounds too judgmental.  How could 
      a mere child who didn't do anything start out in original sin?

Response:  No child is guilty of committing the original sin, being that no child is the original Adam.  Rather, being conceived in the state of original sin consists in being conceived in the same state that Adam found himself, the moment after he committed the original sin.

This state of original sin brings with it obscured reason, as well as senses that can get out of control.  This is why we must apply ourselves to learning and why we also need to do some type of good in life, such as occasional fasting, abstention, works of mercy, prayer, and  those bodily workouts formerly known as mortifications.  After all, we are not born with infused knowledge and we no longer possess the endowment of integrity.   The first objective is to conquer your cravings.

The other effect of original sin that can lead to tragedy and abuse is interdependence.  Those who take advantage of the dependence of others rocket into Hell like lightning, if they die before converting.  Forcing women to partake in prostitution is a sin worse than the acts of prostitution themselves. 

5]  What gave Christ the power to assume 
      Mary into Heaven body and soul?

Response:  The Ten Commandments did.  It is written, "Honor your mother and father."   If Jesus didn't take his own mom into Heaven body and soul, he would have sinned against his own commandment.  This was expressly mentioned in the Infallible Statement, titled, Munificentissimus Deus, published in 1950.

6]  The Bible states that there is but one Mediator between God 
      and Man.   That would exclude everyone else, including Mary.

Response:  No one devoted to Mary ever said that she was the savior of mankind.  This is where one needs to have a minimal understanding of Latin.  Co-redemptrix means, "With the Redeemer."  Mary called God her savior during the Visitation she made to her cousin Elizabeth.   That same biblical passage stated that all generations will call her blessed.   

People devoted to the Virgin Mary, by their devotion, call her blessed, thereby fulfilling the prophecy about her in the Bible.   If you do not call her blessed, then you are the one who is anti-Biblical.  After all, it is written, "All generations will call me blessed, because he who is mighty has done great things for me and holy is his name."   "His name," incidentally, means "his person."

Christ is the Mediator for the forgiveness of sin.  Mary is the dispenser of graces, because of Jesus' priestly sacrifice.  Such a job resulted in her being called, Mary, the Mediatrix of All Graces.   There is a reason why Mary must be the Mediatrix of the graces which, incidentally, come from her spouse, the Holy Spirit.  It pertains to the the Last Supper.   

The Last Supper was the first Mass, where Jesus gave to mankind the last commandment that he will ever give.   This occurred when he said, "Love one another as I have loved you."  Mary is the master link in that chain of loving one another as Christ has loved us.   After all, she was personally in direct view of Divine Love longer than anyone in the history of mankind.   Therefore, she has more experience at interacting with it.

In the mystery of love, Mary transformed into the Holy Spirit.  I can assure you, even if you are the most Bible-reading person on earth, Mary knows mysteries that you do not.  So, why not go to the source of the mysteries that pertain to the salvation of mankind?  The Virgin Mary knows what it means to be saved more than anyone in existence.  More mercy was bestowed upon the Virgin Mary, in keeping her free from sin, than was bestowed upon every converted prostitute combined.

It's written, "Eye has not seen and ear has not heard, nor has it entered the human heart as to what God has prepared for those who love him ..."  1 Cor., 2:9.  Also written is, "Beloved,  we are God's children now.  What we shall be has not yet been  revealed.   We do  know that, when it is revealed, we shall be like him, being that we shall see him as he is."  This means that the mysteries of God are far too deeply recessed and awe-striking for them to be reduced to the basal mentality of those too cowardly to aspire the to depths and heights where one expects to find the angels stationed.   The express route to the angels is the Rosary, of course.  The principle prayer of the Rosary are the words of God the Father spoken by Gabriel.  It is known as the Angelic Salutation ... the Hail Mary.

People who hate the Virgin Mary do so, because they think that they have an aversion to what they perceive to be gymnastics training and harsh disciplinary oppression.   Yet, those who have an affinity to her see her as a beautiful starlit night.  Her devotees become attracted to her beauty and inviting friendliness, if they don't do so, in the quest for solace in tragedy.  They are devoted to her because they want to be near her.   She then takes over and starts the trimming, pruning, and overhauling process.   After the chiseling, one ends up perceiving the Holy Spirit for what he actually is; Kindness itself.  Concerning Reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, see:

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