Bergoglio betrays India Christians who are persecuted for their Faith by the anti-Christian Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Bergoglio betrays India Christians who are persecuted for their Faith by the anti-Christian Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi

Bergoglio conspires with the enemies of God and the Church.

Francis welcomed two murderers in one morning with only affirmations and no call for repentance.

by Jules Gomes • ChurchMilitant.com • November 2, 2021

Indian Catholics compare meeting to Hitler's greeting Vatican officials

VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Indian Christians are exploding with outrage after the Vatican released photographs of Pope Francis and India's anti-Christian prime minister Narendra Modi clasped in a warm embrace.

India's religious minorities and secular-minded Hindus — who regard Modi as a racist, populist, nationalist and Hindu-supremacist politician — recoiled in horror at the images of Modi and Francis during a papal audience Saturday.

Christians asked if Francis had addressed the persecution of minorities that has peaked under Modi, with Christians and Muslims ending up "harassed, arrested, beaten, raped or dead," a July report by researchers from the London School of Economics (LSE) noted.

Indian Catholics posted memes dovetailing Francis' meeting with Modi with propaganda images released by the Nazi regime showing photographs of Adolf Hitler warmly greeting high-ranking Vatican officials with the caption: "History repeats itself."

Other Christians compared the embrace to the "kiss of Judas," as Hindus responded with mock images of Modi wearing papal robes and holding the pope's crosier — hailing the ultra-right-wing leader as "Modi the pope."

"Francis welcomed two murderers in one morning with only affirmations and no call for repentance," a Catholic priest from South India told Church Militant on condition of anonymity. "Narendra Modi's policies kill Christians and Muslims; Joe Biden policies massacre unborn babies."

Optics in Light of Oppression

Alerting Church Militant to the "Niagara of memes on social media," former president of the 102-year-old All India Catholic Union John Dayal explained how "the responses to [Francis meeting Modi] sharply delineated the fault lines in the Christian community in India."

Dayal, a two-term member of the prime minister's National Integration Council, observed:

The two cardinals in Kerala are jubilant, the remainder of Catholics underwhelmed, the denominational and independent churches phlegmatic, a section of the Muslim population apprehensive and civil society a little annoyed.
Filmmaker Anand Patwardhan quite correctly asked if the pope gave the Indian PM an earful on the custodial death of octogenarian and ailing Fr. Stan Swamy, arrested on fake charges and repeatedly denied bail. Stan belonged to the Society of Jesus, of which Pope Francis is also a member. The Jesuits had lobbied internationally for the release of Fr. Stan.

Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, former president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) claimed the meeting would enhance "human fraternity and caring for the poor because that's what Christianity stands for."

"It would bring in positive efforts in India for a mutual trust and collaboration between people of different religious groups. It would also contribute to the very need for dialogue," the cardinal told The Indian Express.

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But Chennai-based Dr. Joshua Iyadurai, director of the Marina Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Religion, told Church Militant "the hug will not heal the wounds of the persecuted Church in India."

"I am surprised that the pope was silent on human rights violations against religious minorities, the Dalits [untouchables], the marginalized and human rights activists, including Fr. Stan Swamy," Iyadurai said.

"The hug is great optics for the forthcoming Goa election, where Catholics constitute 25% of the population," he added, explaining that Modi's invitation to Francis to visit India "could be with an eye on the next general election."

Modi's invitation to Francis to visit India and the pope's acceptance of this visit comes after the prime minister repeatedly snubbed Indian bishops who asked him to permit the pontiff to visit India.

Earlier, LSE ethnographers found "thoroughly evidenced experiences of exclusion, discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, violence, and injustice," with Indian Christians and Muslims living under "imminent existential threat."

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"Vigilante mob lynchings and attacks, state harassment, attempts to drive Muslims and Christians from their land and their homes, and censorship have not lessened, but are rather metamorphosing in new and disturbing ways," the researchers reported, pointing a finger at "the dominance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the national level."

Francis OK With Hindu Nationalism

Historian Christophe Jaffrelot, in his book Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy, shows how Modi has moved India towards a Hindu nationalist democracy that "equates the majoritarian community with the nation and relegates Muslims and Christians to second-class citizens who are harassed by vigilante groups."

A meme comparing Francis hug to Judas' kiss

Modi became a permanent member and activist in India's extremist far-right paramilitary Hindu organization — the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Jaffrelot writes, explaining how the RSS merges Hinduism with nationalism, viewing India as a sacred land as much as a motherland.

While Francis has repeatedly attacked Western leaders like former U.S. President Donald Trump, Hungary's Viktor Orbán, Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro and Italy's Matteo Salvini as populists and nationalists, he has remained silent on Modi's extreme Hindu populist and nationalist politics.

As chief minister of Gujarat, Modi was accused of initiating and condoning the infamous intercommunal "Godhra riots" that led to 1,044 dead, 223 missing and 2,500 injured.

In 2005, invoking a law passed in 1998 that makes foreign officials responsible for "severe violations of religious freedom" ineligible for visas, the United States Department of State banned Modi in 2005 from traveling to the United States due to his alleged role in the attacks.

In a peer-reviewed study of 35 documents, Dr. Prashant Waikar, senior analyst at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, examines how Modi articulates "Hindutva's conception of a racialized hierarchy."

Modi's Preference: White Elites

"Modi has a racial preference for whom he hugs, which is borne out by the figures from Africa," a study in The Caravan notes.

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Modi has only visited eight of Africa's 54 countries and "Uhuru Kenyatta, the president of Kenya, is the only African leader he has hugged. On his two trips to South America, he did not hug the leaders of Argentina and Brazil."

Images from the Godhra riots Modi was accused of initiating

"He has been photographed meeting the leaders of 71 countries but has only hugged those of 23 countries," the study concludes, observing that Modi tends to limit his hugs to nations' leaders who are either wealthy or white.

Vatican's Subtle Messaging

Reporting on the meeting, Vatican News made no reference to Modi's violently anti-Christian and Islamophobic reign of terror.

The Holy See Press Office issued a terse note stating: "During a brief conversation, the cordial relations between the Holy See and India were discussed."

A Vatican insider told Church Militant "Francis' meetings with world leaders are tightly choreographed, and no picture is unintentionally or accidentally released."

"If the pope did not want the world to see him hugging Modi, the images would not have been published," he added.

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Prayer to St. Michael

Please protect us, St. Michael the Archangel, against violence, murder, and robbery. In your goodness preserve us today from all the malice of sinful and wicked persons. In your sleepless vigilance watch over the safety and welfare of our homes, and keep guard over our possessions. Ever hold in your special care, most triumphant St. Michael, the forces of public order against the crimes of evil people, and defend all honest citizens in time of peril. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.

Novena Prayer to St. Michael

(Pray for nine consecutive days)
Saint Michael the Archangel, loyal champion of God and His Catholic people, I turn to thee with confidence and seek thy powerful intercession. For the love of God, Who hast made thee so glorious in grace and power, and for the love of the Mother of Jesus, the Queen of the Angels, be pleased to hear my prayer.
Thou knowest the value of my soul in the eyes of God. May no stain of evil ever disfigure its beauty. Help me to conquer the evil spirit who tempts me. I desire to imitate thy loyalty to God and Holy Mother Church and thy great love for God and men. And since thou art God’s messenger for the care of His people, I entrust to thee this special request: (here mention your request).
Saint Michael, since thou art, by the will of the Creator, the powerful intercessor of Christians, I have great confidence in thy prayers. I earnestly trust that if it is God’s holy will, my petition will be granted.
Pray for me, Saint Michael, and also for those I love. Protect us in all dangers of body and soul. Help us in our daily needs. Through thy powerful intercession, may we live a holy life, die a happy death and reach Heaven where we may praise and love God with thee forever. Amen.
Our Father. Hail Mary. Glory Be.
St. Michael, Guardian of souls, Vanquisher of rebel spirits, Pray for us.

St John Chrysostom

Our Lord having reproached the Jews with blindness, they might have said, We are not blind, but we avoid you as a deceiver. Our Lord therefore gives the marks which distinguish a robber and deceiver from a true shepherd. First come those of the deceiver and robber: Verily, verily, I say to you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. There is an allusion here to Antichrist, and to certain false Christs who had been, and were to be. The Scriptures He calls the door. They admit us to the knowledge of God, they protect the sheep, they shut out the wolves, they bar the entrance to heretics. He that uses not the Scriptures, but climbs up some other way, i.e. some self-chosen, some unlawful way, is a thief. Climbs up, He says, not, enters, as if it were a thief getting over a wall, and running all risks. Some other way, may refer too to the commandments and traditions of men which the Scribes taught, to the neglect of the Law. When our Lord further on calls Himself the Door, we need not be surprised. According to the office which He bears, He is in one place the Shepherd, in another the Sheep. In that He introduces us to the Father, He is the Door, in that He takes care of us, He is the Shepherd. (Catena Aurea)

LIBERTAS ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON THE NATURE OF HUMAN LIBERTY
35. And as to tolerance, it is surprising how far removed from the equity and prudence of the Church are those who profess what is called liberalism. For, in allowing that boundless license of which We have spoken, they exceed all limits, and end at last by making no apparent distinction between truth and error, honesty and dishonesty. And because the Church, the pillar and ground of truth, and the unerring teacher of morals, is forced utterly to reprobate and condemn tolerance of such an abandoned and criminal character, they calumniate her as being wanting in patience and gentleness, and thus fail to see that, in so doing, they impute to her as a fault what is in reality a matter for commendation. But, in spite of all this show of tolerance, it very often happens that, while they profess themselves ready to lavish liberty on all in the greatest profusion, they are utterly intolerant toward the Catholic Church, by refusing to allow her the liberty of being herself free.

“If you want to be certain of being in the number of the Elect, strive to be one of the few, not one of the many. And if you would be quite sure of your salvation, strive to be among the fewest of the few; that is to say, do not follow the great majority of mankind, but follow those who enter upon the narrow way, who renounce the world, who give themselves to prayer, and who never relax their efforts by day or night, so that they may attain everlasting blessedness.” -Saint Anselm, Father and Doctor of the Church

PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPH, THE PROTECTOR OF CHRISTIAN FAMILIES Great Saint Joseph, who wast chosen of God to be the head of the holiest and most august of families, deign to cast thy eyes upon us, and take us this day under thy special protection. Holy Patriarch, model of the holiest faith, and of the most perfect virtues, obtain for all the members of this family grace to withstand the dangers and seductions of the world, and to remain stedfastly attached to the LORD. Obtain for us that, always united by the bonds of the most tender charity, and encouraging one another mutually in good works, we may taste under thy auspices the sweetness of that peace which JESUS has promised to His true disciples. But above all, when our last hour shall come, obtain for us that we may find grace before the Sovereign Judge, so that, reunited in heaven at the foot of Thy Throne, we may celebrate everlastingly the glory of GOD and thy praise. Amen.

St. Vincent Ferrer -- Sermon on the Last Judgment: In the same way, in the time of Antichrist, the Sun of justice will be obscured by the interposition of temporal goods and the wealth which Antichrist will bestow on the world, inasmuch as the brightness of faith in Jesus Christ and the glow of good lives will no longer shine among Christians. For, lest they should lose their dominion, temporal rulers, kings and princes will range themselves on the side of Antichrist. In like manner, prelates for fear of losing their dignities, and religious and priests to gain honors and riches, will forsake the Faith of Christ and adhere to Antichrist.

Neither living nor lifeless faith remains in a heretic who disbelieves one article of faith. The reason of this is that the species of every habit depends on the formal aspect of the object, without which the species of the habit cannot remain. Now the formal object of faith is the First Truth, as manifested in Holy Writ and the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth. Consequently whoever does not adhere, as to an infallible and Divine rule, to the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth manifested in Holy Writ, has not the habit of faith, but holds that which is of faith otherwise than by faith. Even so, it is evident that a man whose mind holds a conclusion without knowing how it is proved, has not scientific knowledge, but merely an opinion about it. Now it is manifest that he who adheres to the teaching of the Church, as to an infallible rule, assents to whatever the Church teaches; otherwise, if, of the things taught by the Church, he holds what he chooses to hold, and rejects what he chooses to reject, he no longer adheres to the teaching of the Church as to an infallible rule, but to his own will. Hence it is evident that a heretic who obstinately disbelieves one article of faith, is not prepared to follow the teaching of the Church in all things; but if he is not obstinate, he is no longer in heresy but only in error. Therefore it is clear that such a heretic with regard to one article has no faith in the other articles, but only a kind of opinion in accordance with his own will. (Saint Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 5, a. 3)

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