Panamá Denuncia Nicolás Maduro por Lavagem de Dinheiro e Terrorismo

O governo do Panamá divulgou lista de pessoas com "elevado risco" de praticar lavagem de dinheiro e financiamento ao terrorismo, entre elas está o presidente da Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, o advogado geral da Venezuela, o presidente da entidade eleitoral do país, o irmão de Hugo Chávez e mais 16 firmas venezuelanas.

Humm...por que eu não estou surpreso quando vejo "socialistas" roubando e financiando o terror?

No meu outro blog, em 2015, eu relatei que a mulher mais rica da Venezuela é a filha Hugo Chávez. Humm...

Vejam o texto da Reuters.

Venezuela president lands on Panama's 'high risk' money laundering list


PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro along with more than 50 Venezuelan nationals are considered “high risk” for laundering money and financing terrorism, according to an advisory issued by Panama’s economy and finance ministry.

Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab and electoral board president Tibisay Lucena were also named in the advisory along with Socialist Party No. 2 Diosdado Cabello, the elder brother of late president Hugo Chavez, and 16 firms in Venezuela.

The economy and finance ministry’s National Commission Against Money Laundering released the list late on Thursday, following its initial announcement on Tuesday,

Maduro’s socialist government has repeatedly vowed to combat corruption that has plagued Venezuela and its oil industry for decades, contributing to its devastating economic collapse.

But critics say the administration, despite making graft-related arrests, is still crippled by financial malfeasance.

Millions of Venezuelans suffer from food and medicine shortages, and the currency has fallen 99.99 percent against the U.S. dollar on the black market since Maduro came to power in 2013.

"Papa Francisco Disse que Inferno NÃO Existe"

A imagem acima é a do momento no Drudge Report, um dos sites mais lidos do mundo, seguramente o mais lido dos Estados Unidos.

Pergunta se o Papa Francisco disse que o Inferno não existe.

O que houve?

Bom, Eugenio Scalfari, um jornalista ateu de 93 anos, novamente se reuniu com o Papa Francisco e disse que o Papa Francisco lhe afirmou que o Inferno não existe e  que as almas do inferno simplesmente desaparecem. Scalfari não grava as conversas, nem as escreve, providencialmente.

Bom, caso o Papa tenha dito isso há muitas heresias na argumentação e  destrói o que o próprio Cristo falou. Por muito menos, papas já foram declarados heréticos.

Além disso, Nossa Senhora de Fátima mostrou o inferno para os meninos de Fátima, e muitos santos viram o inferno em vida, como Santa Teresa D'Ávila, São João Bosco, e Santa Faustina. Eu já falei das visões do inferno desse santos aqui no blog.

Outro dia também, eu li o impressionante relato da colombiana Glória Polo que conheceu o céu e o inferno e voltou para contar. Leiam o testemunha dela, clicando aqui.

É a quinta vez que o Papa Francisco se reúne com o tal Scalfari. Isso mesmo quinta vez! E sempre vem uma frase polêmica de Scalfari que não são desmentidas pelo Vaticano adequadamente.

Li que o Vaticano "negou" dizendo que Scalfari fez uma "reconstrução" das palavras do Papa.

Reconstrução? Quais foram as palavras do Papa, então?

E por que um papa se um reúne 5 vezes com alguém? É o que pergunta o renomado jornalista católico Raymond Arroyo no twitter.

O site Gloria TV acusa o Papa de heresia, pois o Vaticano não negou completamente as palavras de Scalfari e que fala dos textos que Scalfari escreve após encontros com o Papa. O site lembra que Scalfari escreveu sobre o Papa Francisco em setembro de 2013, julho de 2014, março de 2015, novembro de 2015, novembro de 2016 e julho de 2017. Em cinco vezes, o Vaticano teve que reagir contra supostas afirmações do Papa ditas por Scalfari.

Mas o Papa continua convidando Scalfari para conversar. Daí, o site defende que o Papa usa Scalfari para espalhar heresias. 

Pode ser que o tal Scalfari faça isso para vender seu jornal?

Com certeza. Mas e daí? Tamanhas heresias não podem correr o mundo.

Bandeira na Espanha a Meio-Mastro por Cristo

O ministério da defesa da Espanha vai colocar a bandeira em meio-mastro em todos os quartéis e bases militares do país para lembrar a Páscoa, a morte e ressurreição de Cristo.

O ministério declarou que esse ato "é parte da tradição secular das forças armadas".

Secular?

É um ato corajoso em tempos de politicamento correto e ateísmo dominante e perseguidor.

Mas não deixa de ser incrível que mesmo países que devem sua existência ao cristianismo têm medo de defender Cristo. A Espanha em especial teve de se levantar várias vezes para defender Cristo, tanto contra muçulmanos como contra comunistas. E foi vitoriosa.

Eu falo muito no meu livro Teoria e Tradição da Guerra Justa  no número de países que devem sua existência àqueles que lutavam por Cristo (Cruzados), como Portugal, Alemanha, Espanha, França, Itália e Áustria.

Vejam o texto do The Catholic Herald sobre o ato do ministério da defesa da Espanha.

The Ministry of Defence confirmed the flag will be lowered at all military establishments

The Spanish flag will fly at half-mast on all military buildings including the Ministry of Defence in Madrid to commemorate the death of Christ this Holy Week.

In a statement, the ministry said all units, bases, barracks will lower the flag from 2pm on Maundy Thursday to 12.01am on Easter Sunday “as is traditional”.

The ministry explained that the practice dates back several decades and “forms part of the secular tradition of the armed forces”.

The Spanish military will take part in 152 parades and celebrations to mark Holy Week in 80 cities across the country this year, including Seville, Granada, Madrid and the Canary Islands.

The Ministry of Defence highlighted the fact that freedom of religion for servicemen would be respected, and that participation by members of the armed forces at these events is voluntary.

Filme (Trailer): O Diabo e o Exorcista Gabriele Amorth

O premiado diretor William Friedkin voltou ao tema exorcismo, depois do seu famoso filme "O Exorcista" de 1973. Dessa vez, ele foi chamado para ver de perto os exorcismos feitos por um dos maiores especialistas em exorcismo da história da Igreja, padre Gabriele Amorth, que faleceu em setembro de 2016. Padre Amorth fez milhares e milhares de exorcismos durante sua vida e ensinou muitos padres sobre o assunto.

No trailer acima Friedkin descreve o que ele viu. Bom, é assustador.

O bispo Robert Barron fala no trailer que ele próprio não tem coragem de lidar com exorcismos.

O Gay de Obama e a Prostituta de Trump

Os políticos são escolhidos entre os melhores cidadãos de um país? Não, claro que não. Os melhores de um país não seriam eleitos. A democracia escolhe no máximo o mediano. No Brasil, parece que escolhemos sempre cada vez pior desde 1989. Só em situações extremas é que é possível eleger um líder realmente especial.

Ontem, uma prostituta deu entrevista dizendo que teve caso com Trump. Trump teve várias esposas, casou três vezes.

Na época de Obama, um gay disse que teve relacionamento sexual com Obama. Animado com a repercussão da prostituta, o gay reclamou da falta de atenção da imprensa.

Além disso, vi um vídeo de uma colega de colégio de Obama no Havaí, que disse que Obama dizia que era estrangeiro e era relacionado com usuário de cocaína homossexual.

Será que esses casos são verídicos?

Não sei, e não perguntem aos advogados deles. Nem à mídia.

100 Intelectuais Franceses Assinam Documento Contra Totalitarismo Islâmico

Um grupo de 100 intelectuais franceses assinam documento denunciando o totalitarismo muçulmano, no jornal Le Figaro.

Entre eles, há o excepcional Rémi Brague. Leiam qualquer livro de Rémi Brague, ele é demais, mencionei ele no meu livro Teoria e Tradição da Guerra Justa (Vide Editorial).

Também assinou o documento o premiado escritor Boualem Sansal (escrevi um artigo em que trato de um livro dele chamado 2084).

Além disso, vale menção do historiador Alain Besançon, diretor de estudos da Escola de Altos Estudos em Ciências Sociais.

E também de Ibn Warraq, que escreveu vários livros sobre o Islã.

Aliás, hoje teve mais um ataque terrorista muçulmano na França.

O site Jihad Watch traduziu o texto para o inglês e colocou todos os nomes dos assinantes.

Vejam abaixo.

"We are citizens of differing and often diametrically opposed views, who have found agreement in expressing our concern in the face of the rise of Islamism. We are united not by our affinities, but by the feeling of danger that threatens freedom in general and not just freedom of thought.

That which unites us today is more fundamental than that which will undoubtedly separate us tomorrow.

Islamist totalitarianism seeks to gain ground by every means possible and to represent itself as a victim of intolerance. This strategy was demonstrated some weeks ago when the SUD Education 93 teachers union proposed a training course that included workshops on state racism from which white people were barred.

Several of the facilitators were members or sympathizers of the CCIF (French Collective Against Islamophobia) or the Natives of the Republic party. Such examples have proliferated recently. We have thus learned that the best way to combat racism is to separate races. If this idea shocks us, it is because we are Republicans.

We also hear it said that because religions in France are trampled on by an institutionalized secularism, everything that is in a minority — in other words Islam — must be accorded a special place so that it can cease to be humiliated.

This same argument continues by asserting that in covering themselves with a hijab, women are protecting themselves from men and that keeping themselves apart is a means to emancipation.

What these proclamations have in common is the idea that the only way to defend the “dominated” (the term is that of SUD Education 93) is to set them apart and grant them privileges.

Not so long ago, apartheid reigned in South Africa. Based on the segregation of blacks, it sought to exonerate itself by creating bantustans (territories set aside for black South Africans) where blacks were granted false autonomy. Fortunately this system no longer exists.

Today, a new kind of apartheid is emerging in France, a segregation in reverse thanks to which the “dominated” seek to retain their dignity by sheltering themselves from the “dominators.”

But does this mean that a woman who casts off her hijab and goes out into the street becomes a potential victim? Does it mean that a “race” that mixes with others becomes humiliated? Does it mean that a religion that accepts being one among other religions loses face?

Does Islamism also seek to segregate French Muslims, whether believers or otherwise, who accept democracy and are willing to live with others? Who will decide for women who refuse to be locked away? As for others, who seemingly do not deserve to be protected, will they be held under lock and key in the camp of the “dominators”?

All of this runs counter to what has been done in France to guarantee civil peace. For centuries, the unity of the nation has been grounded in a detachment with respect to particularities that can be a source of conflict. What is known as Republican universalism does not consist in denying the existence of gender, race or religion but in defining civic space independently of them so that nobody feels excluded. How can one not see that secularism protects minority religions?

Jeopardizing secularism exposes us to a return to the wars of religion.

What purpose can this new sectarianism serve? Must it only allow the self-styled “dominated” to safeguard their purity by living amongst themselves? Is not its overall objective to assert secession from national unity, laws and mores? Is it not the expression of a real hatred towards our country and democracy?

For people to live according to the laws of their community or caste, in contempt of the laws of others, for people to be judged only by their own, is contrary to the spirit of the Republic. The French Republic was founded on the refusal to accept that private rights can be applied to specific categories of the population and on the abolition of privilege.

On the contrary, the Republic guarantees that the same law applies to each one of us. This is simply called justice.

This new separatism is advancing under concealment. It seeks to appear benign but is in reality a weapon of political and cultural conquest in the service of Islamism.

Islamism wants to set itself apart because it rejects others, including those Muslims who do not subscribe to its tenets. Islamism abhors democratic sovereignty, to which it refuses any kind of legitimacy. Islamism feels humiliated when it is not in a position of dominance.

Accepting this is out of the question. We want to live in a world where both sexes can look at each other with neither feeling insulted by the presence of the other. We want to live in a world where women are not deemed to be naturally inferior. We want to live in a world where people can live side by side without fearing each other. We want to live in a world where no religion lays down the law.

Waleed al-Husseini, writer

Arnaud d’Aunay, painter

Pierre Avril, academic

Vida Azimi, jurist

Isabelle Barbéris, academic

Kenza Belliard, teacher

Georges Bensoussan, historian

Corinne Berron, author

Alain Besançon, historian

Fatiha Boudjahlat, essayist

Michel Bouleau, jurist

Rémi Brague, philosopher

Philippe Braunstein, historian

Stéphane Breton, film maker, ethnologist

Claire Brière-Blanchet, reporter, essayist

Marie-Laure Brossier, city councillor

Pascal Bruckner, writer

Eylem Can, script writer

Sylvie Catellin, semiologist

Gérard Chaliand, writer

Patrice Champion, former ministerial advisor

Brice Couturier, journalist

Éric Delbecque, essayist

Chantal Delsol, philosopher

Vincent Descombes, philosopher

David Duquesne, nurse

Luc Ferry, philosopher, former minister

Alain Finkielkraut, philosopher, writer

Patrice Franceschi, writer

Renée Fregosi, philosopher

Christian Frère, professor

Claudine Gamba-Gontard, professor

Jacques Gilbert, historian of ideas

Gilles-William Goldnadel, lawyer

Monique Gosselin-Noat, academic

Gabriel Gras, biologist

Gaël Gratet, professor

Patrice Gueniffey, historian

Alain Guéry, historian

Éric Guichard, philosopher

Claude Habib, writer, professor

Nathalie Heinich, sociologist

Clarisse Herrenschmidt, linguist

Philippe d’Iribarne, sociologist

Roland Jaccard, essayist

Jacques Jedwab, psychoanalyst

Catherine Kintzler, philosopher

Bernard Kouchner, doctor, humanitarian, former minister

Bernard de La Villardière, journalist

Françoise Laborde, journalist

Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine, essayist

Dominique Lanza, clinical psychologist

Philippe de Lara, philosopher

Josepha Laroche, academic

Alain Laurent, essayist, editor

Michel Le Bris, writer

Jean-Pierre Le Goff, philosopher

Damien Le Guay, philosopher

Anne-Marie Le Pourhiet, jurist

Barbara Lefebvre, teacher

Patrick Leroux-Hugon, physicist

Élisabeth Lévy, journalist

Laurent Loty, historian of ideas

Mohamed Louizi, engineer, essayist

Jérôme Maucourant, economist

Jean-Michel Meurice, painter, film director

Juliette Minces, sociologist

Marc Nacht, psychoanalyst, writer

Morgan Navarro, cartoonist

Pierre Nora, historian, editor

Robert Pépin, translator

Céline Pina, essayist

Yann Queffélec, writer

Jean Queyrat, film director

Philippe Raynaud, professor of political science

Robert Redeker, writer

Pierre Rigoulot, historian

Ivan Rioufol, journalist

Philippe San Marco, author, essayist

Boualem Sansal, writer

Jean-Marie Schaeffer, philosopher

Martine Segalen, ethnologist

André Senik, teacher

Patrick Sommier, man of the theater

Antoine Spire, vice-president of Licra

Wiktor Stoczkowski, anthropologist

Véronique Tacquin, professor, writer

Pierre-André Taguieff, political scientist

Maxime Tandonnet, author

Sylvain Tesson, writer

Paul Thibaud, essayist

Bruno Tinel, economist

Michèle Tribalat, demographer

Caroline Valentin, essayist

David Vallat, author

Éric Vanzieleghem, documentalist

Jeannine Verdès-Leroux, historian

Emmanuel de Waresquiel, historian

Ibn Warraq, writer

Yves-Charles Zarka, philosopher

Fawzia Zouari, writer

Vídeo: Facebook (Zuckerberg) in 2009: "Facebook Não Vende as Informações"

No vídeo, acima Mark Zuckerberg (dono do Facebook), em 2009, em entrevista para BBC, é perguntado se ele vai vender ou compartilhar as informações do Facebook.

Ele responde: "O que é especial no Facebook é que os usuários são donos de suas informações"

A entrevistadora insiste: "Então, você não vai vender essas informações".

Ele responde: "Não, claro que não. Os usuários é quem dividem com as poucas pessoas que eles querem".

Hummm...quem caiu nessa?

Agora, de forma mais explícita, vemos que:

1) Assessor de mídia de Obama diz que "Facebook está do nosso lado, compartilhou informações sociais com a gente, coisa que Facebook não permite que outros fazem".

2) Firma Cambridge Analytica e Facebook estão sendo processados por dividir informações para a campanha de Trump.

3) Zuckerberg, depois de pego por diversos lados, pede desculpas.

Eu fui obrigado a entrar no Facebook a pedido de um professor que estava avaliando minha tese de doutorado. Eu fiz a vontade dele, mas não coloquei nada. Por anos, o Facebook tinha apenas meu nome e a foto de uma praia.

Quando eu publiquei meu primeiro livro, eu vi que o Facebook é uma ótima ferramenta para divulgar o livro. Então, resolvi divulgar meu livro e o blog. Não me arrependo, Facebook é realmente fantástico para divulgar informações ao mundo todo.

A pergunta que sempre me faço,é: por que alguém põe fotos pessoais no Facebook? Deveriam usar apenas para questões profissionais. Coloca-se a própria foto e depois compartilha-se informações profissionais ou notícias.

Padre Staniek: "Que o Papa Francisco se Converta ou Morra".

Renomado teólogo e ex-reitor de seminário, o padre polonês Edward Staniek foi notícia em vários jornais do mundo, como CNN, The Catholic Herald ou The Express, por dizer:

"Eu rezo pelo Papa Francisco, para que ele abra seu coração para o Espírito Santo. E caso não faça isso, I rezo para sua rápida ida para a Casa do Pai. Eu posso sempre pedir a Deus por uma feliz morte para ele, porque uma morte feliz é uma grande benção".

Ele também disse:

"Em nome da misericórdia, o Papa pede aos paróquianos que abram suas portas para os seguidores do Islã. Como religião, os muçulmanos são hostis ao Evangelho e a Igreja. Eles mataram milhões em guerras religiosas. E n[os como poloneses. lembrabdo a vitória que tivemos sobre eles em Viena, entendemos melhor que oas outros que não há diálogo com o Islã".

Além disso, ele disse que o Papa parece um "corpo estranho" para a Igreja.

Bom, o que eu acho?

1) Realmente uma morte feliz é uma enorme benção;

2) Sim, padre conhece história, o rei polonês Jan III Sobieski derrotou os muçulmanos em Viena em 1683, na Batalha de Viena. Já falei dessa batalha aqui no blog;

3) Sim, o Papa Francisco tem trazido enorme confusão e até erros teológicos para a Igreja;

4) Realmente, não é possível diálogo com o Islã. Essa religião é baseada na guerra e só entende a linguagem da guerra.

Mas deve-se desejar a morte de um Papa por isso?

Bom, deve-se desejar que "seja feita a vontade" de Deus aqui na terra como nos céus. E nós devemos lutar pela Verdade divina. Por vezes, o Papa parece não estar do lado dessa Verdade. Padre Staniek apenas mostrou o desespero que o Papa trouxe para os corações de verdadeiros católicos. Eu não condeno ele.

Muçulmanos e Esquerdistas Invadem Igreja dos Reis da França (Saint Dennis)

Vejam que absurdo, imigrantes muçulmanos com ajuda de politicos da extrema esquerda invadem a Igreja onde estão enterrados os reis da França.

Eu já tive a graça de visitar essa belíssima Igreja. É desesperador ver a Europa cair para o Islã com apoio dos seus líderes políticos e até do Papa Francisco.

Isso é realmente um absurdo, mas era esperado. A França está de joelhos para o Islã.

Hoje mesmo, eu li um texto que detalha como a França se rebaixa a lei sharia islâmica e silencia, prendendo, qualquer um que afirme que o Islã não é religião de paz.  No texto, é mostrado que os jornalistas do Charlie Hebbo, que sofreram ataque terrorista, se rebaixam e o presidente Macron anda ameaçando jornalistas e políticos que critiquem o Islã.

Vejam o vídeo acima (agradeço a indicação do vídeo ao meu amigo Jacyr Munhoz) e o relato do Breibart.

Far-Left Activists, Illegal Migrants Storm Basilica Holding The Tombs of French Kings

Far-left activists and illegal migrants invaded the Basilica of Saint-Denis on Sunday to protest the French government’s new asylum law before they were forcibly removed by police, resulting in evening mass being cancelled.

Around 80 illegal migrants and far-left activists from the group Coordination des Sans-Papiers (CSP 75) protested the new law holding up banners, Le Parisien reports.

After around an hour of occupying the Basilica, police were called and arrived to remove the protestors and illegal immigrants. The area was cleared by around 5:30 pm but evening mass was cancelled in case the protestors returned.

Footage posted to Twitter by Gaullist politician Nicholas Dupont-Aignan shows police using force to remove the activists and migrants.

Mr. Dupont-Aignan, who supported anti-mass migration Rassemblement National (RN) leader Marine Le Pen for president last year, called the incident a “Scandalous occupation by illegals of the Basilica of Saint-Denis with the shameful complicity of militants and elected representatives of the far left.”

“I call for the immediate expulsion of these clandestine people who, in addition to being outlawed, trample our roots and our history!” he added.

Marine Le Pen also took to Twitter to condemn the incident, writing: “By calling migrantsto desecrate the Basilica of St. Denis, Necropolis of our Kings, ‘la France Insoumise’ and the far-left show that, in their immigrationist madness, they are ready to trample our civilisation and desecrate a place of historical worship.”

La France Insoumise (“Unsubmissive France”) is the party of far-left former presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon and one of the party’s MPs, Eric Coquerel, ho was present at the Basilica during the incident. Mélenchon was noted during last year’s presidential campaign for his hard-left populist platform which included a 90 per cent tax rate on anyone making more than €400,000 a year.

French politician Karim Ouchikh, who converted from Islam to Roman Catholicism, compared the incident to a protest done in Poitiers by the Generation Identitaire (GI) movement which unfurled a banner on the roof of a mosque being built in the city in 2012.

Last year, several GI activists were convicted of inciting racial hatred in relation to the action.

“I’m talking to the prosecutor. You have not hesitated to condemn some identitarian activists for a peaceful presence on the site of the Mosque of Poitiers. Are you going to prosecute the migrants and the leftists who violently desecrated the Basilica of Saint-Denis?” Ouchikh wrote.

In his book, N0-Go Zones: How Sharia Law Is Coming to a Neighborhood Near You, Breitbart London Editor in Chief Raheem Kassam spoke to French firebrand Marion Maréchal-Le Pen about the heavily migrant populated area around the Basilica of Saint-Denis.

Ms Maréchal-Le Pen said she could not walk in the area due to the danger and added: “I am very well known. But if I were a normal citizen and being a young white woman in a skirt, to be sure, I would be harassed, or physically [assaulted].

“Even worse, for a French girl from North Africa, if they refuse the veil, or dress in jeans or anything like that they are in a very very bad situation. It starts with insults like ‘you’re a whore’ and after it can get worse than that.”

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Filme Cristão Bate Hollywood: I Can Only Imagine

É a história do relacionamento entre pai e filho e de uma música.

O filme é baseado na história da música I Can Only Imagine da banda MercyMe, que dizem que é a música cristão mais ouvida de todos os tempos. Conta a história do cantor da banda, Bart Millard, com seu pai, que morreu quando Bart tinha 18 anos e cuja morte inspirou a música. O pai de Bart era muito grosseiro com ele, mas se converteu no fim da vida. A direção é de Andrew Irving e conta com o ator Dennis Quaid, no papel de pai de Bart.

O filme já arrecadou 14 milhões de dólares em 3 dias e está passando em 1.629 salas de cinema nos EUA.

Para se ter uma ideia, o filme que exalta gays, Call me by your Name, precisou de três meses para conseguir a mesma bilheteria.

Tanto o site Life Site News, como o Daily Wire exaltaram o filme.

Vejam o trailler acima.

Aguardemos a chegada no Brasil.

Abaixo vai a belíssima música I Can Only Imagine

Caramba! Vaticano Escondeu Outra Parte da Carta de Bento XVI. Ele Detona um dos Autores.

Ainda sobre aquela carta de Bento XVI, que eu comentei aqui no blog duas vezes, hoje o Vaticano ainda liberou outra parte da carta que havia escondido (!!!!).

Além de esconder a parte em que Bento XVI disse que não tinha lido os livros sobre o Papa Francisco (apesar de elogiá-los), agora sabemos que Bento XVI criticou que a coletânea contenha como um dos autores o Professor Hunermann, que odeia o papado.

Em resumo, continuamos com um Vaticano tentando juntar dois supostos políticos diferentes (Francisco e Bento XVI) que possuem seus próprios seguidores, e um Papa emérito que elogia os livros sem tê-los lidos, mas critica que na coleção de livros faça parte um inimigo seu.

Vaticano está realmente na lama.

Bento XVI parece meio perturbado pela situação que permitiu que isso acontecesse.

E temos um parágrafo de Bento XVI que detona um dos autores da coletânea, que pode sujar toda a coletânea.

Acima, temos o texto original em italiano, vejam a tradução dessa parte para o inglês abaixo, feita pelo The Catholic Herald:

"Only as an aside, I would like to note my surprise at the fact that among the authors is also Professor Hünermann, who during my pontificate had distinguished himself by leading anti-papal initiatives. He played a major part in the release of the “Kölner Erklärung”, which, in relation to the encyclical “Veritatis splendour”, virulently attacked the magisterial authority of the Pope, especially on questions of moral theology. Also the “Europaische Theologengesellschaft”, which he founded, was initially conceived by him as an organization in opposition to the papal magisterium. Later, the ecclesial sentiment of many theologians prevented this orientation, allowing that organization to become a normal instrument of encounter among theologians."

Livro: Como as Cruzadas eram Planejadas: Campanha, Recrutamento, Financiamento...

Lançado há pouco tempo, esse livro acima de Christopher Tyerman, professor de Oxford, parece ser bom para destronar mais uma percepção absurda contra as Cruzadas. O livro responde sobre como eram planejadas as Cruzadas. Hoje em dia, os professores de história parecem dizer que os guerreiros eram um bando sem liderança, e sem objetivos militares, queriam apenas dominar economicamente as terras.

Esqueça qualquer que diz que as Cruzadas eram "imperialista", "opressoras", "capitalistas", "fascistas", "fruto do ódio religioso cristão" etc. Para essas acusações, leia qualquer livro de Jonathan Riley-Smith.

Eu usei muito Jonathan Riley-Smith no meu livro sobre guerra justa, chamado "Teoria e Tradição da Guerra Justa: do Império Romano ao Estado Islâmico".

Se o livro de Tyerman estivesse disponível na época em que eu escrevia meu livro, eu certamente teria comprado o livro dele.

Aqui vai uma parte da descrição do livro de Tyerman feita pelo  Catholic World Report.

Crusading 101 

How to Plan a Crusade: Religious War in the High Middle Ages, by Oxford professor Christopher Tyerman, demolishes the legend that Western crusaders were mere irrational rabble from Dark Age rubble.

It is a mark of our hyper-political and hypocritical age that those who are most ignorant of the crusades should condemn the perceived ignorance of medieval crusaders. Sprinkle in accusations of greed, thuggery, and a moral equivalence with ISIS (see former President Obama’s speech at the National Prayer Breakfast on February 5, 2015) and it pretty much sums up what many people think they know about the crusades. But popular understanding of the crusades lags decades behind scholars. It is as if a generation of people read Steven Runciman’s three-volume A History of  the Crusades (1951-53) a half-century ago and then, along with their progeny, closed their eyes to everything published after.

In How to Plan a Crusade: Religious War in the High Middle Ages, Christopher Tyerman, Professor of the History of the Crusades at the University of Oxford, demolishes the legend that Western crusaders were mere irrational rabble from Dark Age rubble. Tyerman painstakingly documents the gargantuan efforts involved in crusade organization, recruitment, financing and logistics. He makes the irrefutable case that the crusades were based on faith and reason. He comes out swinging in the book’s Introduction saying,

The crusades have frequently been portrayed as ultimate symbols of of the power of credulity…the blind leading the deluded. What follows argues that in almost all respects this image is false.

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How to Plan a Crusade’s structure consists in five parts: Justification, Propaganda, Recruitment, Finance, and Logistics. Each part is divided into chapters covering specific aspects of the larger whole. For example, Logistics includes chapters on coordination, health and safety, supplies, and strategy. If your eyes glaze over with the possibility of reading nearly three hundred pages of this sort of thing don’t despair. Parts of the book are admittedly a slog, reading rather like a medieval mail order catalog of crusading necessities. There is simply too much source material to be combed, collected, and considered. Tyerman also jumps around between countries and centuries, often in the same paragraph—an additional challenge for the reader. But despite these minor drawbacks, Tyerman tells a compelling tale with clarity and concision.

Justification for the crusades was the province of the Church. The writing and teaching of Bernard of Clairvaux, and papal bulls such as Quantum praedecessores, Audita tremendi, and Quia Maior, made the case for military action. Tyerman is exceptional in explaining the distinctions between Urban II’s praelia sancta—a holy war that opened the spiritual treasury of the Church for all participants—and the legitime bella, or just war. This illuminates what participants understood about their undertaking and how contemporary sources could write of crusading as an act of love (a theme explored in greater depth by historian Jonathon Riley-Smith). But getting knights and squires to leave their wives—spousal consent was required for much of the crusading period—and travel halfway across the world, risking death and disease and nearly bankrupting themselves in the process, took some persuasion.

The crusades were preached across Europe. From Pope Urban II’s first call at Clermont in 1095 to the fourteenth century (even after the fall of Acre in 1291), canons and cardinals and monks fanned out to preach the taking of the cross. And while propaganda—as a modern descriptor—is not how medieval audiences understood the preaching of the crusades, it is an apt word for readers to understand this flurry of activity. Though there were other forms of publicity for the crusades, preaching was perhaps the most fitting means of persuasion. As Tyerman observes, “crusade preaching was distinctive.” So much so that by the thirteenth century, lesser known preachers relied on sermon collections of the “stars of the genre.”

Crusade preaching manuals existed, most significantly Humbert of Romans’ erudite effort, De praedicatione s. Crucis contra Saracenos. Here again Tyerman exposes modern perceptions—prejudices really—as entirely unfounded. “One common myth of the Middle Ages,” he argues, “assumes that popular audiences, chiefly the rural peasantry, lived in a perpetual state of murky ignorance of the concerns of high politics. The crusades give the lie to this.”

Princes and paupers heard the call, understood it, and took the cross in great numbers. Recruiting “relied on organization, not emotion.” Ultimately the business of travel to, and fighting in, the Holy Land fell to the wealthy and knightly classes. Nevertheless, the Church opened her spiritual treasury to all. One did not need to wield the sword to obtain the grace. Crusader armies traveled with craftsmen, servants, and cooks. Recruitment often involved public displays and mass audiences and was regularly robed in liturgical ritual.

For all their spiritual and theological foundation, the crusades were still wars of re-conquest (as was the case in Muslim Iberia). Christianity permeated the Middle East for centuries before the arrival of Islam, and the object of crusading was always to return the region—especially Jerusalem—to Christianity. This does not mean crusaders lacked worldly incentives. The “crusade mentality,” Tyerman says, “never excluded profit.” Nor did the existence of other motives negate religious conviction.

That the crusades were first and foremost religious endeavors did not diminish the necessity of practical planning. Practical considerations of cost—as well as any gain—were as integral to medieval war fighting as they are now. Tyerman is superb in detailing all the ways in which the crusades were funded. A complex network of international finance emerges, one in which our modern financial system has roots. “Crusade finance,” Tyerman argues, “contributed to the freeing of the land market, the opening of international credit markets and the creation of novel fiscal techniques.” He also points to surplus moveable wealth as basis of taxation, another means of funding the crusades. He makes the rather depressing case that such assessments constituted the first income taxes.

10 Coisas Interessantes sobre os Cavaleiros Templários

O historiador Dan Jones, especialista na história fascinante dos Cavaleiros Templários, escreveu um artigo bem legal sobre 10 coisas interessantes sobre os Templários para a GQ Magazine. Dan Jones descreve a formação deles, os regulamentos (sem sexo, sem posse de bens, muita oração e jejum), as roupas (e proibições de vestuário), as punições (açoitamento), a perseguição política que sofreram, o santo gral (Jerusalém), o uso dos templários na literatura e o abuso moderno do nome deles.

Dan Jones é autor do livro The Templars, foto abaixo. Não li o livro, não posso avaliar (não faço como Bento XVI que avaliou os livros do Papa Francisco sem lê-los, hehe). Mas o artigo dele sugere que ele escreveu com bastante respeito pelos Templários.

Vejam abaixo o artigo dele sobre 10 coisas interessantes sobre os Templários:

The Knights Templar are famous today for their cameos in The Da Vinci Code and Assassin’s Creed, but in real life they were an army of crusading knights who fought in some of the Middle Age's most bloody battles. Historian Dan Jones, author of a new book about the Templars explains why the truth is even more amazing than the fantasy…

1) The Templars were the original roadside rescue service

The Order Of The Poor Knights Of The Temple Of Solomon (aka The Templars) were founded in Jerusalem in 1119 to protect pilgrims travelling around Christian sites of worship in the years after the armies of the first crusade had seized the holy land from Muslim rule. Think of them as the RAC in chainmail and you’re halfway there. Over the next two centuries they developed into an elite paramilitary organisation with a sideline in banking and financial services: the Navy Seals crossed with Morgan Stanley, if you like.

2) Templar dress-code was pretty basic

The Rule Of The Templars laid out how brothers of the order had to live. In summary? No sex, no personal possessions, no fun – but a lot of praying, fasting, making money and fighting infidels. The Rule was particularly obsessed with fashion. Templar uniforms were black or white robes with a red cross on the chest. Brothers had to be neatly groomed (hair and beard regularly trimmed); they were not allowed to wear gloves or pointed/lace-up shoes since (it claimed) “these abominable things belong to pagans”.

3) Templar discipline was harsh

Templars knights were legendarily tough soldiers, known for their iron discipline. This was enforced with a system of harsh punishments. Minor infractions were punished with floggings. More serious misdemeanors, such as fighting or disobeying orders could result in a brother being forced to eat his meals on the floor with the dogs for up to a year.

4) The Templar's downfall was unlucky… for everyone

By the early 14th century the crusades were failing and the Templars were going out of fashion. A French king, Philip IV, decided to destroy them and the first round-ups of The Templars started in France on Friday 13 October 1307. There are lots of reasons people think Friday 13 is an unlucky date, one of them being the fact that one of the ugliest political persecutions in history began on just such a day more than seven centuries ago.

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5) The Templars suffered with “fake news”

When Philip attacked the order his ministers produced a sexed-up dossier of allegations, accusing Templar brothers of spitting on images of Christ, having secret homoerotic induction ceremonies and worshiping statues. It was all phoney, but the #CrookedTemplars idea took root and by 1312 the Pope had ordered the Templars to be wound up. The order’s leading members, including the last master, Jacques de Molay, were burned to death in 1314.

6) The Templars were legends in their own lifetimes

Popular fascination with The Templars goes back to well before the age of cinema and video games. It began around 1200AD when a German poet called Wolfram von Eschenbach was writing his version of the King Arthur stories, and decided to include some knights called The Templeisen in his story, as guardians of a mysterious object called The Grail.

7) …which didn’t really exist

The Holy Grail was a metaphor for Jerusalem, cooked up by medieval romance writers like Eschenbach, Chrétien de Troyes and Robert de Boron. It was no more real than Spectre in the James Bond films.

8) The Templars inspired Star Wars…

The original Star Wars films were strongly influenced by George Lucas’s interest in the Middle Ages. Apparently, early scripts referred to the Jedi Templars, rather than the Jedi Knights.

9) …and Game Of Thrones

And what about the Night's Watch who guard The Wall in the world’s biggest TV show? George RR Martin borrowed heavily from medieval history in creating the world of Westeros. In the Night's Watch, he depicted an order of all-male warriors in eye-catching uniforms, sworn to chastity and devoted to a life defending the kingdom from a menace on its borders. That’s the Templars all over.

10) Today the Templars are drug barons

Plenty of people have tried to revive or reinvent the Templar movement, from Christian charities and the freemasons, to far-right, Islamophobic hate groups in eastern Europe. For six years the Mexican government has been fighting a drug cartel called Los Cabelleros Templarios (The Knights Templar) who model themselves on the medieval Templars, with their own code of conduct that governs how members should behave and a bracingly medieval approach to discipline and punishment.