¡Qué buenos videos los que ha colocado Ululatus sobre los jesuitas!

Ver los videos acá y aquí los de youtube sobre los jesuitas. Yo por ahora no he aprendido a pegarlos acá, si me pueden decir cómo hacerlo mil gracias. En todo caso, estamps agradecidos Ululatus.

A ver, acá probamos pegarlo...

Hace 8 años: una herejía católica termina en una masacre

Acá les dejo el artículo de wikipedia.

The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God was a breakaway sect from the Roman Catholic Church founded by Credonia Mwerinde and Joseph Kibweteere in Uganda. It formed in the late 1980s after Mwerinde, a brewer of banana beer, and Kibweteere, a politician, claimed that they had visions of the Virgin Mary. The five primary leaders were Joseph Kibweteere, Joseph Kasapurari, John Kamagara, Dominic Kataribabo, and Credonia Mwerinde. In early 2000, followers of the sect perished in a devastating fire, and a series of poisonings and killings, that were either a cult suicide, or an orchestrated mass murder by sect leaders after their predictions of the apocalypse failed to pass.[1] In their coverage of that event, BBC News and the New York Times referred to the Movement as a Doomsday cult.[2][3]

Beliefs
The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God's goals were to obey the Ten Commandments and preach the word of Jesus Christ. They taught that to avoid damnation in the apocalypse, one had to strictly follow the Commandments. The emphasis on the Commandments was so strong that the group discouraged talking, for fear of breaking the Eighth Commandment, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor," and on some days communication was only conducted in sign language. Fasts were conducted regularly, and only one meal was eaten on Fridays and Mondays. Sex was forbidden, as was soap.[4]
Movement leaders declared that the apocalypse would occur in the year 2000. The group had a strong emphasis on an apocalyptic end time, highlighted by their booklet A Timely Message from Heaven: The End of the Present Time.[5] New members were required to study it and be trained in its text, reading it as many as six times. They also taught that the Virgin Mary had a special role in the end, and that she also communicated with their leadership. They held themselves akin to Noah's Ark, a ship of righteousness in a sea of depravity.[2]

The Movement developed a hierarchy of visionaries, topped by Mwerinde. Behind them were former priests who served as theologians and explained their messages. Although the group had split from the Catholic Church, had Catholic icons placed prominently and defrocked priests and nuns in its leadership, ties to the Church were only tenuous.[2]

Background
The recent past of Uganda has been marked with political and social turmoil. The rule of Idi Amin, the AIDS pandemic, and the Ugandan Bush War wreaked havoc across the country.[6][2] People became pessimistic and fatalistic, and the established Roman Catholic Church was backsliding, enveloped in scandals and the faithful were becoming dissatisfied.[2] In this void, many post-Catholic groups formed in the late eighties as a confused and traumatized populace turned to charismatic self-declared messiahs who renounced the authority of the government and the Church.[6] An example of this phenomenon was the Christian resistance group, the Holy Spirit Movement, which fought against the government of Yoweri Museveni.[2] A former member of the sect, Paul Ikazire, would explain his motivation to join the Movement, "We joined the movement as a protest against the Catholic Church. We had good intentions. The church was backsliding, the priests were covered in scandals and the AIDS scourge was taking its toll on the faithful. The world seemed poised to end."[4]

History

Founding
The earliest origins of the movement have been traced back to Credonia Mwerinde's father Paulo Kashaku. In 1960 he claimed to have had a vision of his deceased daughter Evangelista, who told him that he would have visions of heaven. This prediction passed in 1988, when he saw Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph. His daughter Credonia also had similar visions and was involved in a Virgin Cult.[7] In 1989 Kashaku instructed her to spread the message across Uganda on the orders of the Virgin Mary. In that year she would meet Joseph Kibweteere and tell him of their communications.

Joseph Kibweteere claimed to have had a vision of the Virgin Mary in 1984. Credonia Mwerinde also had a similar vision in a cavern near Kibweteere's house in Rwashamaire, Uganda.[7] In 1989 the two met and formed the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, with the mission to spread the Virgin's message about the apocalypse. The group grew rapidly and also attracted several defrocked Catholic priests and nuns who worked as theologians, rationalizing messages from the leadership. Two of the arrivals were the excommunicated priests Paul Ikazire and Dominic Kataribabo.[4]

Middle years
The sect grew in importance with the arrival of Dominic Kataribabo, a respected and popular priest with a PhD from the United States. In order to obtain more funds for the increasing number of disciples, Kibweteere sold his three other properties, car and milling machines.[7] By the late 1990s, the church had grown into a thriving community, set in pineapple and banana plantations. Members lived communally on land bought by pooling the profits from their property, which they sold when they joined the Movement. Mwerinde claimed to receive messages from the Virgin Mary through a hidden telephone system that communicated through everyday objects.[7] In western Uganda they built houses for recruitment, indoctrination and worship, and a primary school. The year 2000 was settled on as the final, compelling date for the sect's predictions of the apocalypse.

However this time was not uneventful, in 1992 the group was ordered out of Rwashamaire by village elders, and moved to Kanungu District, where Mwerinde's father offered an extensive property for their use.[7] In 1994, Paul Ikazire left the sect, taking with him approximately seventy members.[4] By 1997, according to a filing with the government, the Movement's membership was listed at nearly 5,000 people. In 1998, the Ugandan press reported that the Movement had been shut down for insanitary conditions, use of child labor, and possibly kidnapping children, but the sect was allowed to reopen by the government.[8]

As the new millennium approached preparations for the end mounted. In 1999, the state owned New Vision newspaper ran an interview with a teenage member. He said, "The world ends next year. There is no time to waste. Some of our leaders talk directly to god. Any minute from now, when the end comes, every believer who will be at an as yet undisclosed spot will be saved."[8]

Apocalypse
With the new year looming, activity by Movement members became frenzied, their leaders urged them to confess their sins in preparation for the end. Clothes and cattle were sold cheaply, past members were re-recruited, and all work in the fields ceased. January 1, 2000 passed without the advent of the apocalypse, and the Movement began to unravel. Questions were asked of Mwerinde and Kibweteere,[1] and payments to the Church decreased dramatically. Ugandan police believe that some members, who were required to sell their possessions and turn over the money to the Movement, rebelled and demanded the return of their money.[4] It is believed that events that followed were orchestrated by sect leaders in response to the crisis in the ranks.[9]
Another date was immediately predicted, March 17 was the new end of the world, a doomsday that would come "with ceremony, and finality" according to the New York Times. The Movement held a huge party at Kanungu, and roasted three bulls and drank 70 crates of soft drinks.[4] Another party was planned for the eighteenth, which officials believe sect leaders had announced in order to mislead authorities as to their plans.[10] Several days before Movement leader Dominic Kataribabo was seen buying 50 liters of sulfuric acid, which may have fueled the fire. On the seventeenth, group members arrived at their church in Kanangu to pray and sing, minutes later nearby villagers heard an explosion, and the building was gutted in an intense fire that killed all 530 in attendance, including dozens of children. The windows and doors of the building had been boarded up.[1] The five principal cult leaders, Joseph Kibweteere, Joseph Kasapurari, John Kamagara, Dominic Kataribabo, and Credonia Mwerinde, were assumed to have died in the fire.[3] The fire alerted the Ugandan authorities to what had been occurring in the Movement.
Four days after the church fire police investigated Movement properties and discovered hundreds of bodies at sites across southern Uganda.[9] 6 bodies were discovered sealed in the latrine of the Kanungu compound, as well as 153 bodies at a compound in Buhunage, 155 bodies at Dominic Kataribabo's estate at Rugazi, where they had been poisoned and stabbed, and another 81 bodies at lay leader Joseph Nymurinda's farm.[10] Forensics investigations indicated that they had been murdered weeks before the church inferno.

Aftermath
Other than the individuals that died in the fire, medical examiners determined that the majority of dead sect members had been poisoned. Early reports had suggested that they had been strangled based on the presence of twisted banana fibers around their necks. After searching all sites, the police concluded that earlier estimates of nearly a thousand dead had been exaggerated, and that the final death toll had settled at 778.[3]

After interviews and an investigation were conducted, the police ruled out a cult suicide, and instead consider it to be a mass murder conducted by Movement leadership. They believe that the failure of the doomsday prophecy led to a revolt in the ranks of the sect, and the leaders set a new date with a plan to eliminate their followers.[1] The discovery of bodies at other sites[9], the fact the church had been boarded up, the presence of incendiaries, and the possible disappearance of sect leaders all point to this theory. Additionally, witnesses said the Movement leadership had never spoken of mass suicide when preparing members for the end of the world.[1]

The Ugandan government responded with condemnation. President Yoweri Museveni has called the event a "mass murder by these priests for monetary gain." Vice president Dr. Speciosa Wandira Kazibwe said, "These were callously, well-orchestrated mass murders perpetrated by a network of diabolic, malevolent criminals masquerading as religious people."[1] Although it was initially assumed that the five leaders died in the fire, police now believe that Joseph Kibweteere and Credonia Mwerinde may still be alive, and have issued an international warrant for their arrest.[3]

References
^ a b c d e f Uganda Survivor Tells of Questions When World Didn't End Ian Fisher New York Times April 3, 2000
^ a b c d e f Quiet cult's doomsday deaths BBC News March 29, 2000
^ a b c d Cult in Uganda Poisoned Many, Police Say New York Times July 28, 2000
^ a b c d e f Uganda Cult's Mystique Finally Turned Deadly Ian Fisher New York Times April 2, 2000
^ Fateful Meeting Led to Founding of Cult in Uganda Henri E. Cauvin New York Times March 27, 2000
^ a b Cults: Why East Africa? BBC News March 20, 2000
^ a b c d e The preacher and the prostitute BBC News March 29, 2000
^ a b A party, prayers, then mass suicide Anna Borzello The Guardian March 20, 2000
^ a b c Evidence Indicates Uganda Cult Held an Eerie Prelude to Fire Henri E. Cauvin New York Times March 26, 2000
^ a b Mass graves found in sect house Anna Borzello The Guardian March 25, 2000

Crítica a la pacatería

No quisiera criticar…por ser la crítica un tanto odiosa, aunque Cristo pasó la vida criticando la espiritualidad de su tiempo (y proponiendo algo nuevo); ¡¿que mayor crítica que morir en cruz?!. Pero critico, y critico hoy la exagerada o quisquillosa visión de algunos sobre la piedad religiosa en la Semana Santa; que se matan por los detalles y que ven en todo un pecado, y que a su vez critican las formas no ortodoxas de algunos al vivirla. Les digo: ¡Vean la caridad y no las maneras!.

Y me refiero en especial a esos que se horrorizan porque alguien se vaya de vacaciones en Semana Santa, pues yo respondo a esto: hay casos de casos. Yo no salgo, pero no critico al que lo hace. ¿Qué se yo cómo vive su espiritualidad?, puede que sea hasta más sincero que algunos que se quedan en los templos, no sé; y por no saber no lo critico.

Medios y evangelización: el caso del cardenal Dionigi Tettamanzi

Arzobispo italiano responde preguntas por Internet

Manuel Urrutia -El cardenal Dionigi Tettamanzi, arzobispo de Milán, responde cada semana a las preguntas de los fieles a través de un vídeo en la página de YouTube, con un éxito inesperado.

El primer vídeo, 'colgado' hace cuatro semanas en la popular página web que permite a los usuarios compartir gratuitamente vídeos digitales a través de internet, fue visto 65.000 veces.

Entre las preguntas más formuladas figuran temas como el bautizo y la cuaresma. "¿Por qué los bautizados son considerados hijos de Dios?; ¿No somos todos hijos de Dios?" o "¿El bautizo existía desde antes de la época de Jesús?", son algunas de las preguntas de los fieles..

El prelado ha recibido unas 400 preguntas destacando esta iniciativa ha sido recibida "favorablemente" por la jerarquía de la Iglesia.

Los vídeos duran unos diez minutos y aparecen todos los viernes.

Ver videos acá.

Benedicto XVI: Angelus del domingo de Ramos (16 de marzo)

CIUDAD DEL VATICANO, domingo, 16 marzo 2008 (ZENIT.org).- Publicamos la intervención que pronunció Benedicto XVI este Domingo de Ramos al rezar el Ángelus junto a varios miles de peregrinos congregados en la plaza de San Pedro del Vaticano.

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Al final de esta solemne celebración, en la que hemos meditado en la Pasión de Cristo, deseo recordar al arzobispo de Mosul de los Caldeos, monseñor Paulos Faraj Rahho, trágicamente fallecido hace unos días. Su hermoso testimonio de fidelidad a Cristo, a la Iglesia y a su gente, a la que no quiso abandonar a pesar de las amenazas, me lleva a elevar un fuerte y apremiante grito: ¡basta con las masacres, basta con la violencia, basta con el odio en Irak! Al mismo tiempo, hago un llamamiento al pueblo iraquí, que desde hace cinco años carga con las consecuencias que ha provocado el desmantelamiento de su vida civil y social: querido pueblo iraquí, ¡álzate y sé tú mismo, en primer lugar, reconstruye tu vida nacional! ¡Que el camino hacia la paz en nombre de Dios sea la reconciliación, el perdón, la justicia y el respeto de la convivencia civil entre tribus, etnias, grupos religiosos!

Y ahora, queridos hermanos y hermanas, renuevo a todos mi cordial saludo. Lo dirijo de manera especial a los jóvenes que han venido de numerosos países con motivo de la Jornada Mundial de la Juventud, que el querido siervo de Dios Juan Pablo II quiso unir al Domingo de Ramos. Mi pensamiento se dirige en este momento a Sydney, en Australia, donde se encuentran a pleno ritmo los preparativos para el gran encuentro que mantendré allí con los jóvenes de todo el mundo del 15 al 20 de julio próximos. Doy las gracias a la Conferencia Episcopal de Australia, en particular, al cardenal Pell, arzobispo de Sydney y a sus colaboradores por todo lo que están haciendo con tanto empeño, así como a las autoridades australianas, tanto las federales como las australianas, por el apoyo generoso que han ofrecido a esta importante iniciativa. ¡Nos vemos en Sydney!

[Al final del Ángelus, el Papa saludó a los peregrinos en varios idiomas. En español, dijo:]

Saludo con afecto a los peregrinos de lengua española y los aliento a salir al encuentro de Cristo con las buenas obras, de modo que imitando todos su ejemplo de amor hasta la cruz, merezcamos un día tener parte en su resurrección. Me dirijo ahora en particular a los jóvenes aquí presentes y a cuantos se unen a esta oración mariana a través de la radio y la televisión. Os invito a que me acompañéis en la celebración de la Jornada Mundial de la Juventud que tendrá lugar en Sydney el próximo mes de julio.

Muchas gracias y feliz Domingo de Ramos.

[Traducción del original italiano realizada por Jesús Colina

© Copyright 2008 - Libreria Editrice Vaticana]

Son mis notas de una búsqueda...

para eso he creado un nuevo blog; para que me sirva de libreta y archivo; libreta de mis ideas en torno a mi búsqueda espiritual, y archivo de lo que encuentro (y me interesa) por la red sobre religión y espiritualidad. Semana Santa es una buena época para comenzar con estas notas.

A ver qué sale de esto, lo ofrezco...

Llegando de la Luna de Miel (a modo de oración)

Señor hoy regresé de la Luna de Miel (5 días) en un club de playa (a 65 kms de mi casa), y se cumple una semana de haberme casado el sábado 12 de mayo. Gracias a Tu bondad todo quedó perfecto. En mis oraciones de la playa te lo he contado, te pido perdón porque sigo dejado con la oración, el rosario y toda mi vida de piedad. Desde enero mi esposa y yo hicimos un gran esfuerzo para que se diera nuestra boda, fueron cinco meses Señor en que C. con sus libretitas todo lo anotaba y todo lo iba haciendo en un cronograma perfectamente sincronizado, y gracias a esa maestría administrativa: todo salió bien, y gracias a que alejaste todo posible inconveniente: retrasos, lluvia (un día bello fue), problemas; nada de eso, todo lo dispusiste para que se diera en un ambiente de alegría y paz. Las palabras del cura (un verdadero santo) fueron de una inmensa profundidad y ternura (los cuatro principios para mantener vivo el matrimonio: 1. que no pase un día sin una novedad, un detalle de amor; 2. que vivamos la caridad siempre entre nosotros y con los demás; 3. que nos perdonemos que no nos vayamos a dormir sin haber solucionado las discusiones que tengamos; y 4. que nuestro amor sea una oración, esté impregnada de fe, de esperanza; y al final de nuestras vidas poder decir como Mark Twain “allí dónde está mi espos@ allí es el paraíso”), fueron absorbidas por mí. El video que hicimos no quedó bien, pero algo quedó de ese día. Todos mis familiares y amigos fueron muy amables con su presencia, amistad, y regalos. Recuerdo el día de la boda que me tenía tan preocupado y que todo al final salió bien, me gustaría volver y revivirlo todo, porque fue maravilloso. Gracias Señor, gracias por escuchar mis oraciones y la de todos mis familiares y amigos, en especial los que leen este blog (tan abandonado en estos tiempos de boda).