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"They call her Santa Muerte (‘Holy Death’ or ‘Saint Death’), but she’s no saint. Literally. The skeletal female figure has a growing devotion in Mexico, Central America, and some places in the United States, but don’t be fooled by the Mary-like veil or the holy-sounding name. She’s not a recognized saint by the Roman Catholic Church. In fact, in 2013, a Vatican official condemned devotion to her, equating it to “the celebration of devastation and of hell.” “It’s not every day that a folk saint is actually condemned at the highest levels of the Vatican,” Andrew Chesnut, a Santa Muerte expert who has been studying the devotion for more than eight years, told CNA. Chesnut is the Bishop Walter F. Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of "Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint," the only English academic book to date on the subject. Despite her condemnation from on high, Santa Muerte remains increasingly popular among cr...

I 'm a Catholic.  (Not a 'Roman' Catholic though, as i do not recognise white and western hegemony over the idea of 'God'.)  So what do i think of this observance by Catholics, or at least a good number of them (i hope)? Well yes.  It is important, especially when interned within capitalist, hedonistic, consumeristic socioeconomic conditions that constantly focuses one on self-interest at the expense of another.  So it is important that one partakes in this weekly 'spiritual spa-like detoxification and exfoliation'.  It's not that fish does wonders for the soul.  But abstinence, within a satanic secular climate where indulgence and reaction is promoted, through the consumption of fish, might help the scales fall from one's eyes. But, of course, it doesn't work if you're going to douse your fishy with a 1000 and half Island archipelago of a dressing, complemented by a nice bottle of wine from Tescos, and a box and a half of After-8s.  There ha...

The degeneration of the church as witnessed in the ongoing sexual abuse discoveries within the Catholic church is in significant part, a consequence of the overarching sexual revolution in the west;  the growth of eurofeminism's assertion that women aren't free till they're free to be as debauched as the worse amongst men;  the Consumerist Revolution in the west finally leading to Sexual Consumerism and the LGBTQ movement; and the juvenilisation of the market with the young serving as the main force determining media and cultural development, and it serving to enhance the tendency toward immediate gratification and via shallow and debased means. These phenomena shows an all round acceptance, celebration, and promotion of sexual promiscuity and depravity in western society. In fact, the LGBTQ movement actually expects the Church to serve as a contraceptive to protect them from feelings of moral conflict. However, it has reached a point that they demand it, not due to moral...

 I was born out of dream into a nightmare with a scream Dropped midstream in the flow of the bloodstream looking for the source I paddled upstream in the distance I could see the bleeding knife gleam That’s the spirit of Modern times theme That’s what lies beneath all that bling gleam People feed off it Like its bloody whipped cream They take it to bed like it’s a goddamn wet dream That’s the soul of the American dream but It ain’t my thing I’m another colour scheme My flag ain’t star spangled I strike for the red team U can’t tear me apart I’m stitched with no seam I’m your conscience 24/7 livestream I don’t give a damn About the right wing mainstream If you get in my way It’s best you veered Or you’re gonna find yourself Skinned, singed and seared I ain’t the herd, sheared Puppeteered careered Skin through bone Factor eX ain’t veneered ** stuff society I’m gonna form my own crew I ain’t falling for all that corporate voodoo Scheme scam Uncle Sam You’re screwed from the pram They’...

Stating that the absence of a rational explanation for something is proof that it isn't true, is like determining that the ocean is a metre deep because my ruler has a maximum of a 100 centimetres. The tools of scientific analysis by the west can only measure that part of reality that their particular historical experience has given them the sense to discern. Just because it works some of the time, doesn't mean it works all of the time, and especially when their particular historical experience has itself curtailed their understanding of 'all'. All tools are invented by a particular History, nourished by all the experiences it contains, and impoverished by all that it doesn't.  The 'reality' of the partial historical development of the west, determines the degree to which their tools of discerning reality is impartial. All tools are invented by a particular History, nourished by all the experiences it contains, and impoverished by all that it doesn't. T...

These attacks on the Mosques in New Zealand are just a more extreme reaction by vigilantes, but whose approach toward Muslims is constantly witnessed in comments on fb, the governments of the west and their global supporters terming retaliatory attacks against them as 'terrorism'. U nderlying it all is a globalised white supremacist attitude - shared even by non-whites across the globe - that is founded on the belief that the 'superior' west has a right to dispose of the lives of others as and when it is to their interests, , and all resistance from 'inferior' peoples are deemed to be 'terrorism'. This serves as the foundation upon which more extreme reactions are founded, i.e. those who conducted these attacks on the mosques. I have found, over a couple of decades of observaton, study, and personal experience, that the Chinese in s.e.asia (excluding the chinese reared in the west) are no different in their approach toward humanity as well as witnessed...

"According to Vatican officials, there are no current plans to allow a change in the bread that is used as matter for the Eucharist. Controversy was afoot after 80-year-old Father Francisco Taborda, S.J., a Brazilian theologian, said in February while attending a seminar in Rome that a watershed debate regarding the Eucharist was a probable topic at the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazonian region in October. Fr. Taborda suggested that wheaten bread could be substituted with yuca, a root common in Latin America in use as a staple food. Also known as manioc or cassava, it is the source of tapioca. The Catholic Church regards wheaten bread and wine as the only suitable matter to be used as species for confecting the Eucharist, the central mystery of the Catholic faith. Fr. Taborda told Crux last month that environmental conditions in the hot and damp climate of the Amazon make communion wafers unsuitably moist. Suggesting a departure from the norm inherited from the Gospel, the Jes...

Britain has decided to revoke British, Shamima Begum's citizenship because she joined ISIS. 1. The UK Home Office is arguing that Shamima has another (Bangladeshi) citizenship (which the family has denied), so they are still observing International Law by depriving her of her British citizenship as that would still enable her to return to her other alleged nationality.  Whether this is true or not is irrelevant.  The first point - that a citizen is subject to the laws of the state is paramount.  To refuse to subject a person to their laws and yet revoke her citizenship citizenship is a contradiction where one is being told simultaneously that one is not eligible to be punished under the law, but is to be punished by having their citizenship revoked.  2. When a person is granted citizenship, they are given equality with ALL citizens, be they descendents of many generations of 'locals' or not.  To treat Shamima differently is to cast ALL naturalised citizens as 2n...

LGBTQ-promotion is constantly derided as 'leftist' nonsense in the west.  Firstly, let me make this clear.  I'm alright with people being lgbtq, but against its normalisation and promotion.  We can have all our fetishes, but demanding that it be represented in the media as normal to the point of promoting it, that's where I draw the line.  We need to retain our right to question our impulses, not normalise them just because we've turned 18.  Promoting the LGBTQ's agenda is the promotion of 'don't think, just do it'.  Well mate, regarding the idea of the 'Left' being pro-LGBTQ, I'm getting sick and tired of being the only one i've encountered with some objective and adult commonsense. A lright, let me make this clear and simple. Pay attention. Oi! I said pay attention. 1. It is the Right that produced this homosexual/transgender/lgbtqxyz epidemic. Why? Because within the capitalist system, all religion, spirituality, meaningful purs...

"One of the main contributions of the Second Vatican Council was precisely seeking a way to overcome this divorce between theology and pastoral care, between faith and life. I dare say that the Council has revolutionized to some extent the status of theology – the believer’s way of doing and thinking. The theologian who is satisfied with his complete and conclusive thought is mediocre. The good theologian and philosopher has an open, that is, an incomplete, thought, always open to the maius [greaterness] of God and of the truth, always in development,” Francis wrote in Veritatis Gaudium." - cna   T his, is only part of the story. Given that whatever the Vatican thinks comes from their experience within western history, it will endow them with particular ways of looking at things and discerning reality. We can learn from that certainly. However, there is more parts to the story that will remain untold till the rest of us appreciate Christianity with our cultural and historical...