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2024-08-18 at 5:29 PM UTC in What are you thinking about....
Originally posted by WellHung The mafia is gay. mafiosos are gay. It's a pathetic brainwashing and only a fool would believe these 'Made Men'. It's discussed too much… it's portrayed too much in movies… and the people who participate in it have no value for their own health and livelihood. The Faggots kiss each other on the cheek …pretend to be family….. and then snitch on each other or shoot each other once they become the least bit of a liability. So fucking lame & transparent.
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS
TO MEMBERS OF THE ITALIAN ANTIMAFIA PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSION
Clementine Hall
Thursday, 21 September 2017
Honourable Deputies and Senators
I am glad to welcome you and I thank the president of the Commission, the Right Honourable Ms. Bindi, for her kind words.
Firstly, I would like to turn my thoughts to all those people who in Italy have paid for their fight against the mafia groups with their lives. I remember, in particular, three magistrates: the Servant of God Rosario Livatino, killed on 21 September 1990; Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, killed twenty five years ago along with their security escorts.
As I prepared for this meeting, several Gospel scenes came to mind, in which we would have no difficulty in recognising the signs of that moral crisis that people and institutions are going through today. The truth of Jesus’ words still remains valid today: “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person” (Mk 7: 20-23).
The starting point is always the heart of man, his relations and his attachments. We will never be able to be sufficiently vigilant over this abyss, where the person is exposed to the temptations of opportunism, deceit and fraud, made more dangerous by the refusal to question it. When one closes oneself in self-sufficiency it is easy to arrive at self-satisfaction and the claim to be a law to oneself. It is also the sign of deviant politics, twisted to serve partisan interests and murky agreements. Then one reaches the point of suffocating appeals to the conscience, of normalising evil, of confusing truth with lies and exploiting the role of public responsibility one holds.
Authentic politics, which we recognise as an eminent form of charity, works instead by ensuring a future of hope and promoting the dignity of every person. Precisely for this reason the fight against the mafia is felt to be a priority, inasmuch as it steals the common good, removing hope and dignity from the people.
For this purpose, it becomes decisive to oppose oneself in every way to the grave problem of corruption which, with disdain for the general interest, represents a fertile group in which the mafias engage and develop. Corruption always finds a way to justify itself, presenting itself as the “normal” condition, the solution for those who are “cunning”, a feasible way of reaching one’s objectives. It has as contagious and parasitical nature, since it is not nurtured by the good it produces but by what it subtracts and steals. It is a poisonous root that distorts healthy competition and deters investment. In the end, corruption is a habitusbuilt on the idolatry of money and the commercialisation of human dignity, which is why it must be combated with measures no less incisive than those envisaged in the fight against the mafias.
Fighting against the mafias means not only repressing. It also means reclaiming, transforming, and building, and this involves commitment at two levels. The first is political, through greater social justice, as the mafias find it easy to offer themselves as an alternative system in territories where rights and opportunities are missing: work, housing, education and healthcare.
The second level of engagement is economic, through the correction or cancellation of those mechanisms that generate inequality and poverty everywhere. Today we can no longer talk about combating the mafias without raising the enormous problem of a financial system that is now sovereign over democratic rules, as a result of which criminal organisations invest and multiply the already enormous profits deriving from their activities: drugs, weapons, human trafficking, toxic waste disposal, the influencing of contracts for major works, gambling and rackets.
This dual level, political and economic, presuppose another, no less essential, which is the construction of a new civil conscience, and this alone is able to lead to true liberation from the mafias. It is truly necessary to educate, and to educate oneself, in constant vigilance over oneself and the context in which one lives, developing a more nuanced perception of the phenomena of corruption and working towards a new way of being citizens, including care and responsibility for others and for the common good.
Italy must be proud of having put legislation into effect against the mafia, involving the state and citizens, administrations and associations, the lay sphere and the Catholic and religious worlds, in a broad sense. The assets confiscated from the mafias and recovered for social use represent, in this respect, authentic workshops for life. In these contexts young people study, learn knowledge and responsibilities, and find work and fulfilment. In these also the elderly, poor and disadvantaged may find welcome, service and dignity.
Finally, it must not be forgotten that the fight against the mafias is bound with the protection and valorisation of witnesses of justice, people who expose themselves to grave risk by choosing to report the violence of those against whom they testify. A way must be found to enable an upstanding person, who nonetheless belongs to mafia families or contexts, to exit without being subject to revenge and retaliation. There are many women, especially mothers, who seek to do so, refusing criminal logic and with the desire to ensure a different future for their children. It is necessary to help them, certainly respecting the ways of justice, but also their dignity as people who choose good and life.
Dear brothers and sisters, urging you to continue with dedication and a sense of duty the task entrusted to you for the good of all, I invoke God’s blessing upon you. May you be comforted by the certainty of being accompanied by He Who is rich in mercy; and may the awareness that He does not tolerate violence and abuse make you tireless workers of justice. Thank you.
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS
TO PARTICIPANTS IN THE MEETING ORGANIZED BY THE
PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF MARY ON THE OCCASION OF THE
30th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE
ANTI-MAFIA INVESTIGATIVE DIRECTORATE (D.I.A.)
Clementine Hall
Wednesday, 23 June 2022
Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!
I am pleased to meet you today and to share, along with all those who form part of the Institutions you represent and your families, the thirtieth anniversary of your work in the service of the people. I thank the president of the Pontifical Academy of Mary for his words. Fraternal co-existence and social friendship are possible where there are “homes” that put into practice the “pact between generations”, conserving in a synodal way the “healthy roots” of those who believed and believe in the beauty of being together which is developed through dialogue, in kindness and in support of justice for all. Thanks to these “homes”, it is possible to build, like one big family open to the common good, able to spread a culture of legality, respect and safety of people and also of the environment.
You are all actively engaged in the building of these “homes”: they act as mild and strong antibodies against vested interests, corruption, greed, and violence, which are the DNA of mafia and criminal organizations. Mafias win when fear takes hold of life, which is why they take over mind and heart, stripping people of their dignity and freedom from within. You who are here are working to ensure that fear cannot win: you are therefore a support for change, a glimmer of light in the midst of darkness, a testimony to freedom. I encourage you to continue on this path: be strong and bring hope, especially among the weakest.
When security and legality are lacking, the first to be harmed are indeed the most fragile, and all those who in various ways can consider themselves the “last”. All these are the modern slaves on which mafia economies are built; they are the rejected that they need to pollute social life and the environment itself. Therefore, I urge you to stand with these people, victims of oppression, seeking to prevent and combat crime. It is also important to resist mafia cultural colonialism, through research, study and educational activities, aimed at demonstrating that civil, social and environmental progress stems not from corruption and privilege, but rather from justice, freedom, honesty and solidarity. In addition, mafia thinking enters like cultural colonization, to the point that becoming mafioso is part of the culture, as if it were the path one must take. No! This will not do. This is a road to slavery. Your work does much to avoid this: thank you!
Your work, delicate and risky, deserves to be appreciated and supported. For my part, I encourage you to continue with enthusiasm, despite the presence in the social – and also ecclesial – fabric of some grey areas where it is difficult to perceive a clear separation from old ways of acting, erroneous and even immoral. It is necessary for everyone, at every level, to embark decisively on the path of justice and honesty. And where there is connivance and opacity, the causes must be studied, leaving the right space to a healthy “shame”, without which change is not possible, and mutual collaboration for the common good remains a chimera.
Dear brothers and sisters, I thank you, therefore, for what you are and what you do. Do not tire of standing beside the people with tenderness and compassion; always be promotors of this love for the people, for their life and future, which represents the synthesis of your very ideals, knowing that this love is capable of generating new relationships and giving life to a more just order, through “homes” and “families” enlivened by the leaven of equality, justice and fraternity.
I entrust you to the maternal protection of Mary, Mother of Jesus, a woman of faith and hope. May she guide you in this meaningful mission, so you may bear witness with joy to the Gospel of life. I accompany you all with my prayer and blessing, which I heartily invoke on you and your families, and I ask you to pray for me. Thank you.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
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2024-08-16 at 11:04 PM UTC in Make it so when Warcry or Wariat types "teen" he gets zapped.
Originally posted by Bradley The last time I tried to be Wariat's friend I was soooo proud of him. He met a 19 year old girl who was visiting friends in Lodz, she was super attractive, and they drank some beer together, exchanged numbers and she wanted tos ee him again (THIS IS VERY RARE FOR WARIAT) and wanted to get Pizza. So wariat's like
"Well is this like a date do I have to pay for you?" being a real cheap loser and I Don't remember what happened but I think he decided to bankroll the 8$ cost of pizza and beer and hang out, they made out a couple times, danced on a dance floor and had a great time together.
I said so when are you gonna hang out with her again, and this is when I realized we coudln't be friends.
"Im not bro, she didn't even have sex with me or eat my ass. She lives 20 minutes away. I dont want to spend money and not even get any play. Plus she's too old for me bro, im not gonna see her again."
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I said bro don't talk to me you're a fucking loser and a creep. Gave up hope entirely on him that day. Dude's turning 50 in 3 months and this 19 year old high school girl is too old for him. What a child molestor and he's too cheap to spend 10$ on a date unless they like guarantee he will get sexual pleasure after each encounter.
if a girl doesn't lick my ass after 1 pizza date i'm not calling back eitherThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
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2024-08-16 at 7:39 PM UTC in Just curiousI imagine most European girls dress extremely fancy but the truth is western culture has destroyed Europe more than Islam ever willThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-08-16 at 7:22 PM UTC in Being afraid of commitementI agree and the reason is because you are all married to the system and believe the government should exist. By accepting this system you are giving up your humanity and rights given by God and under this system nobody will ever find happiness
Youth incels and femcels and MRA's and migtows and feminists all have it wrong and are brainwashed by the gender wars
This is why egrills and thirsty gooning culture is taking over.
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2024-08-16 at 3:09 PM UTC in The best part about the news is discovering all the bad things that happen to people out there...Is it really objectively bad things that are happening though? or have you just adopted and subscribed to a specific world view that allows you to take in this information and perceive it through schadenfreude? Is the whole not greater than the sum of it's parts? Isn't all of this stuff happening inevitable anyways?
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2024-08-15 at 1:36 PM UTC in Got a DivorceI think you are all misunderstanding the true meaning of the sacrament of marriage which has been degraded by secular immoral society
hen the Catholic Church teaches that marriage between two baptized persons is a sacrament, it is saying that the couple’s relationship expresses in a unique way the unbreakable bond of love between Christ and his people. Like the other six sacraments of the Church, marriage is a sign or symbol which reveals the Lord Jesus and through which his divine life and love are communicated. All seven sacraments were instituted by Christ and were entrusted to the Church to be celebrated in faith within and for the community of believers. The rituals and prayers by which a sacrament is celebrated serve to express visibly what God is doing invisibly.
In a sacramental marriage, God’s love becomes present to the spouses in their total union and also flows through them to their family and community. By their permanent, faithful and exclusive giving to each other, symbolized in sexual intercourse, the couple reveals something of God’s unconditional love. The sacrament of Christian marriage involves their entire life as they journey together through the ups and downs of marriage and become more able to give to and receive from each other. Their life becomes sacramental to the extent that the couple cooperates with God’s action in their life and sees themselves as living “in Christ” and Christ living and acting in their relationship, attitudes and actions.
Catholic teaching holds that sacraments bring grace to those who receive them with the proper disposition. Grace is a way of describing how God shares the divine life with us and gives us the help we need to live as followers of Christ. In marriage, the grace of this sacrament brings to the spouses the particular help they need to be faithful and to be good parents. It also helps a couple to serve others beyond their immediate family and to show the community that a loving and lasting marriage is both desirable and possible.
Pope Paul VI wrote: “By it [the Sacrament of Matrimony] husband and wife are strengthened and…consecrated for the faithful accomplishment of their proper duties, for the carrying out of their proper vocation even to perfection, and the Christian witness which is proper to them before the whole world” (Humanae Vitae, n. 25).To Christian Couples
25. And now We turn in a special way to Our own sons and daughters, to those most of all whom God calls to serve Him in the state of marriage. While the Church does indeed hand on to her children the inviolable conditions laid down by God's law, she is also the herald of salvation and through the sacraments she flings wide open the channels of grace through which man is made a new creature responding in charity and true freedom to the design of his Creator and Savior, experiencing too the sweetness of the yoke of Christ. (31)
In humble obedience then to her voice, let Christian husbands and wives be mindful of their vocation to the Christian life, a vocation which, deriving from their Baptism, has been confirmed anew and made more explicit by the Sacrament of Matrimony. For by this sacrament they are strengthened and, one might almost say, consecrated to the faithful fulfillment of their duties. Thus will they realize to the full their calling and bear witness as becomes them, to Christ before the world. (32) For the Lord has entrusted to them the task of making visible to men and women the holiness and joy of the law which united inseparably their love for one another and the cooperation they give to God's love, God who is the Author of human life.
We have no wish at all to pass over in silence the difficulties, at times very great, which beset the lives of Christian married couples. For them, as indeed for every one of us, "the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life." (33) Nevertheless it is precisely the hope of that life which, like a brightly burning torch, lights up their journey, as, strong in spirit, they strive to live "sober, upright and godly lives in this world," (34) knowing for sure that "the form of this world is passing away." (35)
Recourse to God
For this reason husbands and wives should take up the burden appointed to them, willingly, in the strength of faith and of that hope which "does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us ~}36 Then let them implore the help of God with unremitting prayer and, most of all, let them draw grace and charity from that unfailing fount which is the Eucharist. If, however, sin still exercises its hold over them, they are not to lose heart. Rather must they, humble and persevering, have recourse to the mercy of God, abundantly bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance. In this way, for sure, they will be able to reach that perfection of married life which the Apostle sets out in these words: "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the Church. . . Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the Church. . . This is a great mystery, and I mean in reference to Christ and the Church; however, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband." (37)The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
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2024-08-14 at 3:21 PM UTC in You’re all so insufferable
Originally posted by Hikikomori-Fujoshi If you were on TOTSE or 4chan after the year 2005, congrats, you're cancer.
The internet officially died ib 2008, but the decline began sooner than that.
By the time you turbonewfags discovered these sites the original culture had already dwindled away, leaving behind an empty husk of what they once were.
I don't even know why I'm here tolerating you clueless canceroids.
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"Here lies OP, Pedophile"The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
